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Over the last 30 years, project management has been the career that has driven and sustained the founder of Clarity PM Consulting™, Seán Ó Cearrúláin.
Cutting his teeth at the likes of BakerHughes, IBM, O2 and Three telecoms, Blackberry, Royal Navy, Kar Group, Microsoft, Royal Air Force, DAA, Bank of Ireland, AIB, Kanal5, TV4 Sweden, TG4, RTÉ, C4, DkIT, Hewlett Packard, Irish Rail, Musgraves, StateStreet, Dept. of Finance, Bespoke Financials, HSE and many other companies, Seán has developed a wealth of knowledge, skills and experience that translate into any project or programme, anywhere in the world.
Below you will find examples of project types and scales that Seán has led over the years.
Data Centre Project management
From Data Centre new builds to complete overhaul of existing infrastructure, migration, upgrades and expansions, bricks and mortar to electrics, wiring, networking and hardware installation, over the last 20 years Seán has completed hundreds of such projects ranging from simple upgrades and migration to brand new 200eb data centre builds across the globe and 100MW power consumption for Oil & Gas, Aviation, Data Management and Telecoms.
- Leading teams of up to 800 Personnel
- Matrix, Vertical and Functional Org Structures
- Managing on and offshore teams globally
- Languages included English, Swedish and Norwegian
- Land and Sea Based systems
- managing Budgets in excess of $500m
- navigating challenging multicultural landscapes
- often requiring difficult but necessary decision making
- frequent travel; national and international
- many projects with remote operations management
- Full Life Cycle from Concept to Delivery
- Complete governance provided
IT transformation
When organisations lag behind in the technology race, markets run away from them and businesses fail to compete. Over the years Seán has been involved in some of the most sophisticated IT Transformation projects and programmes anywhere in the world.
Covering Banking, Government Departments, Telecoms, Transport, Aviation and Financial Industries, below is Seán's high level approach to past ITT projects:
- Deep Dive Analysis
- Strategic Alignment of requirements with goals
- Future Proofing
- Procurement and Logistics Management
- Planning and Resource Recruitment / allocation
- Working closely with IT Architects
- Leading Small and Large teams alike
- Projects ranging from 6 weeks to 18 months
- Facilities, Infrastructure, Software All included
- Strong epmhasis on 'tightly controlled' change management
- Deployment, Testing, Back-up, Redundancy, Fail-over Management
- Matrix and Functional Orgs/teams
- Hybrid and Multi-cloud approach with virtualization
- Utilising Agile and Scrum Methodologies
- Complete governance provided
- Full Life Cycle from Planning to Delivery
Events Management
From organising music festivals, to astronomy star parties, from arts expos to team building and military themed challenges, Seán has also extensive experience running medium sized companies that have multiple stakeholders and investors while also delivering to public consumers.
- Inception to Concept Planning and Delivery
- Design and Marketing Management
- Web and Backend Development Management
- Safety and RAID Management
- Securing ALL talent
- contract negotiation
- procurement and logistics management
- licensing management
- Medium to Large budget management
- leading & managing external sponsors and internal stakeholders
- Leading cross-functional teams of varying backgrounds and experience
- Utilisation of Agile, Scrum, PrinceII, CCM and Waterfall Methodologies
- Strong customer service leadership
- Complete governance provided
- Full Life Cycle from Concept to Delivery
telecoms
From installing infrastructure hardware to networking solutions spanning international borders, telecoms projects are right up Seán's street having worked with some of the best network engineers in the world on projects for BT, O2, Three and private networks that require the utmost confidentiality. Seán's experience is of telecoms projects is briefly outlined below:
- Planning and Team Recruitment
- Allocation of Resources
- Working closely with engineers for network design
- Working closely with local and regional authorities for permits and approvals
- Procurement and Logistics Management
- Working with third party construction suppliers
- Leading installation, test and commissioning phase
- Utilisation of Agile, Scrum, Lean and PMBoK
- Stakeholder Coordination
- Full Governance provided
- Future Proofing
- Full Budget Management
- Cross-functional team management
- All dept heads reporting to PM
- Full Life Cycle from Planning to Delivery
media production
Television, Film, Streaming, Radio, Art, Marketing, Commercials and Animation have been amazing projects that Seán has had the pleasure to be part of starting as early as 1999.
Down through the years, Seán has progressed from editor and writer, to director, producer and now executive producer where not only does he find and lead the most incredible talent, he collaborates with and manages a whole host of sponsorship stakeholders with budgets ranging from thousands of Euros to hundreds of thousands, and even millions of dollars!
- Full Life Cycle from Inception to Delivery
- Leading challenging and schedules and deadlines
- No room for slippage or overrun
- Sourcing Talent and Crew
- Sourcing funding
- Full 360 Stakeholder Coordination
- Leading highly technical and creative teams
- Meeting highly techinical broadcast and cinema requirements
- Productions from 10 to 500 reporting to Seán
- Marketing and Customer Satisfaction Management
- Distribution Management & coordination
- Working closely with investors
- Full budget management
- Varied Methodologies utilised as and where apt