Summary
Overview
Work history
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Volunteer Work
Timeline
ProjectManager

RUTH DEVANEY

Dublin

Summary

Experienced Project Manager with knowledge in manager roles/customer experience /technical support and reporting. Focused and adept at planning, directing and maintaining continuous operations in various departments. A wealth of experience in project delivery/managing teams /delivering customer service SLAs. Proficiency in project management, system testing, training, customer and technical support. Skilled at applying creative and analytical approach to operations for continuous process improvement. I excel through mentoring, training and empowering teams to excel in performance .Effective verbal and written communication skills and excellent interpersonal skills .

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work history

Product Delivery and Optimisation Manager

Vodafone Ireland
07.2022 - Current
  • Managing a portfolio of projects and programmes delivering changes to Products, Services and Customer Experience on behalf of Consumer.
  • Working across multiple areas of Vodafone including IT, COPs, Digital, Retail and Segment; bringing all impacted areas together to identify a best fit solution for the Business need and ensure delivery within time, scope & budget.
  • Building strong internal relationships with key stakeholders across the business.
  • Ensuring technical platforms knowledge and securing enhancements to processes to deliver changes across fixed products.

PROJECT MANAGER

Imagine Networks
01.2014 - 07.2022
  • Working with stakeholders from all departments in Imagine and related third parties to define and document business processes and software requirements for technology initiatives, this included new tools used for different departments to enhance department efficiency in data processing
  • Maintain and support on key system issues such as bug reporting on CRM systems and tools used across multiple departments including sales/marketing/customer service and financial
  • Liaising with web developers on keeping issues updated and resolved within SLA agreements for the business
  • Lead on projects to develop on systems requirements and liaise between users and management on improvements and changes to be made on internal websites/systems
  • This included working on the implementation of new solutions and platforms while maintaining high standards of quality in a fast- paced development environment
  • Prepared stakeholders to use new systems/tools by providing demonstrations and conducting training.

PRODUCER/RESEARCHER/SOCIAL MEDIA CO-ORDINATOR

Today Fm
02.2007 - 05.2020
  • Producer of multiple weekend shows on Today FM - creating content and securing high profile guests for interviews
  • Maintaining blog Posts/podcasts and Twitter feeds for show.
  • Working with Marketing/Sponsorship and Promotions on advertising activity for the show
  • Looking after post-production/editing/promotional material for advertising
  • Co-ordinated outside broadcast locations for live events and oversaw live operations as show producer.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT SUPERVISOR

Imagine Networks
01.2011 - 01.2014
  • Managing a team of full and part time employees.
  • Ensuring the team achieves optimum productivity through the management of time and resources across the department
  • Liaising with all departments throughout offices in Barrow Street and Sandyford in order to deliver
  • Customer Service excellence across all elements of the business
  • Facilitate the successful delivery of critical Customer Service SLA's in all aspects of the business.

CUSTOMER SERVICE SUPERVISOR AND TRAINER

Imagine Networks
01.2006 - 01.2011

• Managing a team of 20 full and part-time staff.
• Chair weekly meetings for the team.
• Ensure SLA's are adhered to and measure performance of the team.
• Training new staff members on systems and operations within Imagine.
Providing extensive reports and analysis on the development of Wimax, 4G technology from testing and
troubleshooting the product, reporting errors to development support.

Providing technical support on Fibre Products FTTH, FTTC, DSL, Wireless Products for business and
residential customers.
• Resolving escalations from customers.

INSURANCE CONSULTANT

RBS, Galway
01.2004 - 01.2006


  • Dealing with customer queries and providing advice on insurance schemes incorporating medical, travel and home insurance within Ireland and the UK
  • Setting up and activating accounts for new customers
  • Liasing with banks and sister companies in the UK.
  • Retaining customers and maintaining customer databases.

Education

Post Graduate Certificate - Digital Media Marketing

Dublin City University
/2012 - /2013

HND - MEDIA PRODUCTION (RADIO)

BALLYFERMOT OF COLLEGE EDUCATION, FETAC
/2006 - /2008

PRINCE2 FOUNDATION AND PRACTITIONER -

Axelos
/2021 -

BA (HONS) - BUSINESS STUDIES AND IT

Athlone Institute of Technology
/2000 - /2004

Skills

  • Basic HTML
  • SQL
  • Microsoft Office
  • Team Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Product Delivery
  • Communication skills
  • PRINCE2 qualified
  • Customer-focused
  • Team building

Accomplishments

Smedia Award Nomination

Received an Smedia award nomination for ‘The New Ballymun’- a radio documentaryabout the regeneration project in Ballymun).

Google Online Marketing Challenge
I participated in the Google Online Marketing Challenge (GOMC)over a three week period during April-May 2013. The task was to run a live Google AdWords campaignfor a client. We were required to create a campaign to increase thewebsite traffic to the client's business website and to increasethe sales funnel.

Trinity College Innovation Academy
Team Member of the Trinity College Innovation Academy “Advero Affero” for BBC News Labs News Hackathon 2014. Participated in a two-day competition to develop innovative News propositions. This Hackdays theme was ‘The Future of News Curation’: How might we curate and connect our News Storytelling, in this age of “data in the newsroom” Our project was Time Twine –a parallel time line to demonstrate correlations between stories and events in the news

IMRO Nomination - Category B7 Sports Programme Full Service IMRO Radio Awards 2021 · Aug 2021

Employee recognition award 2010 – Imagine Telecommunications

Employee recognition award 2006 – RBS Intergroup

Volunteer Work


Guest Lecturer Lecturer | Dublin City University ·

  • Guest Lecturer presenting on "Podcasting as a Digital Marketing Tool" for Masters and Post Grad Students of Digital Marketing in the University.

Inner City Helping Homeless

  • Participated as a volunteer with ICHH (Inner City Helping Homeless).

Timeline

Product Delivery and Optimisation Manager

Vodafone Ireland
07.2022 - Current

PROJECT MANAGER

Imagine Networks
01.2014 - 07.2022

TECHNICAL SUPPORT SUPERVISOR

Imagine Networks
01.2011 - 01.2014

PRODUCER/RESEARCHER/SOCIAL MEDIA CO-ORDINATOR

Today Fm
02.2007 - 05.2020

CUSTOMER SERVICE SUPERVISOR AND TRAINER

Imagine Networks
01.2006 - 01.2011

INSURANCE CONSULTANT

RBS, Galway
01.2004 - 01.2006

Post Graduate Certificate - Digital Media Marketing

Dublin City University
/2012 - /2013

HND - MEDIA PRODUCTION (RADIO)

BALLYFERMOT OF COLLEGE EDUCATION, FETAC
/2006 - /2008

PRINCE2 FOUNDATION AND PRACTITIONER -

Axelos
/2021 -

BA (HONS) - BUSINESS STUDIES AND IT

Athlone Institute of Technology
/2000 - /2004
RUTH DEVANEY