Chris Orton
Principal Project Manager at Ellucian
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Orton is a Principal Project Manager with over 20 years of IT experience and a proven track record delivering complex, enterprise-wide ERP, CRM and BI transformations for blue-chip organisations. He combines deep delivery expertise—from hands-on development and Oracle/Unit4 implementations to executive practice leadership at Accenture—with a talent for realistic upfront planning and project rescue that reduces failure risk. Comfortable leading distributed teams of 40–70 people, he has driven strategy, budgeting and commercial targets while mentoring talent and improving programme performance. After a period of independent consulting and lecturing in project management and financial planning, he now applies that blend of technical, commercial and teaching experience to accelerate value at Ellucian. An understated strength is his ability to quickly integrate into new teams and re-plan failing projects into achievable roadmaps.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Information Technology, Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Information Technology at University of Cape TownPGDIP Fin Planning, Financial Planning and Services, PGDIP Fin Planning, Financial Planning and Services at Milpark Education - School of Financial Planning and Insurance
Github Skills (29)
sailfishos8
geojson8
mapbox-gl8
null-safety7
openstreetmap7
nodejs7
java7
vector-tiles7
docker-desktop7
geopackage7
opengl-es6
swift6
android6
opengl6
ios6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisOrton/Duino
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:24 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
ChrisOrton/Adafruit_SSD1306
Aug 2023 - Aug 2023
Arduino library for SSD1306 monochrome 128x64 and 128x32 OLEDs
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 day
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