Phil Olson
Senior Technology Programme Manager at Gist Limited
East Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPhil Olson is a Senior Technology Programme Manager with over 24 years’ experience delivering large-scale IT programmes across retail, logistics, e-commerce, manufacturing and insurance. He combines a strong technical background and multiple certifications with hands-on delivery of complex systems such as WMS, WCS, SAP APO, Manhattan Active and workforce management across multi-country and multi-tenant landscapes. Known for leading cross-functional and vendor teams using both Agile and Waterfall, he consistently delivers on-time, on-budget transformations that improve operational performance and bottom-line results. Phil has repeatedly led greenfield IT buildouts (including a 400-acre leisure village and new manufacturing/lens labs) and high-volume DC migrations, showing a rare mix of infrastructure, integration and business-change skills. He is comfortable bridging board-level stakeholders and delivery teams, and has a track record of rapidly scaling programmes across hundreds of stores and distribution centres. Based in East Staffordshire, Phil brings pragmatic problem-solving and proven process-improvement instincts to complex, high-stakes technology change.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BA Hons Business Management with Media and IT, BA Hons Business Management with Media and IT at The University of ManchesterBishop Vesey's Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield
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Github Skills (163)
testing10
launcher10
matcher10
android-tv10
unit-testing-framework10
qml10
xinput10
smooth-scrolling10
verification10
image-loading10
robolectric10
directinput10
java10
android-library10
jellyfin10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
polson/screenscraper-playnite-metadata-plugin
Aug 2021 - Mar 2022
Playnite metadata plugin for ScreenScraper.fr
Contributions:5 releases, 2 reviews, 20 commits in 7 months
plugin-metadatametadataplaynite
polson/MetroTripper
Feb 2015 - Sep 2018
Android app to help you navigate Metro Transit buses
Contributions:11 PRs, 30 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years 7 months
metroandroid-appsandroidstudionavigateandroid
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