A visual resume for Peter White

2. What the heck is this??
It’s a visual resume.
Why? To make reading about me more
interesting. To be a little different*.
* At least until everyone has a visual resume, then maybe I’ll go back to good ol’ Times New Roman 12 point.

3. - Know a little more about me
- How I got here
- What I do now
- What I do well
- What bugs me
- What makes me happy

4. Now I live &
work in
Dallas, y’all.
Born in the
UK, lived and
worked there
for most of
my life
Except from
ages 0.5 -3
when I lived
in Australia...
…and 3-6
when I lived
in Jakarta &
Singapore

12. I also built (literally) my house, in 2006.

13. 1999-03/
Y2K Response Manager & Euro migration PM
for the Irish Banks. Managed many other
projects for British Telecom, First Data and
NatWest.
1997-99/
Customer segmentation projects for Disney,
Vodafone and Toyota. Defined the Project
Management Methodology for the company.
1995 - 97/
Co-manager on a $45M Centralized Image Processing project
(still in use today)

15. Job Strengths
Been all types of Project Manager
since 1995 (Project Director,
Programme Manager, Head of
PMO) in the IT Development,
Delivery and Service sectors. Now
also running an IT Infrastructure
team. Responsible for desktop
technology, helpdesk, vendor
management, data center, global
networks and Telecoms.
I Like
Applying creativity and a rational
thought process to any situation.
Working effectively under pressure.
Really good at PowerPoint, and very
familiar with anything Microsoft.
Great at business writing (RFQ’s, Bid
Documents, Business cases etc). Live
& breath the IT world, especially UC
(Unified Communications), Cloud and
IT Services. Experienced team leader.
- Change
- To be challenged
- To be busy
- To make a difference
- To apply creativity to a problem
- Asking why
- Working with Customers
- Sunsets
- Marmite
- Cars (especially electric ones)
I Dislike
- The mundane
- Internal politics
- Indecisiveness
- Lack of vision
- Selfishness
- Dull, generic PowerPoint
presentations
- Pizza with pineapple

16. If I didn’t do this I’d be:
Something in Marketing/Creative
design. Or an Airline captain, back
when flying was special.

17. So, that was me. But we all have
dirty little secrets, and these are
some of mine:
- Top Gun is still my favorite movie.
- I’m still not good with Facebook. I’ve watched the movie, and like
social media, but Facebook annoys me. Twitter’s OK though.
- I spend much too much money on pointless gadgets, though a
talking doorbell is obviously very cool.
- I spend much too long making things ‘just so’. Like this
presentation. Want to know how long I spent choosing my fonts?
- I just don’t get Seinfeld. Never will.

18. Thanks for listening.

20. Thanks to photos.com for some of the stock imagery Slideshare for inspiring me to do this, and the amazing talent on Flickr:
French Bulldog by NewForestDragonflies
Lego dude by HelicoMarkus Lütkemeyer
Buckingham Palace by heidigoseek
Ties by topezo
Phone by splorp
Aeron by aslanix
Elephant by Doug88888
Ballpoint by Bram Reinders