Hewlett
Packard (Deutsche Bank account, London
Programme
Manager: Application Migrations Contract
The lead figure in a very large, global,
scaleable, centralised function that would look to take the banks applications,
residing on approximately 40,000 systems from their current state onto a
virtualised environment. This also included Infrastructure, Storage, Backups,
Disaster Recovery and Data Centre exits. (ie. reduce the number of Data Centres
from 20 to 6 globally)
Took a high level vision and created the
architecture to achieve this. Proceeded to put in place new teams in global
regions, to run the various components of the new process. The teams included
Initial Discovery & Analysis, Runbook Command Control Centre, Change Management,
Resourcing, Reporting & Metrics, Compliance & Regulatory. The
resourcing profile was 70% offshore to keep costs down, and key pivotal
resources being local in each global region. Reporting to Director Level
stakeholders.
Centrica (British Gas,
London
Programme
Manager: Regulatory Projects SAP 16months
Contract
Management of a number of programmes
consisting of full lifecycle projects for the Energy sector to satisfy
Regulatory Requirements for British Gas. Based on the Software Development of
their large SAP ISU platform, and delivered via regular SAP Release schedules.
Adhering to the mandated timescales of the Industry Regulatory for delivery to
ensure Compliance. Liaising with System Architects, Development teams, Third
Party vendors & outsourced organisations, Senior Stakeholders from the
Business and managing local & offshore resources. Ensuring Business
Readiness, management of Risks, Budget, Planning, Reporting, Go-no-go decisions,
Change Management, etc.
Hewlett
Packard (BP- British
Petroleum, London
Programme
Manager: SAP Systems Oil
& Gas 24months
Contract
Responsible for Global Infrastructure &
Delivery of SAP Programmes within BP’s ‘Global Mega Data Centres’ across EMEA.
High Profile and Business Strategic programme for BP. Upgrade of BP SAP based
services, relating to Procurement, Finance and HR. Management of Project
Managers, Technical teams, Developers, SAP Basis teams, Subject Matter Experts,
DBAs, etc. Direct client facing, reporting to the BP board, adhering to
industry recognised ‘CVP Process’ and strict Change Management processes
throughout the lifecycle.
Unilever (Port
Sunlight & London) Nov
2011 - Nov 2012
Programme
Manager: Service Desk
Global Rollout 12months
Contract
Managing all aspects of the Global Rollout of the
ITIL aligned BMC Remedy Service Desk & IT Service Management solution.
Involved in the initial vendor selection process right through to roll out and
post GoLive support. Including Service Mgmt, Problem Mgmt & Change Mgmt. Planning
and implementation of the global helpdesk processes and resolver groups with a
rigid Change Control function to ensure quality was in place, in order to
fulfil the Unilever vision of a Positive User Experience. Reporting to Director
of Innovation within Unilever.
BMC
Software (Middle
East & London) Jul
2010 - Nov 2011
Programme
Manager: Head of Professional Services, Middle
East 16months Contract
Established a Revenue Pipeline in the
territory for professional services. Key clients below:
Royal Saudi Air Force:
Brought in to Rescue an ailing programme for this prestigious client in the Middle East . Managed to turn it into a success, and
delivered the Air Force their BMC based IT Service Desk, Service Support,
Automation and Assurance services. Including data modelling of their specific
Command Control & Communications equipment (C4i). Built a local team from
scratch using international resources and delivered the solution to their Head
Quarters and 7 of their Air Bases.
Aramco: Finalised
the delivery of a delayed programme for the Largest Oil Company in the World.
Working with very tight timelines, a disgruntled client and managed to deliver
a functional IT Service Mgmt solution and centralised CMDB for their IT Asset
Mgmt. Ensuring Operational Readiness, Post GoLive Support and escalation
services where required. Restored corporate confidence with the client.
Abu Dahbi Ground Forces Military:
Scoping and Preparation of a Statement of Work for new business for a complete
IT Service Mgmt & IT Asset Mgmt & CMDB solution.
Mobily Telecom:
Preparing a bid and Statement of Work for the first Private Cloud in the
region. Scoping, high level planning and pricing. Also finalised previous
project activities.
Nokia (Farnborough
& Bristol) Jan
2010 - Jul 2010
Programme
Manager: E-commerce
Transformation 6months
Contract
Large scale Transformation project. Full
lifecycle deployment of Performance & Integration Environments for Nokia’s
new E-commerce service lines (to compete with Apples iStore).
T-Systems (Centrica,
Windsor) Oct
2008 - Nov 2009
Programme
Manager: SAP Dynamic
Migration 13months
Contract
Rescued a
disaster of a programme for T-Systems first ‘SAP Dynamic’ client, Centrica. Already
over budget, delayed and about to miss another key milestone. Required to
migrate existing SAP instances from the UK UK UK
to Germany
Previous Employment in Appendix:
Education
Professional
Courses
PRINCE2 Practitioner Certification ITIL
v3 Certification
CISCO CCNA Hewlett
Packard Certified Advanced Systems Admin
Advanced UNIX SUN
Microsystems Certified Advanced Systems Admin
C Programming JAR
PPL-A Private Pilots License First
Aid Level2
General
I play the Electric Guitar and Saxophone. I have a private pilot’s
license, and regularly race sports cars at track day events. I keep fit by
running, gym and occasional golf. I am a school governor and an active father
and husband to my family.
Employment
History Appendix:
VocaLink (Harrogate
& London) Jan
2008 - Oct 2008
Programme
Manager: Faster Payments
Implementation 10months
Contract
Management of the Faster Payment Service programme
for the Infrastructure Delivery, to the client APACS, and the Bank of England.
Conforming to Regulation and Compliance Legislation.
Hewlett
Packard (BT- British
Telecom, London
Programme
Manager: DataCentre
Consolidation 19months
Contract
Migration / Consolidation of BTs Billing &
Payment Services to Virtualised, in their DataCentres.
T-Systems (T-Mobile,
Hatfield & London) Dec
2004 - May 2006
Project Manager: Infrastructure
Projects new DataCentre 17months
Contract
Halifax
Bank of Scotland (HBOS), Leeds May 2003 - Dec 2004
Project Manager: Systems
Security 19months Contract
Visteon
Automotive Parts (Previously FORD,
Basildon ) Oct
2002 - Apr 2003
Unix Systems Administrator: Automotive
UNIX Systems 6months
Contract
Unilever (Gatwick, London
Project Manager: UNIX
Security 27months Contract
William M
Mercer (Chichester, West Sussex ) Sep
1999 - Sep 2000
Technical Project Manager: Unix
Systems - Finance 12months
Contract
Bankers
Trust, London
UNIX Team Leader: Unix Systems 17months Contract
HSBC (Gatwick, London
Technical Project Manager: Y2K
UNIX Systems Upgrade 6months
Contract
Andersen
Consulting (Now Accenture, Worthing ) Mar
1997 - Sep 1997
Technical Project Manager: Electricity
De-Regulation Project s 6months Contract
ABN AMRO (London
UNIX Systems Administrator: Unix
Trading Platforms 6months
Contract
Citibank (London
UNIX Systems Administrator: Unix
Systems - Finance 10months
Contract
Nokia
Mobile Phones (Camberley) Sep 1994
- Dec 1995
UNIX Systems Administrator: Unix
Systems 15months
Contract
NORTEL, London
UNIX Systems Administrator: Network
Management 48months PERM
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