Craig Whelan Email & Phone Number

Shaftesbury, Gb

- IT Project & Programme Management- Technical Business Analysis - Interim IT Directorship- Management, consulting and support services, helping take businesses to the cloud- Working with strategic partners to provide the most appropriate technical solutions to move businesses forward in their use of IT services- Complete transformation management from inception through to a fully integrated operating state- Recruitment and Talent Acquisition / Management

Langelsheim, De

• Directing delivery within TSAs for a carve-out (within a deal worth approx. £700m GBP)• Providing leadership to programme, customer and supplier management and subject matter experts• Management 50+ project streams organised into tranches for application migration as part of divestiture from Clariant• Event cutover leadership for SAP migration• Providing assurance knowledge and guidance for programme governance, commercial relationships, finances and account, and BAU service transition activity• Command and control, and change management sponsor for each project / application cutover with direct business liaison

London, Gb

• Shape and coordinate a portfolio of programmes and projects in response to an independent review by Oaklin Consulting to transform the businesses end to end operating model to negate a financial operating deficit• Secure budgets and teams, to locally manage the changes required across all areas of the business to a new Target Operating Model (TOM) (including finance and operations, excluding digital/technology)• Introduce standards and Project Management Office (PMO) structure for project management and governance for the management of projects and facilitate reporting up to non-exec board for progress against the action plan (in response to the review)

Worldwide, Oo

• Creation of carve-out template playbook for Maersk TMO• Key considerations documented for each stage from due diligence, through people, technical, organisational, financial including lifecycle management and transition• Focus on IT systems separation, migration and integration

London, Gb

• Inform and implement the strategy to build a software development organisation within in-house IT services capability• Oversee transfer of ownership of digital products from £1.5bn transformation programme to software delivery, services, and product teams• Oversee and inform the recruitment strategy and interim measures to facilitate immediate stability and ongoing development of digital products; supporting all areas of courts and tribunals services offered in England and Wales

Cambridge, Gb

• Delivery of multiple workstreams within a carve out programme (within a deal worth approx. £550m GBP)• Global stakeholder management reporting to the Programme Directors, CIO and CEO• Global workforce engagement (c5,000) with direct responsibility for the America’s and Europe site transformations• Delivery of a new network infrastructure to 50+ locations across 6 continents• Delivery of a remote overhaul solution to separate each staff device (laptop/desktop) to exist within the target organisation without any technical dependency or link back to Schneider Electric• Both workstreams delivered within the time scales directed by the carve out and without impact to normal business operations

Poole, Dorset, Gb

Greater London, Gb

- Responsible for service delivery management for Xtravirt consulting projects, including facilitation, project governance, and IP management- Continuing to practice and offer project management during engagements and evangelise the discipline throughout the business

Greater London, Gb

- Creation and establishment of qualified project management practices within organisation- Providing project management services for customer consultant lead engagements- Assisting partner organisations with execution and delivery of project and practice management functions- Active use of waterfall and agile project management techniques to succeed with delivery of a number of projects-- Cloud architecture design and deployment-- Cloud automation and orchestration-- Virtual server infrastructure refresh and upgrades-- Virtual desktop infrastructure refresh and upgrade-- Data centre consolidation, migration and transformation projects and programmes- Providing expertise and value in pre-sales, contracts, commercial agreements, team management, coaching, process adoption and continuous development

Greater London, Gb

- Providing consultants and customers a point of contact pre, during and post consultation ensuring deliverables are achieved on time and to satisfaction- Bridging communication between sales, consultants, practice management and customers alike- Providing a subset of project management activities (issue resolution, reporting, resourcing and management of)

Greater London, Gb

- Technical consultant specialising in virtualisation, specifically transformation related activity- Organisational evaluation and alignment of professional services in achieving business objectives-- Provided technical expertise and consulting services in application virtualisation to UK automotive and aeronautical engineering organisation-- Lead technical architect for transformational project with UK engineering services organisation based in Hampshire-- Lead technical architect and subsequently project manager for EMEA transformation and consolidation effort to UK based data centres for global car rental organisation

London, Gb

- Systems management (administration and automation) of UK ATM network- Service improvement feedback in to service owners for aspects of management benefitting customers (anyone using a Barclays ATM)- Secondment to transformation project-- Lead technical engineer for consolidation, virtualisation and migration for UK data centres for retail arm of the Bank-- Working closely with project management team and third party consultancy to ensure and safe guard transition of services from physical environment to expanding virtual infrastructure as part of organisation strategy

De

- Server infrastructure support- Automation of deployments using existing tools- Virtualisation administration and configuration management- Planned migration of cluster file servers to new consolidated platform

Gb

- Contract placement providing desktop and end user computing support during period of heightened change activity

London, Gb

- Contract placement supporting desktop refresh for courts based in the South West region

- Return to Serco, at request, for project specific requirement- Upgrade management systems implemented in 2007- Create and provide refresh of company wide desktop estates-- Hardware replacement, retaining existing operating system without data loss-- Operating system refresh, retaining existing hardware, without data loss - refresh conducted during user lunch hour- Management system upgrade planned and executed successfully- Desktop refresh, planned, tested and executed successfully

Gloucester, Gb

- Contract placement to support server architectures and applications- Working with applications teams to resolves issues in a fourth line capacity

Fr

- Technical support to a research and development department for missile systems design and production organisation- Focus on server applications and ensuring research team had scalable compute capacity at all times for development and testing of in-house developed applications or systems

- The 'IT Guy' for small business providing steel manufacturing and fabrication for use in transport, construction and energy- Providing advisory capacity for strategic improvement and leverage of technologies such as virtualisation and systems management- Server, communications and desktop support

London, Gb

- Return to Aerosystems, at request, for project specific requirement- Development of isolated and accredited infrastructure to host in-house developed application- Creation of full documentation to be used for full rebuild from scratch in event of catastrophic failure - including rebuild of domain architectures and policies- Advisory with regard to extended and scaled deployment and rollout throughout the UK

- Return to Serco, at request, for project specific requirement- Deployment of management system for deployment of operating systems and applications- Assist in development of the plan to leverage strategic tool usage to reduce deployment times, manage patching and application updates and reporting- Provide technical support for service infrastructure and desktop architecture for planned refresh cycles and introduction of new systems

Gb

- Return to Aerosystems, at request, for project specific requirement- Creation of a contained infrastructure solution for use in isolated and classified environments- Full documentation for recreation of solution, from scratch, if needed by end customer- Full end to end design, architecting, development and deployment (base hardware, operating systems, provision of in-house developed software and deployment to site)- Full commissioning testing cycle and sign off by customer- Worked closely with project management and customer stakeholders throughout to ensure successful delivery, on time and to specification

- Contracted via Serco- Technical delivery of server and desktop infrastructure, supporting the creation of a new government department- Working as part of a small team to deliver multiple isolated platforms, providing expertise in server architecture (hardware and software), applications (messaging and systems management) and end user computing (desktop rollout, application packaging, deployment)

Gb

- Contracted via IBM- UK wide refresh of motorway services organisation desktop estate- Migration planning for preparation work and event cutover, including stakeholder management and communications- Hands on technical delivery of preparation work with local team and delivery of migration activity during planned weekend activities with follow up support ensuring transition back to BAU support model

Gb

- Server infrastructure and desktop support to satellite office for UK based government supplier- Established routines and processes, with the support of head office IT teams, resulting in less issues being raised- Worked closely with head office to identify areas of improvement and provide backfill support in to head office for core infrastructures (projects and BAU)

Gb

- Contracted via ITNet- Desktop support for manufacturing and processing centre for recognised UK jeweller- Issue resolution and providing value in internal knowledge’s base

- Responsibility for IT services for a local care organisation, reporting to the Finance Director- Support and improvement of IT services and solutions used across head office, satellite support offices and all of CCGL care homes across the Gloucestershire region- Identified areas of IT improvement working with management team to better support the business growth and retention of core contracts

- The 'IT Guy' for small business providing Internet based platform for advertising of job vacancies to web and digital television platforms- Internal technical support for desktop, server, hosting and related infrastructures including networking and telecommunications