It Applications Director
- Full responsibility for application development. Management of software development teams, both in-house and outsourced across 4 sites in the UK and India. I managed the closure of one development site resulting in a head count reduction of 20% and overall cost reduction in application development and support, whilst maintaining customer service levels.- I implemented a formalised software application, testing, approval and change management process which significantly reduced desktop faults.- Successfully consolidated European Data Centres from outsourced locations to an in-house UK hosted solution, resulting in £3m savings per annum.- I improved application and platform fault management recording and reporting, using change best practise for Service Support (ITIL) processes.- I took over the lead for IT delivery of a failing implementation project which was going off plan, applied Prince2 principles which restored the clients confidence I completed the project and successfully achieved the projects milestones. This contract was worth over £3m to the company.- Successfully, concurrently, project managed the IT and telephony infrastructure of 2 purpose built new UK call centres, each over 700 seats. Including the migration of functions from their old locations. All services and functions moved successfully on time, within budget, without any loss of service.- I managed IT and telephony, internal and external recourses, line carriers, and cost, scope, timeline and milestone specifications for clients.- I built and managed successful client relationships with BT Global Services and Avaya ensuring project needs were met. Additionally BT Project Managers adopted my scoping documentation templates for use in other BT projects.