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Broxtowe, Nottingham

Trustee also serving as deputy Chair of the Trustee board and Chair of the Risk Committee for the charity.

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

Jan 2018 - Dec 2018. Program Director for a FTSE 100 client managing a $5M IT infrastructure transformation program. Deliverables include re-platforming of the client's core system, migration of all data centre services to an new IaaS managed environment, strengthening of IT security and automating a number of business processes.

East Midlands

I have a broad range of leadership and management skills gained in the global corporate world and am keen to put these skills to good use in a new challenge.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Leading a portfolio of functions for Experian IT Services across EMEA and the US - M&A team, Data Centre services, Infrastructure Solution Design teams, Core Systems teams, Risk management and business continuity teams. Responsibly for ~150 employees globally with an operational budget of circa. $100M. Primary lead for all IT aspects of M&A and Divestment activities in EMEA.Highlights: - - Directed activities and preparations for divestment of a significant part of the business globally ($400M - see media link below), leading on definition and structure of IT aspects of the deal - Infrastructure separation approach, definition of IT transitional services, SLAs and charging schedules and leading negotiations with prospective buyers on all IT elements. Program management of all IT projects using industry standard program methodology and tools.- Developed and mentored key talent to grow into larger roles (Intensive coaching of two direct reports resulting in them being promoted to VP level during this period)- Initiated the creation and delivery of successful investment case for $5M systems refresh by coaching the team to produce a compelling business case and presentation to positively influence stakeholders to secure funding. - Managed the program to execute the multiple projects required to deliver successful systems refresh on time and on budget using industry standard program methodology and tools.- Improved governance and risk processes across the whole of the IT organisation to comply with FCA standards by leading the team to define new standards and process and influencing peers across the organisation to embed the new processes within their organisations.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Leading a portfolio of functions for the global IT organisation: - IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) - responsibility for all Compute and Storage infrastructure in core data centres in EMEA and the US. (circa 10,000 servers), and the rapidly expanding Private Cloud environment. Managed a number of innovative infrastructure programs (virtualisation to cloud, Win2K elimination, all-flash storage conversion) to deliver business benefits such as improved performance, running cost reductions, security risk reduction.IT M&A - leading on all IT aspects of the divestment of the Footfall business - Infrastructure separation approach, definition of IT transitional services, SLAs and charging schedules and leading negotiations with prospective buyers on all IT elements. Program management of overall IT separation project.Employee IT - Primary responsibility for managing multi-million dollar outsource contract with 3rd party supplier to deliver desktop services to 12,500 employees in the Americas, UK and EMEA. Worked closely with the Sourcing team to actively manage supplier through regular performance reviews.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

- Primary responsibility for managing multi-million dollar outsource contract with 3rd party supplier to deliver desktop services to 12,500 employees in the Americas, UK and EMEA. Worked closely with supplier to implement new reporting metrics and KPI dashboards to help drive and prioritise continuous improvement programs to improve standard of services and strengthen security posture. - Delivery of employee collaboration infrastructure including global VOIP telephony and Video conferencing services. Managing global team delivery through a process of KPI definition and monthly reporting against performance/SLA targets.- Innovation - Initiated program to begin migration of users to to Microsoft Office 365. Drove introduction of all-flash disk in company laptops as standard (at no increased cost) by direct negotion with outsource supplier.- M&A - responsibility for all IT due diligence activities for M&A activity in UK/EMEA region.

Program Manager for EMEA Integrations - Reporting directly to the Global CIO with responsibility for driving a $5M EMEA IT integration program covering 30 offices and 6 data centre consolidations across EMEA.Responsibilities included: - - Discovery and feasibility assessment for each element of program- Business case creation and stakeholder socialisation- Technical solution design- Program and project management.- In addition to the Integration program I also had responsibility for all IT due diligence activities for M&A activity in UK/EMEA region.Highlights in this role include: - • Successful completion of major integration program on time, on budget and exceeding cost savings targets by ~$200k• Consolidation of 2 UK and 4 EMEA data centres back to UK core data centre

London, United Kingdom

On secondment to the Experian Decision Analytics business in the role of Integration Program Manager for a new business acquisition.

Working closely with the business units to harness growth opportunities, champion innovation and optimise IT spend. Currently leading the development of a global private Cloud solution.

Reporting directly to the Global CIO with leadership responsibility for the global engineering organization (120 enignieers in 3 continents) covering mainframes, servers, storage and software assets.

Resposnibility for leading the global server engineering team comprising of resources in the US, UK and South America who provide provisioning, management and support services for some 5000 servers which underpin Experian's business operations globally.

Lead the US and UK teams responsible for provisioning, management and support of some 4000 servers which underpin Experian's business operations.

Full time assignment to a project team responsible for build, commissioning and migration to a new data centre. My role was to matrix manage all technology streams to ensure successful migration of 3 large mainframe systems and 500 distributed systems to the new data centre with no loss of service.

Manage the UK Command Centre teams, providing 24x7 support of all IT systems.

Technical lead on various customer engagements around Europe.

Technical support in Service Management Centre

Various technical roles, (Operations, Automation, Systems programming) progressing over time through team leadership and into management.