Alan Russell Email & Phone Number

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.

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.

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.

• 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.
• 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.