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Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Leeds

• Key Responsibilities: -o Overall responsibility for IT Infrastructure, providing service to over 2000 internal staffo Management and leadership of specialised technical team of 30 delivering IT projects and.
• Technical design and delivery of SAP ERP removing high risk and expensive legacy systems, facilitating the consolidation of five separate finance business units into a single shared service.
• Building a geographical site resilient private cloud platform and successful migration of key Business Applications delivering 100% service availability supporting internal and external customer services
• Development and Delivery of Collaboration strategy utilising leading edge toolsets increasing location independent personal productivity
• Migration to Office 365 and Hybrid Cloud infrastructure utilising Microsoft Azure providing unified service with single sign on and reducing software costs by £100K per annum
• Integration of Smart 421 brand bespoke systems reducing operational costs, IT complexity and a single IT service to support a single brand

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Key Responsibilities: -o Programme Management, Technical Design Authority and Quality Assurance for all IT initiated projects sponsored projects, ranging in value from £100K to £5M.o Leadership and Management of.
• Successful hardware refresh of 2000 desktops and laptops, introducing Microsoft Windows 7 / Office 2010 in a fully managed and secure configuration, c/w remote application management and deployment.
• Introduction and group wide roll out of Microsoft OCS c/w enterprise voice, including subsequent upgrade to Lync and Skype for Business, leading to increased personal efficiency, a reduction in internal travel costs of.
• Installation of Virtualisation Platform facilitating migration of over 250 windows servers with a cost avoidance of over £220K.
• Introduction of asset management and capacity management enabling better utilisation of the IT estate, allowing accurate financial forecasts and resulting in significant savings in software licences and computer.
• Provision of secure connectivity of personal devices to key corporate systems supporting a BYOD model increasing personal productivity and choice with no additional IT cost.

United Kingdon & Northern Europe

• Key Responsibilities: -o Global responsibility for the development and delivery of the IT infrastructure and technical strategy, including team leadership and management of £7M IT budgeto Project and program management.
• Integration and standardisation of ten differing IT systems and IT departments into a single centralised team supporting the creation of a single legal partnership
• Creation and delivery of a single desktop configuration to replace regional variations
• Centralisation and standardisation of global back end data centre infrastructure realising significant IT cost savings and provided a platform to provision all future IT initiatives
• Integration of European offices providing a seamless pan European service and centralised support model

Leeds

• Key Responsibilitieso Technical Design Authority for head office and branch networking and computer structureNotable Projects
• Introduction of centralised system to automate and manage Mortgage applications
• Design and launch of PC systems to replace legacy proprietary POS terminals across 72 branches
• Provision and formal testing of DR and Business Continuity Program