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I’m a delivery focused, passionate and resilient Senior Technical IT Project Manager and people leader with extensive experience within the Financial Services/Insurance sector across a broad range of infrastructure and technologies. I have proven track record of successfully meeting company objectives. I possess strong team building and leadership skills combined with vast experience of key stakeholder, senior management and customer communication gained over 20 years of initiating, managing and delivering IT projects.I am flexible, committed with excellent planning, communication and project troubleshooting skills and well versed in many different project delivery methodologies and frameworks.I’m married with 2 teenage daughters, and I’m also an active committee member of a local angling clubTechnical & Product KnowledgeMicrosoft Azure CloudIaaS automationWindows10Windows7Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016Citrix XenApp and XenDesktopRedHat LinuxActive Directory and Azure Active DirectoryMicrosoft ExchangeMicrosoft SQL ServerNetworking (DNS, DHCP, WINS, VPN, Palo Alto and Checkpoint firewalls).JIRA/ConfluencBlackrock AladdinMS Office 2010/0365, Project, VisioMarkit EDM SAASBloombergThinkfolioFidessa Minerva, BSWGlobal 1Sungard Xamin Sungard Global1SwiftIBM AlgorithmicsService NowPlanview
Prudential Plc
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End User Services Project ManagerPrudential PlcLondon, England, Gb
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RetirementCareer Break Apr 2023 - PresentExploring Retirement
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End User Services Project ManagerPrudential Plc Apr 2019 - Apr 2023Central, Hk -
Portfolio ManagerTata Consultancy Services Limited May 2018 - Sep 2018Ownership of the development and delivery of the M&G IT Infrastructure roadmap including governance, financial and delivery status reporting, risk and issue management, conflict resolution, production of board packs and associated MI. The portfolio of projects enabled the migration of applications and services from “on premise” to Cloud hosted solutions to align with the objectives set by the M&G Prudential Board. • Liaised closely with the Client IT Leadership teams to the align delivery of applications and infrastructure.• Provided oversight and direction to a team of 5 project managers.• Ensured adherence to Project Governance standards and processes.
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Infrastructure Programme ManagerM&G Prudential (Prudential Global Data Services) Nov 2016 - Sep 2018Delivered a hybrid Azure solution to enable the integration of the Blackrock Aladdin product into the M&G systems estate to replace the incumbent Trading and Fund Management systems. Responsible for budget of £4.9million.• Scrum master, sprint planning and delivery, introduced DevOps way of working.• Recommended and subsequently implemented a revised Jira/Kanban workflow.• Responsible for the delivery of the design, build and management of IaaS VMs (Linux 7.2&7.4, Windows 2012, Windows 2016).• Provisioned Windows 10 platform for Dev and App Support teams in Azure using Dev Test Lab.• Provided oversight for the implementation of Windows10 and O365 Services (Teams, Exchange and SharePoint On Line).• Led the delivery of cloud security tooling (Azure Security Centre, OMS and Tenable). Deployment of Akamai WAF for external facing endpoints.• Managed the Operational Acceptance according to company standards to ensure newly implemented services had production level support.• Continuous process improvement, worked with leaders/owners of the process or service to understand current practices and identify areas for improvement, including running workshops and hothouses.
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Senior It Infrastructure Project ManagerPgds (Uk One) Limited Nov 2006 - May 2018
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Senior Project ManagerPrudential Uk Jun 2015 - Jan 2017Fenchurch Street, England, GbTasked with the repatriation of Prudential Poland IT systems hosted in the US to the UK (Data Centre Migration), including pre sales, compliance and policy administration applications and the implementation of a new policy administration platform to enable the sale of Unit Linked products in Poland. Responsible for budget of £0.8 million.• Established a collaborative approach to coordinate delivery between UK, Poland and Mumbai based infrastructure teams.• Provision of new UK hosted network infrastructure Linux Web, App and Oracle DB servers, adhering to latest SCB’s• Build and migration of users to a Windows 7 Citrix Xendesktop farm.• Windows 10 Laptop deployment for key users.• Liaised with key senior Polish business stakeholders to develop a staggered migration approach with minimal impact to the day to day operations.• Production of extensive test plans to ensure complete and successful migrations. -
Senior Project ManagerM&G Real Estate Jun 2014 - Jun 2015London, England, GbTransformation of Infrastructure Services for M&G Real Estate’s Asian Business from a locally provisioned service to an M&G Prudential UK based model, to harmonise the Asia IT services with the UK and Europe BU’s to standardise the service and reduce local costs. Budget of £1.2 million.• Production of RFP for required IT support services to both local and global providers.• Transformation and consolidation and of Property Management suite of applications.• Migration of hosted data and Lotus Notes to MS Exchange conversion.• Provision of new desktop platform and services, IP Telephony and global support model. -
Senior Project ManagerM&G Investments Nov 2011 - Jun 2014London, England, GbManaged the delivery of Windows 7 and Office 2010 to 3000 M&G users globally, utilising virtual, physical and mobile platforms. This included the conversion/upgrade/testing and deployment of over 1000 packaged desktop applications to ensure continued vendor support of the desktop estate. Budget of £3 million.• Preparation of Business case to the M&G exec for Physical and Virtual deployments to deliver a cost effective and “best fit” solution for all users.• Production of RFP for Application Packaging ensuring a collaborative approach with the third party vendor.• Management of packaging work stream (Identification, Discovery, Conversion, Test and Deployment)• Implementation of SCCM for device management/application deployment.• Budget , RAID and delivery status reporting. -
Senior Project ManagerM&G Investments Sep 2003 - Nov 2006London, England, Gb
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Project ManagerM&G Investments 1998 - 2003London, England, GbManaged multiple IT Infrastructure projects including the implementation of NT4 to all desktops and servers supporting PPM Securities and M&G (1998)The relocation of M&G, PPM Securities and Prudential Group Head Office from Holborn Bars to new premises in Cannon Street (1999-2000).The creation of a PMO and resource management function for the M&G Technical Services function.
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Help Desk Team ManagerPpm Securities Mar 1994 - Dec 1997
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System Administrator/OperatorPpm Securities Mar 1990 - May 1994
Andrew Dench Skills
Andrew Dench Education Details
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Ilford County High -
Eastcourt
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Andrew Dench's current role is End User Services Project Manager.
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Andrew Dench attended Ilford County High, Eastcourt.
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