Andrew Ross Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom And France

British Cycling accredited coach working with private clients and groups, and at London Olympic VeloPark. I offer a tailored and structured service, backed up by my studies for a Cycling Performance degree. I also offer custom individual and group coached tours in UK and South of France.

London, United Kingdom

My interim role at Hailo was fast-paced and exciting! I was responsible for programme management on new projects including platform transformations, system hardening and capacity improvements. I also reviewed and advised on team structuring and Agile (Scrum) implementation.

London, United Kingdom

I successfully managed the complex integration of seven busy web sites into two. Co-ordinating multiple teams to produce content, SEO improvements, infrastructure changes, migration and delivery of consolidation. At the same time, systems were migrated from a traditional hosting environment to cloud hosting, and from ASP to .Net in the Cloud.I was also managing the implementation of Continuous Integration and test management.I created a Programme Management Office and Programme Steering Group to better streamline the whole development process at broadbandchoices.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Joined Apple to gain more experience in retail and front-line customer service, and to work with a company I admire. I worked in both retail and Global Training, including re-training over 300 UK ‘Genius’ technicians.

Ad-hoc IT Management and consultancy, covering data centre migrations and general IT.

Demonstrating SportCruiser / Piper Sport to customers, and ferrying new aircraft from factory.

London, United Kingdom

I was responsible for overall IT and Telecommunications for Small World and its subsidiaries across Europe, Central America and Africa. Subsidiaries included Small World Financial Services, LCC Money Transfer, Bayba, Express Funds, Global Link and Omnex Money Transfer.With more than 50 offices in 9 countries and growing fast through acquisition, I was responsible for integrating acquired IT systems into the corporate infrastructure, including the complicated transition of an acquired trading platform from IBM Z9 mainframe to HP ‘C’ class blades. I also consolidated the legacy telecoms infrastructures and created a new global VoIP platform, and implemented a document management system for BASEL II.

Responsible for IT department for interim period.

Ad-hoc consultancy on projects including Business Continuity and Data Centre migration

Florida, Usa And London, England

Recruited to assist Prolexic expand into UK, EMEA and PACRIM market.Responsibilities included:- Design, construction and daily maintenance of data centre in London.- Business development and support of clients in EMEA.

Kennington, London

Responsibilities included:- Overall responsibility for network, Internet and communications infrastructure, including extensive audio/visual facilities.- Development and policing of long-term IT strategy for development and infrastructure in line with overall business strategy.- Large £multi-million group budget responsibility.Achievements include:- Design and implementation of new Internet hosting data centre and associated access architecture.- Complete re-design and implementation of Comms room, including new Cisco network. Doubled size with no operational downtime.- Overhaul of group communications infrastructure, achieving 50% cost saving.- Completed 5 internal refurbishment and relocation projects, including live trading floor upgrades.- Key in implementation of Disaster Recovery strategy.

Charing Cross, London

Responsibilities included:- Daily overall management of entire IT strategy, infrastructure, staff and contractors.- Design and implementation of Internet e-commerce architecture and communications.- Annual budget of over £1 Million.- Management of Reuters Triarc and Bloomberg infrastructures.Achievements included:- Very successful launch of Internet trading site, with up to 5000 daily clients.- Complete review of all IT systems and procedures.

Responsibilities included:- Evaluation and development of IT strategy in line with changing business requirements.- Project management, analysis and development of internal software, including Portfolio Management and Analysis systems, Client reporting databases and Electronic Transaction Initiation systems and interfaces.- Created first partial STP SWIFT transaction service in Lloyds Insurance market fund management.- Y2K and EMU analysis, repair and auditing of internal and third-party applications.- Assisted in design and implementation of new comms room of approx 250sqm.- Specification, testing and installation of new equipment.- Control of project and IT budgets.- Selection and supervision of development staff and outsourced support.Other past projects include:- Conversion of fax-based trade initiation to a semi-automatic electronic system.- Windows NT 4 Migration.- Core member of merger transition team.

Fdsc Cycling Performance, Cycling Performance

Bsc (Hons) It & Computing

Education record