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Wimborne, England, United Kingdom

Southampton, England

London, United Kingdom

Feltham

• Programme Manager for a Datacenter Consolidation Project, working within a Prince2 Environment.
• Reporting directly to company European IT Service Director, responsible for identifying Risks, Issues and Actions for Direct Reporting Staff, plus Vendors.
• Single Point of Escalation for any/all Issues within DC Consolidation Project, with staff from 6 workstreams reporting into Programme Board from Worldwide Locations.
• Responsible for Procurement, Installation, Configuration and Successful Delivery of Leading Edge Technology, inc. Cisco Nexus 5K and 2K Switches, HP Enclosures with Blades, IBM XIV SAN, VM Ware, etc
• Highly Results Driven, with the Energy and Determination to succeed in a Very Fast Paced Environment where the pace of response is Critical to Success and only given a 3 month window to Virtualise an Entire Estate.
• Practical experience of planning and resource scheduling within the project process.

Bracknell

• Senior Project/Programme Manager for Pan-European VDI Rollout and Datacenter Consolidation of Nine In-Country Datacenters, working within a Prince2 Environment.
• Reporting directly to company CTO and CEO for Europe, responsible for identifying Risks, Issues and Actions for Direct Reporting Staff, plus Vendors.
• Single Point of Escalation for any/all Issues within VDI and DC Consolidation Projects, with staff from 6 workstreams reporting into Programme Board from Multiple European HQ’s.
• Responsible for Procurement, Installation, Configuration and Successful Delivery of Leading Edge Technology, inc. Cisco Nexus 7K Switches, IBM Bladecenters, EMC VNX SAN, IBM nSeries SAN, Nexsan Storage, VM Ware, Wyse.
• Highly Results Driven, with the Energy and Determination to succeed in a Very Fast Paced Environment where the pace of response is Critical to Success.
• Practical experience of planning and resource scheduling within the project process.

London, United Kingdom

• Working within a Prince2 Project Environment, design and execution of full DC Migration from two sites, to single consolidated Datacenter.
• Creation of plans to consolidate x86 estate, including Decommissioning Programme, Virtualisation Programme and Server Refresh Programme, including a total of 1350+ Servers.
• Liaison with Multiple Project Streams to ensure successful project delivery.
• Liaison with Business at every level, from Senior Management to Project Engineers.
• Focus on Zero Risk Approach to Migrations, utilizing Virtualisation Migration (VMotion) techniques, where possible and Swing Kit where appropriate to minimize downtime.
• Complete migration of entire IBM Blade Estate to Virtual.

Poole

Working within an ITIL project environment, liaising with Project Managers and Business Stakeholders to ensure system designs and SLA's meet with the business requirements.Infrastructure is predominantly Windows based covering Africa, Emerging Markets and UK.Working in a High Latency Satellite environment covering the African countries.High Level and.

London, United Kingdom

Manage the day-to-day operational requirements for the bank's various clients.Proactive staff management - ensuring that all aspects of support are covered (inc out of hours) and work is scheduled / prioritised based on business requirements.Proactive capacity management covering power, cooling and space for current & future demands.Work with all areas of.

SME, trainer, mentor for a team of server build engineers across London, Bournemouth, Portsmouth and Basingstoke Datacenters.Responsible for the day to day building of any new servers, typically Dell PowerEdge and HP DL servers with Windows Server 2003, into any of the South Coast JPMorgan Datacenters. This included the end to end process from liaising.

Team Member for a large 3rd party service department, providing support for a huge range of diverse systems and hardware.Working as part of the project team responsible for the automated delivery of over 600 applications to customer desktops for the Chase Connect project. The project involved migrating approximately 3000 users to a new Windows NT4.

Third level support specialist for a Build Room responsible for the automated installation of 4000 PC's with Windows NT, Office 97, Notes, etc. The automated software installation was performed using an unattended NT script and Tivoli's TME 10 software. Any updates to Client code was performed using Zenworks over Netware 4.11, distributing the software via.

Team leader for a small team responsible for the moves and changes of client kit, on a large finance project for the MOD. Responsibilities include: Building 75 NT 3.51 servers, creating and approving installation scripts. Second-line support for installation engineers. Scheduling tasks for the team to undertake. Liasing with the client to fully understand.

Team leader for a 1200 user rollout at RAF's Wyton and Brampton. Responsibilities include: Creating and updating installation scripts, First-line support for the rollout engineers, Second-line support for the new users to NT and Office '95, Pre-rollout visits to assess potential problems, Liase with customer help desk, identify client requirements.

Part of a small team based at the BNFL Sellafield Nuclear site and responsible for the support of Windows 3.11 clients running on Novell Netware 4.1. Many other applications were supported inc., MS Office 4.3, Reflections and cc:Mail. Also responsible for carrying out backup strategy using Arcserve 5.0.