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An experienced can-do delivery specialist, I have a track record recovering jeopardy projects and programmes in customer facing roles. It may not always be pretty, but it is always effective - with a history of success through a very hands on approach - able to build effective teams to get the job done. I also have a passion for optimising delivery processes and mentoring project resources to ensure maximum productivity.I always strive to create and sustain a hardworking, upbeat environment while contributing to quality teamwork. I consider myself to have excellent communication and negotiation skills. At the start of each new assignment, I always focus on establishing effective working relationships with colleagues at all levels and across all cultures.Some of my key accomplishments are as follows:Led the Tesco UK Retail Network Transition, successfully completing the transition of more than 30,000 managed components from the incumbent supplier to Verizon in less than six months.Recovered a jeopardy program, resulting in the successful completion of a high profile transformation of all network services at a Tesco depot ahead of schedule and under budget.Led the development of workflow automation tools and processes resulting in significant productivity improvements for high volume WAN and CPE deployment.Led a team of 20 staff members, consisting of project managers and technical resources for delivery of network transformation programme on behalf of Verizon for Morgan Stanley.Relocated an entire regional data centre on behalf of a global Law Practice over a single weekend with no impact to ongoing operations.Working with Verizon Premier Clients Sales teams, I developed a number of bespoke transition and transformation strategies for RFP responses in a pre-sales capacity – contract values ranging from £10Million to more than £600Milllion.I would consider myself to be a confident, articulate and affable person with significant experience of people management and a demonstrable track record of success in customer facing engagements.If you would like to contact me, please feel free to message me via linkedin or call - I look forward to speaking to you.
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Deployment Project ManagerArctic Wolf Nov 2024 - PresentI am thrilled to announced that I have joined cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf as a Deployment Project Manager.It’s a great time to be part of the pack! Arctic Wolf is changing the game in security operationsat a critical time when companies of every size and every industry need to continually stay onestep ahead of threat actors.
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Transformation ConsultantOlivers Personnel Services Limited Nov 2019 - Mar 2020Rochester, United KingdomWorked with Olivers to manage the onboarding and ongoing delivery of services into several new client accounts.
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Change And Transformation Manager (Contract)Openreach Aug 2019 - Oct 2019London, United KingdomWorking within the regional optimisation team, I had the following remit:• Ensure the change portfolio was aligned to the regional strategy• Ensure change programmes had measurable benefits and defined success criteria prior to initiation• Ensure all regional change initiatives have an appropriate level of project management and governance• Develop a standardised, regional communication and engagement plans to enable improved capability and readiness throughout the organisation -
Transformation ConsultantOlivers Personnel Services Limited Mar 2018 - Aug 2019KentInitially engaged by Olivers to create and deliver an RFP response to Peel Ports for the supply and management of all contract labour in a major logistics hub in Kent.My immediate action from the contract effective date was to transition 50+ operational personnel from the outgoing labour supplier into Oliver's Personnel. I am also executing an HR transition, moving a number of Olivers core operational workforce from zero hour to fixed term contract positions. Following the award of this contract (Approximately £10 Million in value) I worked to transform Olivers operational order-to-cash processes, implementing structure and automation with the objective of streamlining delivery capability, reducing operational cost and improving customer experience.
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Telecoms Programme Manager - Transition And TransformationOlivers Personnel Services Limited - On Assignment At Avis Budget Group Aug 2017 - Mar 2018London, United KingdomLeading an internal team to assist ABGs partner (BT) in the initiation of the EMEA Network Transition and Transformation Programme. Program Scope included Regional WAN Transformation and Telephony Service Migration at over 800 locations across EMEA.
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Senior Network Project ManagerGiant Group (On Assignment At Post Office) Feb 2017 - Jul 2017United KingdomI delivered value to the organisation by preparing for the launch of a network transformation programme to upgrade connectivity to over 11,000 post office branches across the UK and Northern Ireland. I was engaged with several third party suppliers whilst preparing for project launch, reporting to post office CIO for branch technology.The following are the highlights of the value I delivered whilst in this role:• Managed relevant budgets, assets, and business cases.• Monitored and assessed overall progress and quality of projects.• Implemented risk management and problem resolution strategies.• Managed pre-production testing in preparation for programme launch.• Chaired supplier meetings, tracking all project related tasks through detailed RAID Logs
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Senior Project ManagerVerizon Enterprise Services Jul 2013 - Feb 2017United KingdomDuring this period at Verizon, I successfully led the delivery of a diverse range of projects Tesco Connectivity Programme - Programme Lead (WAN Transformation), 2015 to 2017:Managed a team of 5 Project Managers across Europe and a UK Fieldforce of over 30 engineers in the delivery of the Wide Area Network Transformation as part of the Tesco UK Network Transformation Program - delivering connectivity to more than 2600 Tesco Stores in the UK and Northern Ireland. ● Streamlined the end to end process to deliver upgraded connectivity and CPE to all Tesco UK retail stores in preparation for LAN/Wi-Fi Transformation. ● Working with internal development teams, led the development and deployment of a bespoke, innovative workflow management tool, significantly improving productivity. ✯ WAN Install success rate increased from 25% to over 60% ✯ A reduction in average time from installation to “site-ready” from 21 days to just 5Tesco UK Connectivity Programme - Lead PM- (Customer Depot Infrastructure Transformation - Structured Cabling, WAN, LAN and WiFi), 2015: ●Recovered the project from an at-risk state and achieved completion of all critical milestones 2 weeks ahead of schedule with no impact to the ongoing business operation.Tesco UK Connectivity Programme - Senior Technical PM (UK Transition), 2015: ● Led the transition of the management of Tesco UK Network estate, comprising of over 30,000 devices, migrating operational responsibility from the incumbent supplier to Verizon in less than six months. Tesco GWAN Program - Senior Project Manager (Transformation), 2013 - 2014: ● Spearheaded the successful delivery of a number of regional “next generation” network and security gateways in the UK and mainland Europe. -
Infrastructure Project ManagerLinklaters May 2012 - Jul 2013London, United KingdomIn this role, I had full responsibility for the entire project life-cycle from creation of business cases, presentation to the program board, creation and maintenance of all planning and delivery documentation, managing all resources throughout delivery and maintaining all project documentation including detailed project plans, RAID logs and detailed weekly project reports. Both Agile and Prince methodologies were used during this assignment..Notable Projects that I had direct responsibility for are shown below:Hong Kong DC Relocation – Managing all delivery resources, acting as the single point of contact for all third party vendors and key stakeholders for the entire lifecycle. The outcome was the successful migration of all APAC services in a single weekend with zero business impact.Global IPT core platform refresh – upgrading from Call manager 6.5 to 8Global Storage platform refresh – migrating from EMC to NetApp across all workloads – including CIFS, VMware, NFS, SAP and OracleGlobal Backup solution upgrade – migrating from legacy LTO3 tape technology to Symantec Disk to Disk appliances. -
Transition And Transformation Programme Director - New BusinessVerizon Business Nov 2011 - May 2012Reading, United KingdomMy second term in this position - as before in this role I primarily focused on new business opportunities in a pre-sales capacity. Working as the Transition and Transformation Lead I was responsible for the development of Verizon’s Transition and Transformation Strategy for major bid responses, presenting to customers and working closely with the bid teams to develop the strategy and approach to Transition and Transformation on Verizon's for Global Integration Deals.In addition to working with the sales teams on new business, I was also asked to head up an internal program to develop the Verizon approach to delivery of global transition and transformation for new business. My main focus was to ensure that all internal stakeholders were adequately prepared for delivery prior to contract signature and that customer understood their obligations and dependencies as early in the deal life-cycle as was practical. This involved several internal and external initiatives:• Resource modeling and planning• Internal engagement of key stakeholders• Deal readiness and awareness presentations across EMEA and APAC• Deal contract obligation mapping• Contract review and negotiations• Running detailed planning workshops (Internal and Customer facing)• Baseline planning in preparation for delivery -
Global Data Network Transformation Programme ManagerVerizon Business Jun 2010 - Nov 2011London, United Kingdom (Morgan Stanley)In this role I was deployed on site at Morgan Stanley as the Global Data Network Transformation Programme Manager tasked with the delivery of a new global WAN terminating on the Cisco CRS routing platform at the core and various Cisco CPE at the branch.This program carried a number of penalties for failure to deliver against an agreed schedule; whilst running the program, none of these penalties were triggered.Responsibilities in this role included:• Initiation of the program – building the baseline plan and engaging all key stakeholders through a series of customer workshops ensuring the principles and scope of the program were clearly understood from the outset, leading to improved customer support throughout delivery. During initialization, I was also responsible for:• Defining program governance• Recruiting and on-boarding a number of project managers who reported to me - covering EMEA, North America and Asia. • Working with Verizon Procurement to negotiate with third parties as required to support overall delivery.• Managing Program Budget – the overall budget of the Global Network Program was in excess of £40 Million and it was my responsibility to manage all expenditure in relation to the delivery whilst minimizing the impact of uncovered line costs.• Functional management of all technical resources associated with network delivery• Managed quality assurance and overall integrity of the programme - focusing inwardly on the internal consistency of delivery and outwardly on its coherence with infrastructure planning, interfaces with other programmes and corporate, technical and specialist standards.• Chair internal and external program meetings;• A single customer point of contact for all programme related reporting and escalations.
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Transition And Transformation Lead - New BusinessVerizon Business Jul 2009 - Jun 2010Reading, United KingdomIn this role I primarily focused on new business opportunities in a pre-sales capacity. Working as the Transition and Transformation Lead I was responsible for the development of Verizon’s Transition and Transformation Strategy for major bid responses, presenting to customers and working closely with the bid teams to develop the strategy and approach to Transition and Transformation on Verizon's for Global Integration Deals.
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Uk Pmo Manager (Rbs (Ex Abn Amro) Account)Verizon Business Mar 2008 - Jul 2009London, United KingdomOn completion of the T&T programme, I was promoted to the UK PMO Manager. In this role I was responsible for managing the UK Project Office covering all aspects of project and service delivery to ABN AMRO UK (Subsequently RBS). I was responsible for the management of all UK resources working on the account (technical, project and administrative), having oversight and responsibility for delivery of the entire project portfolio, managing local P+L, maintaining all customer facing documentation and acting as the point of escalation for any issues related to delivery.
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Uk Network Transition And Transformation Programme Manager - Abn Amro UkVerizon Business Sep 2006 - Mar 2008London, United KingdomIn this role, I was responsible for the Transition of management of the ABN AMRO UK Network from the incumbent supplier to Verizon business and when completed, i took over the lead for the Network Transformation - the transformation included the standardization of the UK network, ensuring that the environment complied with the agreed standards within the scope of the Verizon Managed Service. This included the replacement of the LAN in three UK Data centers - this LAN served a fully functioning trading floor - this work was completed without impact to ABN AMRO's ongoing business.Following the completion of the transformation programme, I was then given the task of upgrading ABN AMRO's global IP Services Platform from Cisco CNR to Infoblox - again this work was completed with no impact to ABN's business.
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Emea Technical Services ManagerAig Dec 2004 - Sep 2006Croydon, United KingdomWorking for AIG Technologies – the internal IT Service Company of AIG, I effectively worked as an IT Service Provider with numerous clients (All of whom are AIG Companies or Affiliates.)As the Technical Services Manager I directly managed 13 staff and was responsible for the following:Operational support for WAN, Messaging Infrastructure, Regional Internet and Regional Extranet Connectivity for all AIG Business units throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa. Consulting services for all of the areas listed above ranging from requirements gathering through to deployment. This often required creation and presentation of technical proposals for regional strategic services to improve business capability through reduced downtime, reduced impact of outages and responsiveness to emerging markets. -
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Senior Network ConsultantAbn Amro Bank N.V. Mar 2000 - Sep 2000Sydney, Australia
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Network Implementation EngineerAbn Amro Bank N.V. Jun 1997 - Mar 2000London, United Kingdom
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Horsted College, KentElectrical And Electronic Engineering -
Minster College
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Sir Thomas Cheyne
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