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Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

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Leeds, United Kingdom

• Successfully managed multiple consecutive IT and business change projects for one of Sodexo’s key clients, DWP, including a migration to a SAAS system for managing space planning data.Key Accomplishments:
• Utilised effective planning and realistic scheduling to deliver a new SAAS space planning solution using resources from the BAU support teams.
• Incorporated effective Governance into all projects to deliver timely reporting, production of key project documentation, identification and mitigation of risk and effective change management.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Managing Director of a company specialising in providing IT Project Management services to blue chip UK clients. Recent contracts include ones for Computacenter and University of Manchester.

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Successfully managed the discovery, design and delivery of a £2.5 million Windows and MAC refresh project across the entire UK corporate and supply chain estate, replacing approximately 1,200 Windows laptops/desktops.
• Effectively managed a 3rd Party delivery organisation through the design and delivery stages of the project and consistently achieved aggressive delivery targets.
• Initiated a policy of standardisation of assets, removing the existing complexity and diversity and creating an estate with significantly reduced support overheads.
• Exhibited the agility and flexibility required to adapt to an ever changing environment. Ensured there was the correct level of governance in place to manage the changes to scope that this brought.

• Successfully managed a number of Infrastructure projects for 2 of Computacenter’s major clients. Steered efforts towards augmenting project functions, and measured project performance using Computacenter’s Prince 2.
• Effectively delivered a troubled VPN project. Instrumental in building relationships and implementing procedures with the customer stakeholders and Computacenter technical resources to successfully deliver the solution.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Proficiently managed a number of projects, which primarily included a storage refresh project for the University of Manchester with a value of £6 million. Accomplished all assigned functions, and executed processes to.
• Managed the bid team to ensure the successful selection of a delivery partner and procurement of the end to end solution via the National Servers and Storage (NSSA) framework.
• Utilised the University’s gated delivery model through controlling critical operations and proficiently managing the project.
• Structured processes and procedures to ensure effective project management through the gated delivery model.
• Devised strategic plans to amplify project functions, identified potential risk, and employed mitigation strategies.
• Created and maintained effective channel of communication with management, stakeholder, and technical resources to assure seamless functions.

Various

• Headed a broad range of both Infrastructure and business change projects across a number of high profile blue chip clients, including Nationwide Building Society, Rolls Royce, Capital One, Ofsted and Lloyds Banking.
• Supervised and managed the refresh of all clients, printers and other peripherals across the entire workforce for Ofsted.
• Proficiently managed and executed two concurrent new site rollout projects for Rolls Royce within a multi-vendor eco system environment.
• Competently organised and managed expert diverse teams to assure delivery of a fully integrated infrastructure refresh design for Capital One’s entire UK operation, including network, compute, virtualisation and storage.
• Dealt with the design of a major business change project, as part of the integration of Lloyds Banking Group and Halifax PLC helpdesks.

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Cooperated with project manager in the Hosting sector, and expertly managed a very high focus transition project for Gresham, a long standing client of C&W. Simplified and controlled the project activities, and.
• Proved instrumental in directing all facets of project execution functions, including development of scope, project progress, and budgeting.
• Created and approved the PID, detailed level design and project plan and managed procurement, installation, build and configuration of the core infrastructure.
• Contributed all efforts and successfully led and organised a virtual team consisting of upwards of 20 resources, based across 4 UK sites as well as offshore in India, monitored their performance, and delivered.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Managed a project which focused on implementing the Business Change required to deliver the introduction of some key legislation. This included the creation and management of all plans, stakeholder management, governance and project evaluation.

Various

Working primarily for the hosting sector of IBM, I was accountable for the initiation, planning, management and delivery of multiple projects across a number of different internal and external accounts. This included such diverse customers as DWP, Boots, NEXT and London Borough of Greenwich Council.

Responsible for managing the finances on a £15m application development programme for a public sector client.

Reporting directly to the Delivery Project Executive with responsibility for delivering Change Management for the whole of the Boots outsourced account.

Responsible for the day to day management of all Request for Service (RFS) business for the Bradford & Bingley (BBG) outsourced account. Managed multiple concurrent RFS projects from varying departments within BBG. Projects ranged from a few thousand pounds up to several hundred thousand pounds in value

Bsc Computing, Software Engineering

Education record

Comprehensive School