Michael Catmur

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A Technical Operations/IT Director providing leadership to IT, Engineering, Dev/Sec/Ops teams. @ TVT Media
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About Michael Catmur

A technical/IT operations leader with a breadth of experience managing highly performing systems, infrastructure and teams in SMEs. Driven by the opportunity to improve people, processes and technology, working actively across business teams to deliver success. Has managed Technical Operations, IT, IT Strategy, Product Management and Engineering, Technical Consulting and Service Delivery functions.Excellent communication ability at both strategic and tactical levels, ensuring technical and IT teams understand business operational demands. Collaborative and able to mediate and translate perspective from multiple stakeholders to develop a common understanding of goals. A responsive and responsible individual respected for a participative, pragmatic, hands-on approach to management.KEY SKILLS:A broad background in IT spanning IT Strategy, Product Engineering, Agile/Scrum development, IT Management, Infrastructure & Application Architecture, Cloud Services, Networking, Service Delivery and Technical Operations.Tech Ops Strategy & Systems Architecture: Focused on developing a strategy that aligns to business objectives and transforms tech/dev/ops into a value-added service.Communication: Consistent, clear, inclusive communication through all business levels. Interpreting and translating input and responses from all stakeholders (internal and external).Continuous Improvement: Regularly reviews business and IT processes for improvement in efficiency and effectiveness. Tenacious in engineering continuous improvement. Operational Management: Organises teams and projects to common business goals. Focuses on details in the foundation layers to ensure a sound structure for business operations.

Michael Catmur's Current Company Details
TVT Media

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A Technical Operations/IT Director providing leadership to IT, Engineering, Dev/Sec/Ops teams.
Michael Catmur Work Experience Details
  • Tvt Media
    Head Of Technical Operations
    Tvt Media Mar 2022 - Present
    London, Gb
    Providing Leadership to IT and Broadcast Engineering operations• Responsible for providing governance and leadership to operations teams and their projects• Took-over management of IT/Tech-Ops and Broadcast engineering teams from incumbent CTO• Primary liaison for technical relationships with global clients (BBC Global News, Press Association)• Provided leadership and direction in the implementation of a 30% reduction in AWS Cloud costs• Led a time-and-materials analysis of critical processes to re-focus development on to only high-gain projects• Implemented an Agile (scrum) approach to technical operations for internal and client support• Provides engineering guidance on Cloud and Hybrid system migrations, network design, and Security reviews
  • Urbanfoundry London
    Information Technology Consultant
    Urbanfoundry London Jul 2017 - Present
    London, Greater London, Gb
    Providing IT/Security/Technical-operations advisory services and support to clients• Technical operations advice and architectural guidance for IT Systems, Cloud, and Network environments• Security and IT Policy guidance for SME software development company• Systems management automation and continuous improvement direction and implementation• IT Systems Transformation Director in telco/managed-services organisation
  • Nasstar
    It Systems Transformation Director
    Nasstar Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
    Wakefield , West Yorkshire, Gb
    Leading an IT Systems Transformation after the acquisition of KCOM National Business• Responsible for all IT transformation agreements supporting the transition• Management of data engineers supporting transformation and TUPE'd National Business dev team• Leading back office and networks integration to support the transformation• Establishing plans for migration of ~40 systems supporting National Business products onto Nasstar ecosystem
  • Federos Llc
    A Federos Company: Group It Director
    Federos Llc Dec 2018 - Jul 2021
    Frisco, Texas, Us
    Implementing IT strategy and Leadership to support 4 x growth • Brought in to manage the merger of an Irish entity and prepare IT for 4 planned M&As through 2019• Provide IT leadership and centralised responsibility to 3 disparate technology groups• Implemented an IT strategy to standardise systems management, control, support and costs• Architected a greenfield migration plan to consolidate and scalable IT back-office • Implemented centralised product engineering tools to support 3 product teams
  • Flixmedia
    Interim: Global Technical Operations
    Flixmedia May 2018 - Nov 2018
    London, Gb
    Established best practices and technical/engineering operating structure in a global start-up • Hired into a new leadership role to establish best practices for technical, development and operational teams• Implemented a Technology roadmap process for product development and maintenance of Flixmedia platforms • Established an Agile transformation program to streamline people/process/technology• Established operating structure in technology delivery teams and platform operations • Established IT Governance Policies and procedures to support ISO certification• Responsibilities: Flixmedia platform operations, IT, Development/Engineering, Business Analysis, PMO
  • Federos Llc
    A Federos Company: Senior Director, Technical Operations (Contract)
    Federos Llc Aug 2017 - Apr 2018
    Frisco, Texas, Us
    UK Technical Operations, Product Development and management of Technical Alliances• Responsible for technical and operational due diligence in the acquisition of liquidated Assets and IP (TDB Fusion)• On-boarded IT, Technical Operations, Engineering and product management of TDB Fusion teams into parent company • Responsible for the Strategy, architecture and delivery of Fusion1 product platform for the Assure1 product• Initiated Technical Alliances program for parent company’s core product, Assure1
  • Tdb Fusion Ltd
    A Federos Company: Director Technical Operations
    Tdb Fusion Ltd Sep 2014 - Jul 2017
    Bracknell, Berkshire, Gb
    N.B. TDB Fusion was acquired by Federos in July 2021Technical Operations at IT Software Development start-up company• Reporting to CEO, developed technical operations to support 5-fold increase in staff and 3-fold increase in revenues• Lead Technical Consultant on £3M integration project for UBS Network Tools Engineering team• Refreshed complete IT productivity suite to reduce operational costs by 30% and improve reliability• IT Infrastructure overhaul to implement stability and support business growth (N/W, Security, SAN, NAS)• Outsourced network/security services to reduce business risk and establish foundation for scalable growth • Established software product operations: Agile Product Owner and Release & Configuration manager• Established Technical Consulting and Business Analyst functions to streamline client requirements and solution design• Established PMO function to manage end to end customer project management and client engagement• Managed all technical operations teams through Consulting, Customer Support and IT Shared Services• Responsibilities: Technical Service, Presales Engineers, PMO, Product Development/Engineering/QA, IT
  • Jcl Technologies Limited
    Director
    Jcl Technologies Limited Apr 2014 - Sep 2015
    JCL Technologies is a consulting and advisory services practice dedicated to supporting companies leverage information technology in sustaining and growing their business. Providing IT, technology & business consultancy, advising to C-level• Partner at JCL Technologies, providing IT technical validation and advisory services to clients• Technical advisory services to US-based software developer, working in the Service Assurance space• Delivered an infrastructure review and IT customer experience strategy assignment in the hospitality sector
  • Tata Communications
    Director, It Strategy And Planning
    Tata Communications May 2010 - Mar 2014
    Mumbai, Maharashtra, In
    Responsible for all strategic IT planning & delivery, communicating IT vision and roadmap• Promoted to a strategic-level London-based IT leadership role, supporting core business functions• Provided strategic oversight and vision on corporate application development & infrastructure initiatives• Chief of Staff to the CIO, working on strategic planning & initiatives, with IT staff of 280+• Leadership, management and motivation of a multi-functional team of IT, technical & support staff• Management & development of the newly-formed innovation R&D function, driving IT / IS innovation• Developed business cases for IT, clearly communicating business benefit for adoption of emerging IT• Established an Enterprise Architecture function for the business, outlining long-term roadmaps for IT• Led Technology assessments in infrastructure, applications, databases, virtualisation and cloud services• Managed a Process and Quality function focused on continual improvements of IT services to the business
  • Tata Communications
    Director, Corporate Portal Development
    Tata Communications Sep 2008 - May 2010
    Mumbai, Maharashtra, In
    Responsible for all aspects of development of corporate Portals, supporting 8000+ staff + customers• Appointed to new role within Tata Communications overseeing portal-related infrastructure & development• Successfully defined hosting strategies and virtualisation assessments, adopting innovative new solutions• Managed the delivery of two $multi-million portal developments, including requirements definition phases• Effectively stabilised portal development activities, expanding the remit across the broader IT landscape• Utilised IT resources across Mumbai and New Jersey, managed outsourced teams across in India and Canada
  • Vanco
    Infrastructure Manager
    Vanco 2007 - Sep 2008
    Us
    Reporting to the CTO, responsible for oversight of all IT Management and directly responsible for all Infrastructure design, planning and implementation• Roadmap management, developing implementation and transition plans for IT strategy• Infrastructure design/planning/maintenance/operations for customer management systems supporting +35000 customer devices (data centre, hardware, systems, operating systems, applications)• Customer portal management (design/planning/development/implementation/training) • Defining standards and guidelines for internal and third parties to maintain operational availability• Multi region, multi datacentre shared infrastructure (systems) design, planning, management
  • Vanco
    Infrastructure And Systems Designer
    Vanco Jun 2005 - 2007
    Us
    This position involved research and development of infrastructure components providing strategic direction for development of both internal and customer solutions. Activities spanned programme and project management, developing customer requirements, running vendor evaluation workshops, conducting technical reviews, testing, RFI and RFP, providing training, developing best practices and operational rollout.During 2006-07 this position was dedicated to working on the migration of the Vanco head office to a new building, working with network engineers on a new metro Ethernet fibre ring deployment and the new LAN design and implementation. Several security options in the design were investigated and included into the proposals for the new office LAN design.In 2005, design and implementation of an extension of the customer portal into Singapore was a key project, along with the deployment of WAN acceleration devices between the UK and Asia & Pacific regions.
  • Vanco
    It Development Manager / Systems Consultant
    Vanco May 2002 - Jun 2005
    Us
    Manager of a development team working in a variety of disciplines developing solutions for change, problem, inventory and time management applications, the corporate internet & intranet and other applications based on various technologies: Remedy ARS, Pivotal CRM, HPOV, enPortal, InfoVista, SMARTS, Documentum, Access, VB.NET, ASP, ASP.NET, XML, JSP.Day to day involvement included architecting systems, specifying hardware, software and system configurations, and physical build. This extended to the enterprise environment through the design and configuration of Windows domain integration (AD, WINS, DNS etc) and LAN/WAN (bandwidth/latency requirements). I also provided 3rd line support to the IT department on Microsoft systems, NetScaler, RAS dialup (Cisco), LAN switches, corporate web proxy (BlueCoat/CacheFlow), some elements of the NetScreen firewall in the test lab environment, and the development and support of the customer access portal (enPortal – Edge-Technologies.com).
  • Vanco
    Infrastructure Support Systems Consultant / Analyst
    Vanco Mar 2001 - May 2002
    Us
    In this role working for the Technical Director, alongside network technical analysts and IT support teams, I evaluated and subsequently commissioned a new help desk system to support the IT team through its growth from 2 to 8 staff, replacing old email tracking methods. I also managed the delivery of a Cisco RAS dial-up solution, replacing an unstable legacy ACE solution. I also architected and built hardware solutions for core operational systems (VitalSuite, Remedy, Documentum, MS Exchange, Intranet, Internet and others).When Vanco opened their new Chicago office, I was sent over for 3 weeks to arrange all internal infrastructure requirements including structured cabling, switch, wireless LAN, local Windows 2000 AD server, WINS, DNS, Exchange and all work stations prior to their first customer visit.
  • Vanco
    Webmaster / It Support (Madison Division)
    Vanco Mar 2000 - Mar 2001
    Us
    In March 2000 I moved to a Vanco subsidiary business, Madison, a recruitment agency in the early stages of implementing a .COM strategy. My assignment in Madison began with supporting IT requirements for 30 staff and training up a dedicated IT resource, as well taking on the webmaster role for the .COM part of the business. The role involved general IT management of the NT workstations with roaming profiles, build and support of the load balanced recruitment CRM software installation (Voyager), managing the website on-line chat and forum application, delivery of website content articles, polls and competitions, and architecting and commissioning the server platform and ISP hosting setup to support the site.
  • Vanco
    Web Technician / Installation Engineer (Ebusiness Division)
    Vanco Feb 1999 - Mar 2000
    Us
    In February 1999 I joined Vanco eBusiness as a Web Technician coding HTML for corporate intranets. I also supported and maintained the web development environment for the department and latterly performed all installations at client sites, installing operating systems, web servers, databases and the eBusiness Intranet solutions (ASP website, SQL database, ASPFileUpload, ASPmail, Intranetics and Net-IT Central).
  • Ministry Of Defence. Andover
    Higher Professional Technical Officer
    Ministry Of Defence. Andover Mar 1998 - Feb 1999
    Responsible for logistics planning of an unmanned aircraft project, ensuring appropriate supply chain and spares were in place for the intended active life of the equipment. Responsible for getting environmental testing facilities certified. Created an equipment tracking database in Microsoft Access. Supported the Department of Equipment and Support (DES3) Intranet Developer.

Michael Catmur Skills

Integration Telecommunications Data Center Cloud Computing It Strategy Managed Services Requirements Analysis Networking Enterprise Software Program Management Solution Architecture Security Outsourcing Virtualization Cisco Technologies Vendor Management Infrastructure Enterprise Architecture Ip Itil Change Management It Management Windows Linux Internet Protocol It Service Management Windows Server Service Management Cisco Systems Products Html It Development Portals Disaster Recovery It Outsourcing System Architecture Business Transformation Business Analysis Management Cisco Networking Prince2 It Transformation Infrastructure Management Information Management Consulting Strategy International Business

Michael Catmur Education Details

  • Kingston University
    Kingston University
    Aerospace Engineering

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