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Cardiff, Gb

Cardiff, Gb

Leading both Platform Engineering (DevSecOps / CICD Pipeline) and Platform Technology (Infrastructure areas) within IT. Working with a scaled agile methodology ensuring our product teams, tribes and squads are enabled through automation and self service with stable platforms to develop new products and enhance our current portfolio development. Creating, sponsoring and enabling a culture of fail fast, test and learn along with creating the climate and culture necessary to provide physiological safety for staff.Responsible for an overall department of circa. 80 with annual fiscal responsibility of some £30m per annum.

Cardiff, Gb

Cardiff, Gb

Zurich, -, Ch

Accountable for overall management and provision of best value IT services adhering to industry best practice methodologies to deliver against agreed service catalogue, service levels, budget and quality.Ensuring that the European Infrastructure framework is stable, kept current and ensures the availability of business systems and tools;Lead M&A integration efforts / planning and Due Diligence in Europe Region. Form and adhere to SAP / ERP roll out templates to ensure consistent roll outs per site to agreed scope and schedule.Act as infrastructure lead in regional SAP roll outsManage the IT Customer Service function within Europe and ensure that the entire end user support team operates with a absolute customer commitment and operational excellence;Program and Project Manager for all IT projects in the European Group

Bridgend, South Wales, Gb

IT Infrastructure Manager for a multi national aviation company with annual turnover in excess of $100m. Brought into the business to establish a new team following restructure with a remit for promoting excellence in practice that will align with the companies aggressive growth strategy.Manage a technically diverse team and lead on all enterprise level projects and deployments.Key focus on obtaining value for money and driving down costs through negotiating better terms on all recurring costs and charges and exercising strong budget control.Responsible for annual IT Budget control and procurement of £1.4m reporting directly to the CIO.

Pontypridd Campus, Gb

Successfully led the college through a merger with another institution which consisted of infrastructure and systems alignment.Managing the IT Infrastructure of the college covering areas such as Server, Desktop, VMWare, Exchange, AD, Back Up, SQL Server, Wireless, VPN,SAN, Networking, WAN, LANDesign and implement core infrastructure for new £42m TELC Campus, delivered on time and to budget.Liase with third party suppliers to ensure value for money on procurement of goods and servicesManage IT service desk with line management responsibility for all IT staff members.

Gb

Working as a trainee accountant, Manged the Commission structure and calculated sales commissions for agents on a weekly basis.Produced weekly sales reports, budget reports, Variance Reports and KPI's on weekly sales performance cira £24m per annum.Managed cash bankings circa £900k per week and reconciled to bank statements and agent collection sheets, chased any discrepancies and reported to main board directors.Automated sales performance reports and banking reports procedures saving 12 FTE staff hours and enabling production of reports on a real time basis giving main board access to information as it happens to make key decisions

Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Gb

Postgraduate Certificate, Sustainable Leadership

Level 7, Strategic Management & Leadership Practice

Pgce, Management & Leadership

Hnc, Computing

Prince2 - Practitioner, Project Management