Chris Goodwin Email & Phone Number

Goole, Gb

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Home Worker

● Owned the Projects & Programmes Portfolio for the CISO business unit, establishing & embedding a project governance framework to deliver Information Security business goals.● Managed matrix teams from across the CISO business unit to assess and implement new security tools to improve security capability and reduce risk for the organisation, e.g. SIEM, Vulnerability Scanning, Data Loss Prevention.● Managed a programme of works to address gaps & findings from multiple security audits relating to DLP, PAM, SIEM & vulnerability scanning. Remediated findings as per commitments made to CEO and Board of Directors and reduced security risks for the organisation.● Collaborated with IT Teams to implement and rollout BlackBerry Cyber Security products for corporate use, thereby reducing security risk and supporting Sales Go-to-Market strategy by showcasing products.● Engaged with an External Auditor to perform a SOC2 readiness assessment for BlackBerry Cyber Security products and managed a team to address critical gaps and findings resulting in the products achieving compliance.● Partnered with a Security Consultant to assess BlackBerry Security Operations maturity and implemented a roadmap of improvements to address high priority / high risk findings that increased the capability of the SOC.● Earned company recognition awards for going above and beyond the expected to meet project deliverables.

Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom

● Managed a programme of more than ten multi-regional, multi-functional network technology projects to contribute towards £20M cost savings.● Built out network infrastructure and capacity expansions to support the deployment of a Private Cloud environment used for internal and customer facing services, resulting in infrastructure cost savings.● Led network convergence & consolidation projects to integrate acquired company’s offices and services into the BlackBerry Network resulting in alignment to corporate standards and better utilization of infrastructure resources.● Decommissioned four data centres in EMEA and transitioned services to alternate locations. These time bound projects significantly reduced operating costs.● Partnered with IT Teams to complete various office relocation projects as part of a £8M real estate cost reduction programme.● Became an established & credible Senior Project Manager within a new business function by developing positive working relationships and successfully delivering projects through a period of significant organisational change with the pivot to become a Software Development company.● Developed and tailored the project management methodology to best suit the needs of the department and customers. This included simplifying project intake request process and project reporting to improve engagement with the Networks PMO Team.● Learned and adopted Agile project management methodology as an alternative approach to traditional Waterfall. Using Agile resulted in delivering project outputs more quickly and improved the momentum and morale of project resources.● Participated in the BlackBerry Mentoring Programme taking on a mentor role. Assisted development of colleagues who wanted to learn and improve their Project Management skills.

Slough, United Kingdom

● Led multi-regional teams to successfully design and build four data centres across the EMEA region and China enabling BlackBerry to meet capacity demands and expand services into new regions, resulting in increased revenue.● Managed Service Engineering teams to deploy, migrate and expand BlackBerry application services to maintain operational performance commitments and support growth.● Implemented a formal methodology and governance practices that enabled global BlackBerry Operations teams to build data centres and implement service infrastructure consistently and in compressed timelines and thereby reducing the return-on-investment period.

Egham, England, United Kingdom

Managed a £10M project to select, design and fit-out BlackBerry’s first purpose-built data centre in the EMEA region to host BlackBerry services to meet customer growth and disaster recovery requirements. This project enabled increased sales and revenue for BlackBerry during a period of sustained growth.

Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom

Planned and reported on the 3G network launch activities of the Engineering & Operations department.I was also a Project Manager for handset application interoperability testing and Location Based Services projects.

Manchester, United Kingdom

PMO team member for two major projects for Mason's clients, O2 UK and Global Tele Systems (GTS).At O2 I assisted the Programme Manager of the Technology 3G Launch Programme and associated contracts & procurement activities.At GTS I was a member of the Programme Management Office team that managed the rollout of a transatlantic DWDM fibre network.