Citypress is a Times 100 Best Small Companies award winning based in Manchester. They are the largest PR agency within the UK with headquarters outside of London with a diverse client base across a number of business verticals.At Citypress I am responsible for the company’s day to day IT Operations and have successfully led a progressive in sourcing of our IT services which I have enabled me to reshape our IT services to ensure constant service offering across our locations. This development of IT Services was led whilst improving and developing our internal support processes.

My primary responsibility within Lucite International is to develop agreed strategic elements into properly scoped, costed and resourced infrastructure projects working closely with key stakeholders, the greater IT department and third parties. Key to this project development process I have to ensure I hold a full understanding of the business requirements so that I am able to recommend technical and process improvement options. This often requires guiding of stakeholder through project definitions. Enabling them to step back and define key success factors. A recent key project in the areas was the leadership of hardware development for our data centre migration for SAP. This was a key project to upgrade SAP and migrate it’s hosting from a regional office into a data centre providing better connectivity and resilience for our Global Operations.I held full budgetary responsibility for my projects throughout their life cycle (Circa 400k per year). Central to this is a concise and evidence based cost control process allowing me to review and monitor spend and resourcing whilst working within established company practices.