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Winsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Redhill And Peterbrough

Governance Manager atboth Redhill and PeterboroughKey Accomplishments and responsible for: HSE Manager responsible for the compliance of sites which are regularly audited, discussed and agreed each locations budget with the account head. Learning and development ensuring all staff were mentored or coached to maximize effectiveness and responsible for Learning and Development for over 200 associates in the UK.

Redhill

Managed the relationship with all stakeholders and other delivery managers including 3rd party. (Account size 140 staff).Managed all project phases to develop mainframe and server environments in alignment with business and strategic technical requirements. Directly managed both mainframe and non-mainframe functional team of 36 associates spanning 2 continents to facilitate the use of development, and configuration / environment management Managed the relationship with the main outsourced infrastructure functions in Poland and Italy.Configuration tools examples include Endevor running upon Z0S and Subversion running on Windows. Key Accomplishments:Consultancy Roles Requested personally clients twice each 1 year in length working as a consultant for an account situated on client sites.Requested to use my expertise with another account before a successful bid was made for TCS to gain business.Achieved customer satisfaction ratings of 90% every year throughout tenure in role. (2008-2016).Offshore ratio goal of 80/20 % and delivered profitability, (2008-2016).Managed teams in Bangalore and Mumbai, India, and met or exceeded delivery, quality and profitability targets (2008-2016).Learning & Development Ambassador for the United Kingdom and Ireland for 6 years (2009-2016).Value Delivery Framework Ambassador on the Legal and General delivering continual service improvements to huge new business to Legal and General and new business for TCS for throughout 6 years.Delivered 2 new LPARS which were used for standalone testing of Auto Enrolments and RDR as they were both changing the same code which was tested independently before being merged into Pre-Production with all conflicts resolved (2011-2012).100% system availability throughout creation of new test environment functionality (2011-2012).

Kingswood Surrey

LEGAL & GENERAL GROUP PLC, Kingswood, Surrey • Financial services company with £371B in assets under management. System Development ManagerHeaded cross-functional team of 12 to facilitate common components initiatives and configuration management operations. Primary point-of-contact for development teams to ensure delivery of all applications Key Accomplishments:Championed transition from PVCS and CVS to Subversion freeware to and gained buy-in from senior management which produced a single PC development toolset and followed by full migration of all code within 6 months that saved £1 million.Optimised support for 500+ developers through streamlining coding standards and facilitating desktop application rollouts.

Kingswood

Key Accomplishments:Managed a portfolio of projects across a 5 year period which were delivered in a using a variety of delivery methodologies depending upon business requirements which were mainly driven by date and financial criteria. Most of these systems were targeted at mobilising the computerisation of quotation systems used by tied and independent financial advisors.Managed the replacement of a Fax system used by agents into an online system.During this time many tactical as opposed to strategic deliveries, where the business wanted a system that was driven by being functionally fit for purpose, as opposed to a large financial investment were completed.Throughout this period of time I also managed to completion over twenty POC (proof of concept) work packages mainly within the infrastructure space all of these required a quick but thorough investigation regarding technical feasibility examples being COBOL upgrades, Z0S, Windows.

Croydon, United Kingdom

Programme Manager (1998 to 2000) Year 2000 Programme to minimise potential Y2K risks. Developed strategic plans in collaboration with internal resources and network of consultants. Key Accomplishments:Managed staff in excess of 180 including the management of 4 outsourcing vendors throughout life cycle of a £32 million programme. (1 outsourcing vendor was removed due to poor performance).Over 200 IT systems, building management systems across the Legal and & General property estate and 3rd party contracts had to be assessed. A significant number of 50 + year old systems had to be checked however in many cases the source code no longer existed which resulted in: Load modules having to be disassembled / compiled and then the source revalidated and tested, or Systems having to be specified again from known functionality and business analysis.

Kingswood, Surrey

The RRR (Retail Regulatory Review) legislation required sales sales staff to disclose commission to the customer. For the first time commission could be sacrificed in order to obtain a sale.This Project required both a new Mainframe and PC quotation system. The mainframe system was built internally, however, the PC system was purchased from a 3rd party.I managed the project from both a business and an IT perspective.

Kingswood, Surrey

Key Accomplishments:Part of the team that finally managed to progress ENDEVOR into a stable fully functioning Production SCM (Software Change Manager),Personally wrote and presented a training course to in excess of 500 developers.

Southampton, United Kingdom

COBOL training of new startersLead generation in finding delegates openings in companies, Coaching delegates regarding CV writing and interview techniques.I was a success story for Stellar Data and as such provided large amounts of motivation to new delegates.

Southampton, United Kingdom

I attended a intensive eight week programming course in COBOL as I had decided that my future lay in IT.Upon passing the course I then joined Stellar Data as an employee until my offer of a position at Legal and General became available.

Fareham, Bognor, Leamington Spa, Gosport, Portsmouth, Chichester, Southampton

I joined Stead and Simpson after leaving school founded in 1836 had a footwear retailer with over 240 stores.I entered training for six months before managing my first store in Bognor. The other stores that followed just got larger and larger until I was managing the largest shop in the company.As well a being responsible for branch turnover I also was responsible for cost control, recruitment, dismissals and a significant amount of training of new recruits. I had only six weeks to turn school leavers into new branch managers.At the same time I was travelling the country opening new shops and closing ones no longer profitable, employing or making redundant staff as requested by senior directors.