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Scotland, United Kingdom

Co-owner of hospitality company serving the best coffee, cake and home made food in Falkirk’s eastern most parks - Zetland Park & Muiravonside Country Park.Leading the refit, staffing and operational delivery of these concessions, providing high quality at an affordable price. Https://www.weecoffeecabin.co.uk

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

A small start up company looking to provide high quality planning and project/program management functions to organisations/events large and small.Experience in 3 key areas: FinTech Programs, Large Scale Events (Delivery & Technology Solutions), Property Projects (Development/Renovation)With one goal. To add value to current assets or deliver new assets enhancing the company/event brand.

Falkirk, United Kingdom

A startup venture targeting delivery of a leading boutique music festival in central Scotland - Vibration Festival. Year one (May 2019) delivered an award winning, faultless festival to excellent review with a licensed capacity of 5000.https://vibrationfestival.comhttps://fusioneventgroup.co.ukKey responsibilities include:Financial ManagementHealth & Safety (including Safety Advisory process)Artist Booking/LiaisonSupplier Contract ManagementSales… Show more A startup venture targeting delivery of a leading boutique music festival in central Scotland - Vibration Festival. Year one (May 2019) delivered an award winning, faultless festival to excellent review with a licensed capacity of 5000.https://vibrationfestival.comhttps://fusioneventgroup.co.ukKey responsibilities include:Financial ManagementHealth & Safety (including Safety Advisory process)Artist Booking/LiaisonSupplier Contract ManagementSales & marketingDigital Social Media & WebCommercial sponsorship opportunitiesLicensingFestival Bar Design and OperationLogisticsAll Aspects of Operational Event Delivery & Site Decommissioning Show less

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

A great opportunity to lead the technical delivery of the Natwest Group customer Carbon Tracker Application within its award winning mobile app. Key stakeholder management with business teamThird party engagement with all delivery partners internal and external to NatWestLeading the design, build and implementation of all application releases to the mobile appManagement of all technical staff within development and testResponsibility for all security assessment and… Show more A great opportunity to lead the technical delivery of the Natwest Group customer Carbon Tracker Application within its award winning mobile app. Key stakeholder management with business teamThird party engagement with all delivery partners internal and external to NatWestLeading the design, build and implementation of all application releases to the mobile appManagement of all technical staff within development and testResponsibility for all security assessment and testing of application pre-releaseResponsibility for all implementation governance Show less

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Delivery lead for the Legacy SLI/Phoenix/AAM Applications. Following key business consolidation of trade systems to CRIMS 18R2 a large number of key applications across both sides of the old Abrdn business needed to be archived, switched off and decommissioned. This primarily allowed the company to close down all legacy systems, realising significant cost savings following the merger in 2018.Scope of decommissioning:• Managed the controlled closure and data archive of… Show more Delivery lead for the Legacy SLI/Phoenix/AAM Applications. Following key business consolidation of trade systems to CRIMS 18R2 a large number of key applications across both sides of the old Abrdn business needed to be archived, switched off and decommissioned. This primarily allowed the company to close down all legacy systems, realising significant cost savings following the merger in 2018.Scope of decommissioning:• Managed the controlled closure and data archive of the Legacy Trade Order ManagementSystem - thinkFolio - to support future audit requests.• Managed the controlled reduction of CRD 9.1 footprint, ready for closure at future date. Server reduction from 106 to 36 servers, leaving smaller support environments.• Fully decommissioned circa 20 heritage SLI/Phoenix applications and 30 heritage AAM applications, including database/ftp/batch/file share infrastructure where required. Show less

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Agile Project lead for investment integration layer leading development & configuration change of two key functions:BAU project change between Standard Life Investments’ CRIMS Trade Order Management System, Enterprise Data Sources, and Third Party Service Providers.All SLI/AAM Integration layer related Change in relation to the consolidation of their public investment trading platform and data hub.Primary changes:Real time trade export message flow (internally to… Show more Agile Project lead for investment integration layer leading development & configuration change of two key functions:BAU project change between Standard Life Investments’ CRIMS Trade Order Management System, Enterprise Data Sources, and Third Party Service Providers.All SLI/AAM Integration layer related Change in relation to the consolidation of their public investment trading platform and data hub.Primary changes:Real time trade export message flow (internally to all down stream systems and externally to Citigroup)External trade flow routingCRIMS middle tier trade exportsBatch trade data imports/exports to third party vendors (covering Risk, Regulatory Reporting, Fund Accounting, Trade Data Enrichment) Show less

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Delivery lead for the Legacy Ignis Application, Services and Infrastructure Decommissioning work stream. Following key business operational change projects the primary aim was to migrate a number of systems to SLI domain and close down all legacy systems, realising significant cost savings following the acquisition in 2014.Scope of decommissioning:• Led the removal of multiple external third party network links (FTP, VPN, Web Links)• Managed the design and build of… Show more Delivery lead for the Legacy Ignis Application, Services and Infrastructure Decommissioning work stream. Following key business operational change projects the primary aim was to migrate a number of systems to SLI domain and close down all legacy systems, realising significant cost savings following the acquisition in 2014.Scope of decommissioning:• Led the removal of multiple external third party network links (FTP, VPN, Web Links)• Managed the design and build of all target Infrastructure with Group IT aligned resources• Managed the controlled closure and data archive of the 2 Legacy Trade Order ManagementSystems (thinkFolio and Bloomberg AIM) to support future audit requests.• Upgrade to key legacy benchmarking application for migration to SLI• Completed migration of Email archive application to SLI domain for ongoing retention• Built archives of a number of legacy data stores to SLI standards - setting up security and access models for data and SQL databases• Supported design of and led testing with the business owners prior to switching off all legacy systems• Triggered termination of a number of key service contracts with third party suppliers in line with decommissioning activity, realising significant cost savings• Final decommissioning of all development/test and production servers in Legacy Ignis domain Show less

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Project delivery lead supporting Digital Technology Delivery function.Technology delivery of key infrastructure components and testing to underpin the digital banking platform within RBS, including Mobile Apps, eBanking and Mobile Payments.Lead Project Manager within the team supporting and informal mentoring of Junior Project Managers. Aiding key learnings for the role of a Financial Services Technology Project Manager.Key member of small team supporting Continuous… Show more Project delivery lead supporting Digital Technology Delivery function.Technology delivery of key infrastructure components and testing to underpin the digital banking platform within RBS, including Mobile Apps, eBanking and Mobile Payments.Lead Project Manager within the team supporting and informal mentoring of Junior Project Managers. Aiding key learnings for the role of a Financial Services Technology Project Manager.Key member of small team supporting Continuous Improvement initiatives, primarily addressing project delivery best practice across the wider Technology delivery team.Key Projects:Supporting the code completion, testing and delivery within an Apple Pay related project.Leading the production of a formal estimation and design for a Mobile App and eBanking infrastructure program - debit and credit card integration, card control and card servicing. Show less

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Direct recruitment responsibility and management of governance team (team of 4) managing multi-million pound Infrastructure Change budget through defined program change process for Williams & Glyn Technology delivery.Working alongside delivery teams and managing third party delivery partners (IBM Commercial Team & Infosys Delivery) progressing new technology impact assessments, contract change pricing and sign off on all accepted change requests.Change Approval: Gaining… Show more Direct recruitment responsibility and management of governance team (team of 4) managing multi-million pound Infrastructure Change budget through defined program change process for Williams & Glyn Technology delivery.Working alongside delivery teams and managing third party delivery partners (IBM Commercial Team & Infosys Delivery) progressing new technology impact assessments, contract change pricing and sign off on all accepted change requests.Change Approval: Gaining program and financial approvals for changes ranging from £20k to £7 million.On contract change being accepted, managing change to current third party delivery contract.Communication of change to the delivery teams and managing the completion of the change item with IBM.Additional responsibilities:Production of MI on overall change statusProduction of MI on estimated/actual change costsProduction of MI on delivery status from third party and internal delivery teamsSupporting the management (and reporting status) of the high priority change items for Head of Infrastructure ProgramManaging a number of commercial aspects on the IBM contract board for RBS. Show less

Edinburgh

Working alongside Exception Ltd to deliver support of Lloyds Simplification program. Focusing primarily on Infrastructure Delivery to both test and production environments. Primary role of lead infrastructure manager with circa 60 resources allocated across multiple work streams:Support the delivery of a new simplified branch counter application, following upscaling of appropriate infrastructure in line with application design.Route to live test support covering functional… Show more Working alongside Exception Ltd to deliver support of Lloyds Simplification program. Focusing primarily on Infrastructure Delivery to both test and production environments. Primary role of lead infrastructure manager with circa 60 resources allocated across multiple work streams:Support the delivery of a new simplified branch counter application, following upscaling of appropriate infrastructure in line with application design.Route to live test support covering functional, non-functional and pre-live acceptance testing. Managing live roll out to 3500 branch servers and full performance monitoring.Key technologies include: Unix AIXIBM Websphere Application ServerIBM DataPowerIBM DataStageIBM Websphere MQIBM Message BrokerForging close working relationships with off-shore development and test teams, to plan the multi-platform test and implementation tasks across a multi-million pound program. Show less

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Project Manager delivering Technology Change in an Agile Project Environment for an OTC Derivatives Project. Working closely with front office and operations team with a key objective to upgrade the thinkFolio trading platform to include derivative instruments currently on the legacy trading system. Full STP message development using FPML format for bi-lateral and cleared trades to back office TPA.Full RFP for selection of key risk analytics software tool before packaging and deploying… Show more Project Manager delivering Technology Change in an Agile Project Environment for an OTC Derivatives Project. Working closely with front office and operations team with a key objective to upgrade the thinkFolio trading platform to include derivative instruments currently on the legacy trading system. Full STP message development using FPML format for bi-lateral and cleared trades to back office TPA.Full RFP for selection of key risk analytics software tool before packaging and deploying on SWIP desktops. Show less

Contract Program Manager delivering Infrastructure for Strategic Retail Project, with focus on Infrastructure Adoption of IBM SOA Solution (P Series Hardware and Websphere Software Set) then deployment in line with bespoke public facing application.On-shore and off-shore multi-disciplinary team.

Senior Development/Infrastructure Project Manager within Financial Services sectorMatrix management responsibility for both onshore and offshore IT staff.- Established the relationships with key stakeholders, developing scope of project- Proactive resource building for team including third party engagement for external project support- Thorough project planning to map out key milestones and underlying project tasks- Maintaining strict project governance and control… Show more Senior Development/Infrastructure Project Manager within Financial Services sectorMatrix management responsibility for both onshore and offshore IT staff.- Established the relationships with key stakeholders, developing scope of project- Proactive resource building for team including third party engagement for external project support- Thorough project planning to map out key milestones and underlying project tasks- Maintaining strict project governance and control through project life cycle- Overseeing £multi million portfolio of infrastructure and development projects covering both retail and private banking areas Show less

Planner within Jacobs Engineering. Located in BP Oil Refinery Project Office in Central Scotland, supporting Project Engineers with plans for oil and gas maintenance projects. Facilitating planning workshops and update sessions to manage the delivery of the plan through the project lifecycle.

Hardware development engineer, developing telecoms test equipment, supporting manufacturing handover and testing prior to moving product into production.