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Tewkesbury, England, United Kingdom

Brentford, England, United Kingdom

Responsibility for the day to day operation of the BPCS and Mfg/Pro Services ensuring SLAs were maintained, services met GSK governance standards and ITIL best practices were followed. Successfully shutdown the BPCS Service which involved removal of 12 servers, 5k+ documents, 30+ active environments, 120+ ServiceNow assets, resource downsizing and various.

Brentford

Responsible for day to day operation of the BPCS Service. Implemented performance management on all ITIL processes. Built team of 16 SMEs located in US, UK, Pakistan and KL to facilitate service operation and multiple project support as BPCS was implemented in various sites. Designed and built validated SQL Control System (in RPG) to give more control over.

Brentford

Providing detailed 3rd line support as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) on BPCS and the iSeries. Analysed issues on most problematic support site and facilitated process improvements and system enhancements to reduce monthly ticket count by 75%. Labelled Gold Standard ITIL Problem Manager after reducing outstanding problems from 250 to 10 in a matter of 6.

Woking, United Kingdom

The BPM role was redefined as a Business Analyst for Operations. The role changed from providing services to the Woking site to providing services to all Operational sites across the World. This role involved providing the following services to the Operational Groups:- Identifying Weaknesses in Processes- Standardising solutions world wide- Leveraging the.

Woking, United Kingdom

This role involved providing the following services to the local Woking site: - Analysing business process problems - Developing specifications for technical development - Testing and Implementing developed Applications - Providing Application Support for Bespoke System 21 running on the iSeries.

Telford, United Kingdom

This contract role was to provide BPCS application support for multiple customers throughout Europe. As well as supporting the BPCS system, the role involved providing first level support for their clients Siebel and Cashbooks systems as well as a specialised printing solution. The role involved the daily use of Query to provide reports and interrogate the.

Pirbright, Surrey, United Kingdom

Developing an Access Database for the Greenspace project.This was an unpaid assignment.

Peterborough, United Kingdom

- Daily management of a team of four - Responsibility for Pricing Programs and applications - Management of Earnix Servers. - Development work on iSeries using ILE RPG.

Horsham, United Kingdom

- Assist in the upgrade of a clients payroll system. - Development in ILE RPG, Free form RPG, RPG IV and all associated iSeries tools.

Plymouth, United Kingdom

- Assist with the upgrade of BPCS from V61 to V83. - Upgrading bespoke BPCS development using CLP, RPG3, RPG4, ILE, SQL and Query. - Standardisation and upgrade of their stock count system.

Basel, Switzerland

Roles - BPCS Consultant on Finance team. (10 months) - Finance Team Leader. (12 Months) - Head of BPCS Support for EMEA. (6 months)Activities - Provide BPCS application and technical support for over 30 BPCS systems supported out of Basel. - Provide RPG solutions if appropriate utilising SQL. - Provide worldwide support for Cashbook product. - Project lead.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Tasks: - Designed interface between a third party warehouse management system (WMS), BPCS and UPS. - Developed Interface using RPG and ILE RPG. - Performed system testing, including production of system test plan.

Reading, United Kingdom

The IT Department provided the infrastructure and application support for main offices in Reading (2 sites), Belgium and South Africa and also supported satellite offices in the UK (4 offices), France, Italy and Ireland. The IT Managers role was part of the Senior Management Team at SCCRoles and Responsibilities - Manage a team of four - IT purchasing.

Brentford, United Kingdom

Roles:Practice Manager for eArchitecture - Team Specialising in designing and implementing network and security solutions. - 18 - 20 ConsultantsPractice Manager for Application Integration - Team Specialising in designing and implementing solutions using IBM's MQ Series products. - 4 Consultants - MQ CertifiedInternal - Managed the Re-engineer of Business.

Frimley, United Kingdom

- Project Management, 50k to 2m - BPCS Consultancy - Provide Internal and External Training in BPCS, AS/SET, RPG and bespoke courses. - BPCS and AS/400 Health Checks - BPCS versions v3 to v6.1 - Software specification and development in AS/SET, RPG, CL and SQL. - Developed Internal Project Methodology - I worked for many different companies and industries..

- SAP utilising RPG, CLP, SQL, Query - Worked on BPCS - Trained in AS/SET - Worked for clients SSA and Berry Brothers &Rudd - Developed BPCS Rounding Solution for SSA - Project included: Courtaulds Clothing Implementation (as both a Developer and Project Leader), Rounding in BPCS for SSA, CODA / BPCS Interface for Berry Brothers and Rudd Ltd and Italian.

- Started as Trainee Programmer and progressed through to Senior Analyst Programmer. - Programmed Bespoke systems using RPG and CL on the AS400. - Supported Sales and Marketing Systems. - Projects included: New Marketing Database system (design and development), Improvement of Month End processes and Expansion of Customer number from 4 digits to 6 digits.

Post Graduate Diploma, Business Information Technology

Bsc, Computer Science And Operational Research