Gary Dutton Email & Phone Number

Box, Wiltshire

Heaford Limited is an independent consultancy providing IT and project management services for all sized businesses. Our consultants are experienced in many industry sectors from enterprise requirements planning and asset management through the maintenance and repair of engineering assets to bespoke development of retail point of sale and e-commerce solutions.

Home Based

Delivered an in-store technology refresh programme into circa 400 stores. Highlights include: - New EPoS solution including hardware refresh - New P2P inventory management solution - New labour workforce management solution - Integration with e-commerce and aggregator sales channels, finance and BI systems - Corporate network infrastructure upgrade - Transition to new service desk provider.

● Successfully implemented a programme of work to migrate a hosted EPOS solution from one service provider to a new service provider SaaS model for Mitchells & Butlers● Delivered a real-time data feed project that achieved up to date stock and sales information for 1600 sites to support auto stock replenishment, including management of 3rd party Hitachi for the data lake and transformation workstream● Programme managed a Windows 10 upgrade for Mitchells & Butlers from solution design through to implementation and handover to BAU support● Managed the programme of work to support the Zonal IT integration workstreams for Greene Kings acquisition of Spirit Pub Company including staff time and attendance integration● Implemented the Zonal liveRES online booking SaaS solution into 1250 Greene King pubs● Migrated circa 800 ex-Spirit pubs and hotels to a new Zonal integrated IT application stack from programme start up through analysis and design into delivery and handover to BAU support● On boarded 1750 pubs to the Zonal Acquire online ordering solution including management of 3rd party vendor systems integration development plus bespoke changes requested by Greene King ● Managed the infrastructure upgrade of the Greene King Aztec EPOS Head Office IT hardware environment to support in excess of £2M sales transactions and 1750 sitesImplemented the changes required to integrate two Aztec EPOS systems into the proposed single corporate finance system.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for delivering the IT work-streams to support the transformation programme within the Facilities Management division. Highlights include: - managed the technical workstream for the Webroster Care rostering system; - project managed the implementation of Agresso 5.7 Finance and HR modules into the Facilities Services business; - Introduced the Scrum framework for delivery of bespoke software functionality; - Project managed a middle office workstream on the transformation programme.

Watford, United Kingdom

Responsible for the project portfolio and associated budget for the Aztec EPOS and Stock Management software product that processes approximately £1.5B of sales transactions per yearSet up and managed a continuous improvement process for managing system changes to reduce the delivery and benefit realisation timeframesImplemented a new euro based Aztec solution to support a new pub opening in southern IrelandManaged the Aztec EPOS and Stock Management system upgrade into 900 pubs including the head office transaction and reporting databases plus data interfaces to SAP, Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse systems through the full project lifecycle from initiation, requirements gathering, testing, implementation and handover into business as usual supportDelivered the RezLynx hotel reservations system upgrade for all J D Wetherspoon hotelsProject managed multiple ResourceLink HR and Payroll system upgrades including the delivery of workplace pensions reforms functionality for circa 30,000 employees on both weekly and monthly payroll runs.

Swindon, United Kingdom

Responsible for the project portfolio for the Wickes Stores Systems software product that processes approximately £1B of sales transactions per year.Managed multiple SCRUM teams to deliver required functionality.Set up a new internal software development team of 9 persons to provide the analysis, design, development, test, deployment and 3rd line support of the Wickes Stores System software product.Managed the Stores System upgrade of 223 stores which involved the development of 100+ software defects, the build and installation of 223 new servers, re-imaging 2000 tills/PCs, and new HHT hardware which delivered a total operational resource saving of 20,000 man days per year.Delivered a fully encrypted card payment solution to enable the Stores System to meet PCIDSS compliance requirementsManaged multiple development work streams to support the group multichannel programme. Project managed a bespoke route optimisation solution that integrated with the Paragon routing application that processes circa £350M of customer orders nationwide per year.Implemented the AGILE SCRUM process within the development team to improve the software release timescales of product functionality to meet the ever changing business requirement.

Delivered an enterprise work and asset management solution to work stream 1 implementation.

Delivered the Ellipse Asset Management solution into 5 business areas within the corporation.

Bachelor Of Engineering With Honours, Electrical And Electronic Engineering

Activities and Societies: Union representative on Rutherford Hall committee, university basketball team, ju jitsu, plus heavily involved.

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