Gary Higgins Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Edinburgh, Scotland, Gb

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Scotland

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Worked for CPB Bankers Tool as a Change Project Manager. This role involved migrating 3000+ users from CRM 2015 to CRM D365 and also overseeing multiple smaller implementations involving enhanced functionality for the D365 platform.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• A dynamic and versatile technical project manager with a successful track record of high value IT infrastructure delivery in Financial Services.• Demonstrating experience of managing projects ranging from three weeks’ duration to several man-months of effort, interacting with multiple work streams, including 3rd party suppliers.• Driving projects ensuring requirements are gathered correctly, milestones and deadlines are met, engaging and collaborating with customers, ensuring… Show more • A dynamic and versatile technical project manager with a successful track record of high value IT infrastructure delivery in Financial Services.• Demonstrating experience of managing projects ranging from three weeks’ duration to several man-months of effort, interacting with multiple work streams, including 3rd party suppliers.• Driving projects ensuring requirements are gathered correctly, milestones and deadlines are met, engaging and collaborating with customers, ensuring governance is established and followed.• Demonstrating control over projects through Change Management, Governance, influencing decisions.• Monitoring effort against budget; escalating impending overspends before they occur to enable decision making.• Bringing in managed projects on time and within budget due to careful planning and closely monitored progress.• Improving workflow and efficiency through networking, regular positive meetings with other IS areas, brainstorming sessions, and effective project management.• Contribution to Business Cases, ensuring all operational and technical aspects have been considered and captured and that operational costs have been represented accurately, within the constraints and parameters of the project. • Monitoring, reviewing and evaluating the progress of projects and programme via status and RAID reports and contributing to reports for Steering Groups and management.• An awareness of current and emerging IT and business related technologies maintained, to ensure that possible opportunities for the business are identified and maximum benefit from investment in IT is achieved. Show less

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Responsibilities• Engage and collaborate with all stakeholders (Business and Technical).• Ensure solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements.• Recognition and management of risk.• Ensure solutions adhere to strategic vision, business and security policies.• Ensure solutions delivery meets matches solutions design.• Liaise with suppliers regarding product procurement, technical overview and implementation.• Adhere to internal standard for solution… Show more Responsibilities• Engage and collaborate with all stakeholders (Business and Technical).• Ensure solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements.• Recognition and management of risk.• Ensure solutions adhere to strategic vision, business and security policies.• Ensure solutions delivery meets matches solutions design.• Liaise with suppliers regarding product procurement, technical overview and implementation.• Adhere to internal standard for solution delivery Experienced in leading, designing, document, manage and delivering high quality infrastructure solutions.• Conduct analysis on new and existing systems to document issues and identify areas of potential improvement: reduction of risk, enhancement of security, process improvement. Show less

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Lead technician within ISOS Build teams delivering projects and carrying out IT support tasks such as application packaging, AIX deployments, technical documentation and customer support. Working closely with the A&D and Programme teams, I successfully implemented large projects including Cognos v8.2, XP migration, Windows 2000 Server Upgrade and various AWD implementations including Straight Through Processing. On the Moses Blade implementation I helped develop and build the infrastructure… Show more Lead technician within ISOS Build teams delivering projects and carrying out IT support tasks such as application packaging, AIX deployments, technical documentation and customer support. Working closely with the A&D and Programme teams, I successfully implemented large projects including Cognos v8.2, XP migration, Windows 2000 Server Upgrade and various AWD implementations including Straight Through Processing. On the Moses Blade implementation I helped develop and build the infrastructure design, working with other ISOS teams to ensure all the requirements were successfully met. Other noticeable projects I worked on included the migration of physical Window servers to VMware and the ISI Year 2000 Programme. Show less

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Telephone support to Standard Life staff for Windows & OS/2 desktops, telephony and mainframe systems.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

IT trainer to professional staff.