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Horsham, England, United Kingdom

Managing complex programs and projects from Initiation to Delivery, that span Front and back office Business areas and IT development and infrastructure areas. Most recent project has been delivering Salesforce Sales Cloud and Pardot. This has also involved being the Salesforce product owner.

West Sussex, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

Helping and advising companies on service improvement, IT Strategy, Devops and Agile methodologies.

Surrey, United Kingdom

Project manager of a large AAA Financial Data Warehouse migration. Managing offshore resources using Agile Kanban and Scrum.

London, United Kingdom

As Service Transition Programme Manager I am leading a global tech upgrade project. I am designing and implementing service transition processes using agile techniques and ITIL principles. This includes using the latest Devops techniques and Cloud Services. The role also includes managing and measuring the Services delivered by external Vendors. As part of the role I also participate and improve development scrum processes. I am also the asset class representative on the Global Dev Ops Programme for the HSBC Global Asset Management Group

London, United Kingdom

In this role I led a team responsible for delivering MI solutions and Controlling working practices for IT Production Services, globally.The role also included project management of full development lifecycle for an Oracle Data Warehouse, implementation of agile development using scrum, designing tactical report prototypes in Excel using VBA, design of key metrics and reports to manage a programme of dev ops and to give transparency to stakeholders at all levels - from senior management, business to front office development and support.

London, United Kingdom

Econophysica provides consulting services to the financial industry.In this IT Director role I provided expertise and leadership for service management working practices and tools. The role included implementation of a Jira Service Desk and integration with development Jira; integration of production support with development agile processes and transformation of production support working practices and processes using ITIL.

This role involved management of a program to transform production services globally. I developed an enterprise service management tools, and redesigned working practices and processes using ITIL principles. Project governance was implemented using agile technique and successfully delivered to GBM globally.

This service transformation project required use of PRINCE2 techniques. The role involved implementation of new offshore support teams in Brazil and China, design and implement of service management tools, service reports and MI.

London, United Kingdom

This project manager role involved implementing database auditing and reviews for the consumer bank in-line with regulatory requirements. I also managed the upgrade and roll out of database auditing for Investment Bank database servers (1000+ systems).

As IT Group Manager for leading global bank, Citi, I was responsible for the suite of 30 business critical systems that deliver Citi Investment Bank back offer trade completion services. I also held full management responsibility for a team of 60 FTE and $8.5m budget.I designed MI to help improve service and enable sound strategic opportunities. I was responsible for ensuring all services were delivered in accordance with various regulatory frameworks, implementing project to remediate any non-compliance or potential non-compliance issues.

As IT Group Manager for Global Transaction Services (GTS) I managed strategic programs and projects for EMEA customer clearing and asset management. I held full production responsibility for the suite of 20 systems that delivered customer cleared and asset services for GTS in EMEA. I also held management responsibility for a team of 35 FTE and £4.5m budget.

As Application Support Manager I managed 24x7 IT support, implemented support service reviews and managed capacity, resilience and continuity for GTS Securities client server systems.

As a contractor for Canadian communications provider Primus, I was employed to provide database expertise and manage the DBA team.

In this role I was contracted to provide analysis of business requirements and developing solutions using SQL Server, VT, C and C++.

At American Express I was DBA team leader, responsible for analysis and development of client server systems based on Windows and SQL Server (using TSQL, VB and C). I also provided production support and database maintenance.

Mba, Business Management

Itil Managers Certificate In It Management