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San Jose, Ca

2Wire provided global broadband products, software and service platforms that enable integration of networked data, voice and media services to leading service providers throughout the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Australia and Asia - Major customers include AT&T, Telmex, BT, CenturyLink, Bell Canada and SingTel.My role was to manage the end to end delivery of 2Wire product implementation life-cycles within budget and with minimal impact to the business. - Advised on processes, project planning and execution and resolved complex technical problems. - As the first part of the BT NextGenerationAccess strategy, deployed intelligent gateways to connect subscribers to the BT new 'super-fast' fibre-based broadband network in Ebbsfleet - Working closely with a Systems Integrator and end customer Telenor (Norway’s largest fixed line and broadband service provider), successfully implemented the 2Wire Component Management System (CMS) for remote management of DSL customer premises equipment (CPE)

Reading, United Kingdom

Employed by Affiniti as a Manager of the Project Management group in the South. Primary responsibility was to manage a team of Senior PM's, PM's and coordinators and to control and manage complex projects and installation rollouts. This included: Management and leadership of a team responsible for the delivery of both data networking and telephony. Responsibility for the budget centre measured through revenue and financial contribution.Selection, management, motivation and development of team members to achieve business and operational results. Key metrics included customer satisfaction and project profitability.Responsible for measuring and improving quality, cost and customer satisfaction on all projects/orders.Key interface to the sales teams providing pre-sales support on project management and service delivery, including customer presentationsResource management to ensure that all projects were delivered on time, including supplier selection and management where applicable.Providing input to major Bids – and where necessary, managing the bid team, costs, plans, and negotiations regarding any payment plan and contract;Controlling Bid reviews and providing ‘sign off’ for Project Management input and costs.Carrying out Lifecycle reviews - call and chair project launch, closedown review and lifecycle reviews; Financial controls - keep accurate records of and authorise incoming, internal and outgoing invoices;Project Managed high-level and complex projects including:Implementation of a Managed Service at major Metropolitan Borough Council. Including the transition of all major network services onto a new platform.The major rollout of a Bank Trading system for Nasdaq across Europe.A major Core Expansion at a major Retail organisation.Delivery of an IP VPN solution for a number of major organisations in partnership with Telia, including a large Building and construction company.

London, United Kingdom

I worked on a project to make sure that Bank applications made compliant within the NatWest Millennium programme maintained that compliance up to and through the Year 2000. This included work in defining the strategic development and subsequent development of the “Year 2000 Clean Management process”. Carried out Business Analysis to ensure that emerging systems application code would not compromise previously proven compliant systems. This involved:- Monitoring the deployment / decommissioning of systems, - Highlighting and escalating risks and issues. - Auditing Bank Applications for Year 2000 compliance and issuing Proof of Compliance certification. - Reviewing Test Approaches and plans and conforming to System Development Process (SDP) guidelines. - Enforcing the procedures preventing projects infringing the Change Freeze period. - Analysing and discussing risks and issues with projects and determining an appropriate way forward. - Responsibility for advising on all aspects of Future Date Testing and ensuring that all information accrued was secure and archived for 3 years. Managed a team of technicians whose task was to build and ‘age’ a ‘Test Pack’ for use in testing the major Retail Bank applications and their compliance to Year 2000 standards. This was used for all future proving of the Bank’s mainframe applications and would produce a testing mechanism that could prove that the Bank's applications would run in the Millennium. This would ultimately be used to provide a base for all future end-to-end application Testing. Project managed work to define the requirements for a mainframe computer system that would be used to replicate the production environment and then manage the implementation. This would run Release Testing against the main Retail Bank applications. This covered the definition of hardware/software and connectivity from the mainframe through to the Bank end user.

Boxhill, Uk

Employed in various capacities providing specialist IT services to client companies.Worked at TeleWest Communications as a Systems Management Consultant helping to define the processes, procedures, tools and requirements for a new strategy, which successfully led to a seamless migration to a new platform.Successfully project managed a key decision-making process initiative for major service delivery implementation at Securicor Cellular Services.Worked as a Product Manager, responsible for a series of Document Management software products for Mansfield International Ltd, which involved defining the Marketing strategy with direct client contact at all management levels.As European Technical Services Manager in P&O Containers provided cost-effective technical services across all installed platforms to support end users whose application base was migrating from MVS to UNIX

London, United Kingdom

Major Projects worked on: RAF LITS ProjectI was a senior member of the IBM team developing systems management processes. The work was in support of a 10,000-user multi-country, multi-location client/server environment using RS/6000 and AIX technology for the RAF.Aeroflot International AirlinesManaged the technical implementation and set-up of the base mainframe environment and managed both hardware and software products in a new computer installation in Moscow. Recruited and managed the local Technical Support team required to manage the installation upon project completion including definition of job roles and responsibilities and monitoring through review and appraisal.Nationwide Building Soc.I carried out a major operations review to highlight potential problem areas and made recommendations for improvement at the Nationwide Building Society. PowerGen Worked closely with the PowerGen Senior Management team to study areas of information technology where greater efficiency could be achieved. Identified business needs, diagnosed solutions and made recommendations on their implementation. Included advice and guidance during a large and complex software and hardware migration. The development of business critical applications was dependent upon this migration, which was successfully completed on time and budget.British Gas - North Thames Technical advisor to a project team responsible for the planning and implementation of systems managed storage in a complex environment; this included the identification and acquisition of specific technical skills at significant stages of the project.Also provided consultancy for the planning and development of an automated operations solution covering all aspects of data processing. Bureau West - Technical AdvisorGave technical guidance on defining a strategy and planning for a VM-based bureau service, which also incorporated MVS guest systems and associated software.

Paris Area, France

MVS / VM Networking Systems ProgrammerI was responsible for providing systems programming support, primarily in the VM area, but also including heavy involvement with the network and office systems in the United Kingdom and at the IBM Europe headquarters at La Defense in Paris.