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Prescot, GB

Warrington, England, United Kingdom

Providing project management and assurance to the implementation phases of MSP 'core' projects in the North Area of the United Utilities' region

Lingley Mere, Warrington

Successfully managed a number of projects mainly driven by regulatory requirements spanning the gap between the business, IT infrastructure and Operational Technology teams. Event Duration Monitoring: a program of 4 projects with a budget of £21m a duration of 4 years. The scope included the installation of monitoring equipment into over 2,100 locations.

Warrington, United Kingdom

• I successfully managed the implementation of a replacement Vehicle and mobile asset management system (Chevin) for West Midlands Ambulance Service, improving vehicle availability, driver compliance and asset.
• Led a due diligence project leading to the on-boarding of a division of Air Products involving all data centre, infrastructure, WAN links, telephony and business processes.
• Implemented Veeam backup solution across 3 data centres.

Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom

• Replacement Warehouse Management System – I drove the management of the project managed it into User Acceptance Testing and then recommended that it be brought to a controlled close as it didn’t fit with the company’s.
• Christmas Gifting Project – Stating in August, I worked with tight deadlines and a demanding Marketing team to deliver the Christmas gifting project on time into both the retail estate and on-line store helping the.
• Successfully managed the launch of the iPhone5 within Phones4U, contributing more than £30m in annual sales along with the introduction of a pre-order solution into all stores.
• Management of a Program of projects having the objective of improving Returns Avoidance Rates and in support of a newly launched insurance offering. This program delivered £3-4 m in benefits per annum.

AutoCoding Systems Ltd is a turnkey provider of complete enterprise-wide factory automation solutions to the FMCG industry. Small and medium sized businesses requiring a coding management package for example a single inkjet coder can capitalise on the modularity of the software solutions. Even bespoke applications can be created by utilising the many.

Established a Project Management Office and introduced a suite of project controls based on PRINCE2.Developed a control framework for the management and reporting of capital expenditure.Managed team of 10 providing Production Services and Change Management functions.Managed IT Disaster and Workplace Recovery.Managed Sarbanes Oxley General Computer Controls.

Managed the implementation of a new WMS and WCS systemManaged the acquisition and roll-out of hardwareManaged the testing of software package and modification functionality.

Located in both Bedford and Bawtry I managed the testing of a transport management application for Sainsbury's and the implementation of a WMS and WCS for Reckitt Benkiser.Assisted in the formation and roll-out of project controls based on the principles of PRINCE.