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London, United Kingdom

• Leadership and management of programmes across the company’s global data centres, including:
• Programme managed the successful embedding of wireless hand-held devices across the company’s 13 global data centres to interface with its Archibus CAFM/CMMS system, providing leadership, technical input and managing.
• Technical design and rollout of inventory and spare parts management based on Archibus and using the new wireless devices as the delivery platform.
• Initiation of a programme of works to upgrade or replace the company’s Archibus application suite aimed at delivering improved interfaces and better alignment with maintenance processes and practices, engaging internal.
• Review and analysis of the company’s utilisation of DCIM tools and methodologies, summarised in a “positioning paper” and the initiation of a formal programme to develop the use of DCIM.
• Analysis of and input into Global Switch’s Business Continuity strategy and plans, most recently to cover COVID-19 related considerations such as dispersal of personnel and reduced on-site staffing.

London, United Kingdom

• Consultancy, strategy design, programme management and bid support to pre- and post-sales teams.Significant achievements include:
• Designed the globally aligned UK data centre strategy through analysis of UK data centre estate to understand costs, age and suitability. Development of a number of fully costed options to reduce the estate and align.
• Led the UK data centre consolidation programme through the development of high–level programme plan, initiation of site specific sub-projects aimed at closing a number of UK data centres and migration of services to a.
• Embedded the T-Systems Business Continuity Management system for all UK data centres including implementing the policy, business impact analysis, business continuity plan enhancement and successfully exercising the.
• Championed all Risk Management activities for UK data centres, ensuring ongoing management, monitoring and mitigation to reduce probability and impact.

Guildford, United Kingdom

• Programme Management of the UK infrastructure transition of a large German financial institution:
• Commissioned a new dedicated data centre suite, from an unpowered empty space to fully powered and racked in nine weeks.
• Developed a multi-stream programme covering the transition of all UK infrastructure components from the customer to T-Systems.

• Programme Management of the UK and global streams of the Linde Transformation programme:
• Produced a global Linde projects list for alignment with the transformation programme in order to identify opportunities and over-laps.
• Focused management of a UK specific delayed transformation project, identifying the cause of the issues and delays and implementing measures required to complete the project.

Guildford, United Kingdom

Senior leadership of the merged groups Global Data Centre facilities through a combination of on-site and off-shored and outsourced IT support teams. Achievements and contributions include the leading of the UK stream of Data Centre outsource programme leading to the successful transition of the former BOC/Linde Global Data Centre to T-Systems.

Guildford, United Kingdom

Management of key IT infrastructure and process improvement programmes including the successful conversion of the former BOC financial year and realignment with the Linde financial year in SAP and other key systems with no unexpected impact to the global businesses.

Guildford, United Kingdom

Operational management of the Group’s Global Data Centres and provision of efficient and reliable 24 x 7 SAP based business systems and applications to 15,000 globally dispersed users. Provision of ITIL based IT Service Management through disciplined Incident and Problem Management and Change Management processes.

Reading, United Kingdom

Identification of improvements that enable the business to deliver services more profitably. Translation of these improvements and other EMEA business requirements into infrastructure, process and engagement programmes and their subsequent management as a series of related projects.

Reading, United Kingdom

Reading, United Kingdom

Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Witney, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Certified Data Centre Design Professional (Cdcdp) Recertificatoin

Certified Data Centre Design Professional (Cdcdp)

Business Continuity Institute Certification (Cbci), Merit

Itil 2011 Foundation Certification

Certified Data Centre Design (Cdcd) Certification

Ilead/Strategic Leadership

Itil V2 Foundation Certification

Bsc (Hons), Physics With Computing