Leading the technology functions of AGP Glass and AMP Metal, two manufacturing businesses in Ardagh Group, a $11 billion dollar company. We have about 20000 staff in 22 countries and 65 metal and glass production plants. Selected Achievements:• Transformed the IT department into a dependable business partner that regularly exceeded all KPIs without needing any extra investment.• Reduced the IT contract spending by 30% in two years across the global enterprise.• Launched a 5-year strategic plan and an agile operational model where necessary, leading to increased revenue growth and cost savings of tens of millions.• Implemented clear governance processes to ensure alignment with the company's business strategy, financial plans, market conditions, and regulatory requirements.• Created an offshore service centre and a training academy in Africa to develop and improve the skills of the local workforce.• Designed and executed the digital strategy and delivery framework for the group, aiming to provide innovative and seamless sales, partners, and customers.• Developed and implemented a comprehensive technology strategy that included updating the platform, enabling cloud services, integrating applications, improving customer experience, implementing intelligent automation, and using data analytics.• Promoted business transformation through the use of organization design, business process modelling, intelligent automation, and a customer-centric approach.• Built a skilled, adaptable, and diverse IT team, incorporated a new technology operating model, and introduced effective delivery methods based on industry best practices.

Launched a programme to enhance organisational Cyber and Information Security capability throughout the company aligning the company with a consistent three across NIST framework. Ensuring the proper protection, integrity and resilience of customer/colleague data, IT/Business systems and business reputation across manufacturing.

I spearheaded an international programme team utilizing market leading system integrators to deliver state-of-the-art components (Guidewire, MuleSoft, Salesforce and Towers - Radar Live) within an AWS cloud platform. Furthermore, I oversaw the Best for Customer Transformation while advancing operator usage of technology systems to service customer's needs; reporting directly to Chief Operating Officer (COO). In addition to advising board members on strategic plans and visions to enhance long term goals and targets, I deliver stakeholder reports on company objectives, maintain overall quality standards, and direct delivery of high-level service across multiple business lines to ensure adoption of transformation.Selected Achievements:• Promoted through positions of increasing scope and responsibility from Transformation Director in 2016 to Director (Best for Customer) within six months of employment.• Re-platformed entire infrastructure for enterprise back-end insurance systems, migrated back book of policies from current infrastructure to new platform, and setup organisational structure to enable future change aligned to new platform.• Generated large scale cost reductions, efficiency improvements, and drove savings opportunities.

Pioneered reformation of transformation programme for Direct line group a General Insurance company (GI).

As a Programme Director, I headed the Future IT Sourcing (FITS) programme with over 180 internal and 800 external staff to reduce the Ministry of Justice spend on IT infrastructure. In addition to reformulating programme deliveries and adjusting to new urgent timescales to direct the project toward success, I realigned the delivery team and nurtured relations with existing stakeholders/customers.Finally, I instilled programme management disciplines and controls, delivering against infrastructure change and software development; leveraging my leadership expertise to direct multiple interlocking projects (26 projects) as well as third party suppliers, integrators, and offshore teams.Selected Achievements:• Promoted through positions of increasing scope and responsibility from Programme Director -National Offender Management System (OASYS) in 2012 to IT Director/Programme Director - Transforming Rehabilitation in 2013 to Programme Director/Delivery Future IT Sourcing in 2015.• Reduced Ministry's overall costs by £50M a year by creating and re-platforming an entirely centralized digital platform.• Enabled tools such as Office Mobile Solutions by delivering an up-to-date platform for business end-users that consumed single access to centralised domain across any site or ministry's building• Member of the Ministries executive leadership, delivering within the 400M forecast budget to complete the entire infrastructure programme.

As an IT/Programme Director, I led the IT service delivery for the Ministry including the Rehabilitation Programme. Moreover, I designed and delivered a major reformation of the provision of offender management services across both probation and prison services in England and Wales. Finally, I devised and implemented a model in which services are delivered based on payment by results while ensuring that market/delivery structures were established to support the model.Selected Achievements:• Reformed ±£1bn of annual expenditure that impacted over 18Kemployees and 250K offenders with direct affect to the quality of living for English and Welsh citizens.

During my role as Programme Director for the National Offender Management System, I established governance controls while overseeing vendors/contractors, risks/issues, and reporting. Other duties included coordinating flow to enable Ministry and contractor resources to form a coherent supply chain. In addition to nurturing client relations, business organisations, regional hubs, and stakeholders I supervised key direct reports and as an ICT Board member; driving projects through reviews, MPA, OGC, and the renegotiation of supplier contracts and deliveries.Selected Achievements:• Generated professional interest for successfully managing the delivery of the OASYSR programme (offender register) that included complex data migration onto Oracle, totalling 43 databases (3+ billion records) and complex disbursed suppliers into a national application.

Developed and implemented five-year strategic roadmap, set targets for acquisitions and mergers, and directed technology tenders for five global governments on behalf of Cox and Kings (value totalling at £1 B).Selected Achievements:•Appointed Cambridge Assessments senior management consultant, tasked with the evaluation of the SAP business partners. Gaps and Risks analysis of the programme.•Appointed the Interim IT lead for Gatwick Airport covering a range of projects, enhance passenger experience, including the new bag-tag drop, gaining full AAA regulation adherence.

Executive Board Member for Immigration programmes, The Residence Permit, Identity cards and Architecture Technical Design Authority as programme lead, managing the infrastructure team and core third party suppliers. Established governance controls, contractor management, risks/issues, management reporting. Managed the procurement process for the technical aspects of the delivery(full lifecycle over £130m). Completed the business case for project funding, assessing risks, issues and deliverability. Represented UK at Article 6 working group at European commission in Brussels at BIG working group.

Foundered the company, seeded a new executive board from industry executives. Formalised the company structure and five year plan. Created the business plans, including investment requirements, product development, key relationship management and full project management. Implemented the senior leadership team to cover the sales to delivery vehicles for the company. Managing and developing sales channels, creating the go to market strategy for local and international markets.

Accountable for leading all Oceania, Europe and Middle east SAP data migration, Briefing senior stakeholders, Global management of the project plan and tracking milestones using Prince2 methodology. Managing the team to merge accounts and data through the various company acquisitions across the globe. Implementing a new logistics system for products and participating on the creation of the RFID system to run the logistics from delivery through the warehouse

Managed the Delivery of the automated KIOSKS for Check in, Created Automated border Pilot for VIP customers, Worked on passports facilitation for Airline use, Worked with Star alliance as airline rep. Worked closely with the Kiosk PM for the new enhanced Kiosk reloaded Project, managed the installation of the actual Kiosks boxes and the placement at the relative airports. Managed the resources allocated to this project and the project execution, created customer flows for future growth. Government liaison for customer identity work, smartcard procurement, e-wallet install, Payment cards for travel /Air dollars account system, Front end security platform for bank protection, upgrade Amadeus. Worked with SWOT team to enhance future strategy initiatives like economy seat flat bed.

Managed the Delivery and Testing of the upgraded SAP system, covering the new streamline processes and Card payments system for petrol transactions. Evaluated current processes using six Sigma methodology, managed the update of the new chart of accounts for card Payments. Implemented Oracle 8I with Test Director 8 and Quick test Pro 6.2. Resourced staff for global rollout of the architecture including managing the migration of legacy data.Project managed the implementation of new upgrade test suite. Managed build of catt scripts for IS-OIL enhanced catalogues/components. Aligned dimensions to go into WAS of SAP. Implemented PKI Cert based protection of workstations, redefined release cycle and cross sold test resource across business. Managed ABAP team designing functions that wrote the Catt script testing and delivery.

Managed all testing and regression for Equities, built Test centre globally (Asia, New York, UK). Setup Test centre to able to charge for services, allocating resources to program. Stakeholder management across the equities divisions, member of software release board for release cycles. Worked with development team to create streamlined test harnesses, implemented Test director 7.6. Created SQL server and factored replication services across globe. Implemented Load runner service for load testing. Orchestrated staff training of Test, Environments management for all pre-test and test. Strong understanding of equities business to proficient test, Built TiBCO harness and Test shells, Applications used, Tibco, C++, PowerBuilder, Global One, VB, JAVA, Active X, Terminal Emulator, Legacy systems with super increased TSL coding was adapted into the mercury tool set. Live testing for trade front office system. Production by a Client/Trader through our full FIX infrastructure globally, Built Unix Shells for complex data manipulation. Sybase upgrade 11 to 12. Test FIX ( Connectivity, Session, OMS (front office) Integration testing, E-2-E ) transferring specific types data for PT, AST , using a certification authority with common standard authentication protocols. XML, SWIFT, Project managed new implementation of Data warehouse and data migration project. MQ series, Project Manage new infrastructure FIX to route data to Tokyo, Hong Kong, South Africa and Sydney/NZ from London. Provide post production support on FIX protocol specific errors/bugs in production trading.

Lead small team which implemented the SAP FI/CO R4, Installed SAP servers (Europe, Americas and Asia), GL postings and revenues. Specified business requirements, Created Test Plans & scripts , Ran UAT , Data migration legacy systems, normalisation of data, Managed CATT scripts for Sap LSMW loading. Implemented Win runner Scripts for auto load. Created RULES based for OST engine, created MQ series Feeder (built service), Implemented BW data warehouse, Created XML-XLST files, swift, implemented Environments (Sandbox, Testing Box, and Pilot/UAT) Installed the Oracle 8.1.6 Implemented Business Objects Repository, Created domain keys and certificates for solution.