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London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Delivery of Managed Service solutions.

London, United Kingdom

Spent three years at AIG Insurance successfully managing, and delivering, two portfolios of data-centre and network infrastructure projects of total budget $17m. Networks Portfolio:Successfully delivered, on time and within budget, a $10m data-centre networks portfolio, which was the EMEA implementation of an AIG global rollout.Key portfolio deliverables:- Successfully managed the delivery of new “Leaf and Spine” and segmented pod topologies enhancing network security and network performance- Successfully delivered new “Regional Network Aggregation Point” (RNAP) solution into an Equinix site improving access to WAN services (i.e. BT, Zayo, Verizon and AWS)- Successfully delivered a new VMWare “Network Virtualization and Security Platform” (NSX) solution allowing for a more consolidated data-centre footprint thereby offering reduced costs in real-estate and powerData-Centre Portfolio:In 2017, successfully managed the delivery of a $7m portfolio of data-centre “Tech’ Debt” and new solution projects.Key portfolio deliverables:- IBM Power 8 Refresh (Solaris and AIX)- Networker Backup replacement- Data Domain and Avamar refreshes- Brocade fabric switch replacement- Dell blade &, physical server refresh- Delivery of the infrastructure and service for an AIG Private Cloud solution

Tonbridge, United Kingdom

Infrastructure project manager delivering:- IBM Power Series 8 implementation of Informatica- Build of IBM AIX LPARs manually and via Puppet - Roll-out of supporting HMC and KVM infrastructure- Upgrade of Informatica v9.1 to v10.1, Oracle 11G to 12C & AIX 6.1 to 7.1- Polycom video-conferencing roll-out to 35+ Fidelity meeting rooms- Swift upgrade, including re-platforming from AIX to Linux- Global legacy domain controller upgrade from 2003 to 2008/2012- Global Active Roles Server upgrade- Recovery Management for Active Directory upgrade- Enterprise Vault decommission- Puppet automation roll-out to Solaris, Linux and AIX

London, United Kingdom

- IDM on Lloyds Banking Group AIX currency programme (c. 3700 logical partitions)- Managed team of IDMs on, "Sub-AIX 5.3" upgrades to AIX 6.1/7.1- Project managed a number of Power Series enabling projects, HACMP, Veritas, NIM- Took lead solution architect role on, "Websphere Cell Migration" process, which was received positively by the Bank's Design Authority

London, United Kingdom

Senior Infrastructure Project Manager delivering:- Deployed Aerohive wi-fi solution for internal staff and external corporate consumers- Delivered “Mobile Computing” suite of products, i.e. BYOD, Good Technology, Mobile Iron, iPass, Cryptocard, Corporate iPad, along with internal product usage and SLA document artefacts- Delivered internal Websense Internet security upgrade, plus Cloud Websense for wi-fi corporate wifi- Delivered F5 traffic management solution

Kingswood, Surrey

- Delivery project manager for the £15m, four year, Group Protection project, "Elixir"- For Elixir, I delivered the Automated Workflow Distribution (AWD) Business processes with target user group of c. 200 Group Protection users and managed delivery of a new Elixir Websphere environment- Managed the scoping of the future roadmap for L & G’s Automated Work Distribution (AWD) estate- Successfully delivered upgraded DST AWD client to >1,000 Legal and General AWD users - Managing project “solutioning” and Statement of Work (SoW) generation using IBM Architect and Technical Solution resources- Participated in Retail Distribution Review (RDR) vendor selection, representing the infrastructure tower- Lead a number of IBM solutioning work-packages- One solutioning paper delivered to IBM’s Cloud Server offering

Guildford, United Kingdom

Data-centre consolidation:- Successfully project managed data-centre migration of U.K. Pre-Production/Testlab environment to Allianz Munich (120 Wintel and Unix servers, 20 Unix, 45 TB NetApp storage & 20 network and security appliances)- Managed pilot migration of services via “Transformation” using third-party “Conveyor” method- Successful project management of network “Latency Forecast Analysis” by third-party- Managed delivery of a hybrid “Alert/event-monitoring” solution of IBM Tivoli and HP Openview- Management of “Security Gap Analysis and Risk Assessment” to ensure all UK security compliance and SOX requirements would be met post-migration- Successful UK domain-controller estate upgrade to allow a forest trust to be emplaced - Successfully project managed pilot migration of a UK-based Allianz website to Germany whilst maintaining UK Google search-engine ranking- Managed successful pilot rollout of HP Service Manager 7 to Germany, Ireland and UK - Participated in vendor selection for data-centre consolidation consultancyProject managed a portfolio of Allianz (UK) security projects:- Internet proxy-chain upgrade, (Websense, Bluecoat and Finjan), to maintain support standards and to cater for increase in Business internet usage volumes- Deployment of new mail gateway Ironport solution- Utimaco laptop encryption to 1,500 UK laptops- Checkpoint USB Access Control rolled out to offshore call-centre- Successful deployment of Juniper remote-access to allow remote-access capability to staffOther:- Delivery of costed “video on demand” and live multicast solutions solution paper- Completed in-flight HP OpenView Systems Management rollout across the Allianz UK estate

London, United Kingdom

June 2002 - May 2006Infrastructure Project Manager delivering:- Office expansion delivering LAN cabling extension, server roll-out and 500x desktop roll-out for Fighting Financial Crime "Court Production Orders", "Account Quality Checking Unit" and "Know Your Customer" initiatives - Swift upgrade to TCP/IP solution- Call-Centre Rightfax upgrade- Business Intelligence reporting rollout- Business Engine Network deployment for resource managementJuly 2000 - June 2002Senior programmer:VB, VBScript, SQL 2000 developer on Relationship Management System

Pireas, Greece

- Project led a team of 4x on a roll-out of Infotec's C++ WebTrader product to Athens-based trading house, Deal-FX

London, United Kingdom

- Senior Developer on OS390, CICS, PL/1, COBOL, DB2, IMS- Team-leader for Quality Assurance and Y2K testing teams

London, United Kingdom

- Senior Developer on CICS, PL/1, DB2, TELON for Lloyd's Electronic Placing system

London, United Kingdom

- Geotechnician managing production of digital data-suites of oil and gas exploration data

Master’S Degree, Information Technology

My best year in education!

Bachelor’S Degree, Geology

BSc (Honours) Geology