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London, United Kingdom

Newbury, England, United Kingdom

• My Role as a Programme Manager at Vodafone was to take charge of a customer programme to upgrade their existing LAN to a new SDLAN to 17 different sites across the UK. The customer is one of the Largest steel.
• Risk Reduction by removal of all End of Life infrastructure, ensuring full inventory and stock control.
• Deployment of updated management & monitoring tools to deliver… Show more My Role as a Programme Manager at Vodafone was to take charge of a customer programme to upgrade their existing LAN to a new SDLAN to 17.
• Deployment of updated management & monitoring tools to deliver enhanced capacity management and troubleshooting
• Ensure we identified and Removed a number of single points of failure from the network infrastructure to improve service availability
• The project teams worked closely with the customer and their business teams to enable a smooth migration to SD-LAN capability via use of Cisco SDA compliant infrastructure Show less

San Jose, California

• Handpicked to further strategic and operational business goals in the Americas region, in reflection of success in previous roles. Scope included project deployment, turning around underperforming projects.
• Deployed a trans-Pacific fibre cable for Google, a 7-month project consolidated into 3 months, consisting of 4 colo builds in 2 countries trans-Pacific cable run from US West coast to Japan, plus dry cable runs of.
• … Show more Handpicked to further strategic and operational business goals in the Americas region, in reflection of success in previous roles. Scope included project deployment, turning around underperforming projects.
• Enabled standardised reporting, improved application usage and economies of repetition in the execution of projects within the Americas region by establishing the PMO in line with the other global regions.
• Sped up customer exposure to the PM organisation by working extensively with sales teams on large bids and enabled a quick start to projects once contract awarded by collaborating with vendor management on.
• Turned around a Boeing project which had been red flagged; resolving process issues, deployment delays and issues with partners, as well as realigning customer expectations to deploy services into airports. Show less

London, United Kingdom

• Undertook a variety of senior roles for TCL during this time across multiple business sectors. Cultivating and maintaining a positive rapport with C-level executives (TCL and Customer), project teams, and customers was.
• Paved the way for major bid wins with Kenyan Airlines (US$3m) and AF-KLM ($30m); leading on pre-sales bidding and working with closely with global teams and 3rd party vendors to enhance product offering.
• Secured a contract worth US$7m with Kuwait MOFA;… Show more Undertook a variety of senior roles for TCL during this time across multiple business sectors. Cultivating and maintaining a positive rapport with C-level.
• Secured a contract worth US$7m with Kuwait MOFA; collaborating with the account and sales teams on the bid and heading multiple customer presentations.
• Programme Head for the AFKLM Airports delivery; overseeing both the customer network build and the ACN (Airport Connect Node) deployment in +60 airports across the Middle East, Asia and Africa Regions.
• Spearheaded recruitment and establishment of a new MACD desk based in India; ensuring the right calibre of staff were onboarded to manage high-end customer transition, from project delivery phase to BAU mode.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Selected for a fast-paced role on a project, valued at US$80m, enabling Al Jazeera to connect news bureaus and remote offices around the world; from RFP stage to bespoke solutions development and conclusion of.
• Played an integral role in securing the contract; including requirements elicitation, assisting with the final RFP and SOW documents used to obtain… Show more Selected for a fast-paced role on a project, valued at.
• Played an integral role in securing the contract; including requirements elicitation, assisting with the final RFP and SOW documents used to obtain third-party services that would underpin the deployment of the global.
• Developed, documented and implemented processes for a first-of-its-kind multi-product (Nimbra, Imagine, Nevion, Riverbed, Cisco, Dedicated NOC) deployment within the business.
• Built and sustained a team culture of high-performance across multiple internal and external teams; driving full alignment to deployment and support of the customer programme.
• Successfully managed a complex tri-party relationship between Tata-Oredoo-Al Jazeera and responded to blockages, challenges and conflicting priorities.

Dubai, UAE

• Assigned to a programme worth US$50m for one of the biggest aviation companies in the world. Service delivery included MPLS network deployment across 350 global sites. Remit incorporated full regional project support.
• Leveraged pre-sales outcomes by working closely with MECAA sales organisation at a pre-sales stage; supporting bid-management and… Show more Assigned to a programme worth US$50m for one of the biggest aviation.
• Leveraged pre-sales outcomes by working closely with MECAA sales organisation at a pre-sales stage; supporting bid-management and providing standardised document formats to help respond to RFPs.
• Handpicked as key spokesperson of the PMO in high profile customer bid presentations within the region and within the business for queries/discussions related to the aviation industry.
• Established a standardised approach to governance and processes within high security sites to which the aviation companies are inherently associated.
• Introduced a dedicated offshore customer support helpdesk for the aviation sector customer base; with supplier negotiation, staff recruitment/training (India, UK, UAE), process definition and deployment of supporting.

London, United Kingdom

• Primarily focused on deploying high visibility projects within region for Tata Platinum customers. Accountability was held for reporting to the VP of Operations EMEA; demonstrating that all projects were delivered to a.
• Primary influence behind successful delivery of multiple projects for major customers, such as Ciber, BNP… Show more Primarily focused on deploying high visibility projects within region for Tata Platinum customers..
• Primary influence behind successful delivery of multiple projects for major customers, such as Ciber, BNP Paribas, FL Smidth and Deutsche Bank, including managed/unmanaged MPLS rollouts, from 6 to 50 sites.
• Deployed the complex EMEA Data Centre build for RICOH, which populated over 40% of Tata’s High Wycombe data centre.
• Enabled better engagement of India-based resources by regional PM teams through establishment of a robust project management methodology.
• Improved alignment of regional PM teams with customer requirements by undertaking a programme of development, working with account teams and customers.

• Tasked with leading global projects for fortune 500 companies; notably RIM, Ford, Emerson, HP, IBM, Savvis, Viacom, HSBC, JP Morgan, and Bloomberg. Delivering and demonstrating strong business benefits was paramount..
• Catalysed on-target delivery of multiple major projects that enabled customers to achieve their business goals; including implementation of… Show more Tasked with leading global projects for fortune 500 companies.
• Catalysed on-target delivery of multiple major projects that enabled customers to achieve their business goals; including implementation of data (WAN & LAN), voice, CPS and managed services to global sites.
• Key driving force behind Verizon being voted supplier of choice by one of the largest accounts by reworking process and procedures to meet 100% SLA (increased by 60% once assigned) for monthly targets.
• Pivotal in smooth running of key accounts; engaged by multiple teams (US, ASIAPAC, EMEA) to help manage escalation/urgent orders or provide a personal approach to senior customers.
• Improved the tracking of global orders by teaming up with the global PMO to help implement an internal global order tracking tool into the EMEA region.

- Primary contact for IP circuits pre-sales information, provisioning, implementation and go lives. Full project life cycle.- Circuits dealt with: ADSL, SDSL, Leased Line, Private Circuits, MPLS- Liaise with clients to confirm circuit use, bandwidths, circuit type, equipment setup and any special requirements needed. Have provided multiple circuits for.

- Assessed The IT systems that were being used and how we could increase work efficiency in the given environment- Planned and implemented a Windows 2003 Terminal Services based network, with three remote sites- Implemented POS with Microsoft Retail Manger- Implemented MYOB Premier Enterprise and MYOB Powerpay- Trained Staff in new system usage- Developed.

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Bsc, Multimedia Technology And Design

Final Year Modules: Digital sound and music production, Multimedia production management, 3D graphics, Multimedia distributed databases.