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Manchester, England, Gb

Manchester Area, United Kingdom

Led the first live data delivery into Google Cloud Platform for Lloyds for Data Warehouses (Markets, Finance and Risk, which was successfully delivered Oct 2022, receiving recognition from very senior management for strategic implementation and execution. As Product Owner implemented Google Data Transfer Appliance, facilitating the transfer of petabytes of data and enhancing data migration efficiency. Delivered seamless data migrations for SAS and Data Warehouse applications, into ensuring accuracy and compliance. Spearheaded Google Data Transfer Appliance activities, managing large-scale data transfers and optimizing data infrastructure.Ensured end-to-end delivery of business-critical applications into Google Cloud Platform, enhancing operational efficiency and data management by logging and tracking all migration Programme dependencies, ensuring timely resolution and project continuity.Established and optimized the Migration Programme Engagement Process, improving cross-team coordination and project delivery.Collaborated with architects to integrate streaming products like Kafka, enhancing data processing and real-time analytics capabilities. Achieved seamless Active Directory integration with GCP Platform, ensuring secure and efficient user access management.Line managed LBG and partner resources, ensuring compliance with policies and achieving project milestones on time.

Halifax

Delivered high-value core HR projects such as Pay and Bonus, GDPR, and Digitising Colleague Journey (DCJ) on Workday cloud system, achieving a 99.9% accuracy rate for data cleansing and enrichment across multiple transition states with data volumes exceeding 6 million records.Initiated the DCJ Programme as Project Manager, later focusing on Data Migration, extracting, transforming, and migrating data from multiple HR systems into the Workday Cloud System, including Service Now for HR Case management. Built a team of experts, leveraging partner resources from TCS, Deloitte, and business teams.Managed the DCJ Programme across multiple transition states, incorporating systems like SAP HCM, Saba Learning, SAP CRM, Success Factors, Adverto recruitment, and Resource link, ensuring seamless data integration and migration. Managed key stakeholders by providing updates on Data Work Stream status to the Head of Programme Delivery, senior management, and the business community, ensuring transparency and alignment. Planned, implemented, and managed data work stream transition states, ensuring compliance with SMCR, GDPR, SOX, PRA, and FCA regulatory standards.Managed multiple teams, including Enterprise Architecture, Data Migration/Development, Infrastructure Build, Data IT/Business Analysis, Data Quality Assurance (SIT), and Business User Acceptance Testing (UAT), ensuring successful project delivery.Line managed LBG and partner resources, ensuring compliance with policies and achieving project milestones on time.

Halifax, England, United Kingdom

Worked within Lloyds Group, CIO Group Operations Finance, and Enterprise area, Delivering high-profile projects successfully.Delivered Oracle Hyperion and TM1 Cognos, within Finance and Commercial Banking areas, managing budgets of 7.5 million.The Hyperion Upgrade Project, a top 40 multiphase was recognized as highly complex Project within Lloyds Banking Group.Simplified Hyperion platforms by re-implementing Oracle Hyperion software to the latest version 11.1.2.3, impacting 1500 dispersed user communities.Delivered Hyperion Application relating to Budgeting and Forecasting, Financial and Regulatory Reporting, Insurance, Commercial Banking, and Group Liquidity Price Index, with over 180+ business-accessed database instances.Line managed LBG and partner resources achieving project milestones on time

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

VENTURA is a leading UK supplier of outsourced Customer Service and Relationship Management. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of NEXT PLC.I was accountable for IT projects delivery provided by Ventura such Clients as British Gas, BskyB, Orange Mobile, VWG, Amex and Internal projects for the customer service operations at Ventura. Responsible for the leadership of a multi-disciplinary team comprising team of Business Analysts, Technical Specialists (voice & data) , Software Developers and System Specialist (Wintel and Unix).Managing all project stages for large-scale Client related infrastructure installation or software development. Projects typically consist of £500k to £1 million of IT expenditure.Proactively building the relationships Client IT and service delivery teams, from initial through to “business as usual“ SLA management and account development.

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

QM Legal Costs Solutions Ltd, Mister Costing Services, Claimant Protect Ltd.QM Legal Costs Solution primary activity is to provide value added service to insurance companies and local authorities to negotiate claims of costs within personal injuries and accident damages.Minster Costing Service Provide services to Legal firms in drawing up costs of legal bills.Claimant Protect is an insurance broker and provides policies to legal clients.my responsibilities was to manage the Information Technology and Telecommunication requirement for group includes purchasing.I implemented an IT review program, which included infrastructure upgrades, this entailed replacement of PCs, Server Systems, Voice and Data Communications.Due to the requirement of the Group, the introduction of Axxia System, Database was implemented which is used in large law firms and insurance firm using it to manage legal cases. The database system is base on Informix. However, Irvings Solicitors were on SOS practice management system that was transferred to Axxia.I was responsible for all the Companies technical infrastructure and development activities and managing the tender process for third party suppliers. Set-up training programs for the in-house staff regarding IT.

Bolton, England, United Kingdom

As the Technical Director at TM Communications, I provided consultancy to one of its clients National Heritage Lottery Fund in the networking solution in Data and voice over IP technology.Created vendor supply chain for TM communications customers, manage tenders and structure SLA agreements with suppliers, and set up vendor agreement in accordance with customer’s requirements.Setup partnerships with suppliers and developed business opportunities with likes of Cable & Wireless, Norweb, Telewest and BT.Provided consultancy, project management and implementation management of Billing Platform to mainly the Telco companies selling Minutes (Least cost Routing) and management information to businesses such as call centres, tele-businesses centres

I was responsible for managing the IT/IS Support function within Ericsson R&D Warrington, reviewing all the core IT and business processes, Implemented new and revised procedures, Produced supporting documentation, trained support engineers and monitored performance for compliance. Provide strategy and vision to eliminate the inconsistency across the Ericsson R&D Smart phone business in the delivery for software builds and documentation through the employment of configuration management systems, document management tools and standardisation of hardware and software.I was also managed and implemented the Microsoft model of multiple master domain within Warrington R&D site and the rollout of Microsoft exchange , SAP/R3 (ERP), Version control tools for programmers and bug tracking database projects.When Ericsson signed the agreement with Nokia, Motorola and Pison the Ericsson R&D Smart phone business Management required me to provide the platform to support the Symbian Bug tracking & software code share network infrastructure in order to share information to all R&D Centre around the world (USA,Europe (Sweden, Spain and China).