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Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Consultant at Kyndryl / Lloyds Banking Group. - Payments Economy and Crime Prevention

Manchester, United Kingdom

Lead Infrastructure Delivery Manager, Managing multiple streams within the Infrastructure and shared services division on the Lloyds Banking account. Lead IDM on ICS programme merging into self-service programme valued at over $4M

Manchester, United Kingdom

Lloyds Banking Group - IBM Project - Lead IDM on the ICS programme merging into the self service programme. Responsible for the delivery of several business critical transformational and BAU projects across the full IT and business landscape, including RTL implementations for mission critical infrastructure and applications.

Manchester, United Kingdom

The development and management of ISMS that aligns security frameworks with strategic business objectives. Responsible for leading the integration of physical and information security architecture teams towards a risk-based approach for asset protection and security management. The design and implementation of information security architecture with full responsibility for systems security, business continuity policy and SIEM incident response.• Ensured all critical processes, networks and systems are available. Responsible for all the IT operational services for the organisation and its affiliate partners.• Complete accountability of all IS/IT services and resources, including both in-house and external services and vendors, such as 3rd party infrastructure and PEN testing.• Responsible for the development and management of ISMS that aligns security frameworks with strategic business objectives and requirements.• Responsible for leading the integration of physical and information security architecture teams towards a risk-based approach for asset protection and security management.• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.• Performance management of all outsourced IS/IT partners including SLA, KPI and contractual reviews.• ITIL Processes – Re-aligning IT services with the needs of the business and introducing the idea that IT is a service offered to the business and subject to continual monitoring, improvement and change.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Provided Management and implementation of IT security strategic initiatives, provided leadership for delivery of high quality technical solutions for organisational projects including new system development, system security, integration and deployment. Designed, planned and implemented BCP/DR policies, remote DR setup, using dedicated communication systems. Responsible for complete systems infrastructure.• Complete accountability for all IS/IT systems, including system security, applications and business continuity.• Management and implementation of IT Strategic initiatives, provided leadership for delivery of high quality technical solutions for organizational projects. New system development, system security, integration and deployment. • Management of service provider performance by way of KPI and contract review including negotiation of new contracts.• Identified technical/mobility improvements to physical security designs providing a risk-based methodology, increased incident management landscape and reduced operational expenditure.• Spearheaded design, testing, and standardization of IT procedures in conjunction with ISO27001 standards.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Pro-actively supported and supervised lead analysts, handled recruiting and hiring of systems analysts, engineers and developers. Managed all departmental information technology projects and work with project managers on goal attainment. Designed, managed and delivered EMS including Anti-virus (McAfee, ePolicy Orchestrator), Patch Management (WSUS), software distribution, asset management, automated deployments and packaging. Network penetration testing and performed routine audits of hardware / software entities on the network.• Pro-actively supported and supervised PMO’s, handled recruiting and hiring of systems analysts, engineers and developers. Managed all departmental information technology projects.• Planned and implemented systems security, anti-virus and data protection software. Assessed and deployed new innovative technologies, mission critical systems, security and communications.• Known for ability to produce high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.• leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Extended system administration and support to include software/hardware maintenance, upgrades, troubleshooting under stringent deadlines in a fast-paced, 24/7 environment. Maintain, update and support corporate business network, cabling, fibre, switches, routers and servers. To maintain the IT system and provide support to 2000+ call centre users and clients.• Supported and configured WAN network communications methods, VPN, T1, X.25, Frame Relay, ISDN and fibre. Managed various CISCO routers and Switches.• Planned and implemented systems security, anti-virus and data protection software. Assessed and deployed new innovative technologies, mission critical systems, security and comms.• Responsible for the day-to-day proactive administration and support of all Microsoft windows servers, active directory and group policy management. • Manage Network Security for Active Directory, operating systems, and system applications. Designed, managed and delivered EMS including Anti-virus (McAfee, ePolicy Orchestrator), Patch Management (WSUS), software distribution and asset management, automated deployments and packaging. • Network penetration testing and routine audits of hardware / software entities on the network. • Provide 3rd line support to incidents and problems for all platform infrastructure including security threats. Setup, configured and managed VPN, Firewalls including Juniper & Cisco.

Master’S Degree, Msc Information Systems Management, Merit

Activities and Societies: Business Management Forum Strategic International Business Management Digital Innovation Information Systems.

Bachelor’S Degree, (Hons) Computing Technology, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Football, Squash, Badmington and Golf Computer & Network technology - C++, Systems Analysis and Design.

Associate’S Degree, 'A' Levels, A-C

Activities and Societies: Football Team, Robotics and Electronics Computing, Design Technology and Physics. Designed and built.