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Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Working for 18 months as part of the TB Data Centre Migration team as a Project Manager. This program is to exit the Tesco datacentres and migrate applications and infrastructure into AWSResponsible for the management and delivery of the RHEL Satellite service into AWS during summer 2020Controlling and influencing technical teams both remote in the UK and.

Edinburgh, City Of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Managing Insurance division requirements from Infrastructure Delivery to enable implementation of the annual project change portfolio
• Matrix and escalation management from multiple teams and resources supporting both route to live and quarterly implementations.
• Resource planning and engagement to secure teams and resources on an annual basis.
• Forecasting and tracking of a significant £500k+ budget on both an internal and external basis and managing any variances appropriately.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Accountable for the changes to the two main Service Catalogues of LBG during the transfer of Infrastructure Technology Services from LBG to IBM as part of Project Aurora.
• Controlled the ITS teams who were specifying the changes as well as the internal teams who were making the changes in a matrix arrangement.
• Responsible for reporting and governance during the project up to both internal LBG and external partner (IBM) programme managers.
• Liaised with the warranty Knowledge Transfer project subsequent to service commencement to ensure completion of deliverables during this time.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Responsible for the delivery of both physical and virtual Infrastructure across a variety of platforms, Linux, Windows, Oracle, SQL, within the Core IT and business portfolios.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Responsible for delivery of infrastructure projects within Service Delivery at LBG.

• Shaped and controlled a variety of interesting projects within our Enterprise Middleware area including large DB2v10 upgrade and complex CA Tools upgrade.
• Managed the Self-Initiated projects to install a new enterprise-wide Managed File Transfer application and the IDM Transformation workpackage to migrate 2,500 staff.
• Liaised with internal and external architects and technical staff involved to deliver both projects timeously and within budget.
• Co-ordinated the initial stages of high profile strategic projects including Flexible Benefits package, Open WRAP and Development Demand.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Hugely enjoyable secondment as part SL’s Community Investment Programme
• Researched and reviewed database use, activity and associated work and development plans
• Liaised with the Children 1st team involved in database management, information management, fundraising, public affairs and marketing as well as the Head Office support functions to audit existing resources
• Specified the scope of a new Children & Families Services database
• Recommended a suitable system for volunteer management information
• Established the best way forward to achieve a coherent set of databases with relationships attached.

• Managed and maintained the vital relationship between IS Operational Services and business stakeholders
• Controlled a complex series of projects including First Assist Transition, Sales Office Transition, and WAS 5.0 migration
• Influenced and controlled external suppliers including GB Group and Identex,Towers Perrin and Scotland Online and subsequently Sungard and First Assist
• Responsible and accountable for delivery of infrastructure requirements for the Strategic Alliance programme, including Fidelity and Barclays
• Created and presented to both TST Technical forum and North and South Region IFA managers
• Planned and delivered several rollouts to IFA division, working to aggressive timescales set by Sales Management

• Variety of development and project roles within IS Development
• Lead Non-functional tester as part of technical team in IS Banking
• Initially Systems developer in IS Banking, promoted to Senior Systems developer during four year period
• Analyst/Programmer in business driven project area
• Initially worked as a Help Desk operative and later in technical support
• Joined IS directly from a non-IT business area

Face to face sales contact with Medical professionals

Bsc(Hons), Microbiology

PRINCE2, Scrum Master certified and APMP trained and accredited.

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