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Solihull, England, United Kingdom

In this role, I have developed the strategy and roadmap to migrate Gemini, the application service that underpins the competitive gas industry to the Azure Cloud. Won the competitive tender securing a 13-year deal which enabled a cost-saving of 33% per annum. Introduced a modernisation factory using ML& AI to automate much of the modernisation activities and support 10 Safe Agile scrums.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

In this role, I drove critical programmes and operations to ensure ongoing organisational viability and success. To achieve this, I captain an expert, programme team of Project Managers and consultants to effect top-quality project and operational delivery. I also perform and monitor data centre migration due diligence, review and enhance key infrastructure migration and DR strategies, and implement new resources and services including onshore and offshore TCS resources and Service Now. Accomplishments include…~ Leading an expert, high-impact programme team as well as critical project plans and budgets.~ Saved the company more than £11M through strategic migration planning and commercial negotiations, transitioning data centres to private, and Azure hosting services.~ Driving a migration to a high-value Private Cloud migration Managed Services Agreement.~ Administered service provider design and approach due diligence.~ Implementation of ServiceNow across 6 delivery partners

Coventry, United Kingdom

While with Jaguar Land Rover, I developed strategic operational plans and frameworks for enabling comprehensive corporate GDPR compliance. I collaborated cross-functionally with internal teams to build and establish exhaustive, companywide GDPR strategies and compliance frameworks; led Application Remediation for application assessments and migrations, InfoSec and Data Privacy standards design for unified compliance activities, and corporate data inventory and risk assessment procedures for companywide process, service, and data captureAccomplishments include…~ Produced and implemented benchmarking technology and RFQ processes for the evaluation of vendors, effectively mitigating the risks associated with the awarding of more than £1B worth of contracts.~ Built the roadmap and captained the workstream for the assessment, upgrade, and migration of applications to , secure comprehensive GDPR compliance.~ Achieved high-level GDPR compliance across all company external services.

Bicester, Uk

In this role, I achieved high-level IT security in line with GDPR regulations through strategic IT roadmap development. I advised and collaborated with Board members to establish critical DR, GDPR, and security operations of a billion-pound acquisition; developed bespoke GDPR strategies, orchestrating and leading the executive risk management committee and cross-European implementation teams; and supported all stages of security development; designed and implemented a broad portfolio of guest-security projects, built data recovery frameworks for critical services, and implemented leading-edge processes to enhance security across a network of seven European shopping outlets. Finally, I executed exhaustive testing suites for personally built Tier 1 Infrastructure and Business services, applying VM and data replication and synchronisation in Azure, Hitachi, and Zensar. Accomplishments include…~ Identified a single point of failure in Digital Marketing Platform, comprehensively re-engineering platform Microservices to support full resilience and eliminate fail-point.~ Implemented transformative security measures including ISO27001 compliance, vulnerability scanning, and regular firewall upgrade schedules.~ Achieved comprehensive GDPR and ISO27001 compliance.~ Built a tested and proved DR service which supported all critical services.

Uk

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