John Bradshaw Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Responsible for providing IT risk assurance across the AO Group to confirm that the controls framework is performing effectively and in accordance with the accepted risk appetite and regulatory requirements.Achievements: Developed (1) A SharePoint Risk and Control application used by all Business Units to provide graphical and textual risk profiles against risk appetite, (2) An Internal audit application to help plan, perform, report and centrally benchmark risk control performance, reducing the average auditor FTE overhead by 25% per assignment; and (3) An online dynamic audit risk scheduler based on the Audit Universe, an action tracker, assignment calendar, time bookings and internal audit effectiveness metrics. 4) Developed, conducted and reported on a multi-team process and technical Cyber Essentials Plus review. Engaged in Business partnering to further improve the security posture. Mapped all IT functions to agreed process controls, periodic testing, self attestations using ISO 9k,20k and 27K standards as a framework to help optimise service delivery and further reduce Business risk.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Responsible for working with Practice Partners and Directors to ensure timely and accurate delivery of IT audit assignments to clients across the UK.Achievements: Received client emails praising my consultancy and technology advisory work from which further follow on work was secured. As a result, company gained a reference-able client who formally endorsed our ISO 27001 consultancy supporting the marketing of a new service proposition.

Warrington, Uk

Responsible for managing the configuration baseline of the company’s global process assets. Developed a strategy to integrate process assets between two global IT companies CSC and HPE, prior to their merger to become DXC.Skills: Business process analysisAchievements: Established transition plans and detailed process mapping for all service critical processes whilst fostering process stakeholder engagement across the two companies. Helped both company process teams prepare for the necessary policy and process consolidation and optimisation required to successfully meet the 3 month deadline for the company merger.

Warrington, Uk

Responsible for managing 12 Global staff providing Quality Management and audit services to 400+ client accounts and ensuring the management and configuration control of global company policies, processes and procedural assets.Skills: Process management. Business process analysis. Data Analysis, SharePoint skills - site and security setup and developed online performance reports reports through SharePoint Services. Achievements: Ensuring the successful renewal of ISO 9001 certification for Global client accounts. Developed a Global O365 SharePoint database and reporting solution to show company policy controls mapping to regulatory and certification standards to simplify process compliance. This led to praise from the company’s external certification body during their global re-certification.

Warrington, Uk

Responsible for managed software and service quality for CSC client accounts globally. Coached staff development and assigned work across countries and regions.Skills: Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model Integrated (SEI CMMI) for Services v1.3 trained team participant.Achievements: Developed a strategic service management policy and process collateral, and helped the company achieve a global SEI-CMMI-SVC maturity level 3 rating for its global IT service support model. This granted the company bidding status for US defence contracts.

Warrington, Uk

Responsibilities: Managed a global internal audit team of 33 Quality Managers in 9 countries, providing both Quality Management and internal audit assurance support to over 400 client accounts whilst ensuring enterprise support continued to comply with international standards ISO 9001, ISO 20000, ISO 140001 (Environmental Management) and BS OHAS 18001 (Safety Management system standard).Skills: Internal audit. Data analytics. Training Course design, development and delivery. Staff training. SharePoint site creation. MS Access database and report building. Staff coaching and appraisal. Multinational audit lead.Achievements: Developed an effective audit and risk-assessment programme; that was used to identify significant cost savings on server maintenance agreements and make recommendations to improve the company's risk management practices.

Uk, Warrington

Responsibilities: Quality Manager lead for all existing European client accounts and new transitions.Skills: Staff training. Course Development. SEI CMMI trained assessment team participantAchievements: Developed and Delivered a 3-day Quality Assurance course (material, exercises and test) covering quality assurance, company project management and development methodology, to over 100 Quality Engineers in the US, Europe and India. Co-delivered Quality Management training to over 50+ UK Senior Project Managers and designed and developed Computer Based Training modules to improve Project Management capability, Product Quality Control and Assurance practices across global client accounts.Established Global Software Quality Assurance practice, improvements, measurements and reporting that led to a successful SEI CMMI-DEV (Software Development) level 3 achievement for the global organisation. Awarded a Presidents Award for 'significant contribution'.

Warrington, Uk

Responsible for 22 UK Quality staff, supporting CSC UK client projects and reporting into the Software Engineering Process Group.Skills: Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model (SEI CMM) for Development trained lead appraiser.Achievements: Led a team to ensure CSC UK Software Quality Assurance activities were successful in achieving a UK Divisional SEI-CMM Level 5 Software Development Maturity Model rating.

Chester, Uk

Responsible for 22 UK Quality staff (managers and Quality engineers) supporting UK clients in Manufacturing, (Aerospace Civil and Military defence, Automotive, Nuclear); Services (Chemical, oil & Gas utilities); Retail and Financial services.Skills: Consultant. Workshop lead. Staff coaching, staff development and staff appraisal.Achievements: Led a team to develop a Documentation and change Management System for the Aerospace CSC Account and established learning collateral to promote its use. Delivered SEI-CMMI Project development consultancy and assessment services, both in-house and externally to Financial clients in UK and Europe.

Chester, Uk

Responsible for IT Quality assurance activities supporting BAE AIrbus, Chester / Bristol UK.Skills: ISO 9001 lead auditor.Achievements: Led the BAE Airbus account to achieve its ISO 9001 certification 12 months ahead of the post contract deadline. Presented with a company recognition award for this contribution.

Chester, Uk

Responsibilities: Audit lead for The Airbus IT Audit Programme; lead for all Divisional Desktop Publishing for bid, training and promotional media; and appointed Data Protection Officer for the Airbus Chester site.Skills: IT Audit, Data Protection Officer. Desktop publishing lead. Information Security.Achievements: As Data Protection Officer, designed and developed a central information asset inventory database to automatically consolidate all on site databases to a single ICO registration. Responsible for liaising with all site data owners, dealing with all Subject Access Requests, annual compliance audits and also ran campaigns to promote staff awareness of the Data Protection Act across the organisation. Supported the roll-out of IT Information Security policy and best practices across the Airbus site to all 3000 staff.

Chester, Uk

Responsibilities: Computer Operator supporting ICL and IBM Mainframe computers. Job scheduling, system backups and supporting 3000+ batch jobs for Aircraft manufacturing, staff payroll and HR systems. Skills: Datacentre operations. Job control management. Data Backup and ArchiveAchievements: Documented IT key standard operating procedures to standardise operations and reduce errors.

Runcorn, Uk

Department of Employment.Responsibilities: Datacentre Computer Operator managing 2 staff in the scheduling and support of 4000 batch jobs on ICL mainframes and supervising sensitive payroll print runs.Skills: Staff supervision.Achievements: Engaged with stakeholders to improve the Standard Operating Instructions for batch scheduling and improved 'warm' and 'cold' System recovery documentation following Disaster Recovery off-site testing.