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Syracuse, New York, United States

London, London, Gb

Responsible for resourcing strategy and planning for the development teams (Business Analyst, Solution Architect, QA Engineers, and Software & System Engineers). Hire and manage technical resources aligned with the resourcing strategy. Responsible for creating and tracking WBS schedule for Solution Development tasks. Define and implement development standards for the platform including code, configuration management, integration, Security compliance, and user experience. Own the deployment plan for the platform ensuring all development and deployments planned and executed in a controlled way. Identify, compare, and recommend technical options provided by the platform.

London, London, Gb

Principal Project Manager, managing projects within the Network Strategy portfolio utilizing all available resources and relationships. Lead teams adhering to project governance. Ensure predictable and unexpected complexities are effectively managed through stakeholder influence & management. Managed dependencies, risks, plans, costs and resourcing for each project and dependencies across interlinked projects. Ensured that the project offered a range of options and implemented a change which achieves the objectives that have been set and that the business benefits are realized. Make use of full methodology and techniques autonomously for self and to supervise and advise others on appropriate approach. Operate as a role model for Valued Business Partner.

London, London, Gb

Manage the Application Development Services provided by the Solution Delivery Centre. Acting as the focal point for the suppliers’ AD delivery team, enforce and govern the provisions of the application development services contract on behalf of the Application Domain Manager.Manage the supplier relationship for the SDC’s application delivery to ensure smooth and efficient delivery of the AD services to the stakeholders and customer.

London, London, Gb

Cross project resource allocation management for the technical team in my portfolio. The management of major projects or a program of projects, typically (but not exclusively) involving the development and implementation of business processes to meet identified business needs, and utilising the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales and quality.Since the beginning of 2009 I have been working on National Grid's Smart Grid Program. We have been preparing for pilot projects in both Worcester, Massachusetts and Syracuse, New York. I have been one of the two primary IS staff on the program to date. I assisted in the development of many of the RFPs developed for this pilot and was responsible for the analysis of the vendor responses for the Meter Head End System and the Meter Data Management System. I assisted in the analysis of some of the other RFPs. I have been instrumental in the development of the $22M US IS budget for the Worcester pilot area.

London, London, Gb

Application Development and Support Manager in the Information Services organization.Resource and project managementDeveloping and maintaining work unit budgetsPrimary interface with assigned business clients for the IS organization

Syracuse, New York, Us

Instructor for Unix System Administrator certification program and then later Solaris System Administration.

System and network administration, Quality Assurance, Software release management, technical writing

Co-Owner/Principal of small company providing software development, training, web development and related services.

Syracuse, New York, Us

Responsible for systems administration for mini-supercomputers as part of the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center. Responsible for systems administration for departmental desktop computers as well.

Ba, Computer Science

Aas, Mathematics, Concentration In Computer Science