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London, England, Gb

Ensuring Bauer Media Audio’s multi million technology estate aligns with business goals and drives long term success. Acting as a bridge between the business and technology, translating key business objectives into technology strategy. Delivering roadmaps and actionable plans to ensure technology remains nimble and responsive to the fast moving media environment. Additionally, staying up-to-date with emerging technologies and recommending solutions that optimise efficiency and… Show more Ensuring Bauer Media Audio’s multi million technology estate aligns with business goals and drives long term success. Acting as a bridge between the business and technology, translating key business objectives into technology strategy. Delivering roadmaps and actionable plans to ensure technology remains nimble and responsive to the fast moving media environment. Additionally, staying up-to-date with emerging technologies and recommending solutions that optimise efficiency and innovation.Delivering strategies to align technology and drive efficiency across businesses in 9 different countries. Understanding the ‘as-is’ then work with ‘C’ level execs to define the target operating model. Clearly articulating the business benefit and delivering roadmaps for implementation.Building business capability maps to fully understand the technology estate and ensure they align to business objectives. Using validated capability maps and industry knowledge to identify opportunities and construct a target architecture.Using the target architecture as the basis for decision making. Ensuring new systems are implemented, old systems decommissioned and staff appropriately skilled.Joining up thinking across countries. Establishing good relationships with key stakeholders through regular communication and by building mutual respect.Working with other EAs to set out Bauer’s core architecture principles and the framework within which programmes of change should operate. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Leading the technology strategy and overseeing all tech operations for Bauer Media’s national radio services in the UK, which reach over 25 million people. Fostering a culture of innovation and excellence within the tech team. Setting the vision for technology, managing budgets and resources, and ensuring the smooth operation of critical systems and infrastructure.Forward planning with the UK board and senior leadership to develop a 3/5/10yr strategy. Ensuring new processes and… Show more Leading the technology strategy and overseeing all tech operations for Bauer Media’s national radio services in the UK, which reach over 25 million people. Fostering a culture of innovation and excellence within the tech team. Setting the vision for technology, managing budgets and resources, and ensuring the smooth operation of critical systems and infrastructure.Forward planning with the UK board and senior leadership to develop a 3/5/10yr strategy. Ensuring new processes and technologies were identified through data analysis, costs were properly forecast and the direction aligned with the business.Managing a team of 8 engineers. Creating an environment for the team to successfully deliver the changing needs of the business, with clearly defined roles and well motivated staff.Leading the response to large incidents (eg. COVID-19) by adapting quickly and providing a solid foundation upon which to deliver live broadcast services from home.Leading transformation projects to acquire / launch new services, modernising facilities, updating core infrastructure and replacing business critical applicationsReviewing property portfolio to ensure sufficient space for the changing needs of the business. Built business cases for creation / closure of buildings.Developing team members through training and ensuring robust succession planning.Working with key suppliers and 3rd parties to negotiate business critical deals such as core application support and transmission contracts.Ensuring technical support offered to the business was proactive and service levels were industry leading. Show less

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Acting as IT Director across the School of Technology, comprising the departments of Engineering, Judge Business School, Computer Science and others. Ensuring technology leaders and teams within each department were set up to meet their customer’s needs and deliver value.Conducting IT reviews into University departments, focusing on the IT strategy and service delivery.Leading a change management programme, implementing organisational change with c. 35 staff.Working… Show more Acting as IT Director across the School of Technology, comprising the departments of Engineering, Judge Business School, Computer Science and others. Ensuring technology leaders and teams within each department were set up to meet their customer’s needs and deliver value.Conducting IT reviews into University departments, focusing on the IT strategy and service delivery.Leading a change management programme, implementing organisational change with c. 35 staff.Working with Departmental IT Managers within the ‘School’ to ensure standards were adopted and best practice shared - for example to email, calendar and desktop computing.Improving collaboration amongst IT staff to improve skill sharing and career mobility. Show less

Birmingham, United Kingdom

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIESAlign technology department’s strategy to that of the business and develop 1, 3 and 5 year tactical plans to ensure Orion can to react to an ever-changing broadcast environment.Report to the CEO and provide the technical view point when making key business decisions.Manage department’s capex and opex budgets. Forward plan with finance team and present to exec directors to secure necessary funds.Lead team of technical staff. Encourage, train… Show more PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIESAlign technology department’s strategy to that of the business and develop 1, 3 and 5 year tactical plans to ensure Orion can to react to an ever-changing broadcast environment.Report to the CEO and provide the technical view point when making key business decisions.Manage department’s capex and opex budgets. Forward plan with finance team and present to exec directors to secure necessary funds.Lead team of technical staff. Encourage, train and motivate them to ensure they achieve their potential and deliver a top notch service as well as conducting regular one-to-ones and yearly appraisals.Work closely with staff and external suppliers to ensure that requirements are identified and solutions delivered that meet those requirements.OPERATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTSRefresh Orion’s digital strategy, including development of new websites, elastic hosting and web streaming.Replace core IT infrastructure and business systems following separation of businesses from former owner.Plan and implement thorough disaster recovery and governance procedures to satisfy external auditors.Plan and manage implementation of a major move of staff and services between geographic locations.Move Orion’s messaging infrastructure into Google’s Enterprise cloud, including the technical implementation and change management.Create Orion’s ‘Big Data’ strategy to make the most of listener data and ensure compliance with ICO guidelines.Work closely with commercial team to implement new reporting infrastructure making data analysis more straightforward.Overhaul helpdesk, implement new ticketing system and introduce performance KPIs. Show less

London, United Kingdom

- Understand the issues facing users from around the company and design technical solutions to overcome them.- Manage a team of developers\​administrators to ensure new systems are developed or existing systems enhanced to meet the needs of users.- Ensure the highest levels of support are given for business systems used within Absolute Radio by managing both internal and external resources.- Ensure business systems are integrated as much as possible in order to ensure… Show more - Understand the issues facing users from around the company and design technical solutions to overcome them.- Manage a team of developers\​administrators to ensure new systems are developed or existing systems enhanced to meet the needs of users.- Ensure the highest levels of support are given for business systems used within Absolute Radio by managing both internal and external resources.- Ensure business systems are integrated as much as possible in order to ensure people get the right information at the right time.- Influence industry-wide initiatives by keeping abreast of emerging technologies and maintaining a high profile presence within the industry. Show less

London, United Kingdom

- Design and implement the database backend for www.virginradio.co.uk- Implement a fully resilient and robust office database platform to run all business systems, including solid disaster recovery environment.- Develop a reporting tool that allows sales users to analyse their business and compare traffic and planning systems.- Support all business applications and ensure systems remain highly available

London, United Kingdom

- Develop robust / redundant system architectures to support business critical applications- Create and maintain production, test and development environments for various applications used within the group.- Work with application architects to ensure optimum performance. Develop index/statistic recommendations as necessary.- Create an effective disaster recovery strategy making use of SQL backups, transaction log shipping and transactional replication. Test and… Show more - Develop robust / redundant system architectures to support business critical applications- Create and maintain production, test and development environments for various applications used within the group.- Work with application architects to ensure optimum performance. Develop index/statistic recommendations as necessary.- Create an effective disaster recovery strategy making use of SQL backups, transaction log shipping and transactional replication. Test and document the strategy to ensure smooth operation in the event of disaster.- Implement and maintain a Business Objects reporting infrastructure- Develop ETL jobs using Microsoft DTS and Business Objects Data Integrator Show less

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Service Leadership Programme

Meng, Electronic Engineering