Information Technology Project Manager: Publicis Groupe
London, United Kingdom
Responsibilities at Publicis Groupe: IT Project Management - April 15 to November 15As part of the group integration strategy, following numerous acquisitions, completed the delivery of the domain migration of 158 virtual & physical windows & Mac servers to one single windows AD, whilst also upgrading the OS to Windows Server 2012. This project was brought in two weeks ahead of schedule, to budget and to exceptional quality.Led the design & implementation of Strawberry© asset management technology for post-production video editing utilising EMC2 Isilon© storage to provide creatives with real-time access to 100TB through direct connections across 10GB fibre. The success of this project led to implementing a similar, yet bespoke, solution at another advertising agency within the group.Legacy Wifi migration to corporate standard authentication. As part of the larger integration into Group strategy, managed the design, procurement, configuration, Lab/onsite UAT and deployment of Cisco WAPs throughout the 5 floor Central London offices.Fit-out of new office space for Tesco Bank, including all new WAN & LAN, AV/VC, Mac hardware, network printing & office furniture. Mid project, Tesco Bank requested delivery 2 weeks ahead of schedule, achieved by expediting key tasks.Defined and introduced change control processes that had not previously been in place due to identifying real need for project controls, in particular, preventing undocumented changes in scope which had been causing projects to becoming over complex and with unrealistic deliverables.Prince2 practical training for PMO new starters to the Publicis in-house PMO team.