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Crewe, United Kingdom

• IT Project & Transition Manager, Matec Global (Ampito Group) April 2018 OnwardsProviding Transition & Project management to the Ampito group business utilising waterfall or agile methods depending on project.
• Managed Fortigate SDWAN transition solution roll out across 129 UK cinemas providing new data lines into each location, FTTC, ADSL2 or DIA and new Fortigate hardware. Management of 3rd party site engineers to complete.
• Royal Devon & Exeter hospital trust, Hewlett Packard Aruba, LAN & WLAN solution across all partnership sites and community hospitals. 73 RF surveys completed across all sites and reports completed. Additional switching.
• Project managed Cisco call manager upgrade & DR solution and move to Gamma SiP solution in Aplants depot / retail sites. Total 203 sites, 283 number ranges ported successfully, 81 NGN numbers ported and 400 PSTN.
• Project lead for standardisation project with Bacardi to move to global HP Aruba LAN & WLAN. 62 sites completed, manging pre staging of hardware, ship to site and technical installation remote and onsite support.
• Managed service for Signant Health providing mobile phones, tablets (circa 15k Lenovo’s, 13k HP, 9K ZTE, 4.3k Samsung’s & 1.8K Huawei units). Ongoing management of supplier both OEM & distributor & 3rd party pre.

Crewe, United Kingdom

• Project Manager – Risk & Control, Barclays (MSP) April 2017 – April 2018 Providing Project management within the Risk & Control Team on High Availability IBM MQ project, ITPA & SSH projects
• High Availability IBM MQ completed roll out of new solution for SMS & iPortal
• Agreed design for Barclaycard payment hub and vendor TSYS new HA MQ solution
• Provided support to Infrastructure Service Resilience team for GTIS service catalogue and resilience mapping for Tech ExCo.
• Provided support for the DR and production crossover plans with the IS resilience team to meet aggressive timelines for Tech ExCo.
• Facilitated and supported completion of Internal Closure Packs, Major & Minor for the IT privileged access for joiner, mover and leaver within agreed timeframes

Crewe, United Kingdom

• Project & Delivery Manager (Voice) Barclays (MSP) January 2016 to March 2017Providing Project & Delivery management within the Change Delivery Team on Unified Communications transformation project.
• Management of 1.1M GBP eraf (budget) spend across both resource and 3rd party vendor spend.
• Completed compatibility Matrix and interoperability testing across all vendors platforms against planned Cisco Call Manager upgrade version 10.5x. Including Nice passive and active call recording, IPC for trader floor.
• Managed 3rd party Vendor Enghouse & Dimension Data to complete upgrade of ARC 6.1.1 & Unify application across EMEA. Including interoperability testing against Cisco Call Manager V8.6 & V10.5, training for local.
• Upgraded all relevant products within the Voice & AV environment to the relevant levels to support Cisco CUCM V10.5
• Acted as the link between Cisco project team, Barclays voice team and the Change Delivery team.

Crewe, United Kingdom

• Integration Consultant (Networks Risk & Control) Barclays (MSP)June 2014 to December 2015Responsible for delivering consulted (managed service partner) support currently with Barclays at Radbroke Hall Technology.
• Replacement of Buy, Sell, Hold spreadsheets with Product Obsolescence solution which provides lifecycle management across the complete Network estate.
• Implementation of central IPAM registry for Banks complete network estate, circa 90K+ subnets and 500K+ IP’s, and devices. Fully integrated discovery feeds from Netspider and enhanced data from Infoblox grids, Spectrum.
• Worked with BAU and technical leads to design and specify reporting requirements to manage data validation, IPAM estate reports ie Blocks, containers and subnets.
• Implemented improved query report tool within EMP (enterprise management portal) solution.
• Completed training for network BAU teams for Network database, product obsolescence and IPAM.

Home Based

• Responsible for delivering European projects and new business solutions across, both Manufacturing Services and After Market Services (inc Global architect for Celestica After Market Services integrated IT solution)..
• Deliver IT strategy to the business and Business plans & strategies to IT
• Management of the European IT project portfolio
• IT costings and solutions to the European sales team & business development teams.
• European & Americas Lead for IT Mergers & Acquisitions
• Supported global Celestica After Market Service team

Telford, United Kingdom

• Reporting to the European IT Director responsibilities include management of all IT services to UK sites, including owning the relationship with the outsource partner of services below, with focus on availability and.
• Management of delivery of applications, desktop services, network infrastructure, corporate applications and procumbent of IT equipment
• Management of UK IT Budget $1m
• Management of 6 site based UK IT staff
• Managed the site closure and re deployment of IT team on time and within agreed closure budget.

Telford, United Kingdom

• Working within the Celestica After Market Services business function reporting to Global Process & Application Director. Responsibilities included ownership of European After Market Services corporate applications and.
• Design and roll out of a single Pan European solution for IBM European laptop (50k pa) & PCBA repair (100k+ pa). Full end to end integration (Helpdesk, 3PL, customer). Overall IT budget $1.1M
• Dell Whole unit delivery business (30k units pa) and IT solution designed and completed within budget $250k.

Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

Consolidation of 'fast' shopfloor control system from 2x server clusters (2 main1 backup per cluster) to 1 cluster. Implemented on time and without any site downtime.Updated to latest Unix 11 at the sametime to reduce costs and support latest support capabilities and functionality.Updated manufacturing floor desktops from green screen to PC / Wise.

Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

Implemented increased call centre capability to support new business opportunity with Hewlett Packard. Design and roll out of new ACD solution. Project completed on time with calls increasing from 2K per month to approx 15K calls per month. Grade Of Service improved from 17% to 98% with new help desk being rated as number one within Hewlett Packard.Staff.

Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

Successful implementation of roll out of £300K CCS investment to timescales agreedRe engineered process & layout on Ericsson and as a result we were the First Repair Partner to pass Ericsson full ESD / Process audit level V.Achieved between 30% to 40% cost saving on CCS roll out areas

Byley

Management of team of 40 repair technicians & engineers, for repair of Hewlett Packard Deskjet and Laser printers.

Byley

Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

Certificate In Business Management, Business Administration And Management, General

Btec National Diploma In Electrical/Mechanical Engineering

Gcse\O Level Equ 8 Inc Maths And English