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Leicester, GB

Leicester, England, United Kingdom

• Designing, Developing, Delivering change and supporting of primary IT systems.
• Driving agile, reliable and cost-effective Supply Chain Systems solutions for AS/400, Manhattan and related systems to Business specification and aligned with IT Architecture policies and guidelines.
• Project lead in major IT transformations including onboarding of Oracle OMS as As400 replacement.
• Designed, Delivered, Owns and supports numerous iSeries integrations to 3rd Party WMS, TMS, Order… Show more
• Designed, Delivered, Owns and supports numerous iSeries integrations to 3rd Party WMS, TMS, Order Management & Finance systems utilising IBM MQ, XML, SFTP and event based architecture.
• Supports Management to attract, lead, coach, appraise and develop team members. Show less

Leicester, United Kingdom

• Designing, Delivering & Optimising IT solutions within the AS/400 Supply Chain Systems team.
• Played a key role in large AS/400 Upgrade project incorporating OS upgrade (V5R3 to V7R1) and the complex international relocation of iSeries systems.
• Took a lead role within the team and responsibility for the delivery of projects, analysing, designing, coding, testing and implementing European business solutions.

Leicester, United Kingdom

• Provided support and development as RPGIV Programmer & member of the Supply Chain Sytems Development Team.
• Designed, built & implemented a new European wide warehouse print solution including delivery of support models and processes.

Leicester, United Kingdom

• 2nd and 3rd Line IT service support engineer providing efficient and effective incident and change management in order to maintain high system availability levels and user satisfaction.
• Directly supporting more than 500 on-site users and 1800+ throughout the UK & Ireland.
• Supporting a wide ranging windows server environment including SQL administration, Cluster management & backup solutions.
• Took a lead role in the design & installation of the IT infrastructure requirement for… Show more
• Took a lead role in the design & installation of the IT infrastructure requirement for the relocation of the UK Head Office and Distribution Centre to a large scale, new build site.
• Maintaining change control requirements, asset management processes & departmental Procedures.

• Responsible for the efficient and effective operation of Office Depot European AS/400 systems.
• Individually responsible for the compilation of many programs and routines to automate the daily support operation. Many of which successfully remain in place today.
• Successful completion of all AS400 batch schedules including production processes, backups & user control.
• Monitor and react to all errors & problems in a timely manner, escalating business critical issues via… Show more
• Monitor and react to all errors & problems in a timely manner, escalating business critical issues via escalation procedures.
• Create, audit & maintain operational procedures & checklists. Show less

• Was personally responsible for a reduction in Office Depot’s average un-applied BACS payments total from £120,000 to £20,000.
• Efficient allocation of all payments made to Office Depot via the BACS electronic payment system to customer accounts.