Kyra S. Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

Centifolia offers transformative change consultancy services for businesses and individual coaching for leaders and individuals. Centifolia offers a range of change solutions including: * Business Change Consultancy* Change management consultancy and culture coaching for thriving organisations* Individual Coaching for well-being and fulfilment or building.

Leading a team of program managers across multiple Industry and Regional sectors to craft customer value based solutions and execute programs in more collaborative, progressive ways.

Managing pursuits across UK, Ireland, Israel & MEA. Lead for the regional GT&T function in the sales engagement process to ensure that DXC's capability as a Global Transition & Transformation partner is positioned optimally in bids whilst also working with the Offering and Delivery teams to ensure that we build robust, quality solutions for best of breed.

London, United Kingdom

Accountable for enabling the offering capability of CSC's Global Infrastructure Service Offerings in Region. Focus from product development/presales to delivery - improving the E2E WoW to deliver best in breed CSC solutions.

London/Helsinki

• Leadership of a large data centre transformation program working with strategic outsourcing partner
• Optimisation & Consolidation of infrastructure components incl SAN, Fabric, DC LAN, Load balancer & Firewalls - whilst maintaining business continuity for the mission critical applications hosted in the main data.
• Technical refresh across server footprint as well database & middleware platform upgrades

London/Helsinki

• Customer Engagement & Integration leadership role for Applications Maintenance & Development teams across large-scale Infrastructure Services (IS) Transformation Outsourcing program
• Delivery planning for business function/customer engagement across various components such as Regional Data Centre build and migrations and new ServiceNow and associated OSS deployments affecting all IT Service.

Helsinki, Finland

Chief of Staff function for Infrastructure & Operations VP

Helsinki, Finland

• Leadership of IT Program Management Office and team of IT Program managers within IT CIO Office for Strategic Programs Portfolio, this involved an 18 month International assignment in Helsinki, Finland.
• Development and establishment of PMO capability as Centre Of Excellence owning PPM methodology, competency and Program office functions on Program & Portfolio Reporting and Audit
• Major renewal of Nokia’s Project management methodology to include Program Management & Agile… Show more Leadership of IT Program Management Office and team of IT Program managers within IT CIO Office for Strategic.
• Major renewal of Nokia’s Project management methodology to include Program Management & Agile methodologies and align to PMI. Management and ownership of methodology and successful new website launch.
• People management of team of 30+ senior professionals – focus on competency development and PgMP certification Show less

Responsible for programme management & the PMO function of the Applications sub-Programme for deployment of new Oracle BSS/OSS stack (Siebel, OSM, ASAP & UIM) to enable launch of new Cloud offering.

• General Manager Programme and Project Delivery (Acting) 06/09 to 12/09 * Leadership of the central Project organisation in Tiscali, reporting to CEO * Team consisted of Project & Program Managers and Business Analyst.
• Management of a Portfolio of 25/30 Concurrent Projects spanning DSL & TV networks; BSS & OSS change projects; Web and Portal build and enhancements; Product launch; B2B & B2C; operational improvement programmes and.
• Translation of business product/service roadmaps into quarterly/annual delivery plans
• Introduction of pragmatic Project mgmt. methodologies into Tiscali organisation Show less

• Operations Planning Manager, AT&T, Global 10/03-12/04 * Global role in Service Introduction Planning - representing network management centres (NMCs)/Network Operations Centres (NOCs) for new Service or Technology.
• Service Delivery Manager for international service lines with ownership of Private VPN service quality
• Managed Escalations; Major Incidents; Problem management, Change Management, Security Management (to ISO17799 quality), SLA management, Data & configuration management, and Capacity & Performance management of AT&T.

Msc, Computer Sciences, Distinction

• Thesis project: web-based, java poker game based on expert systems methodology

Post Graduate Diploma, Cpe In Law, Commendation

• AT&T sponsored personal study • Dissertation on ISPs liability for Cyber-crimes based on UK & EC Legislation, graded with Distinction

Ba Hons, Philosophy, 2:1

Studied Towards Bsc Econ, Economics With A Subsid In Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Founder of LSE Sailing society

Education record