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England, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

- Worked within an operational resilience programme to deliver a rollout of technology resilience assessments globally, this is against all core infrastructure components which underpin HSBC’s important business services.

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

- Engaged to plan and lead 2 complex workstreams to drive the timely integration of Legal & General Insurance (known as Fairmead Insurance) to LV= Insurance following the acquisition of Allianz Insurance. - Served as project lead for the transition of finance processes and regulatory reporting, as well as overseeing major review and exit of 300+ active contracts across Fairmead Insurance and Legal & General Group.- Managed and overseen a team of 20 (BAs, SMEs & Third-Party… Show more - Engaged to plan and lead 2 complex workstreams to drive the timely integration of Legal & General Insurance (known as Fairmead Insurance) to LV= Insurance following the acquisition of Allianz Insurance. - Served as project lead for the transition of finance processes and regulatory reporting, as well as overseeing major review and exit of 300+ active contracts across Fairmead Insurance and Legal & General Group.- Managed and overseen a team of 20 (BAs, SMEs & Third-Party resources)- Plan and implement the transition of financial operational processes and reporting from Legal & General group systems to LV= Insurance including an archive of data from six applications.- Onboarded third party supplier to facilitate the archive of Fairmead’s general ledger onto a 3rd party Oracle cloud hosted SaaS solution.- Archive of application and LAN data (approx. 1.7TB) from L&G group Ltd to support regulatory reporting into 2023- Led a review of active contracts, developed a strategy to novate or terminate contacts aligned to programme delivery.- Managed the setup of a new financial ledger within LV=, including the transition of moving multiple suppliers from the L&G accounts payable system onto the LV= AP system including supplier comms. Show less

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Lead IT project manager working on a data centre co-location move and multiple technical workstreams delivered as part of an O365 programme inc teams.

Port Sunlight, Wirral

- Integrated workplace management system (IWMS) - Major application upgrade plus a migration to a cloud-based solution (Azure) delivered at Unilever, highly complex technical delivery whilst working alongside the relevant business partner Planon. Including working on automation with bots.- Condecco - Successfully led and implemented an on prem to SaaS based solution for a global room booking system working collaboratively with the business globally and the vendor.- Global… Show more - Integrated workplace management system (IWMS) - Major application upgrade plus a migration to a cloud-based solution (Azure) delivered at Unilever, highly complex technical delivery whilst working alongside the relevant business partner Planon. Including working on automation with bots.- Condecco - Successfully led and implemented an on prem to SaaS based solution for a global room booking system working collaboratively with the business globally and the vendor.- Global physical access system (GFAS) – Large scale upgrade and integration solution which working alongside the vendor Nedap Show less

- HSBC Voice ID – Responsible for the IT delivery (design to closure) of a major strategic biometrics identification and validation system, impacting all HSBC telephone banking users across the UK. The success contributed to the reduction of customer waiting times across all contact centres. - First Direct mortgage upgrade - Delivery of a complex business-critical mortgage solution, whilst dealing with constant changing business requirements along the way (regulatory… Show more - HSBC Voice ID – Responsible for the IT delivery (design to closure) of a major strategic biometrics identification and validation system, impacting all HSBC telephone banking users across the UK. The success contributed to the reduction of customer waiting times across all contact centres. - First Direct mortgage upgrade - Delivery of a complex business-critical mortgage solution, whilst dealing with constant changing business requirements along the way (regulatory requirement)- HSBC Branch document scanning - End to end IT delivery of a complex branch scanning project delivered across all UK branches at HSBC (600), crossing multiple lines of business and was delivered under pressure as part of a business transformation programme involved a reduction to head count. - Avalon programme - Delivered multiple technical IT evergreen projects simultaneously as part of a strategic data centre transformation programme. The ‘evergreen’ work spanned different technology areas including AIX, Linux, Windows, Oracle as well as working alongside facilities management. Show less

North Wales

2011 - 2013 - Global ERP Portfolio- Succesful end to end delivery of a large scale SAP Netweaver 7 upgrade on x4 key business systems simultaneously (ECC, BW, APO & SNC), also included Oracle 10 to 11g upgrades (pre-req)- Successful end to end delivery of a large scale CPS 4.0 to Xenapp 6 Citrix migration for 18 countries globally- Successful end to end delivery of a highly complex Taxation system for The Brazil business, the project was part of a business transformation… Show more 2011 - 2013 - Global ERP Portfolio- Succesful end to end delivery of a large scale SAP Netweaver 7 upgrade on x4 key business systems simultaneously (ECC, BW, APO & SNC), also included Oracle 10 to 11g upgrades (pre-req)- Successful end to end delivery of a large scale CPS 4.0 to Xenapp 6 Citrix migration for 18 countries globally- Successful end to end delivery of a highly complex Taxation system for The Brazil business, the project was part of a business transformation programme2008 - 2011 - IT Transformation programmeSuccessful end to end migration of 800+ virtual (VMWare) and physical hosts onto the global Hyper-V infrastructure, which was completed as part of a transformation programme.Successful end to end delivery of x8 Hyper-V infrastructure farms across x2 Global data centres, working alongside a 3rd party business partner.Management of a project team consisting of multiple project co-ordinators, Technical architect and infrastructure\network engineers Daily management of a €3+ million budgetManagement of communications to senior stakeholders within a highly complex environment consisting of region & global customers.Worked on multiple data centre migration projects i.e. LAN switch removals, relocating services from EVA to XP Storage and the creation on a SAP hosting environment for legacy SAP systems Show less

Managed a team of engineers for the operational running of 4 large scale Citrix farms and 4 VMWare ESX farms, this consisting of the support of over 800+ servers, supporting multiple global users and multiple business parters.

- Manage the migration of 5 legacy Citrix farms into 3 standard Citrix farms, introducing new business processes and creating new baseline’s across the Citrix estate- Operational support of multiple Citrix (XP metaframe 3 & CPS4.0) farms and VMWare ESX 2.54\3 farms- Support of over 5000+ Citrix users globally and support for 3rd party business partners

- Application delivery via SMS 2.0- 2nd & 3rd line application support of all Unilever packaged applications inc SAP, Business Objects- Incident, Change and Problem management within an ITIL framework

- 2nd & 3rd line operational support- Win98 & NT4.0 Desktop installations- LAN cabling- Application installations & configuration- Printer configurations & installations

- Dealing with the processing and payment of company invoices- Working with all levels of management to obtain approval on invoices- Dealing with customer queries