Stuart Morris Email & Phone Number

Midhurst, GB

London, United Kingdom

• A professional IT Contractor offering Programme Management services to the Financial Services sector and others. Responsible for the provision of top-level project & programme consultancy, reporting, governance and.
• Agile and Waterfall methodologies and tools (Jira, Confluence, MS Project and MS Office Suite)
• Technical understanding of infrastructure and application environments
• Professional Certifications for portfolio, programme and project management
• The ability to work with ambiguity and develop robust plans that embed governance across large scopes of work
• The experience to create formal stakeholder engagement plans sensitive to the communication styles of all stakeholders to ensure an integrated project delivery with 3rd party partners.

London Area, United Kingdom

• Portfolio Manager delivering multiple concurrent programmes across the Customer estate
• Ensure the portfolio of work and projects are aligned to the scope of work.
• Define clear and relevant governance structure based on stakeholder analysis that includes defined roles and responsibilities
• Define and implement governance and controls across the portfolio of programs and/or projects, including but not limited to; status reporting, risks and issues management and reporting, stakeholder engagement and.
• Define and implement appropriate change controls
• Manages long term goals and success criteria

London, United Kingdom

• Delivering a portfolio of projects, focused on a multi-year programme to transform the infrastructure (networks, telephony, local hosting) at multiple sites across GSK.
• Team leadership and direction, ensuring quality, time and scope objectives are met
• Aligning Core Tech organisational strategies into multiple Business organisations
• Day-to-day programme execution including compliance with policies, law and published procedures
• Vendor and supplier management, including specification of requirements, deliverables, statements of work
• Financial and budget management of assigned programme or portfolio

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for end to end delivery and completion of Business and environment change to update cash management systems
• Delivery of global programme for re-platform of IBM Sterling B2B Integrator over 13 separate environments, migrating and mirrored across multiple physical and AWS cloud multi AZ data centres.
• Strategic management of the full lifecycle programme delivery with appropriate structure and governance procedures from inception though budgeting, team definition, analysis, design, procurement, build, test and.
• Identification/decommissioning of EOL systems replaced by new systems to realise business savings.
• Strategic near shoring of resources redeployed from offshore development and testing SI partners to in house technology centres in Cheshire and Dorset whilst maintaining programme delivery.
• Cost/Benefit analysis of full AWS vs. Hybrid vs. On Premises architectural analysis.

Reading, United Kingdom

• Delivered a multi-strand security programme for major UK bank
• Drove testing and migration of management of security events of interest to a 3rd party Security Operations Centre
• Led the implementation of 3 major security products, delivered via Cisco ISE, Lancope and Sourcefire
• Established an appropriate governance model to unify projects of delivery & give clarity on interaction
• Led a government model facilitating leadership of the programme across supplier & client boundaries
• Adopted a disciplined life-cycle of reporting against an accepted baseline for delivery of the programme

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for driving a cost-reduction initiative, consolidating IT, back office & real estate footprint
• Part of a major global initiative to drive cost savings via infrastructure & IT transformation
• Worked as a Programme Manager in the Enterprise Platform Engineering Group, part of global technology
• Focused on delivery of a programme investing €4bn between 2012-15 to achieve benefit of €4.5bn+
• Co-ordinated capacity management, change management, incident management and configuration
• Supported test and delivery of a portfolio of initiatives to transform infrastructure, including integrated platforms

Barclays Bank. Docklands, London.

• Responsible for technical environment change to underpin replacement cash management systems
• Enabled technical areas to deliver infrastructure & application landscapes to support change
• Acted as a key point-of-liaison / direct interface between the business, technology and testing resources
• Successfully guided a major enterprise programme through the CIT, SIT, OAT and UAT test and delivery phases
• Effectively utilised both Agile & Classic delivery methodologies, managing in-house and offshore teams
• Customer relationship management and engagement, achieved through leverage of PRINCE2 methods

London, United Kingdom

• Delivered top-level projects and programmes, engaging with key clients
• Successfully led the LTSB & HBOS IP integration, facilitating the merger to create Lloyds Banking Group
• Oversaw the successful migration of over 1m+ IP addresses within the bank without loss of service level
• Delivered voice and data network solutions, working with external clients
• Operated in a pre-sales capacity as Subject Matter Expert for networking, VoIP, data centre and Cloud
• Completed the full life-cycle delivery of a £multi-million outsourced programme with IBM and Lloyds TSB

• Responsible for driving the delivery of a portfolio of multiple and concurrent project assignments
• Worked as part of a team of Project Managers, using in-house frameworks based on APM & PRINCE2
• Systems Work Group Project / Programme Manager, delivering a cross-business full life-cycle project
• Spearheaded the development and implementation of security policies, based on best practice methods
• Project-led the installation of an enterprise-wide Avaya telephony system, migrating from Mitel telephony
• Championed the outsourcing of IT services of NI subsidiary companies, realising business benefit via IT

• Responsible for all aspects of IT operational leadership and the delivery of client facing consultancy
• Appointed to senior management role, heading-up the IT services division and delivering effective IT

Project Leader

Server upgrade and standardisation programme

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computing Information Systems

Secondary Education

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer And Information Sciences And Support Services