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Senior Data Centre Project Manager with over 10yrs experience in delivering time critical projects to Financial Institutions, Hyperscale, Manage Services and Colocation customers across Europe.Supporting European sales team for opportunities during pre-sales, coordinating design and pricing until contract signature.Managing each key stage of the fit-out life-cycle (Design, Power, Fire & Safety, Testing, Security, Cabling, Carrier Circuits) all the way to operational hand over to the customer ensuring all requirements are delivered.Managing external manufacturers, suppliers and contractors towards continually improving implementation, cost of delivery and quality against agreed SLA’s.

London, United Kingdom

Senior Project Manager responsible for overseeing the design, hardware procurement, implementation, operational handover and expansion of Enterprise Cloud platform(s) deployed across various European datacentres.Responsible for coordinating design, implementation, expansion of core shared network, storage and system infrastructure utilised to host managed services or colocation customer solutions across European datacentres.Program manage datacentre migrations, defining scope, infrastructure/services audits, target datacentre fit-outs (power, racks, cabling, hardware, carrier circuits) migration planning, work package execution, operational handover. Manage design, implementation, expansion, refresh or closure of EMEA data centre space required to host "Enterprise Cloud Services, Managed Services, Colocation, Tier 1 Global IP PoP's and WAN Services.Project managing to the agreed time, quality, and cost parameters for the project within a Prince 2 framework, ensuring the agreed project controls are in place managing and updating stakeholders and documentation throughout the project lifecycle.Agreeing the scope of the project during project start-up and capturing changes and seeking approval (if different to the original scope of work) throughout the project lifecycle. Ensuring all agreed milestone dates are accurately maintained and reflected in the appropriate management tools.

London, United Kingdom

Work with business, insurance and call centre stakeholders to identify business, technical and functional requirements for software implementation or operational changes. Manage end-to-end Agile software development life cycle for all call centre, business and insurance front and backend software implementations.Work with development teams to insure no deviation from project plan, remove barriers and coordinate any actions to realign project where any potential deviations of plan have been identified. Host customer/business value analysis workshops to identify core business goals, key requirements and help prioritize projects to realise company objectives.Work with senior management team to improve design and implement service/process improvements, working with internal teams in operational areas to develop improved delivery model.

London, United Kingdom

Work with global business units, product and infrastructure teams to develop the overall data centre strategy, acting as focal point for all EMEA real-time infrastructure integration and migrations plans. Manage governance and stakeholder management through project life cycle, insuring all parties are kept abreast of project progress.Preparation, planning and holding workshops with Application/Server Owners to obtain all information required for planning migrations, confirmation of dates, contingency planning.Work with the Application Development teams to discuss and come up with agreed solutions for risk mitigation of planned project work. Plan integration and migration strategies, establishing resource requirements, key risks to any products/services, costs for delivery of work packages. Control project costs, managing variance, negotiate with internal teams/suppliers and identifying cost reduction opportunities. Work with delivery teams to insure no deviation from project plan, and coordinate any actions to realign project where any deviations have been identified. Manage relationship with external 3rd party supplies and contractors, plan and manage infrastructure lift & shift, upgrades, P2V (VMware/SAN) or swing for EMEA infrastructure.

London, United Kingdom

Lead real-time project team of 3 staff, responsible for the delivery of all real-time trading platforms, managing changes to internal infrastructure across EMEA sites.Plan and coordinate installation of managed hosted trading solutions. Manage and control software releases and roll-outs of all internal and client facing trading applications (UBS, HSBC, Fidessa) insuring changes have been authorised, clients notified and support team documentation is updated. Develop and implement processes to insure key stakeholders, senior management and clients receive timely and concise reporting.Using Prince II methodology, plan and manage £5m/year rolling hardware and O/S upgrade programme for (1000+ production/dev/test) infrastructure located across 3 UK data centres. Manage technical assessment team (networks, dc installations, field services & support) to identify, analyse processes to improve corporate product delivery model. Full responsibility for estimations, resource and financial forecasting and budget management.Build and maintain relationships with key business area, stakeholders, software development and technical teams. Drive change agenda to implement service/process improvements at pace through working with internal teams in operational areas to develop improved delivery model

Bsc Hon, Business & Management

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