Mark Preddy Email & Phone Number

Fenchurch Street, England, United Kingdom

As the Small Change Co-Ordinator, I was fully accountable for the management and delivery of all Group IS ‘Small Changes’. A Small Change is defined by its cost/complexity and business priority- typically changes under £20k are considered as ‘Small’. However several of the deliverables I managed were of significantly greater value such as printer refreshes.

Greenwich, England, United Kingdom

I was engaged by the John Roan School To undertake a review of their IT provision in scope of this review is People, Process and systems including Access Control, IT Service Management, Hardware Management, Software review, IT Support by third parties. Any Other small projects that are identified by the business while it goes through the current period of.

London, United Kingdom

• Monsoon Accessorize had engaged a third party Microsoft supplier Brightstarr to deliver a single platform underpinned by Office365 and SharePoint. This would deliver a one stop shop for everything Monsoon and.
• Create UAT scripts based on the functional Specification written by the supplier.
• Complete 2 rounds of UAT testing feedback on bug fixes and design gaps and missed agreed deliverables
• Undertake a Business Analysis exercise of the actual international Business requirements for their Retail Operations platform.
• Perform a 3 way Review of the business requirements, the solution delivered by Brightstarr and an alternative offering by a third party called Concrete whose SAS platform is solely designed to support International.
• Produce business cases for further development of the Brightstarr platform or switching to the Concrete platform.

Newbury

As the UAT and Release Manager I was expected to maintain relationships with each of the internal delivery teams as well as the 3rd party onshore and offshore suppliers including HPe (integration Layer and operational support), Infosys (ATG Checkout), Accenture (Siebel and SAP), IBM (websphere), Aricent (testing resources), This work involved ensuring that.

Lutterworth

• In 2011 George Clothing decided to develop international markets for their clothing that has been designed for the fashion aware UK market through a franchise business model. To minimise the risk to the existing.
• A franchisee & Merchandiser web based ordering portal and master catalogue system based on the Momentis platform.
• A Cognizant Enterprise Service Bus (Integration Layer)
• A customized supply chain system using the EDItrack platform
• Manage the delivery of a third party hosted data centres where both the ESB and Momentis would be hosted.
• Facilitate the interaction with an image capture solution via FTP, Wal-Mart SAP Financials system through the SAP integration layer.

• Improving the focus of the CAB meetings so only high profile/service impacting changes were discussed and insuring that all stakeholders had already reviewed the changes prior to the meeting.
• Introduced a prescriptive template for all change records recorded to ensure that all interested parties can understand the “what, why, when, how, who” and “where” for any planned activity.
• Maintaining all of the change approval groups within the Lotus Notes based repository.
• Reviewing all open changes approved all non standard changes, following up on any changes that appeared not to be progressing through the process in timely manner.
• Implementing a “standard change process” for regular activities that follow the same repeatable implementation plan and as such are considered to be pre approved and have to be logged in the repository.
• Establishing a 12 month Forward Schedule of Change that includes Business events, Facilities and Landlord activities, IT Project activities, planned IT changes and Bank Holidays.