Data Center Infrastructure Management, Migrations, Planning, Capacity, Reporting, Contracts Vulnerability Management and emergency patching processes. Utilising Qualys Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response Capability.Patch ManagementData Center Disaster Recovery Management and Testing.Infrastructure Capacity ManagementIntrusion Detection and Response Major Incident Management and RCA Completion

Planned and executed the IT Infrastructure separation of the LV= General Insurance and Life business following the sale of LVGI to Allianz. This was achieved with a fantastic team of talented IT professionals who delivered the desired outcomes for both business at a time that Covid was closing in fast.

Infrastructure Platform Manager. Reporting to the Head of Infrastructure and Security Services. This includes strategy, design, build and operational activities across the entire platform stack. This encompasses both a large in-house provision and also outsource partners.Responsible for circa 70 professionals across the following infrastructure platform technologies:Storage Technologies, Virtualisation, Databases, Windows, Linux, Middleware, Information Security Investigations &… Show more Infrastructure Platform Manager. Reporting to the Head of Infrastructure and Security Services. This includes strategy, design, build and operational activities across the entire platform stack. This encompasses both a large in-house provision and also outsource partners.Responsible for circa 70 professionals across the following infrastructure platform technologies:Storage Technologies, Virtualisation, Databases, Windows, Linux, Middleware, Information Security Investigations & SOCBudget accountability circa £6mEnsuring the services we provide are robust, secure and can scale to meet business requirements, through market insight and technology innovation, with close alignment to the strategy of an extremely successful and growing UK insurance brand. Leading Service, System & Processes improvement focused on people, process and technologyTaking ownership of issues & incidents to ensuring a timely resolutionEnsuring that appropriate security measures are in place to protect all business data and assets Identifying, prioritising and resolving long standing Security risksManaging and coordinating with the Technical teams, Stakeholders and Customers to ensure project delivery is to time & qualityEncourage close and collaborative working relationships within CIO, to achieve cross functional excellence. Improve service availability by reducing the number of incidents through service improvements and proactive remediation with targeted investmentsInstilling an automation culture to significantly improve delivery to market timescales and enhanced quality throughout the stack.Successfully delivered a significant organisational structure change that enhanced the focus of the Platform teams across the board. Built several extremely high performing teams.Budget accountabilities in excess of £6m Show less

Invited to go permanent to manage LV= Storage infrastructure, which had scaled from approx 100TB raw to over 3PB Raw. This has enabled LV= to achieve its goals in rapid technology innovation and significant scalability of the business portfolios following the re-brand from Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society to LV=.Provide leadership of a Storage team in a mission critical environment covering all aspects of the storage infrastructure.A pivotal role in designing and executing… Show more Invited to go permanent to manage LV= Storage infrastructure, which had scaled from approx 100TB raw to over 3PB Raw. This has enabled LV= to achieve its goals in rapid technology innovation and significant scalability of the business portfolios following the re-brand from Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society to LV=.Provide leadership of a Storage team in a mission critical environment covering all aspects of the storage infrastructure.A pivotal role in designing and executing the Storage strategy based upon high availability, disaster recovery and efficient storage administration. Providing technical input to the evolution of current and future technologiesBudget accountability of circa £2mToo over Infrastructure Services Management following a staff departure. Show less

Invited by the IT Director to in-source LV= away from EDS, relocate head office and also migrate all sites to the new infrastructure once designed and built by myself and a very small team.Successful delivery of Infrastructure Refresh Project, £2.4 Million under the budgeted amount of £7 Million which delivered a saving of £15 Million against the BAU costs within 12 months, while also reducing the on-going cost of change for 2000 usersManaging a team of 6 MSI scripters to… Show more Invited by the IT Director to in-source LV= away from EDS, relocate head office and also migrate all sites to the new infrastructure once designed and built by myself and a very small team.Successful delivery of Infrastructure Refresh Project, £2.4 Million under the budgeted amount of £7 Million which delivered a saving of £15 Million against the BAU costs within 12 months, while also reducing the on-going cost of change for 2000 usersManaging a team of 6 MSI scripters to repackage and deliver all application requirements across the groupTook over 80+ servers from EDS as part of the server transition project. Migration/consolidation of these services to new hardware technologiesSignificant infrastructure design and build out and overnight migration activities Show less

In-sourced Infrastructure management from IBM, and refreshed the entire technology stack for future company growth. This was driven by an MBO of FA from Royal and Sun Alliance.Head office relocation which included completely new infrastructure from the ground up.Migrated all sites over to the new Infrastructure with minimal business impact.Day to day management of the Infrastructure development team which covered all aspects of the server estate including Microsoft & Linux Server… Show more In-sourced Infrastructure management from IBM, and refreshed the entire technology stack for future company growth. This was driven by an MBO of FA from Royal and Sun Alliance.Head office relocation which included completely new infrastructure from the ground up.Migrated all sites over to the new Infrastructure with minimal business impact.Day to day management of the Infrastructure development team which covered all aspects of the server estate including Microsoft & Linux Server and NAS storageSuccessful delivered a complete hardware & software refresh for 1700 users in six sites while reducing projected projects costs from £3.6 million to £2.3 million Show less

Grew the company from 1500 users to 6000 users in 3yrsMajor acquisitions and migrations that continued weekly for the 3yrs before being purchased by RBS.Implemented SMS across the groupImplemented Netapp and Netcache products across the group.Removal of all tape backupsSignificantly improved the Disaster Recovery capability of the organisation.

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