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Farnborough, England, United Kingdom

Worked for a short time on small projects relating to Smart Motorways.

Fleet, England, United Kingdom

Developing a digital signage product based on small Linux devices and Laravel based web services.

Havant

Retail IT project management role in the Smart Metering arena.

Fleet

Developing a digital signage product.

Wokingham

I returned to National Grid to join the IS programme upgrading the system that balances national electricity demand with the supply of power from generators across the UK. I successfully managed the implementation of changes to systems interfacing with the functional core of the application. September 2015 - Feb 2017Over the full software development life cycle, I directed infrastructure, development (on- and off-shore), test, deployment, and business teams to ensure that consequential changes to interfaces arising from the upgrade were fit for purpose and that switching between the old and new systems was performed without loss of service.Feb 17 - April 17Off work following a minor heart attack. Now fully recovered.May17 - March 18Programme Release Manager:I have been managing the release cycle for a major system development. From scoping through development and testing to deployment I have had oversight of release processes. I have managed relationships with suppliers and internal teams successfully improving the quality and reliability of the application.Risks, issues, tasks, defects, changes etc were all managed using the IBM Jazz suite of web based tools.My contract is ending on 31st March due to a limit of two years imposed by senior management on the tenure of contract staff.

Fleet

Taking a break. Looking for a new role. Taking in some training and self development via MOOC services (I've used Coursera). Look it up - some really interesting stuff!

Victoria, London

Project management role working closely with external service providers, software vendors and internal standards groups to deliver infrastructure and application solutions for exploration and production stakeholders. Introduced Global Helpdesk ticket monitoring system, new order management system for internal products, transitioned financial modelling system from third party hosting to Amazon cloud.Other small infrastructure workpackages completed for disk space enhancements (terabytes) in London and Stavanger, network re-routings.

Home

Decided to chill for a while, take in some training and see what happens next.

Sunbury

Embedded within BP managing various projects mainly for their Upstream Exploration & Production organisation. Including: o Laboratories network infrastructure and apps reviewo Windows 7 rollout to Global Projects Organisation (2700 seats), application remediation, deployment planning and coordination with third party contractors.o HSSE software deployments to Angolan off-shore installation for oil spill management and man-overboard tracking.o Global systems' transition to support

Langley

Managing network and telecoms projects.

Sunbury

Working for the Chief Technology Officer. The CTO responds to requests for technology solutions to business problems. It responds by researching leading edge, novel and innovative ideas and products and integrating them to meet business needs.In this role I worked on video conferencing interoperability challenges faced due to multple global platforms. I successfully developed operating procedures describing interconnection methods.Subsequently moved into Functions IT where I led a number of projects covering a US infrastructure relocation, the implementation of a COTS package for fraud and misconduct investigations and a software development project assessing hydrocarbon release risk and impact analysis.

BP is a global oil and petro-chemical company engaged in oil exploration, refining, marketing and in the pursuit of renewable forms of energy for the future. Work here included:• Initiation phase of project to replace a global incident management system. Project handed over to US PM after selection of vendor who is US based. • Regulatory compliance management system using a COTS package to assure BP that IT assets are compliant with various external regulations. Currently in a UAT phase having completed vendor selection and functional design specification and configuration. • IT related expenditure, embedded within business departments, is being brought into the BP IT organisation. I am running a project to bring Indirect Procurement systems under the BP IT umbrella. It involves discovering roles of embedded staff, interfaces between departments and systems, ASP contract details and then, in consultation with application support staff, devising and executing the transition plan.

Wokingham

National Grid provides and manages electricity and gas transmission infrastructure for the UK. My achievements include:• Successfully completed XP Desktop/Server migration from NT for National Electricity control room (very high profile, real time critical systems), business support departments and IS function. 1320 users transformed including application upgrade/migration and testing workstreams, IP telephony upgrade. Infrastructure partner – CSC. • Web based (J2EE) software development projects for transmission asset outage management and Scottish transmission network modelling. Third party on-shore and off-shore developer management.• Transfer of support for key service billing systems from local to offshore (India). Knowledge transfer, confidence building, managing internal experience loss.• Significant software re-engineering taking a portfolio of systems through transition to electricity trading arrangements (NETA) including setup of systems for data feeds to an energy exchange company.• Designed, installed, commissioned specialised frequency monitoring equipment and data capture systems at several UK power stations. • Managed Y2K assurance for National Grid IS. Confirmed Y2K compliance for all business and operational software systems and associated infrastructure. • Numerous other small/medium projects designing, developing, deploying 3-tier systems both in web and client server environments using in-house and third party staff. Contributions made to Prince2 Delivery Excellence (best practice) forum. Mentor to junior project managers.

Nortel provide enterprise communications systems and research. Below are my achievements:• Brief project to manage trials of novel Internet service provision using 240volt mains supply as connection medium.• Successfully managed trials with Nortel US to assess technology viability on their low voltage mains infrastructure.

Initiation phase of a project to deliver a datawarehouse providing a subscriber behaviour analysis facility.

Developed service delivery administration systems for British Telecom

Stockley Park, Middlesex

Developed Visual Basic systems for store data updating and harvesting. Used MAPI for communications between store and central office systems.

Starting as a sales support analyst, I worked my way up through the support organisation to become support manager for the South West of England and Wales based in Bristol. Moved into a marketing role responsible for sales reporting and price list production. Moved to Wiesbaden (W Germany) for 2 years to fulfil a European marketing management information role.

Bsc Hons, Physics & Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Christian Union

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