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Amersham, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

Managing a business-technology programme at this global domains company/registry (formerly CentralNic), involving post-acquisition integration and consolidation of tech platforms across Europe, the Americas and APAC.

London, England, United Kingdom

Managing the delivery of an in-flight major programme for a strategic telco client, involving new IT infrastructure across three data centres in support of Critical National Infrastructure services.• Directing a team of project managers, tech leads, infrastructure architects/designers, and engineers alongside a customer programme team• Reporting into a Joint Steering Committee of customer and Telefonica Tech C-level managers, bringing clarity and regular reassurance• Planning, risk identification and management, resource management, stakeholder management• Financial management, change management, and ultimately programme closeout

London, England, United Kingdom

Programme Manager at this digital music pioneer and leading provider of streaming technologies, which is on a business transformation journey with new investors/owners. Managing a move of the whole business to the cloud (GCP and OCI) including content management and ecommerce platforms. Seven project managers reporting in. Managing across multiple time zones (UK to US Pacific)

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Rehired by this Dot UK Registry as a Programme and Project Manager to remediate a £20m infrastructure transformation programme, including public/private cloud, DevOps enablement (Cloud Operating Model), app containerisation, and Access Management (IAM/PAM). Leading a team of project managers/stream leads, architects and tech leads, successfully putting the programme on a path to delivery with a Board-approved budget, signed & delivered premium data centre spaces, and a procured hardware/software stack. • Data Centre selection & build-out, Juniper, F5, Dell, VMware, NSX, AWS, IaC• Security uplift• Board level and C-level engagement. • Supplier engagement/management• Shaping and tracking programme budget• Strategy, Risk Management, Planning

London, United Kingdom

Programme Manager for this global ethical supply chains business, supporting the new CEO and his Exec team in defining corporate strategy and delivering a global ethical trading platform. • Building a new and completely re-imagined ethical trading platform• Forging and directing a new tech team towards delivery• Implementing a Cloud Operating Model• Board, CEO and other C-level engagement• Programme Management and Project Management• Strategic business transformation including: Products & Services; Marketing; Customer Services; Tech; People; Policy; Partnerships; Corporate Affairs; Internal culture.

Oxford, United Kingdom

Senior Project Manager delivering new Cyber Security products and services to market. Product Development, Product Launch, Product-centric project management, Agile, AWS, Cyber Security, Big Data, DNS, Sales and Support Processes.

London, United Kingdom

Senior Project Manager delivering transformation of infrastructure, security, business apps and processes at this digital cinema/tech SME that is transitioning to a new phase of business development under a new CEO. • C-level engagement• New Cisco network including Cisco ISE• Active Directory• New VMware server architecture across two data centres• New business job tracking/workflow app (Xytech)• Changed IT and business processes• Evolving Agile and DevOps culture.

Oxford, United Kingdom

Implementing a £5m service working with Government and GCHQ on a rapid timescale delivering DNS services for a national cyber-security initiative. Also delivery of a service portal built around ServiceNow.• Working with different government stakeholders to deliver requirements, recognising and managing different priorities• Creating and managing the plan, aligning the client’s own plan, controlling change and budget.• Introducing associated service wrap, service portal and associated processes

Oxford, United Kingdom

Delivering high profile politically sensitive programmes (budgets up to £10m) in support of the organisation's move in a more diversified/commercial direction• Major infrastructure change programme - new private cloud data centre footprints (UK, Europe, USA) for new DNS nameservers; all-new environments based on VMware, Puppet and HP/3Par technologies; new service management ISO 20000 implementation (including migration to ServiceNow) and migration to Office365. • Leading programme teams of up to 20 staff and suppliers.• Influencing the senior management team to achieve the organisation’s strategic and operational priorities and objectives.• Negotiating deals with 3rd party vendors (co-lo data centre space, hardware and software )• Introducing .uk second level domain registrations; managing policy issues & development; conflict resolution• Managing and controlling programme scope, budget, risks and issues.• Developing strategic partnerships with directorate teams and external suppliers.• Delivering .wales and .cymru domain namespaces to general availability

Northampton, United Kingdom

Re-engineering a 3 year old project to deliver a new intranet based on Sharepoint.• Facilitating the interface between business needs and the legal and regulatory environment.• Complying with the requirements of organisational strategy and group change governance framework.• Assessing and managing impacts of the change on stakeholders and stakeholder groups.

Reading, United Kingdom

Delivering IT-enabled change programmes & projects.• Engaging senior sponsors and managing stakeholders.• Overseeing all aspects of programme delivery.• Ensuring successful delivery through the project lifecycle.• Supporting the suppliers to define project and/or technical scope.• Determining and developing teams (up to 18 multi-skilled staff). • Negotiating with major global service providers for support, enhancement and development.• Controlling and reporting the budget (circa £5m)Programmes and projects: Migration of primary data centre ("lift and shift") including virtualised services to an outsourced & managed data centre; Consolidation of four buildings into one; VoIP; Thin Client and VDI (Microsoft-based); ISO 20000; ITIL CMDB delivery; outsourcing and offshoring a 25-seat service desk and its proceses; infrastructure supporting new online business strategy; Desktop refresh/replacement.

Oxford, United Kingdom

My company provided IT project management, software expertise and resource to a number of clients in the IT Services, Media, Public Sector/NGO and Pharmaceutical sectors

Oxford, United Kingdom

Support and projects manager, including: document management and dossier publishing projects; desktop/network rollouts. Also set up and ran the company Helpdesk.