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London, United Kingdom

Promoted to lead all IT activities for GE Capital UK – Business Finance, including the ownership and management of the IT Programme of Work and the Solution Delivery function. Leading a team of 3 full time employees and 10 outsourced staff and a member of the business Senior Leadership team.

London, United Kingdom

• Employed in a newly created role to build from the ground up a 5 member offshore operations function to manage the operations and support of all business critical applicationsKey Achievements:
• Defined all support activity SOPs and case management documentation for +50 business critical systems across the 5 Capital UK business entities including the development of an SLA based stability metrics pack for.
• Headed a project to… Show more Employed in a newly created role to build from the ground up a 5 member offshore operations function to manage the operations and support of all business critical applicationsKey.
• Headed a project to implement a Corporate Performance Management solution (Jedox) delivering self-service financial budgeting, planning and forecasting combined with analytics and BI dashboarding capabilities
• Working collaboratively with the Bank Operations function led a project to implement an IVR system (Cisco ISE) for GE Capital Direct to deliver client call recording and routing capability as required under bank.
• Developed the Governance framework for the management of the SOX programme and all other internal and external audit requirements Show less

London, United Kingdom

• Led the IT Server Delivery function, accountable for application and infrastructure stability and availability, owner of the IT DR Plan and all IT Compliance related activities including SOX and IT control execution..
• Drove out cost through controlled asset and service management and… Show more Led the IT Server Delivery function, accountable for application and infrastructure stability and availability, owner of the IT DR Plan and.
• Drove out cost through controlled asset and service management and infrastructure simplification leading to annual cost savings in excess of $500k and simplifying the server infrastructure from 100 to 48 servers
• Led the procurement and implementation of Canon Secure MFD’s across all UK businesses resulting in a 36% footprint reduction
• Developed and published the Capital UK IT Device Policy normalising asset ratios and driving out unnecessary spend
• Defined, developed and implemented the Crisis Management Plan across all four Capital UK business entities Show less

London, United Kingdom

Employed as the sole IT Project Manager to work with the cross-functional business teams to gather requirements, create specifications and develop new solutions or enhance existing applications within the sales support and risk analytics functional disciplines. The business IT SOX Leader responsible for the maintenance and control of IT compliance.

Dartford, United Kingdom

• Employed in a contract role to temporarily manage the 7 member project services team and put structure around the program of work.
• Progressed all stalled infrastructure related projects through to Project Initiation Document (PID) stage within a 2-week deadline
• Implemented a formal Prince 2 project management methodology around all projects
• Trained staff in producing effective business cases

Dartford, United Kingdom

Contracted to implement two projects using Prince2 project management methodology, including a new facilities management system for the businesses Residential Aftercare department and a corporate fax server solution

London, United Kingdom

• Start-up role employed to set-up and implement an IT construction support team to manage the day to day running of the businesses construction systems and support the on-boarding of new clients. Employing and leading a.
• Implemented Prince 2 project management methodologies for the client on-boarding process and managing all new IT Development projects
• Developed the Disaster… Show more Start-up role employed to set-up and implement an IT construction support team to manage the day to day running of the businesses construction systems and support the on-boarding of.
• Developed the Disaster Recover strategy directly supporting the construction systems
• Led the development of a formal training strategy for core construction systems including the authoring of training manuals and achieving train-the-trainer certifications for members of the document control team in.

Peterborough, United Kingdom

• Contracted to manage the Year 2000 compliance program for the business including the testing of all core business systems, evaluation of DR procedures and the production of Business Continuity plans, the auditing and.
• Project successfully completed before the overall Balfour Beatty deadline
• Produced comprehensive Y2K contingency plans across all functions… Show more Contracted to manage the Year 2000 compliance program for the business including the testing of all core business systems, evaluation of DR.
• Produced comprehensive Y2K contingency plans across all functions from scratch
• Oversaw the successful implementation/upgrade of 30+ critical business systems
• Obtained the best external audit results of all Balfour Beatty rail companies Show less