Director
CurrentFreelance IT consultant providing Project and Programme management services.Recent engagements.GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT12 MONTHSHeaded up the delivery of test environments in China to integrate these into the global systems based in Sweden. Led a team of network specialists to optimise the network links from behind the Great Firewall of China. Subsequently employed as senior liaison between the China environments teams, working effectively as part of the Chinese team from Sweden.TEST ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT4 YEARSManagement and delivery of test environments for systems delivery across several other applications. Drawing on knowledge of the environment delivery process was able to identify and engage with the relevant teams to provide a conduit between the application delivery programme managers and the infrastructure delivery teams.Ran regular process improvement workshops to improve stability in the overall test environment pipeline.Set up and managed the change control board coordinating all environment and application changes being delivered to the integrated test environments.DELIVERY PROJECT MANAGER14 MonthsSuccessfully led the largest Sterling commerce product upgrade from 9.3 to 9.5. Global client migrating over 7TB of of data with zero downtime.Delivered major technical refresh of Oracle DB, AIX, Weblogic components, creating 12 new test environments and a new production environment.Direct responsibility to senior client management, built trust within the client team and the Systems Integration Company working with a diverse multinational team.
