Mike has Programme / Project Managed as a contractor within the Banking, Insurance, Retail and FMCG sector for 20+ years and has a rare blend of Business Process and Technical expertise. At ease with reporting at board level, Mike has strong Vendor and Stakeholder Management skills and is used to running large scale Application and Infrastructure projects comprising of in-house, off-shore, vendor and client resources - often across global teams.Key Skills: Programme & Project Management (Prince 2 and MSP Practitioner), Stakeholder Management, Relationship Building, Dependency Management, Target Operating Model Development & Implementation, Multi-platform Infrastructure, Security, Networks and their Integration, Risk/Issue Management, In-sourcing, Out-sourcing, Global Teams, Transformation and Process Re-engineering.Multi-Platform Infrastructure: Background in Implementation, Virtualisation and Migration; example skill sets being IP Telephony, SAN, Networks, Windows Sever, Oracle, SQL Server, Sun, Server Migration (MS Server 2003 to 2012), Desktop Migration (XP to Windows 7), Solaris, NAS, VMWare, Citrix XenApp, Websphere, Weblogic, Security, IBM Mainframe, Service Desk processes, Application and Data MigrationApplication: Background in Business Analysis and Development; example skill sets being SDLC, Waterfall, Agile, DSDM, Java EE, Websphere, Weblogic, Relational DatabasesTransition & Transformation: Background in BPR, Lean Thinking, mergers, acquisition, disposal, ‘right-sizing’, Target Operating Model development and delivery