Neil W. Email & Phone Number

Wayzata, Mn

Primarily responsible for defining delivery processes, provides delivery leadership and technical delivery guidance to individuals, teams or multiple groups across the full spectrum of an engagement lifecycle in support of and aligned with industry standards and best practices. Assists with development of deliverables management processes to ensure high-quality project outcomes. Also participates in business development activities as required.Has a deep level understanding of how to successfully deliver large, cross-functional programs and projects. Provides leadership for development and adherence to the controls, measures, monitoring/reporting, tools, templates, processes/framework, best practices and training strategies and/or professional development options.

• Technical architect, leading IT infrastructure design, development and delivery for Getronics UK Ltd (1999-date)• Proved versatile across planning, strategy, design, bids, proposals, budgets, IT, migration and change control• Transformed IT services for a diverse range of industry sectors using Prince2 & Zachman methodologies• Implemented innovative business solutions via VMware vSphere, Cisco Nexus and EMC technology • Led a complex transformation project for P&O Ferries Ltd, winning a £12m managed services contract• Identified & capitalised upon opportunities to develop client relations, increase revenue and optimise market share• Strategically advised on an IT merger project for Subsea7, delivering technical solutions to budget/deadline• Delivered a complex global server virtualisation and shared service hosting project• Directed a large multi-disciplined team to deliver a Windows 7 managed services pilot for Rexam plc• Created costings & technical content for a workspace online service proposal for a top pharmaceutical firm• Consistently excelled in consultancy roles for educational projects for City Lit and Knole Academy• Designed a shared IT business model for Associated British Foods, migrating 14 IT infrastructures for 6,000 users • Excelled across design, development, integration, testing and production for IT transformation project for Barclays • Forged excellent relations with teams, clients, stakeholders, SMEs and 3rd party vendors across all levels/cultures • Handpicked to lead major IT projects via a Gold Partnership Programme, advising Microsoft in the USA

Aberdeen

I worked with the Global IT Director of Subsea 7 on technology integration as part of the business merger between Subsea 7 and Acergy. The initial phase of the project was completed in January this year.I provided advice on the overall technology integration strategy and approach, and with the local team managed the integration project through to successful merger. The challenge was technically complex and time demanding with the end objective to create a seamless IT service for the newly merged company.The Getronics team and I have also been in the process of completing a complex global server virtualisation and shared service hosting project using Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualisation technology. These recent project successes have led to further phases currently underway. I supplied Subsea 7 with a roadmap for 2011, including designs for a completely new Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Microsoft Lync 2010 environment for the new company.

I built on my experience at Barclays by accepting an invitation to join the small team initiating the Shared Service Centre (SSC) Programme for Associated British Foods as the Technical Architect. I was tasked with architecting the entire SSC in partnership with ABF staff. The goal of the SSC was to host the IT infrastructure of 14 of ABF's businesses. My direct responsibilities were the architecture, design, and implementation of the SSC. This was completed in 6 months, and my next achievement was architecting the migration strategy, staffing and managing the teams and devising the tools and processes to make migrating the 14 IT infrastructures (6000 users) to the SSC possible, and continually revising and improving those processes as migrations progressed . After 12 months, migration is close to 50% complete, and the processes and teams have matured to a point that I have been able to exit the programme.

Spend five months with Microsoft via the Getronics Gold Partner programme collaborating on the Getronics workspace deployment portfolio, then with Barclays as outsourcing partner on the DSMPII Programme. My workstream was tasked with the architecture, design and implementation of SMS 2003, MOM 2005, XP and Win 2003 images, GPOs and automated image delivery, anti-virus and patch management. These products were built in 4 environments to cover development, integration, testing and production, to support 30,000 users.

Technical lead on major server and desktop transformation projects for retail banking and media customers, focussing on WinNT4 to Win2000 and Win2000 to Win2003\XP migrations

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Bradford, United Kingdom

Padiham, Lancashire

Padiham, Lancashire