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England, United Kingdom

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Warrington, United Kingdom

Oakmere, Northwich

• J&S Accessories are the UK’s largest motorcycle clothing and accessory retailer with 28 stores and e-commerce presence via their branded websites, eBay and Amazon
• Reponsible for a Digital Transformation project which included analysis of existing business processes, redesign and implementation of new processes and technology to automate manual activities. Delivered using the PMP.
• Delivered a new, bespoke e-commerce website which resulted in 155% growth in online sales. This included specification and development of interfaces to legacy ERP systems, Magento websites, Amazon, eBay, SagePay &.
• Delivered an on-premise Windows 2012 server with SQL*Server 2014 to provide the infrastructure for the Digital Transformation adoption
• Implemented the ‘Feefo’ product and service review system and a 3rd party finance solution
• Improved eBay seller rating from ‘Below Standard’ to ‘Top Seller’ in 4 months resulting in improved product listings and reduced eBay fees

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the implementation and adoption of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) cyber-security policies and technical solution for the Lubricants business to provide a more robust defence against cyber threats
• Managed the delivery of Cisco’s Secure Ops Solution in four global data centres located in Amsterdam, Houston, Kuala Lumpur and Beijing
• Developed a financial model to challenge, and subsequently reduce, internal project costs by ~25%
• Managed a project to perform a network asset discovery across the LAN and WAN topologies with the 3rd party telecoms provider
• Implemented a Symantec anti-virus solution (EndPoint Security) for process control domains. The solution design included LAN/WAN requirements and firewall rules to allow the correct network traffic through the various.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Responsible for assurance and oversight of the IT infrastructure for applications connected to single global instance of SAP in 28 countries hosted in data centres and in the cloud (Amazon Web Services)
• Used Riverbed’s SteelCentral (formally OPNET) to analyse network traffic & protocols (TCP/IP, IPSec, HTTP, FTP) to identify the cause of a wide range of technical issues such as poor application response times and.
• Provided in-country project management and technical support at critical testing and go-live phases
• Managed communications to senior business and project stakeholders

Manchester, United Kingdom & Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Project Manager for the implementation of a web-based solution to help migrate 140,000 enterprise users across desktop operating systems
• Managed a global project team located in Manchester, Houston & Kuala Lumpur with a budget responsibility of $2.6m
• Member of the Programme’s executive team reporting to the governance board
• Obtained user requirements, created functional specifications and formed & lead a business-user working group throughout software development lifecycle (SDLC) to deliver the solution using the Agile project management.
• Presented at several inter-company global conferences to provide attendees with an understanding of the strategy and vision for the solution

Manchester, United Kingdom & Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Lead a matrix-based team based in Malaysia and Australia to implement Microsoft’s System Configuration Command Centre (SCCM) across Shell’s IT infrastructure in conjunction with a Project to upgrade the storage of more.
• Worked closely with Microsoft’s Product team for SCCM 2007 during the beta phase to help influence the final design and integration across a number of technologies
• Integrated a 3rd party product to provide more efficient distribution of software applications across the WAN network
• Directly involved with the negotiation of a $1.6m commercial software licence

Manchester, United Kingdom & Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Responsible for the design and implementation of internal processes and solution architecture to interface to 3rd party Public Key Infrastructure provider
• Solution enabled the creation, management and use of digital certificates to support encryption and nonrepudiation of emails for Shell’s top-200 executives
• Worked with 3rd party, internal contract & procurement and legal teams to deliver the final solution
• Established an operational team in Malaysia and handed over the run & maintain support to them

Manchester, United Kingdom & Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Drafted in by the head of IT in Malaysia to get a troubled project back on track (I was the 3rd PM)
• Delivered the design and implementation of a web-based solution that enabled the selection of a user’s replacement hardware and subsequent automated hardware ordering process. Solution included the automatic population.
• Handed the completed solution over to a run & maintain team in Malaysia which included the development and delivery of a training strategy

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the solution design and implementation for the identification, reporting and billing of disk space usage by individuals and departments
• Worked with teams located in the US, Holland and Malaysia to implement solution

Manchester, United Kingdom / Houston, Texas / Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Global Programme Manager with a team of 50 people based in Houston, Manchester and Kuala Lumpur and budget of $16m. Responsible for planning (MS Project), finances and resourcing for the team. Accountable for the.
• Responsible for the recruitment and management of the operations team in Houston, Wythenshawe and Kuala Lumpur.

Shell Stanlow Oil Refinery

• Project Engineer of Remote Desktop Support in Shell Europe
• Project Engineer for a number of business projects at Stanlow and Shell Haven Refineries
• VAX/VMS & Unix Oracle Database Administrator
• Provision of support for Shell's PROSS Process Control Application (Stanlow Refinery)
• VAX/VMS Systems Manager

Northwich, Cheshire

Whilst working for Nano, I completed several in-house projects using FORTRAN and BASIC and was contracted out to various client sites: ICI plc, Soda Ash Products, Mond House, Northwich. The role included VAX/VMS System Management, PDP/11 (RSTS/E) System Management, design and development of a Suggestion Scheme administration system using 'INFO' (a 4GL.

Northwich, Cheshire

Clares Micro Supplies were a software house who provided technical and business applications for the Acorn (BBC Micro) range of computers. Projects included development of accountancy software modules, development of a range of database utilities including a Mailmerge and Report Writer and providing technical support to customers.