PRINCE2 certified methodical project manager and analytically minded system support engineer with 20+ years experience in the IT industry for a variety of international companies including chemicals, IT, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, entertainment, banking and insurance. At project level has extensive experience in PRINCE2 and PMI environments, managing full life cycle projects such as server and relevant network infrastructure, data centre migrations, application migration / refresh and consolidation utilising virtualisation / P2V environments.At technical level has extensive knowledge in helpdesk and related services having participated in 1st, 2nd and 3rd line support. Supporting a mixture of desktop and server administration, hardware ( server and disc arrays ( EMC, HP ) including relevant RAID technologies ), networking, software ( operating systems, applications including data management and database structures ) along with an excellent problem management and problem analysis skill, willing to ‘dig in’ to understand and eradicate problems to provide an efficient and effective service. With excellent communication at all levels gained from experience working in culturally diverse environments, along with the ability to people manage internal, external, 3rd party vendors and suppliers has the necessary skills to accomplish project tasks. Specialties: 3rd party vendor management, server migration and centralization, application migrations, server implementations, infrastructure project management, stakeholder management