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San Jose, Ca, Us

Hired to help expand Cisco’s flagship cloud demonstration platform, dCloud, to other geographical regions. Since then, engaged in numerous subsequent projects aimed at improving, maintaining and optimising dCloud which is used by 62,000 unique users in 156 countries. Projects Included• Deployment of dCloud in Singapore, Shanghai, London and San Jose. Worked with local teams to ensure successful deployments in each geo. • Working in conjunction with Cisco’s Facilities team to buildout a new data centre in EMEAR. Included the migration of 40 racks of equipment.• Amazon Web Services migration. Migrated aspects of dCloud front-end to AWS following feasibility study.• Built out new data centre for dCloud in Americas with budget of $7.4m. New facilities included increased power, cooling, space and resilience that will serve dCloud for the next 10 years. Migration will include 80 racks of equipment with minimal disruption to end-users.• Increasing concurrency across sites through significant re-architecture, compute and storage upgrades. This included lengthy testing and POC phases to minimise disruption to end-users globally. Concurrency in some sites increased by as much as 500%Day-to-day project management responsibilities:• Project planning, measuring progress, resource scheduling, resource monitoring, estimating and budget management• Stakeholder management/engagement often up to Senior Director Level• Managing project teams, external suppliers and internal teams• Risks and issues management, quality assurance and testing, change management• Recommending and implementing process improvement across the Project Office and Service Delivery organisation• Communications management to project teams, stakeholders and end-users• Project documentation, project briefs, highlight reports, business cases and end-stage reports• Often involved in the recruitment process for new hires• Supplier and vendor management and negotiation

London, Gb

New York, Ny, Us

Primarily leading initiatives in the Global Desktop and Electronic Communication space but occasionally also engaged in Hosting and Security related projects across the organisation.Key Projects:Desktop Migration: Recruited to assist with completion of EMEA desktop migration project, which was a regulatory mandate as a result of the merger between Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. User base of 15,000 across EMEA with over 400 applications. Responsible for requirements gathering, business analysis, application testing and remediation,scheduling and post-deployment support.UNIX Security Remediation: Initiated project to resolve a key security issue with UNIX environment across EMEA. This was identified as a regulatory issue with ambitious timelines and adherence to strict governance standards:• Total scope included over 8000 servers across EMEA region• Organsations impacted included trading, card services, retail banking and shared technology• Responsible for the recruitment and day-to-day management of 3 direct reports• Interacting with a global team of over 20 Project ManagersWindows 7: Overseeing the Desktop Transformation Project in EMEA this will see 22,000 desktops migrated to the Windows 7 platform over a two year timeframe. Responsibilities include:• Engage with CTO Vertical Leads to rationalise down the total number of applications in-scope for EMEA, currently 11,000.• Oversee the implementation of the SCCM 2012 solution to facilitate mass migrations to Windows 7.• Facilitate meetings between CTO Vertical Leads and EMEA Lines of Business to determine Windows 7 migration requirements and readiness

Ashburn, Virginia, Us

Engaged by CSC based on a solid history of project delivery results, leadership and strong network of contacts from previous full time employment with the company.Key Projects and Results• Exchange CCR: Recruited to provide project leadership on a mass Exchange server migration to accommodate a surplus of over 12,000 users. Results: Introduced the latest clustering solution (CCR) to deliver maximum uptime for user group, a rationalised failover process and a more resilient, ITIL aligned Exchange system. Brokered vendor deal to save an average of £40k on licensing contracts.• Data Centre Migration: Enlisted to oversee a complex DC migration, including full-scale transition of all core services (email, home drive data and virtual desktops) for over 18,500 users. Results: Ensured full business continuity, freed up DC capacity levels, optimised disaster recovery strategy, all under an aggressive deadline.• VDI Upgrade: Sought out to migrate clients VDI environment from vSphere 4.0 to v4.1 and to increase capacity to accommodate a further 20,000 VDI desktops. Results: Increased environment capacity to accommodate a large group of additional users with nil effect on existing user group. Maximised business benefits and delivered £100k cost savings on licensing by identifying oversubscribed contracts and brokering new terms.

Reading, Berkshire , Gb

Commissioned for a 6 month, £5m groundbreaking pilot project (first-of-a-kind in 15 years) to assist Virgin Media develop its geographic presence in the digital services vertical by upgrading an out-dated analogue network covering 2 regions. Guided an onsite and virtual team of 12 technology specialists situated across the UK and directed 3 business analysts on best practice business processes to ensure project success. Acted as key intermediary and resource to internal stakeholders across all sponsoring divisions. Results:• Instrumental in assisting marketing department gain local media coverage and penetrate new customer segments, significantly growing the subscription base accessing Virgin Media Services.• Generated a project delivery documentation repository to simplify future deployments. • Sustained project budget paramerts to within £1k due to specialised skill in ROM costing and precise terms of reference.

Ashburn, Virginia, Us

Stellar performance during 2 year tenure with this leading business solutions, technology and outsourcing leader with 100k employees in 180 countries. Provided skill in strategic technology projects, implementing security tools and systems, core infrastructure upgrades for SAN, networks as well as server consolidation and upgrades.Key Projects• Citrix Desktop Upgrade: Seamlessly delivered complete Citrix desktop migration for an 18,500 strong user base across 400 buildings throughout London against a £2.7m budget; updated the Configuration Management Database (CMD) with over 25,000 assets. Results: Personally scouted out and assembled a 20 member team, delivered zero downtime, streamlined costs and support. Centralised IT infrastructure for all buildings and facilitated risk workshops to optimise performance.• Data Centre Rationalisation: Selected to shed light onto a faltering client data centre operation via in depth audit of power usage, space and adherence to processes whilst guiding 3 Senior Infrastructure Engineers to optimum performance. Results: Integral in expanding immediate capacity by 5% with a further 6% over a 6 month period.• Data Storage Strategy: Hand picked to assist client in outlining new group data storage strategy and deploy NAS infrastructure on a high value, £26m programme. Results: Held accountability for a £700k CAPEX budget, rolling out a dual-sited NetApp NAS solution to markedly expand Home Drive data storage for the user group.

St Albans, Hertfordshire, Gb

Recruited by Head of Project Delivery based on strong record of achievement and professional relationship formed at RHM Ltd during previous role. Functioned on various complex, high value projects, earning reputation for ‘bringing projects back on track.’Key Projects• Singled out to work with supplier, Cable and Wireless, on a network consolidation project for a £3m programme to centralise the IT function within 10 companies across 70 locations spanning the UK, Ireland and France. Personally took charge of the Terms of Engagement negotiations between BT and Cable and Wireless, saving over £200k in OPEX costs.• Managed a £400k budget and a 6,000 desktop roll out project for all 70 locations on a mission critical £3m infrastructure investment project. Benchmarked support procedure and a new CMDB update process.• Parachuted in to turn around a faltering project, taking over for another PM. Saved £240k in licensing, increasing output by a notable 20% and rationalising 1,200 applications down to 600.

• Acquired coveted 1 year ‘sandwich placement’ role whilst at university, appointed to a key team to implement a new warehouse management team using PRINCE2 methodology and 3rd party supplier management.

Msc, Distributed Information Systems

Bsc (Hons), Information Systems