Paul Brian Email & Phone Number

Cambridge

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

• Established end-to-end delivery framework for entire IT portfolio
• Responsible for reporting to all levels of management and executive
• Developed framework for all new IT investment proposals across organisation
• Overseen delivery of major strategic programmes, including international data centre migrations, setup of compute clusters on Cloud platforms, global implementation of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), and many more.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

• Led the global implementation of SAP SuccessFactors payroll, SharePoint document management, and e-filing solution for staff records

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

• Collaborated with and managed stakeholders from varying disciplines, departments, and sectors to lead delivery of a wide range of IT projects throughout the entire project lifecycle, including network upgrades.
• Led the end-to-end deployment of Google Apps for Education to over 30,000 members of staff and students, from requirements definition and specification to budgeting and scheduling, vendor selection, implementation, QA.
• Managed the selection, implementation, and deployment of the corporate firewall, incorporating the fastest Tier-1 contract tender (contract value £500,000+) in the history of the University
• Project managed the implementation of the facilities management system; led business case creation, vendor selection, reorganisation of existing teams, and optimisation of business processes, resulting in savings of.
• Project-led implementation of Supportworks IT service management tool, increasing the ability of IT staff to respond to issues and allowing users to submit and monitor requests online
• Led the deployment of EDM (Electronic Document Management) system to various departments, reducing inefficiencies in document management processes and increasing organisational capacity to meet legislative requirements

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

• Assisted project managers on various process optimisation, service management, and laptop encryption projects, proactively identifying and solving operational problems
• Promoted to Project Manager after just one year of the University's two-year trainee programme, the fastest progression in the programme's five-year history.