Paul S.

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Senior Infrastructure Delivery Lead
Paul S.'s Location
Tonbridge, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
About Paul S.

A senior IT infrastructure Programme, Project and Portfolio Manager with over 25 years experience in delivering high profile, business-critical projects in complex, dynamic and demanding global banking and retail environments. With investment values to $10M and project teams of 50+, I have worked for a number of years on transformation, rationalisation and integration projects following M&A activity and during period when outsourced to IBM. I have worked at VP and Manager level for more than 20 years and many of my assignments have been overseas with project teams spread over remote geographic locations. I am self-motivated and enjoy problem solving and have often been asked to turn around failing projects. I strongly believe in the importance of building team spirit based upon trust and mutual respect and also feel that fostering solid relationships with stakeholders and clients is essential. I am diplomatic and polite but also firm and determined. I have frequently had to display these characteristics when seeking to motivate my teams in difficult situations or when balancing the needs of the overall programme and managing risk to the Bank with the demands of individual clients. Meticulously documenting and managing the scope of work, and pro-actively managing risk helps me to avoid many potential pitfalls. I am a Certified PRINCE2 Practitioner, a Certified Association for Project Management Professional (APMP) and am formally trained and experienced in PMI (Project Management Institute) methodology. My previous employer is ISO 9001 certified but through my experience and training, I routinely follow acknowledged good practice so am equally comfortable when working in less structured organisations.Specialties: Application deployments and migrations; new office builds, datacentre/DR site builds and testing. Significant experience in working with mainframe, midrange and desktop servers, virtualisation inc. Unix, Linux, Windows, VMWare, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Microsoft SQL, Sybase, WebSphere/WebLogic Application Server (WAS), WebSphere Messaging Queue (WMQ), webMethods, system security etc. LAN/WAN/DMZ networking, voice technologies, dealer board and market data services.

Paul S.'s Current Company Details

Senior Infrastructure Delivery Lead
Paul S. Work Experience Details
  • Lua Solutions Ltd (It Consultancy)
    Director (Retired)
    Lua Solutions Ltd (It Consultancy) Oct 2010 - Mar 2018
    East Sussex
    Lua Solutions provides IT consultancy to major financial and commercial organisations.
  • Lsl (Senior Contractor At Lloyds Banking Group)
    Senior Infrastructure Projects Delivery Lead (Portfolio Manager); Business Engagement Manager
    Lsl (Senior Contractor At Lloyds Banking Group) Feb 2013 - 2015
    London
    Sept. 2014 - July 2015: Business Engagement Manager for Desktop Transformation Programme. July - Sept. 2014: Senior Infrastructure Project Manager - Verde/TSB Divestment ProgrammeJan. 2012 - July 2014: Portfolio Manager providing leadership to the Service Delivery Infrastructure Projects team for the Branches and Self-Service line of business focussing primarily on back-end/head office and ATM infrastructure.
  • 2E2 (It Professional Services) With Lloyds Banking Group And M&S
    Senior Project Manager/Project Delivery Sme
    2E2 (It Professional Services) With Lloyds Banking Group And M&S Jan 2011 - Jan 2013
    Central London And South East
    Between January 2012 and January 2013 I fulfilled the role of Portfolio Lead for Community Banking infrastructure projects at Lloyds Banking Group. Between October '11 and January '12 as part of the Business Development team I worked on a number of pre-sales activities, scoping and planning a Windows7 roll-out and a desktop (VDI) proof of concept initiative as a senior PM and Project SME across a broad spectrum of industries including Hotel and Leisure, Real Estate, Health and a top tier UK university. My assignment between Jan. and Sept '11 was at key client Marks and Spencer where as Senior PM I successfully managed a major upgrade to the central stores stock management system and delivered into production M&S's Food Logistics application.
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  • Finyx (It Consultancy)
    It Consultant (Contract) On Assignment With Lloyds Banking Group
    Finyx (It Consultancy) Oct 2010 - Dec 2010
    City Of London
    An IT Governance - Risk and Controls assignment (COBIT) at Lloyds Banking Group.
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  • Jpmorgan Chase (Global Investment Bank)
    Technology Infrastructure Programme And Project Manager - Vice President
    Jpmorgan Chase (Global Investment Bank) Jan 2005 - Oct 2010
    City Of London And South East
    My primary focus was on running IT infrastructure programmes and projects with particular emphasis on merger and transformation activities inc. deployments of business-critical applilcations on new UNIX, Linux and Wintel platforms; data centre rationalisations and migrations; building major mainframe test environments etc. Initially working for the enterprise-wide IT team I transitioned into the Treasury and Security Services line of business where I worked on Treasury Services programmes. During this time I served as deputy head of EMEA projects for Treasury Service IT Infrastructure and Portfolio Lead for a major business within T&SS.Key Achievements: - TS iProjects Programme: Deployment of 72 UNIX servers, with some very aggressive go live dates and events across EMEA and Asia Pacific as part of Treasury Services largest ever infrastructure project- Strategic Data Centre Migration: moving business-critical applications to a new data centre including server builds, “forklifts” and resultant decommissioning to aggressive timescales in order to avoid a $4.5M penalty- EMEA infrastructure lead on a two year merger transformation programme to build a mainframe and middleware test environment and complete transaction validation allowing all Chase and Bank One retail branches to be on a single deposits platform. Described in the CEO press release as, “Triumph in Texas”.- Projects for clients of Treasury Services including new host systems and network infrastructure in Milan and Bournemouth for Telecom Italia’s payroll facility and a cheque imaging system for German Clearing- I was selected to run high profile projects in New York, Tampa and Chicago due to my reputation for reliability and my experience in running large projects remotely
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  • Ibm Global Services (It Professional Services)
    Senior Consultant Programme And Project Manager
    Ibm Global Services (It Professional Services) Apr 2003 - Dec 2004
    Following my team’s outsourcing to IBM, in addition to my PM role, I was involved in the day to day transition of various functions from JPMC to IBM and fulfilled the role of Infrastructure Projects Representative on a number of IBM/JPMC transformation forums.Key Achievements:I programme managed the Chase/JPMorgan merger-driven office consolidation projects in Paris and Luxembourg with hands-on responsibility for the relocation of the Luxembourg disaster recovery site and provision of a new Avaya PABX in Paris. I also managed a LAN upgrade for JPMC’s Glasgow office.
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  • Jpmorgan Chase (Global Investment Bank)
    Senior Project Manager
    Jpmorgan Chase (Global Investment Bank) Jan 2001 - Mar 2003
    Responsibilities:Following the Chase/JPMorgan merger, my primary focus was on infrastructure and premises rationalisation and integration. I was also appointed Business Continuity Co-ordinator for the 200+ London technology team.Key Achievements:- Rationalisation, relocation and upgrade of the London campus Avaya telephone switchboard systems - Deployment of a centralised telephone directory database and centralised management reporting for which I was awarded a Leadership Certificate for “championing an innovative, cost-saving and low risk solution”- Infrastructure upgrade for the Stockholm branch office and a network upgrade for an Oslo client- Successful London DR infrastructure deployments and Business Continuity testing
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  • Chase Manhattan Corporation (Global Retail And Investment Bank)
    Senior Project Manager
    Chase Manhattan Corporation (Global Retail And Investment Bank) Aug 2000 - Dec 2000
    City Of London
    Responsibilities:Following the Flemings/Chase merger I worked on rationalisation and integration projects to migrate Robert Fleming & Co applications and services into the Chase environment.Key Achievements:- Integration of the Flemings internet infrastructure into the Chase architecture; taking the opportunity to re-deploy some equipment to improve the resilience of the existing Chase set up- Programme to migrate heritage Flemings Group Finance Oracle Financials and Group Compliance applications to new UNIX platforms whilst ensuring the adoption of Chase standards- Redeployment of heritage Flemings technical infrastructure and premises to improve the business continuity capability of Chase’s London investment banking businesses whilst reducing running costs
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  • Robert Fleming & Co Ltd (Investment Bank)
    It Programme And Project Manager/Manager
    Robert Fleming & Co Ltd (Investment Bank) Aug 1985 - Jul 2000
    City Of London And Various European Locations
    Responsibilities and Key Achievements:Responsible for my team’s output inc. tech infra builds in the EMEA region and prep for EMU and Y2K, I successfully managed a number of major projects inc:- EMU - deployment of technical infrastructure and support for the testing and conversion of all Group apps, market data services and desktop packages. - Business Continuity Planning and testing for "critical" apps- Migration of key business apps to new platforms- Deployment of reliable and secure corporate internet service- Deployment of PABXs for the 2 London head office sites with cross-site networking- Migration of traffic to the new global BT Concert voice and data network- Office start ups/major upgrades in London, New York, Madrid, Milan, Frankfurt, Warsaw, Stockholm, Luxembourg, Paris, Zurich, Geneva, Moscow, Amsterdam*, Lima*, Sao Paulo*, Buenos Aires*, Jersey, Isle of Man and Edinburgh (*Programme Manager)- Outsourcing of IT support for the Latin American offices
  • Ct Bowring & Co Ltd (Insurance Broker)
    Messaging Systems Supervisor
    Ct Bowring & Co Ltd (Insurance Broker) Apr 1983 - Jul 1985
    City Of London
    Responsibilities and Achievements:I supervised operating staff and was responsible for the operation, configuration and management of the automated messaging systems. My knowledge of best practice gained during my time with BT allowed me to fully contribute to the set up and efficient running of these systems.
  • British Telecom
    Tg2 Then Tg1
    British Telecom Sep 1971 - Mar 1983
    Having trained in the transmission and reception of international telegrams, following promotion in 1974, I joined the team that deployed, operated and managed the computerised messaging systems, that supported the international data circuits and provided fault control and customer services for the Fleet international exchange.
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Paul S. Education Details

  • Finchley Country Grammar School, London
    Finchley Country Grammar School, London

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