Paul Edwards Email & Phone Number

Shrewsbury, Gb

Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

Shropshire, United Kingdom

Contract Roles included:Consulting Lead - Definition and Design of a Records Management, Command & Control and Reporting Solution for an Overseas Police ForceConsulting Lead - Business Case development and Delivery Plan for automation and Case Management options for Firearms and Explosive Licencing to increase productivity and overall budget reduction.Project Lead - Qlik Sense BI implementation for a UK Police Force. Programme Manager - A major change programme encompassing a digital forensics analytical capability supporting Intelligence and investigations within a regional UK Police Capability. Review and development of a roadmap for a Business ICT Strategy for a UK Police Force (contract). Definition and Development of a Digital IT Strategy for a UK Police Force (contract).Production of a Strategy Paper for the Strategic Review of IT and development of a Technology Vision and Strategy for a National Policing Capability.Programme Management - Delivery of a Windows 10, Office 365 deployment including Citrix Desktop and Citrix Published Applications for Cheshire Council. Technical Project Lead - Regional Niche Programme, UK Police 5 Force consortium.

United Kingdom

Professional charged with dual reporting to the UK Managing Director and the Global CIO. Duties encompassed managing an overall budget of €7.2m, and a €1m capital budget. Assumed responsibility for Internal IT due to major issues in reliability, stability, cost, and value.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

- Design and develop enterprise solutions and strategies for medium and large clients.- Provide industry and enterprise knowledge to identify and recommend business and technical solutions, products and services to support clients business objectives and strategy.- Client Presentations of solutions, due diligence, Negotiation and Innovation realisation.

Newbury, Berkshire

Process definition, Support model development of newly launched global services.

Uk Wide

Roles included Project Management, Technical Architecture, Pre-Sales Support as well as Strategic Consulting on Application Development Best Practice, Delivery strategy and Implementation covering Europe.- Advising on the adoption of a global mobile applications platform.- Hands on approach to rescue of troubled projects related to a mobile application platform to ensure successful outcome for the client.Whilst working in an Account level focus group, I was heavily involved in defining the Enterprise wide business process and organisational makeup of handling new business requests from the client through to proposal creation. The previous process for dealing with New Business was in-efficient and visible to the client. My involvement included identifying the problem areas, defining the new process and strategy and introducing the revised process defined above in-flight- Successfully re-engineered the New Business Process resulting in a job offer from the Account Executive.- Reduced the time to respond to client demand from an average of 45 days to 21.- Combined separate approval process reviews to ensure more efficient process and turnaround.

Uk Wide

Working as a Pre-Sales Portfolio Architect, responsibility to provide client facing solution designs, costing and sales support for applications service offerings and related capabilities to meet the requirements of large enterprise clients.Experience of large government including Ministry Of Justice, Ministry of Defence, HMRC, Met Police, Home Office amongst others.- Successfully architected a CESG Approved mobile email solution to satisfy the high security requirements of Large UK Government departments.- Turned around a troubled project to deliver a tool to support the roll out of 320,000 desktops within the account.- Responsible for the application solution for a successful bid for resulting in approx. £8M order entry.

Telford, Shropshire

Managing a team of Developers, Project Managers, Analysts and Testers ensuring demand is met from requirements gathering to deployment. A newly created team thereby requiring recruitment, training and marketing to ensure an order book through internal communities and evangelising the capabilities of the team as well as identifying other opportunities we can move into. Performed the Lead Architect role in the identification of opportunities and costing and architecture process.- Hands-on approach to ensuring deliverables are met on agreed timescales and quality and architecture is kept in line with corporate standards.- Standardised the development process encompassing requirements baselining and change control with multiple code releases and integrated testing earlier in the lifecycle.- Co-locating the testing team and involving them in design discussions and adopting an agile approach to development using multiple code streams, feature driven development and time boxed releases.

Telford, Shropshire

Member of the Technical Authority team on a large UK Government account. I had responsibility for supporting, guiding and ensuring the technical direction of solutions and conformance to the strategy and direction of the account by consistent use of tooling, products and process.- Successful development of multiple internet facing tax calculators for the homepage, ensuring compliance each financial year.- Web based application for local office application access management for national systems following the infrastructure upgrade.

Telford, Shropshire