Available for part-time (2-3 days/week) roles.

As Technology Project Manager, I am responsible for planning and delivery of IT Infrastructure/Systems to support a major PLM upgrade at JLR, based on Dassault Systemes 3DExperience R2017x solution. This includes defining the overall technical scope, preparing/managing the detailed IT delivery schedule, maintaining a RAID register, interlocking plans with Programme PMO and at senior management reviews - to ensure a coordinated approach to meeting critical business milestones.

Experienced IT professional, with focus on managing Systems Integration (Transition & Transformation) projects, IT Operations and Service Delivery. Proven ability to manage project discovery/scoping, technology strategy, design documentation, project tracking and executive reporting. Sound understanding of infrastructure design, incident management and service quality improvement. Established track record of delivering technical services, managing project change/risks and meeting agreed SLAs and budget targets.Extensive international experience, with focus on working within an integrated, multi-vendor organization framework; Strong inter-personal and leadership skills, with successful track record of managing cross-vendor/cross-discipline/multi-country teams - across Europe/Middle-East, India, China, SE Asia & Australia; Flexible and adaptable with regard to work location, travel requirements and working hours; Consistent performance in exceeding annual objectivesSummary of recent professional experience: o Application build, solution delivery and environments manager - as Enterprise Programme Manager, PLM (Automotive supplier, UK); o Enterprise services delivery for global multi-national client - as SAP Project Executive (Mining client, Singapore); o ITIL-based operational support for global IT Operations - as Delivery PE (Singapore/Australia/India); o Technology Strategy & Business Development - as CTO for global client (Singapore/Australia); o Technical Sales Support - as Director of Technical Sales Support, Asia Pacific (Shanghai); o Advanced Technical Support - as CTO to SAP Solutions Executive, EMEA & South Africa;

IT Systems Transition and Outsourcing (Discovery & Design phase): Managed the ‘Cutover, Release & Change Management’ workstream during the ‘Discovery’ phase of a multi-wave IT services transition programme for a major UK bank. Co-ordinated tasks across the seven transition workstreams and worked with the Technical Design Authority to develop an overall enterprise migration approach. This was then used to define the outline delivery schedule, document roles/responsibilities (via ‘runbooks’) and agree a change management process to interlock migration schedule with ongoing bank projects

Pre-sales engagements to prepare and present SI programme management and service delivery proposals for Oil Industry, Government (Police) and Industrial sector clients.

PLM Technology (Application Build/Test, IT Environments & Operations Support): > Programme Delivery Manager - based onsite at client project offices and supporting Programme Director & Technology Manager. Initially led multiple Application Design (‘Release’) teams developing an integrated PLM solution covering the entire vehicle product life-cycle - based on Dassault Systemes V6-2014 technology and covering Requirements/Planning, CAD, BOM, Manufacturing, Analysis and Visualisation over the entire vehicle product life-cycle. > Re-shaped project delivery by adopting agile/iterative development approach, underpinned by formal acceptance criteria and successfully completed mandatory ‘User-Acceptance Test’ cycles to enable client to meet aggressive 'go-live' deadlines. > Subsequently led the Environments team which was responsible for building and supporting 50+ Dev/Test/Production systems. Re-structured in-house team, introduced formal Operational/Systems Mgt, QA and Change Management procedures and subsequently managed transition from Project to ‘BAU/Steady State’ support

Requirements Definition, Programme Management and Service Delivery of large-scale IT/Technology Projects - with focus on SAP and PLM solutions, covering infrastructure design, system build, test and ongoing operational support.

As Senior Project Executive, I had overall IBM accountability for a multi-year, IT transformation project to support an enterprise-wide SAP system for this - Singapore based - natural resources client. This business-led initiative was then rated as one of the largest and most complex SAP implementations in the world - with a comprehensive SAP application suite processing over $1B of business transactions per week and handling global HR/Payroll for 45,000+ employees. I developed and maintained collaborative relationships at executive level with the client and their implementation partners - to ensure successful design/delivery of the IT infrastructure and ongoing steady state support va IBM Strategic Outsourcing and SAP Consuting teams. I was based in Singapore and as the global SAP PE, I was accountable for client satisfaction, infrastructure service delivery quality and meeting programme revenue/business growth targets. I led a 250+ member 'One-IBM' team, based in Australia, Singapore, India and US - and successfully delivered 8 major SAP releases, plus 25+ SAP Portal and associated enterprise application 'go-lives'.

IBM Technology Director & Client Technical Advisor (CTA) for a large natural resources company - providing technology best practice recommendations and thought leadership in the areas of: Enterprise Architecture; SAP infrastruture design/delivery; Mining-related IT optimisation, Safety & Remote Operations Strategy; Operational support of enterprise-wide, global datacenter.

Executive responsibility for re-structuring the IBM ‘Integrated Management Layer (IML)’ team, which supports the client’s global IT Operations and Service Delivery - based on mandated ITIL service delivery processes.

Director of Technical Support for IBM Asia Pacific based in Shanghai - responsible for the strategic direction and satisfactory delivery of technical support via IBM and Business Partner TechSales teams across the Asia Pacific region

Led a Europe-wide team of SAP infrastructure architects who provided TechSales support for system sizing, project definition and IT infrastructure design. In this role, he actively participated on SAP Architectural Review and Project Delivery boards - with responsibility for ensuring client satisfaction with IBM infrastructure design and service delivery.

Recruit, Set-up 30+ team with 1st/2nd level management, manage to budget and deliver revenue/growth targets - for globally-integrated, Business Partner technical support team - supporting India-based Consultants & Systems Integrators

Varied IBM career - includes Industry Solutions (CAD/CAM & GIS), Product Specialist (GIS), Infrastructure Design (CAD/CAM, UNIX Systems, Client/Server solutions) and IT Consulting