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Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

Reading, United Kingdom

Guildford, United Kingdom

Responsible for Contract Management, Project Management, Service Delivery Management, Client Management & Communication, Financial Management & Resource management for ITM's clients Aon Hewitt & Capita.Aon projects successfully delivered included a bulk legacy migration of 13 schemes (data only) from oPen, Genesis & Cyborg to Aquila Administrator in 3 batches.Capita projects successfully delivered included the main PenScope support project, 5 Profund to PenScope implementations (including data migrations, data retranching, DB calculations, DC calculations, letters, statements), numerous upgrades of PenScope versions.

Guildford, United Kingdom

Took on responsibility and resources to allow project management of all types of implementation projects including data migrations (from various internal & external systems) and calculations such as active to deferred, pension increases, etc. PRINCE2 methodology is used along with MS Project to manage projects from inception (via PIDs) to client delivery. Capita projects successfully delivered included the implementation of data, calculations, retranching, letters, statements for 92 DB schemes from Profund to PenScope (14 batches), 66 DC schemes from Profund, oPen & PS Pensions to PenScope (5 batches), 2 DC schemes from Prompt to PenScope.Punter Southall projects successfully delivered included the implementation of data and (most) calculations for 108 pension schemes from various systems (Hartlink, Compendia, oPen, Profund, Midas, Administrator, UPM2, etc) onto PenScope.

Guildford, United Kingdom

Continued in former role following TUPE transfer but transitioned team over to the "ITM way"​ of working which included new processes and procedure, and importantly a new customer/supplier relationship with cost/income implications.52 'legacy'​ schemes (data & calcs) migrated from PAS to PenScope.46 'legacy' schemes (data & calcs) migrated from Phase2 to PenScope.

Wokingham, United Kingdom

Project managed all data related implementation projects which included new business migrations from other TPA systems (eg. Hartlink, Compendia, oPen, Profund, Midas, Administrator, UPM2, etc), in-house legacy systems, Data Processing (eg. renewals, etc), and data related Help Desk issues. PRINCE2 methodology is used along with MS Project to manage projects from inception. Responsible for ensuring that budget is achieved and that all project delivery deadlines are met. Recruiting and developing implementation team capabilities is an essential part of the role.

Wokingham, United Kingdom

Technical lead for the data migration of all pension schemes from in-house legacy systems to new pensions admin system (PenScope) using Sql Server. Responsible for developing the core migration platform from which ~100 schemes were later migrated.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Technical lead for the development of all Flexible Benefit projects. Project managed & co-ordinated the successful delivery of the vast majority of technical Flexible Benefits projects (using MS Project).

Bristol, United Kingdom

Technical lead for the development of Windows (Gupta SQLWindows) & Web based (Coldfusion) systems for the Pension Plan, Share Plan and Flexible Benefits businesses. Responsible for the release of projects into the live environment and associated on-call support. Organised and ran a number of SQL (Oracle) training courses for non-technical people.

Utrecht Area, Netherlands

Developed a number of software tools in Gupta SQLWindows that assisted the I.T. department including a library & schema generator (that enabled programmers to work more efficiently) and a database optimiser (using SQLBase database).

The Hague Area, Netherlands

Worked as part of a project team, providing new and enhanced software in Gupta SQLWindows for a new business unit. Created a substantial number of complex stored procedures in T-SQL for a Sybase database.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Responsible for managing, planning & organising projects (using MS Project) that ranged from new developments to minor enhancements. Responsible for the technical lead aspects of .all projects.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Responsible for providing technical support on Gupta SQLWindows & Sql Server. Created a number of new core class libraries for use in a new development projects by all other developers.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Responsible for transferring systems & functionality across from Lloyds to Bank of New York and included some stints working in New York.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Key project member during 3 life-cycles of new project. Included analysis, design, coding, testing and implementation. Responsible for maintaining and creating new Gupta SQLWindows classes, libraries and applications. Designed and developed substantial parts of both an Informix (on UNIX) and SQLBase (on Windows) databases. Over-night on-call responsibilities and last line of support for help desk queries and problems.