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Canterbury, GB

Continually engaging with diverse stakeholders, including customer, supplier and technology vendor executive leadership, business units, and technical teams, to communicate architectural vision, gather requirements, and drive consensus on solutions.Aligned IT strategy with business objectives to ensure that technology investments support the organisation’s.

Led and inspired cross-functional consultancy, engineering and business teams, to provide secure, high-quality solutions across cloud platforms and managed services. Oversight of group technology platforms, architecture, strategy and roadmaps. Driving digital transformation projects including technical legacy debt eradication and system integration..

Used knowledge of emerging technologies and trends, such as cloud computing, microservices, to led the creation of compelling proposals and driving seamless technical implementations.Orchestrated end-to-end delivery of diverse client projects, that promoted interoperability, reduced redundancy, and enabled seamless data flow.

Canterbury, United Kingdom

Led a team of project managers and business analysts to deliver a comprehensive portfolio of IT change programs and capital projects. Developed strategies, financial investment forecasts and budgets to balance the Universities project portfolio and ensured projects and programs meet organisational strategic objectives and delivered defined benefits.£65m.

Canterbury, United Kingdom

Employed Business Capability, Strategy and business model Mapping and other techniques to identify and challenge business practices, define business requirements, develop business cases, cost vs benefit analysis and delivered valued business focused solutions.Project managed the design and successful implementation for all IT services including Network.

Canterbury, United Kingdom

Led and delivered system implementation initiatives covering process improvement, training, change management and technology delivery, including managing stakeholder relationship management and commercial terms. Identified underlying IT service related issues that prevented departments working efficiently and worked with IT colleagues to explore and.

• Assembled, developed and led a team of 20, high-performing IT staff responsible for the provision of high-quality IT systems to support 11,000 end- user education community. Responsible for all IT Infrastructure.
• £1m Data centre build- Spearheaded new build data centre programme, Including, design, build, implementation, service migration and acceptance. Delivered (Infrastructure, SAN, Core networking, vSphere virtual server.
• Various transformation IT programmes – implemented multiple new technology solutions, including cybersecurity/IT security best practice, IaaS (Azure/AWS), SaaS services HR, Finance and MIS records systems, Wi-Fi.

○ Led the day to day operations process of a Service desk and network services technical teams to ensure SLA targets were delivered. ○ ICT management including IT hardware, systems, software, infrastructure, WAN / LAN networks, IT security, system resilience, infrastructure monitoring and telecommunications.○ Vendor management from solution identification.

Chair of the IT Network Managers group as part of the KAFEC specialist networking groups.