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London Area, United Kingdom

Managed delivery of a digital Modern Workplace transformation programme for multiple global markets as part of a secure, enterprise-wide service, enabling new ways of working and better customer service.Following a $6.3bn sale of the wholesale business, managed delivery of End User Services and Cloud Services divestment migrations.Achievement. Following.

London, England, United Kingdom

Managed delivery of the refreshed Modern Workplace design blueprint for the 43 England and Wales Home Office Police Forces and 220,000 users as part of the National Enabling Programmes supporting the 2025 Digital Policing vision.

London, United Kingdom

• Management and turnaround of an £45m IT transformation programme as part of the Centrica global cloud Digital Workplace strategy, impacting 51,000 users, 41,500 devices and 8,500 remote Azure hosted users..
• Provided operational cost savings through delivery of secure, flexible and scalable services while initiating an Evergreen strategy and processes reducing the need for future large cyclical upgrade change… Show more.
• Provided operational cost savings through delivery of secure, flexible and scalable services while initiating an Evergreen strategy and processes reducing the need for future large cyclical upgrade change programmes
• Enabled enhanced and centralised global collaboration, standardisation and integration, driving greater productivity through real time sharing and access to services.
• Successfully migrated on-premise British Gas Online website to Docker & Kubernetes AWS cloud environment.Achievement. Rescuing 2 critical and strategic programmes to deliver business objectives, and retained to.

London, United Kingdom

Established the IT transition and mobilisation capability following the Arriva £1.5bn seven-year concession award to operate the London Overground orbital suburban rail network.

London, United Kingdom

• Established a £26m programme from conception to transform the End User Computing service for multiple subsidiaries and business units to remove complexity, reduce waste, improve quality and accuracy of delivery, and.
• Deployed an upgraded Evergreen Standard Operation Environment (SOE) published desktop, VDI, desktop, thin clients and laptops across 400 sites on… Show more Established a £26m programme from conception to transform the.
• Deployed an upgraded Evergreen Standard Operation Environment (SOE) published desktop, VDI, desktop, thin clients and laptops across 400 sites on refreshed hardware for 26,000 users.
• JNP/Tubelines mergers and acquisitions migration of 2,500 employees including EUC services, mobile, application delivery and integration, messaging, identity management, data, print, remote access and desktop services.
• Delivered into managed support an upgraded, highly available and resilient supporting infrastructure for Configuration Manager, Citrix, AppSense, Lync and O365 integration with full data centre DR capability. Plus a.

London, United Kingdom

Transformation programme to introduce a more scalable, flexible and resilient platform and migrate existing infrastructure, data, application and EUC service.Delivery of £7.5m in efficiencies through the implementation of a virtualised server infrastructure and seamless migration of services whilst introducing a more scalable and flexible foundation.

London, United Kingdom

Mergers and Acquisition programme to expand, migrate and integrate the network, infrastructure, data, application and EUC service to maximise business and customer benefits with responsibility for £6.4m budget as part of a £15.3m programme.Timely migration and integration enabling business consolidation, process and operational efficiency.

London, United Kingdom

Transformation programme involving the establishment of an evergreen service, infrastructure and migration of all subsidiaries and business units into a consolidated support model driving efficiencies with responsibility for £21.5m as part of a £25.9m programme. Set up a completely new domain and infrastructure to support Transport for London, subsidiaries.

London, England, United Kingdom

Managed a multi-disciplinary team of project resources and third parties successfully delivering an extensive portfolio of projects on time and within budgets totalling £4.5m.

Lead a team successfully delivering of over 200 projects totalling more than £3m incorporating server, network, application and desktop infrastructure, implementation and consolidation projects.

London, England, United Kingdom

Embedded ITIL standards across service desk & support teams, P&L accountability while maintaining ROS of 45%.Successfully delivering a number of projects including three desktop refreshes, server refresh and rationalisation, network segregation and upgrade, head office relocation of 1,200 business representatives, relocation of servers to a remote data.