Led teams of IT professionals to deliver DXC.technology managed security services projects for customers in the sectors of banking, energy, automotive, education and government. These included Security Incident & Event Management, Intrusion Prevention, Firewall and Vulnerability Scanning services.Key Achievements:• Planned and coordinated the tasks to successfully migrate a major European Bank from a legacy DXC SIEM service to the latest version of the service.• Defined a process to create a standard approach for SIEM service set up projects, a piece of work instigated and sanctioned by the DXC global PMO. • Drove the successful implementation of IPS devices to over 30 worldwide sites for an international print company.

Led teams of IT consultants to support projects to implement AppSense products for customers from a range of industries. Additionally, directed a team of software developers to deliver and enhance web-based systems for internal and external users using Agile techniques. These included portals for knowledge management/access, customers/partners, feature requests and software license generation.Key Achievements:• Established a Professional Services Team to deliver consultancy and training services to AppSense customers.• Developed a project method appropriate to the implementation of AppSense user virtualization software for Professional Services and partners, and guidelines for scoping and costing projects.• Working with the Operations Director and leaders from the Business, defined and planned a set of priority projects to deliver a program of future changes to front and back office systems. These initiatives included the integration of SalesForce with SAP & SalesForce with FrontRange, and the development of a customer/partner Collaboration portal and Forum.• Drove the delivery of a set of technical best practice documents and process for ongoing review and update.

Led teams of IT consultants to deliver key infrastructure projects to Vistorm customers. Example projects included: - • Design and implementation of a VPN linking more than 50 sites across the globe for a European bank.• Design and implementation of a security network layer for a prestigious travel company’s website.• Installation of thin client computing solutions to 2,500 end users.• Deployment of strategic anti-virus and content filtering solutions.• The performance of security penetration testing of a customer’s network.

Leading teams of between three and seven IT System Developers, responsible for managing the delivery of development projects from cradle to grave, using a traditional waterfall development life cycle.• Successfully managed a number of legislative and business driven changes to mainframe systems within tight time-scales, and to budget (up to £0.5m).• Set up and ran a Project Office for a multi-million pound, mission critical project.

Performed the role of interface between the Marketing Department and the IT Department. • Developed business cases and associated documentation for presentation to the Business Systems Council.

Responsible for the project management of time critical projects involving reorganisation of the sales channels. Acted as the key interface between the Business Project Manager and IT Department to establish and implement technological solutions to service mobile and home working.• Managed the procurement of the new sales tools, and advised upon selection, technical issues and costs.

Lead a team of seven Business Analysts, responsible for directing changes to, and help desk support of, systems supporting a direct sales channel.• Directed and supported external consultants to produce a business case and invitation to tender for a replacement system.• Defined functional requirements of the end-to-end sales process.

Responsible for the gathering and definition of requirements to deliver mainframe and PC systems using a waterfall development methodology. Also involved the management of projects through the design, build, test and implementation stages utilising internal and external system IT developers.

Responsible for the design, development and maintenance of mainframe applications utilizing relational and hierarchical database technologies.