Sandra Mitchell Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Working within the Infrastructure Team to bring ‘in house’ externally supported systems by refreshing the core infrastructure and fully utilising the latest technology available from Microsoft, thus providing a supported environment at reduced cost.Key projects and responsibilities:• Infrastructure Projects - Project Management – Providing concise documentation on behalf of the Infrastructure Team including PIDs, Mandates, Proposals, PVRs and Closures, maintaining Risk Logs and completing Management Reports, including status reports and budget updates;• Microsoft Licensing True-Up – Liaising with the parent company in the US to provide accurate Microsoft license figures for Threadneedle;• Data Migration – Successfully completed the migration of 10Tb of data from legacy hardware to new SAN storage;• Windows 7 Rollout - Successfully managed the companywide migration from XP to Windows 7;• Outlook 2010 Rollout – Working with colleagues and users to complete the migration from Lotus Notes to Outlook 2010;• Excel 2010 Migration – Successful rollout to all users in London and overseas;• Login script conversion – Kixstart to VBScript – Companywide conversion of user login script;• DFS Migration - All user drive mappings to DFS shares - analysis and initial stage completed

London, United Kingdom

Working within the Enterprise Technical Services Team, complementing the technical expertise of fellow team members with a variety of project management experience and a structured approach to progress global IT infrastructure projects to successful completion.Key projects and responsibilities:• Managed the rollouts of Windows XP, Office 2007 and Outlook 2007 across the business;• Successfully completed server consolidation - data migration to new servers, utilising DFS;• IT Moves Manager – Responsible for all IT moves during and outside business hours;• Management Reporting – Infrastructure statistics and project status on a regular and ad-hoc basis• Knowledge Transfer to HCL during last 5 months following outsource of Infrastructure & Support Services

London, United Kingdom

Re-joined Barings on a three month contract to work on the Global HR system migration project.Key responsibilities:• Managed the data conversion phase of the HR system migration project;• Performed comprehensive data analysis of the old PWA system and the new PSenterprise with SQL database;• Provided data mapping documentation with structured VBA data conversion strategy and plan;• Supervised internal IT Developers, for system amendments, and HR consultants

Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire

A small business consultancy supplying their own fully integrated Alphyn software to support accounting, distribution and manufacturing requirements for small to medium sized businesses, universities and central and local government.Key responsibilities:• Successful plan and rollout of Windows NT infrastructure to key customer accounts;• Analysed, planned then implemented each customer’s full system and data conversion to Year 2000 system requirements, working alongside customers to achieve comprehensive acceptance testing;Major Accounts:Office for National Statistics – Bespoke payroll system conversion, paying 800+ interviewers;Parvalux Electric Motors – Implemented NT infrastructure and performed full accounts system migration;Connection Personnel – Implemented new infrastructure and converted 3rd party payroll system; Buckingham Palace – Lord Chamberlain’s Office;National Film & Television SchoolAssociation of MBA’s;Kellys International;Flight Equipment

London, United Kingdom

Working as a project manager within the Tactical Team, responsible for IT solutions including packaged systems and bespoke developments for all areas of the business.Key projects and responsibilities:• Managed the full implementation of a single Problem Management Solution (Royalblue’s HelpDesk for Windows) for three business service providers;• Sole responsibility for business wide optical disk document storage project;• Prepared ‘business standard’ software licence agreement for third party suppliers