Integration of ICT into construction projects, new builds, refurbs and temporary accommodation.

Successful Projects Include; Fully managed all elements IT infrastructure to a new build 600,000sq ft greenfield site from start of build to completion, near £2 million IT Infrastructure budget. RF (Radio Frequency) Refresh at 20 sites – Sites moving from old legacy systems to new Virtual RF solution. Project Manager for the Infrastructure project on the New DHL office programme within new JLR site set up in Solihull  New build site – Complete Infrastructure project management and delivery of all IT fix out of a brand new build part of Gatwick Airport. Desk top refresh – Project managed desktop refreshes to a number of sites, which were part of a bigger programme. Involved in tablet rollout, which included a new booking office booking system. Project management of new Unified Communications phone systems to sites.Key Responsibilities Project management of infrastructure projects including all elements of project governance ie. creating project plans, RAID logs, Baseline Reports, Highlight Reports. Cost modelling and Budget planning Working with Multiple teams at the same time Project delivery of multiple simultaneous projects. Working with Suppliers and managing the delivery, BT, Open Reach, cabling suppliers, fibre suppliers, RF Suppliers, TCS on JLR sites, SITA at Airport sites. Engaging with stakeholders at all levels of the business including Project Board, Head of IT (client), Operations Management (Client), VP (DHL) Liaise with building and construction contractors Delivering a range of infrastructure solutions including WAN and LAN design and set ups, diverse networking and comms room set ups, fibre Designs, cabling containment designs

Responsible for the management of Business critical systems. Management includes business as usual as well as solutions design on medium to longer term projects. These responsibilities include:• Iseries and Unix, Order management system OMS (infors system 21) and WMS warehouse management system (OBS Calidus –e) day to day BAU admin• BAU management and making sure there is continuous smooth running of the applications• Release management to test and live systems• High availability• Test boxes management• Capacity planning• Solutions design• Service delivery• Project management / Technical project manage lead• Infrastructure design and management, looking after the Application and infrastructure Road map.• Application support• Product Management responsibilities – Aurora and calidus• Customer and supplier management• ITIL process and procedure• Service transformation and migration• Escalation point and management• BAU Management On Call duties (OOH)

My main role as a lead is to work closely with the business and projects teams to design and deliver the technical solution and infrastructure aspects required as well as supplier management.These include activities such as working with the business to define requirements, working with customer’s as well as working closely with suppliers to deliver an agreed solution.Most recent Projects under taken include:• Setting up 5 new depots in Scotland due to a business win, this included new set ups as well as working closely with the customer and having a couple of depots with dual running systems and networks. Depot set ups included, creating Technical design documents to outline the solution. Responsible for the costing and the buying of equipment. Creating a working relationship with the customers and working with suppliers to deliver, the network, the RF, getting the PC’s, phones and also working on installations myself such as setting up of the servers, Printers and all equipment that will be used for the depot to run successfully.• Data Centre Migration – This project involved moving all our servers from a Data centre in Manchester to Prague, the move was not of physical nature but to fully build from scratch all applications used onto servers in Prague. My role was to be the lead on moving across business critical applications which were based on IBM i OS and a AIX OS. Creating close relationships with current data centre suppliers and Prague data centre suppliers was a must, the servers had to be compatible, designs were created that were signed off and then delivering the solution was the complicated area but was done successfully.

Working on most Technical aspects, from Windows, servers, Networks, RF, I series and IBM, I5OS and UNIX.My employment also involves 3rd line support, setting up sites and technical project management.