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Truro, Gb

Devon

Manchester, United Kingdom

Project managed the delivery of a portfolio of high-profile streams within a global infrastructure, service and supplier transformation programme. Stakeholders included representatives from the entire business (~38,000 users at 450 sites in 150 countries)Responsibilities included:• Analyse and define Office365 license requirements and the procurement approach for the different user profiles• Transition of legacy Exchange email services to Exchange Online (43,000 personal, shared… Show more Project managed the delivery of a portfolio of high-profile streams within a global infrastructure, service and supplier transformation programme. Stakeholders included representatives from the entire business (~38,000 users at 450 sites in 150 countries)Responsibilities included:• Analyse and define Office365 license requirements and the procurement approach for the different user profiles• Transition of legacy Exchange email services to Exchange Online (43,000 personal, shared, room, public folder and application mail objects) including management of updates to users’ mobile devices • Dealing with special requirements such as Litigation hold & VIPs• Transition of personal and group file storage services from local branch infrastructure to OneDrive, Azure and StorSimple platforms• Procurement, deployment and commissioning of new physical infrastructure to host strategic AD, SCCM and AntiVirus services• Changes to corporate managed print services• Upgrade software shopping & deployment platform (1E / SCCM)• Symantec End Point Protection upgrade• Prepare the application and service landscape for Windows 10 client attrition-based rolloutThe role required close engagement with all in-house, outsource, onshore & offshore stakeholders such as architects, service managers, supplier managers, legal, security and communications teams as well as strategic suppliers & business partners (Microsoft, BT, HP, DXC, Infosys, Capgemini and ITWorx). Show less

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Accountable for the day to day delivery of operational global and local IS services used across 6 Syngenta sites around the UK and Ireland. Also managed local projects:• To replace all UK company mobile phones (approx. 900 handsets across 20 sites), moving from Blackberry devices to smart phones and utilising a new network operator.• Manage the design, deployment and commissioning of all IS infrastructure and services at a new site being commissioned as Syngenta's Global… Show more Accountable for the day to day delivery of operational global and local IS services used across 6 Syngenta sites around the UK and Ireland. Also managed local projects:• To replace all UK company mobile phones (approx. 900 handsets across 20 sites), moving from Blackberry devices to smart phones and utilising a new network operator.• Manage the design, deployment and commissioning of all IS infrastructure and services at a new site being commissioned as Syngenta's Global Operations Centre based in Manchester. Working with architects, M&E contractors and suppliers to create a new 280 capacity office. Scope included all networking (WAN, LAN, VLAN), telephony, audio visual, conferencing, printing services etc. Show less

Bracknell

Roles:2012 – 2015: R&D IT Enablement Lead2009 – 2012: R&D Product Manager2007 – 2009: R&D Application Product Specialist2002 – 2007: C#.Net / Oracle PLSQL Developer2002 – 2002: VB6 / Oracle PLSQL DeveloperResponsibilities: Various roles over the years starting as senior analyst programmer developing scientific research and development applications. Moved to roles associated with product and service management as Syngenta transitioned to an outsourced model for… Show more Roles:2012 – 2015: R&D IT Enablement Lead2009 – 2012: R&D Product Manager2007 – 2009: R&D Application Product Specialist2002 – 2007: C#.Net / Oracle PLSQL Developer2002 – 2002: VB6 / Oracle PLSQL DeveloperResponsibilities: Various roles over the years starting as senior analyst programmer developing scientific research and development applications. Moved to roles associated with product and service management as Syngenta transitioned to an outsourced model for application development. The most recent assignment at this site was as the IT Enablement lead, responsible for the management of all tools and services used internally by Syngenta’s R&D IS departments around the world. Leading a small team using techniques such as process maturity assessments and research in to industry best practices, we put in to place a prioritised plan for improvements to enable consistent IS practices and the rationalisation of tools and services. This includes the introduction of several new globally standard tools and processes in areas such as configuration management, source code management, defect tracking, test management and project financial tracking. Show less

Alderley Edge

VB6 / Oracle / ISIS Chemistry Library development working for the Specialist Chemistry Tools faction of Discovery IS. Working closely with scientists to produce various expert systems for use in Drug discovery to facilitate the search, targeting and molecular transformation of compounds.Responsible for all aspects of the development from requirements gathering through to the authoring of on-line help and user training. Also converted several legacy applications to run under Windows 2000 and… Show more VB6 / Oracle / ISIS Chemistry Library development working for the Specialist Chemistry Tools faction of Discovery IS. Working closely with scientists to produce various expert systems for use in Drug discovery to facilitate the search, targeting and molecular transformation of compounds.Responsible for all aspects of the development from requirements gathering through to the authoring of on-line help and user training. Also converted several legacy applications to run under Windows 2000 and mentored one of the junior computational chemists through a number of Web based and VB projects. Show less

Ind Home Office, Croydon

Developing systems for the Home Office’s Immigration and Asylum department. Primarily responsible for analysis, specification, development and testing of VB6/Oracle based document input and scanning applications of the main case working system but also developed ASP web applications linked to applicant databases as part of the caseworker’s Knowledgebase Intranet.