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United Kingdom

Brighton, England, Gb

Providing technical resource and direction to TPR major programmes of work, continuous improvement and BAU activity. • Currently IT Lead setting up 'Transactional Services' to address TPR's programme delivery approach, Technology development and delivery of Digital services in accordance with legislative changes regarding pensions regulation. To turn TPR into a service-delivery orientated organisation following Agile working practices. • My resources include: o .net and Sitecore Web Dev. teamo Azure Data Platform / SQL-DBA teamo D365 support and dev. teamso 3rd level App. Support and triage of SNow incidents to ADO.o M365 Pre-Prod./Trg, environments.o COTS support and Dev. o (x43 staff). o Agile practices followed to instil Continuous improvement. • Recent programmes include:o In-sourcing of Auto-enrolment business process from Capita to internal development and support teams.o Transition from legacy CRM and Document management function to MS D365 and SPOL ‘Run’ CI teams.o Dev. and BAU transition from various data repositories to Azure Data Platform, impl. of Power BI etc.

Directing IT Strategic Programme covering Advertising, Editorial and Finance Systems

London, Gb

London, Gb

Current programmes – Editorial Transformation Project - Implementation of a new digital workflow process for the purchasing of Content in the editorial process. Involves new editorial planning system (Desk-Net), Purchase Order system, On-line edition flat planning tool ‘Media Planner’ and Woodwing Enterprise. 600 users. Project Director – AdPoint (SaaS Ad. Booking system for print and digital platforms.Head of Financial Systems development – Migration from Oracle R12 to Peoplesoft, TM1 upgrade.Management of Editorial system development and support team x20, Financial System Development team x5, Advertising Development Team x4, Project Management team x4. Workday implementation, New Time Inc. Syndication site.

Programmes included implementation of a DAM for IPC (Elvis) and construction of a Syndication site to make IPC content more readily available for B2B and B2C activity. Upgrading Rights management system so content can be produced through centralised content hubs and content re-sold for revenue growth. Line management of team resp. for Digital Ad sales 'Ad Point' impl. Previous programmes / projects: IPC digital publishing to tablet platforms, Oracle R12 upgrade, Salesforce.com implementation.

Completion of Programme to manage all IT related elements of the Blue Fin building move for IPC 2005-2007.Manager of 5 PM’s, x10 technical staff. Led the migration of IPC brand websites to Unified web platform so sites can be moved from AOL in Frankfurt to alternative hosting company. PM for Implementation of syndication web-site and countrylifeimages.co.uk for the sale of media assets to www. Web-design, build and delivery Includes E-commerce engine design and installation. Budget £120K.

Re-location of entire IPC Media business and Time Inc offices from Waterloo to new construction in the Bankside development (Blue Fin building). IT Budget £13.5M. Completed – May 2007, £3M under budget, two weeks ahead of schedule.

Replacement of Financial Management Accounts system using OLAP technology. System used for everyday analysis of IPC Media’s business performance. Budget £400K. Greenfield installation of AOL / Time Warner European Datacentre involving HP and Compaq servers (200+), network infrastructure and communications installation aswell as implementation of a Network Operations Centre for AOL TW European network monitoring and systems access. Win2000, Active directory deployed for new infrastructure. Integration of IPC WAN into AOL TW WAN. Also involved re-location of IPC Media Distribution arm, ‘Marketforce’ and AOL TW magazine, ‘In-Style’ from central London to IPC main offices in Waterloo, London. Budget £6M.Exchange 2000 / Outlook roll out for Time Inc. Magazine titles within U.K. Roll out to 3000 users, completed – January 2004. Budget £500K.Oracle Financials upgrade from 10.7. to 11.i. (Character to GUI). 150 users. Started March ’03, completed May ‘03. Budget £1.0M.

Burbank, Ca, Us

• Initial role involved systems management of financial, merchandising, logistical (warehouse system), Office file/print and Point of Sale systems for WBSS U.K. including management of third party suppliers and service providers. WAN support due to diverse warehouse and store locations. • Role diversified into developing IT strategy due to WBSS U.K. being acquired by the investor group, ‘English National Investment Company’ (ENIC). Lead to the installation and systems management of ENIC’s IT file, print and financial systems. Also installed systems for U.K. betting.com. • Project Management of the implementation of ‘SAP/R3 Retail’ software for WBSS, to provide ‘enterprise-wide’ systems solution to replace diverse, bespoke retail systems. Budget: £1.5M.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Working within a team of specialists in the U.K., the role involved extensive problem solving techniques in live environments. Various types of EPOS and Server equipment supported where engineers at customer sites would call for expertise. Role later diversified into Account management of IBM’s customers such as Boots, Virgin, HMV, Marks&Spencer.