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Stoke Poges, England, United Kingdom

Newbury, England, United Kingdom

Leading the transformation of a 350 strong IT services delivery organisation underpining Micro Focus SaaS platforms and R&D workloads, driving efficiency through a programme of hybrid cloud adoption, SD-WAN and digital transformation.

Newbury

Responsible for IT Production services globally for Micro Focus International. Delivering an IT integration programme to establish a scalable, resilient and flexible infrastructure to support further growth by integrating on-premise and cloud based services.

Providing specialist bespoke advice to clients on all aspects of IT outsourcing, infrastructure and service delivery.

Bangalore, India And London

Responsible for global IT services, and managing programme and transformational change within a leading multi-asset class and multi-national clearing house, serving major exchanges and platforms as well as a range of OTC (Over-the-counter) markets.Leading and managing the full lifecycle of a portfolio of projects to improve IT performance and efficiencies within the UK and India. 3 year deployment representing LCH in Bangalore ODC; collaborated with partners TCS (Tata Consultancy… Show more Responsible for global IT services, and managing programme and transformational change within a leading multi-asset class and multi-national clearing house, serving major exchanges and platforms as well as a range of OTC (Over-the-counter) markets.Leading and managing the full lifecycle of a portfolio of projects to improve IT performance and efficiencies within the UK and India. 3 year deployment representing LCH in Bangalore ODC; collaborated with partners TCS (Tata Consultancy Services); successfully completed the large and complex IT infrastructure outsourcing project. Ensured UK regulatory accountability, and TCS adherence to comprehensive and critical SLAs.Coordinated multicultural recruitment, training and development initiatives to install an environment of ownership across all TCS managers and staff. Provided dedicated IT production support and development services to UK, US and French operations.Led all business capabilities by providing all technology, information, and support required. Developed strong relations with key external stakeholders and suppliers; maintained service delivery through performance measurement and strict adherence to SLAs; ensured solutions were delivered, supported and sustainable. Renegotiated the outsource contract for the French IT business with ATOS; insourced corporate service delivery resulting in production improvements and cost savings. Accountable for ensuring the integrity, security and reliability of all functions were maintained.http://www.lchclearnet.com/home Show less

Key role managing the delivery of all IT Production services.Supported the Production Director; supervised a team of >60staff, performing ‘business as usual’ operations and development projects. Sourced and managed additional skilled and bespoke contract staff.Successfully delivered numerous infrastructure and major business led projects.

Weybridge, United Kingdom

Directed and coordinated all day to day operations of a leading communications and virtual network company.Board member; accountable for service delivery, project management, engineering, change management, transformation and IT.Implemented new processes and procedures in response to rapid growth and expansion.Recruited, trained and developed an effective operations team.Formulated improvement strategy and implementation; planned project life-cycle deliverables and resource… Show more Directed and coordinated all day to day operations of a leading communications and virtual network company.Board member; accountable for service delivery, project management, engineering, change management, transformation and IT.Implemented new processes and procedures in response to rapid growth and expansion.Recruited, trained and developed an effective operations team.Formulated improvement strategy and implementation; planned project life-cycle deliverables and resource availability; led the evaluation and delivery of solutions.Developed key relations with clients, suppliers and all external stakeholders. Show less

Controlled all aspects of the IT infrastructure group running the clearing and corporate systems.Led and mentored a team of >40 technical staff providing the IT infrastructure; UNIX, Wintel, VMS, networks, storage and databases.Collaborated closely with cross functional departments; matrix managed the application support team.Provided a high standard of support for infrastructure platforms and technologies in the UK and France.

Contract - Engaged to provide specialist IT storage, backup and management services.Successfully project managed the expansion of the existing storage area network (SAN) based storage and backup infrastructure.