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Bromham

Providing ongoing consulting services to a FTSE250 company involved in the design, manufacture and supply of products for the construction and infrastructure industries. Advising on their SAP re-implementation, suggesting a number of recommendations to improve their use of the system and for further deployments, these recommendations are being accepted in full. Providing further project consultation to the organisation.

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for the delivery of HCL's SAP transformation programmes in the UK and Ireland across the Government + Professional Services and Energy + Utilities sectors

London, England, United Kingdom

Delivering Business Change Programmes for major clients.

Welwyn Garden City, England, United Kingdom

Working with fellow Trustee Directors my role was to act in the utmost good faith and in the best interests of Pension Fund beneficiaries, give effect to the trust deed & rules and to ensure they were followed, manage the scheme using due care, diligence and skill, administer the scheme in accordance with the scheme’s rules, monitor the investment strategy and ensure contributions were collected and invested correctly, sought advice as necessary from the Pension administrator, ensured appropriate records were kept, oversaw accounts and provided information as required and ensured compliance with relevant legislation and regulation.

Welwyn Garden City

Led groupwide development of the application landscape including responsibility for efficiency across over 400 apps, streamlining the development and implementation of a Centre of Excellence for business intelligence and an SAP Competency centre. Also consolidated commercial and supply chain systems and ensured GDPR compliance.• Ensured robust ongoing support through creating and embedding policies, governance processes and change management procedures.

Bromham, Bedfordshire

The company provided interim management services specifically in the CIO, IT Director and Programme Director level space.

Reading, United Kingdom

Designed and delivered a SAP centre of excellence enabling optimal delivery of a major change programme within this leading defence organisation. Established robust governance to deliver ongoing maintenance and support.• Delivered necessary IT system capability to enable simultaneous building and refurbishment of assets for the Royal Navy, RAF and the Army, also realising major efficiency improvements and multi-million cost savings. - Build a permanent Senior Leadership Team within the applications space - Application Strategy & Governance - Application Development - Application Support & Maintenance - Portfolio ManagementAll objectives were met and the incoming permanent Head of Applications built upon the work already completed.

London, United Kingdom

Board level oversight of strategy, governance, compliance, risk and finance. Also advised on software for the retail market space, assessed go to mark applications and advised on communications in approaching organisations.

Canary Wharf, London. Uk

Implemented a number of major business change IT programmes in major FMCG and Retail organisations, including Vodafone, Rentokil and Vattenfall, implementing SAP and Oracle solutions respectively.Developed a number of IT roadmaps for organisations in the UK and mainland Europe.

London & Hemel Hempstead

Acted as the Account Director for Dixons Stores Group, responsible for P&L and account delivery of a full portfolio of outsourced services. • Management responsibility for the full range of Service Delivery functions covering infrastructure, applications, telephony, data centres and websites. Implemented several ITIL capabilities most notably Problem Management , Change Management and Release Management in Service Support and Service Level, Availability, Capacity and Information Security. Implemented SAP WMS into its Distribution operations replacing multiple legacy applications. Completely redesigned the Route Planning and Order Tracking for home deliveries.Built strong partnerships with a number of Blue Chip accounts in the UK and mainland Europe. C Level executive with extensive International experience across a number of market segments.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cambridge Assessment is Europes leading examination assessment organisation. The role covered the development, maintenance and support of all IT applications for the Company. Was a senior member of the IT Executive Board. Introduced Agile development methodology and expanded the effectove use of outsourcing to improve productivity and reduce costs.

Wallington, Surrey And Milton Keynes, Bucks.

Responsible for all IT Development, Maintenance and Support based on SAP Retail. Implemented a number of upgrades to SAP, Business Objects and Mercator middleware.

Walton-On-Thames, Uk

The main function of the role was to work with the Functional Heads within the Corporate Centre and develop Short, Medium and Long term IT strategies designed to support the Functional Heads in the delivery of their business drivers. Translate the IT strategies into a coherent and agreed set of IT deliverables prioritised by business need. Worked with business leaders to define and agree a clear set of targets and then monitor and report upon these targets to the Executive. Customer management at senior executive level was a key function of the role.Advised Functional Heads and the Executive on IT trends and how these might be exploited to improve operational efficiency, ensured the ongoing delivery of IT services, ensured business continuity and reducion of costs. Managed the IT maintenance and support function of the Corporate Centre including a number of business critical global applications.

Rotterdam And London

Responsible for the delivery of IT to the Corporate HR function worldwide based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Bangalore, India

Led multinational audit teams in the Indian sub-continent, Middle East and Africa. Interacted at Board Level within each country to carry out audits and ensure conformance to Unilever's Code of Busienss Principles

Gouda, Netherlands

Responsible for delivery of international projects across the Group.

Bromborough, Wirral, Uk

Responsible for all aspects of IT delivery for the UK operations of this multi-national subsidiary of Unilever Plc

Warrington, United Kingdom

I took a subsidiary of this company from completely manual based administration and order processing systems to fully computerised processes, vastly improving efficiency and significantly reducing costs as a result.

Prescot, Merseyside, Uk

BICC (as it was called then) is where I started my IT career. Moving from Operations, to Programming, then Project Management. Working on HP kit.

Mba, Strategic Finance & Manufacturing For Strategic Advantage

Masters degree with majors in Strategic Finance and Manufacturing for strategic advantage

Organisational Politics & It Management

Completed a course in IT Politics, very useful the more senior one becomes within an organisation.

Itil, Systems Management