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Management of a multi-national team of service owners, programme managers, architects and technical experts, accountable for the successful delivery of network services including, but not limited to, WAN, W(LAN), Remote Access, Azure (Cloud) Networking and Base Network Services. The legacy network will be maintained whilst some applications still exist onsite, but as the majority of applications are now running from SaaS and Cloud, the focus has changed to Edge and modern services such as ZScaler, Azure, Zero Trust and Software Defined Networking, in conjunction with modern security mechanisms (see my previous experience).Management of a large change portfolio to implement improvements and transformation within a three year roadmap, including the transition to SD-WAN and Local Internet Breakouts. Now in early 2024, with the majority of Uniper locations transformed with SD-WAN and Internet, we have deployed Palo Alto Prisma Access to create a new SASE environment and will be building policies over the next years to full move Uniper’s IT to Zero Trust.
Previous programmes of work include: - Full network separation from the E.ON, with minimal incidents during the cut over time and positive feedback from stakeholders - Legacy network transformation specifically targeting user experience and reduction of incidents. This was a two year programme beginning and ending with user experience surveys and covered the creation of local internet breakouts at our major sites (based on user populations), improved WLAN, a temporary increase of MPLS connections in the legacy data centre to support cloud migrations, adoption of more suppliers to create better products- COVID / New Normal, initially to resize the legacy RAS and implement better traffic shaping, and form a rapid support group to protect our customers and applications, and then to support application and service migration to the cloud using a new distributed network model.

Responsible for a number of large scale migrations for Uniper following the carve-out from E.ON impacting 12,000 people, including:• Creation of a new Identity system (Using Sailpoint and Azure AD), enabling the migration to a ‘Cloud first’ environment. Implementation of connector between traditional AD and AAD.• Implementation of Conditional Access policies in Azure• Migration of on-premise email to Microsoft Office 365• Datacentre migration out of a shared E.ON environment

Managed the infrastructure transformation projects for all applications which are hosted in data centres in readiness for the company separation to form Uniper. This programme is being run from Germany.Previously led major programmes across the Generation businesses ( >12,000 IT Users) including the deployment of Windows 7 and associated infrastructure, and a business transformation measure concluding in the outsourcing of IT services.Have previously managed the infrastructure project portfolio for the Generation businesses and overseen all infrastructure portfolios outside of Germany.

Formally within the business unit of E.ON Engineering, now E.ON New Build and Technology, I have recently been moved into E.ON IT.Line management of a team IT professionals, managing the demand of IT via communication, guidance, governance and budget control. The team has a wide scope - development and support of bespoke application; licence management; IT controlling and coordination; support of engineering software products; demand management through budget control and negotiation; and general IT management.The IT Department is spread across Germany and UK, so frequent travel is required, and a basic knowledge of German language and culture.I am also responsible for, and the promotion of, the health and safety within my team.

Running a variety of IT and business change projects including the mapping all IT related processes (and external interfaces) to E.ON Engineering IT department; suggesting and implementing required process improvements

IT ArchitectDevelopmentAnalysisProject leading

Fixed term development contract to produce new front end GUI for financial advisors

Development and support of Access, SQL Server and VB apps.Development of .NET applicationsASP.NET Web development

Various contract developer positions

Contract position, VB, Access and SQL Server development

Customer support of Access, and Office development