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Derby, Gb

IT consultancy for IT delivery projects including technical project management, product management support, pre-sales support, solution architecture, bid creation, requirement gathering, business analysis and technical documentation.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Project manager working on separating HSBC into two separate legal entities for regulatory requirements. Working on the provision and maintenance of regulatory reporting and migration of Credit card accounts.

Chesterfield

Working on Royal Mail’s exit program, moving their IT infrastructure, applications & IT support from CSC to ATOS and other 3rd party suppliers. I took over as project manager on the delivery and testing of the core infrastructure phase, migrating Royal Mail infrastructure and core network applications from the incumbent supplier CSC to multiple data centres managed by the incoming supplier ATOS. Tasks included:- Servers (physical and virtual) provisioning- Networking configuration (including implementing transition links for migration between supplier data centres and vlan segregation into multiple virtual networks)- Implementing and testing tooling, alerting and monitoring- Failover testing between data centres- Formal gating, service introduction, achieving service readiness and handing over to the business- Setting up a historical data restore process for old tape backups including process defining, supplier testing and establishing a contract to access tapes held with 3rd party data hosting supplier.- Supplier and business stakeholder management.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Working on a business transformation programme delivering business change including a global regulatory stress testing project, Capital and Liquidity (ALM), Pillar 3, and Risk regulatory reporting (including XBRL) with Moodys Analytics software. End to end software & systems project delivery including requirements gathering, infrastructure commissioning, software development and testing, implementation and transition into BAU.

Rolling out SAP implementation and SAP training program. PP, MM, SD, WM and inbound and outbound inventory, infrastructure software and hardware refresh.

Teaching project management to IT undergraduate & MSc students for the Computing faculty. Teaching Managing Business processes & Information for SHU business school.

Implementation, support and day to day responsibility for operations. Product development and evolution. Providing discount postage to large and medium sized corporate businesses.

Managing a professional services practice - supplying IT professional services to UK and international customers. Responsible for building the practice and developing the team, profit and loss and revenue generation, and building the customer base. Also project managing 'special projects' and offshore development projects.

Managing large multi-vendor IT programs to international customers

managing a multi-disciplinary team of software developers and delivering and supporting core applications for the business, both for public use through the web portal and back office systems across the national network.

managed a team of 8 developers building and managing software for the travel industry. Responsible for product development and establishing a generic and supportable COTS product range, and providing flexible and pro-active product suite development for a rapidly changing market place.