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Weybridge, England, United Kingdom

Responsibility for the planning, deployment and governance of key digital, e-commerce and business projects supporting market strategy. Manage a budget, JTI resource and external vendors to deliver and maintain significant business solutions. Achievements:• Delivery of outsourced e-commerce solution and integrated acquisition and sales platform. Support of subsequent migration to global Digital Eco System.• Deployment of Global Trade Engagement platform ensuring seamless migration from outsourced solution.• Managed and supported a successful team of multi skilled subject matter experts• Negotiation of key vendor support contract, driving both £200M cost saving and improved service

Weybridge

Provision and support of all IT applications, Business Intelligence solutions and data transformations supporting the UK business. Managed a team, external vendors and budget to deliver change in alignment with IT and market strategic direction. Ground up redesign of Direct Sales Reporting system and supporting proactive interface monitoring platform.Achievements:• Key consultant in delivery of JTI’s initial, B2C and B2B e-commerce projects• Accelerated delivery of Nordic Spirit e-commerce solution (lead time reduced from 18 to 6 months)• Co-ordination and deployment of Trade Engagement platform introducing a new Route to Market• Forged strong business relationships across all functions to ensure team regarded as business partners

Weybridge

Leadership of the UK Market IT team, comprising 12 Applications and Service Delivery professionals and responsibility for the delivery of all IT projects for the market. Co-ordinate the deployment and support of endpoint devices and associated software, IT Infrastructure, fixed and mobile telephony, Audio Visual and Video Conferencing solutions. Achievements:• Pro-active improvements to team and service delivery through the introduction of KPIs• Significant improvements to Data Centre organisation, documentation and security• Co-ordinated the plan to deliver Disaster Recovery system to reduce a site recovery from 120 hours to 24• Delivered a 3 year Annual and Strategic Financial Plan

Weybridge

As per 2015 - 2020

Weybridge

As part of this role I managed a team of 3 staff and a budget to ensure delivery of IT Infrastructure throughout the UK and Ireland. During this time I was also instrumental in managing our key outsourcing partner, CSC and a liaison with JTI global IT teams.One of the key projects of 2010 was to manage the decommissioning of a large number of key applications made redundant by the introduction of OneERP in January. This meant working closely with the business, local IT teams and suppliers to ensure timely and secure archiving of servers both on sites and in the CSC data centres. This project delivered an annual cost saving of £2.5 million with CSC alone.

Weybridge

During my role as Infrastructure Project Manager, I delivered a number of high profile IT projects including:• Migration from NT4 to Active Directory.• Assisted in the delivery of IT infrastructure in the Singapore Factory• Provisioning and deployment of a virtual infrastructure across all UK sites• Deployment and replacement of 280 pentablet devices to the field sales force and two 3rd party suppliers• Delivery of a global SSL remote access solution• Migration from Gallaher Active Director to JTI Active Directory, coordinating local and global IT teams to implement the work in accordance with JTI standards and policies.• Managed the IT requirements of the Cardiff factory closure• Coordinated the IT infrastructure aspects of the Weybridge refurbishment• Replacement of LAN infrastructure to OBS managed hardware in Crewe, Dublin and LisnafillanDuring this time I was also responsible for managing the Gallaher global firewall infrastructure including over 400 home users. I have also worked closely with the local IT teams based around the UK and Ireland providing 3rd line support where required.

Part of the multi-skilled Group Systems Integration team at the Taylor Nelson Sofres Epsom office. The role was essentially to reinforce the team and assist in integrating other companies worldwide. The roles fell into two main categories:Systems Infrastructure: As part of the team, I was responsible for ensuring connectivity of TNS sites located across the globe using Checkpoint and Cisco technology to implement site-to-site VPNs. As part of an extensive off shoring programme, I was also responsible for training the offshore team to provide global support and to assist them in cases where they were unable to resolve issues. My final project at TNS was to plan and instigate a global migration from an NT4 based environment to Active Directory and Exchange 2003. This included providing detailed documentation to ensure the migration could be implemented by local teams.Systems Development: As well as maintaining TNS’ global network infrastructure, I was responsible for the development of a number of front-end systems. These ranged from Visual Basic development for Windows CE palmtops to on-line, internet facing ASP based applications.A large part of my role at TNS was investigating technologies with the potential to facilitate smoother operations and better communication within the group. To this end I have worked on extending our Exchange systems and the implementation of a portal based group wide Intranet.

Richmond, Surrey

As a new acquisition of Taylor Nelson Sofres, it was my role to asses the current systems within the company and upgrade, where necessary, to comply with TN policy. Primarily, this involved upgrading the NT network to a new set of servers, setting up a new domain and ensuring the Exchange and TCP/IP services (DHCP, WINS, and DNS) worked in conjunction with the rest of TN. During my time here I also provided end user support, support for a Novell 3.12 server and VMS/Bellview support on the VAX and ALPHA servers.

Surbiton

I was responsible for installing, maintaining and administering an integrated Novel NetWare 3.1x/4.x and Windows NT 3.51/4.0 network, including SQL Server and Exchange Server installations and a LAN Fax facility. I recommended and supported all equipment and applications on the network.I was responsible for developing and maintaining both the intranet and Internet web sites. I also developed several internal databases in Access 2.0. I provided in-house training sessions and maintained an internal help-line service.Between April 1993 and October 1995 I was responsible for maintaining the IT budget, hire and supervision of staff and the development of a one year development programme for industrial placement students.

Post Grad Diploma, Management

2.1 Bsc, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: NoneComputer Science Degree