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Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

Zug, CH

• Overseeing a team of 31 geographically distributed IT architects / engineers, operations managers, and ITSM analysts, augmented by offshore operations in India. Ensuring operational robustness, security and compliance.
• Sponsored mass migration of on-premise applications (150), virtual compute (1450), storage (800Tb), network, and security infrastructure to AWS Cloud; minimized on-premise footprint, reduced costs 35%, and underpinned.
• Designed and led implementation of organizational change that improved SLAs and significantly decreased operating costs. Removed communication silos and improved time-to-market.
• Empowered team to reskill for the future through professional development program; resulted in large proportion of the team achieving AWS certifications and becoming experts in Cloud migrations and operations. Adapted.
• Achieved a 300% improvement in ERP recovery time (RTO) through technology and process changes. Assessed business requirements and continuity options. Implemented and tested new disaster recovery methodology, meeting.

Zug, CH

• Orchestrated Service Management and Project Delivery for North America. Led team of 11 technical engineers, architects, and project management specialists located in USA and Canada.
• Consolidated legacy data centres and achieved post-merger synergies, delivering $5M annual OpEx reduction and one-off cost avoidance of $8.9M. Negotiated with vendors to construct cost-effective maintenance contracts.
• Eliminated high-cost legacy systems following merger of Holcim and Lafarge. Captured $12.7M cost avoidance over 4 years by implementing a dedicated Enterprise Data Archiving platform to securely host legacy ERP.
• Minimized compliance, financial, and legal exposure through leadership of a global project for assessing software assets and consumption and achieving optimization of install-base and ongoing consumption monitoring.

Zug, CH

• Directed a distributed team (France, Malaysia, and Canada) of architects to achieve global technology standardization and service improvements, integrated with regional IT teams to ensure consistency and collaboration.
• Built a hosting model proposal to increase agility, scalability, and cost flexibility for regional data centres.
• Benchmarked existing global data centre footprints, costs, and technologies and examined results to develop a robust business case for change. Recommended hosting strategy that is now the foundation of current cloud.
• Developed technology estimation model with associated tooling to eliminate manual processes and reduce time to evaluate solution options. Constructed the model to generate detailed views of financial, infrastructure.

Zug, CH

• Oversaw 15 indirect reports with accountability for EMEA and corporate data centres in France, providing services for all 15K internal customers. Collaborated with CISO, CTO, and regional IT teams on solution design to.
• Analyzed solution options and business case, built greenfield data centre, planned, and led consolidation of 6 legacy EMEA data centres into single state-of-the-art facility in Paris, with zero unplanned downtime..
• Designed infrastructure to re-platform global financial consolidation reporting application Hyperion / Essbase, from legacy physical HP x86 servers to fully virtualized (VMware / Oracle) platform, running on Cisco UCS.
• Mapped a new architecture to re-platform JDEdwards from the costly, underperforming, and unstable legacy HPUX platform to a fully virtualized environment.
• Presented business case to CIO and secured approval to implement ERP and migrate data, which decreased costs and increased capacity management / reliability.

Zug, CH

Lead a team of 4 direct reports and 26 employees to deliver high quality customer service for UK IT Operations, Customer Support, Architecture, Technical Support (L1/2/3) and hosting facilitiesOPEX and CAPEX budget management and optimisationVendor relationship managementTalent development and performance management- I lead the technical project to.

Zug, CH

Lead a team of 5 FTE to deliver technology projects supporting business requirementsProvide L2/3 support capabilitiesProject management for UK wide projectsData Centre and Operational Plant technology solutions and support- I lead and developed the technical team (x5) ensuring the correct levels of competency were maintained to support projects. - I helped.

Zug, CH

The role of Technical Project Manager involved the leadership of the Technical team and solutions design, infrastructure projects, and procurement. I engaged with Business Systems Managers to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions that were implemented by either my team or a 3rd party resource under my direction.

Houston, Texas, US

Provide technical skills and project task execution for customer facing projectsPresent project scope and solutions to customersExpand technical skills through formal training and shadowing of senior consultants - I used my time at HP to develop my technical skills and consulting methods- I completed tasks on projects for key accounts in banking, pharma.

Bsc, Building Surveying

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