Tony Hunt Email & Phone Number

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Providing leadership of the design and development of Defra's immediate and future trade capabilities, ensuring robust resource and financial controls are implemented, provision of a suitable programme team structure, establish and maintain strong working relationships with customers, design and build a delivery framework to enable effective delivery of IT capability, provision of a robust reporting and governance process to meet portfolio management office needs.

Newcastle, Crewe, Belfast And Reading

As Technical Delivery Lead I was tasked to deliver a cliff-edge capability to replace the EU’s import control system TRACES with a UK national system in readiness for an EU Exit no deal scenario. This delivery would ensure the necessary controls are in place for the import of animals and animal products, of plants and plant products, so that the UK’s food chain remained safe and viable. This delivery was not only time pressured but was also politically and publicly sensitive, as without having… Show more As Technical Delivery Lead I was tasked to deliver a cliff-edge capability to replace the EU’s import control system TRACES with a UK national system in readiness for an EU Exit no deal scenario. This delivery would ensure the necessary controls are in place for the import of animals and animal products, of plants and plant products, so that the UK’s food chain remained safe and viable. This delivery was not only time pressured but was also politically and publicly sensitive, as without having a digital solution available would not only put the UK’s food-chain at risk but would also cause sever delays at the UK ports resulting in shortages not only of food but other imported commodities, as well as impacting the UK’s export market. Show less

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Transferred from the Rural Payments Agency to Defra’s technical delivery team, DDTS, to work on the EU Exit International Trade technical delivery work stream. Primary role is the management of the delivery of the UK's new animal health import system IPAFFS, as well providing technical input to the Border Delivery Group in preparation for the UK leaving the EU. As technical delivery manager I have oversight of the agile delivery of IPAFFS working with five scrum teams, as well ensuring the… Show more Transferred from the Rural Payments Agency to Defra’s technical delivery team, DDTS, to work on the EU Exit International Trade technical delivery work stream. Primary role is the management of the delivery of the UK's new animal health import system IPAFFS, as well providing technical input to the Border Delivery Group in preparation for the UK leaving the EU. As technical delivery manager I have oversight of the agile delivery of IPAFFS working with five scrum teams, as well ensuring the integration to existing trade systems and external links to HMRC's CHIEF and Suffolk PHA's PHILIS systems. IPAFFS has been developed in MS Azure and key to my role is ensuring a robust pipeline and QA process exists to assure the business owners that a performant and secure application was delivered to meet EU Exit deadlines.Previously working on the RPA's Common Agricultural Policy Change Programme leading the delivery of the programme's systems integration to legacy systems, MS Dynamics and the delivery of a Spatial Data Mart. Show less

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Created strategic relationships with service providers with a track record of successfully delivering higher education programmes with UK universities. • Oversaw the legal negotiations with delivery partners and suppliers; ensured key stakeholders were fully engaged in the formation of the joint venture. • Delivered IT systems integration and enablement (data centre); delivered the operational and quality control mechanisms that would reduce risk and assure the successful delivery of… Show more • Created strategic relationships with service providers with a track record of successfully delivering higher education programmes with UK universities. • Oversaw the legal negotiations with delivery partners and suppliers; ensured key stakeholders were fully engaged in the formation of the joint venture. • Delivered IT systems integration and enablement (data centre); delivered the operational and quality control mechanisms that would reduce risk and assure the successful delivery of the programme. • Utilised Agile principles to ensure that the full programme was delivered against tight deadlines. • Successful delivered the London Campus and Pathway programmes. • Developed a delivery framework that would enable Northumbria to develop further joint venture opportunities with international higher education institutes. Show less

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Worked with the Child Maintenance Group – Implementation Control at the DWP.• Supported the post-implementation directorate through the delivery of a number of controls and feedback mechanisms. • Interacted with all of the programme work streams and conducted daily reviews with the senior operations management teams. • Ensured that both the programme and operational stakeholders were able to have accurate information on the initial case intake; provided a number of key management… Show more • Worked with the Child Maintenance Group – Implementation Control at the DWP.• Supported the post-implementation directorate through the delivery of a number of controls and feedback mechanisms. • Interacted with all of the programme work streams and conducted daily reviews with the senior operations management teams. • Ensured that both the programme and operational stakeholders were able to have accurate information on the initial case intake; provided a number of key management information reports on the overall system/process performance for the Minister and Secretary of State. • Transitioned to a management consultant role to assess the requirements for the increase in case intake and provide solutions for key processing issues centred around systems and service integration. Show less

Gosforth, Newcastle

• Contributed to the organisation’s outsourcing strategy to create a more effective and flexible workforce. • Acted as Programme Manager for the Data Centre Refresh – SAN, SQL Cluster and Citrix Farm.• Managed the HR, CRM, Finance, e-Services programme using an Agile delivery model.• Managed a team of 20 analysts, developers and subject matter experts plus external suppliers. • Delivered the programme on schedule and within budget and realised over a £1m annual savings.

• Tasked with the delivery of a £15m 11g R2 Oracle Data Warehouse project utilising OWB and ETL tools to deliver a state-of-the-art data warehouse solution residing within a high-end Superdome server. • Managed multiple change management initiatives across the whole organisation. • Played a key role in the creation of a new project management process. • Successfully delivered 65 initiatives part of the post Bank Separation stabilisation; managed a team of over 60 project managers… Show more • Tasked with the delivery of a £15m 11g R2 Oracle Data Warehouse project utilising OWB and ETL tools to deliver a state-of-the-art data warehouse solution residing within a high-end Superdome server. • Managed multiple change management initiatives across the whole organisation. • Played a key role in the creation of a new project management process. • Successfully delivered 65 initiatives part of the post Bank Separation stabilisation; managed a team of over 60 project managers, co-ordinators, analysts, development and test resources for a period of 9 months. • Led the Bank Separation Documentation Work Stream and effectively communicated the required changes across the entire organisation. • Managed a team of cross-functional staff to implement over 4,500 variants of customer communications. Show less

Responsible for delivery of v9.2 Bond Adapt system that has been tailored to meet Lorien's current and future needs, together with ensuring the successful integration of daXtra and Broadbean. Post Project support implementation using ITIL to ensuring change management, and 1st and 2nd line support processes are successfully embedded, as well as completing a number of key enhancements to the deployed system.

Contractors Limited Company

Initially a three month contract extended to twenty eight months, managing the delivery of an XML interface to enable preferred partners to submit electronic mortgage applications directly into the mortgage originating system.Managing the delivery of a mechanism that will synchronise with the HM Land Registry and systemically manage charge status.Managing the integration of Automated Valuations, Quest and Hometrack, and on line payments, using SpeedPay, with a broker accessible website,… Show more Initially a three month contract extended to twenty eight months, managing the delivery of an XML interface to enable preferred partners to submit electronic mortgage applications directly into the mortgage originating system.Managing the delivery of a mechanism that will synchronise with the HM Land Registry and systemically manage charge status.Managing the integration of Automated Valuations, Quest and Hometrack, and on line payments, using SpeedPay, with a broker accessible website, direct to the consumer website and a mortgage originating system.Managing customer identification and verification through the integration of U-R-U. Show less

My principal role is that of project management, and having acquired Practitioner status we primarily use the Prince2 methodology as a basis for the delivery of all of our projects. The main focus of our project management services are within our consultancy division whereupon we provide the necessary expertise for customers such Npower and Citi Bank in ensuring the successful delivery of their own projects

Responsible for the migration of 42 intel systems from Newcasrtle based data centre to the new npower data centre. To ensure the successful migration I was required to formulate a migration strategy that would ensure a seamless transition and have no impact on customer experience. This was successfully accomplished within an 18 month period and with the minimal disruption to business processes.

VB 6.0, SQL Server (6.5, 7.0 and 2000), Oracle DBMS (8.0, 9i and 10i) and MS Access 97 based applications such as Management Information Reporting, Data Warehousing, Transco Annual Quotients Review, DTC Flow loader and generator, Market Domain Database, Marketing data requirements, Demand Forecasting, Revenue Forecasting, and Mandate Tracking.

VB 6.0, SQL Server (6.5, 7.0 and 2000), Oracle DBMS (8.0, 9i and 10i) and MS Access 97 based applications such as Management Information Reporting, Data Warehousing, Transco Annual Quotients Review, DTC Flow loader and generator, Market Domain Database, Marketing data requirements, Demand Forecasting, Revenue Forecasting, and Mandate Tracking.

Senior Oracle Consultant for a global software house delivering enterprise level solutions mainly within the utilities industry.

Bsc (Hons), Business Information Technology

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