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Senior Manager role reporting to the CTO within RBS. Responsibilities include:- Delivering Cost Efficiency programme- Management and control of the running costs for central infrastructure- Organisation control and transformation- Contract negotiation and vendor management for some of the key technology services- Setting and coordinating efficiency programmes across the technology platforms- Governance of the investment portfolio related to technology services- Management of cross functional objectives in line with overall strategic vision

The role included technology governance and delivery in over 40 locations, with a mixture of sourcing models. Some achievements: Managed the respective components in the outsourcing contract with EDS, including the RFP process, creation of contract schedules, service levels and transformation programmeDelivered successful post contract transition in UK, Netherlands, US, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany and FranceManagement of Transformation programme, including:• Server consolidation• Data Centre consolidation• Desktop infrastructure refresh• Centralisation of Helpdesks to Belgium, Hungary and Singapore• Enterprise Management refresh• Asset & Software License ManagementGlobal cost reduction programme, including:• Server rationalisation• Sun technology refresh \ lease programme• Storage Managed Service• HP Utility computing \ buy-backDevelopment and successful launch of mobility programme, including Blackberry managed service

Responsible for a Engineering group based in London and Amsterdam. Windows 2000 – Delivery of the Active Directory design and implementation into all key locations, allowing the bank to regionalise the support of the disparate NT 4.0 domains. Intel Hardware standardisation – Managed the RFP \ RFQ process to develop standards and drive down the unit cost of the desktop infrastructure. This was coordinated bank wide and also introduced the use of a “smart index” mechanism to maintain low cost.Systems Management – Implementation of complete end-to-end Enterprise Systems Management solution, with a budget of more than €16M. The framework allowed for operational support to be centralised for management functions on a variety of platforms, including Windows, UNIX, Sun, AS400, Data, Voice and Email.The design also built on HP’s Service Information Portal, which allowed the bank to develop transparency for infrastructure measurements and SLA’s.