Peter Landhed

Experience

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  Ericsson

  Nov 1999 - Dec 2005

  Successfully delivered and integrated a 3G / WCDMA core network solution to a operator in UK and an operator in Italy. Full budget responsibility, 20.900 man-hours in UK and and 13.900 man-hours in Italy. Successfully delivered a large scale R&D development project as assistant Total Project Manager with budget of 170 million GBP and 3.2 million man-hours. Full product life cycle responsibility: development, Integration & Verification testing and product/market introduction. Manager for the GPRS supply and support section. Built the section from 3 to 22 engineers.

  • Senior Project Manager

    Apr 2001 - Dec 2005

  • Section Manager

    Nov 1999 - Mar 2001
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  Ericsson

  Oct 2005 - Sept 2009

  Managed the release and deployment of a new Home Location Register (HLR) database product to the market for the fixed telephony, GSM, GPRS, WCDMA, LTE, 2G, 2.5G, 3G, 4G mobile networks.Full responsibility for the new product deployment global roadmap - mapping and prioritising development of features and functionality to customer requirement and customer delivery.Enabled effective customer communications and ongoing management of customer expectationsSuccessfully analysed and managed professional services changes on a global international basis Show less Responsible for a product line in terms of release and deployment roadmap on a global accountEstablished an integrated governance and reporting structure for a Billing IT platform, a GPS location service application and IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) in Europe, Asia and North Africa. This improved management control and enabled reporting on global level.Aligned and implemented a service delivery strategy & common processes towards the customer enabling the delivery of professional service in a more structured and common way on a global basis.Conducted in-depth programme and project audits and successfully turning around failing projects.Instrumental in set-up of a new PMO function, aligning all project / programme processes & tools.Established an integrated governance & reporting structure for several product lines.Delivered a business development programme for Mobile Broadband towards Vodafone Global. Show less Responsible for delivery of the 2G & 3G mobile telephony soft switch IP core network to Vodafone UKDelivery of an end-to-end service integration, including hardware installation and integration in the network, software end-to-end testing, software roll-out and network deployment.Included transformation and changes to business operations, using PRINCE2 methodologyFull P&L responsibility for the £51m+ contract with 63+ direct reports in the deployment programmeSuccessfully restructured a joint testing project and the relationship with Fujitsu, delivering in to BT plc. Re-negotiated, transformed and re-organised the way of working by implementing improved control and accountability via a structured project and programme methodology Show less

  • Global Deployment Manager

    Mar 2009 - Sept 2009

  • Senior Programme Manager

    Apr 2007 - Mar 2009

  • Senior Programme Manager

    Oct 2005 - Apr 2007
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  Cable & Wireless Worldwide

  Sept 2009 - Sept 2012

  Senior Programme Manager & Pre-sales Consultant

  Worked in pre-sales phase on large ITT and bids, with full remit for operational inputs and engagement.Analysed the business requirements and defined strategy to deliver the capabilities, benefits & value. Defined and set-up programme and work streams for successful delivery, aligned to MSP & PRINCE2 methodologies. Managed and negotiated with 3rd party sub-contractors during the pre-sales & engagement phase.Success in winning several managed service contracts; a 5 year contract to the value of £24 million GBP, a 2 year contract to a value of £4 million GBP and a 2+1 year contract to a value of £51 million GBP.Performed an audit and gap analysis on a major £80m delivery programme in the public sector.The programme included software application development, hosting, messaging as a cloud service, managed service, network infrastructure (IaaS) and all services on different security levels (IL0 to IL4). I implemented clear responsibilities and accountabilities within the programme team. Initiated deep dives and re-planning activities to put the programme back on track. I improved the programme assurance, governance and reporting.Structured and delivered the 1st phase of the new government ICT strategy PSN with the Cabinet Office.I performed an audit and drove through delivery improvements on several work-streams in a large IT hosting delivery programme of work towards M&S.The programme included WAN connectivity and migration from an in-house on-site legacy telephony solution to a hosted / private cloud IP telephony solution.Turned around a failing £20m transformational IT managed service delivery programme to Logica / MoJ. Achieved critical key milestones and deliveries on time for the programme, avoiding £1m penalties. I was responsible for the full lifecycle of hosted applications and infrastructure. From assessment of contract note changes, negotiations with customer through to delivery, testing and successful handover to operations. Show less

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  VCE

  Sept 2012 - Apr 2014

  Senior Programme Manager

  VCE Company -Virtual Computing Environment- is the Joint Venture (JV) from Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel. Today, VCE is recognized as the leader in Converged Infrastructure for Data Center & Cloud. Responsible for end-to-end programme delivery, supporting a new product for VCE • I managed the delivery of IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service) application using Agile software development to BT in a client facing role. • The software application was an IT Management & Organisation application that managed a complete virtualised Cloud IT infrastructure on vBlocks. • The application stack was built on VMware products; vCD, vSphere, vCO and on Cisco IAC (CPO and Cisco Cloud Portal) and it was structured and built around ITIL as a requirement. • Successfully drove an up-sell in terms Change Request to the programme, boosting revenue by 22%. • Effective vendor management of partners and 3rd party suppliers including offshore software development. • Initiated internal business operations transformation to accommodate the new product within VCE. • In VCE I reported to the Director, Professional Services EMEA Show less

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  Dimension Data UKI

  Jun 2014 - Oct 2015

  Senior Programme Manager

  Responsible for all aspects of programme leadership and delivery, engaging with a major client • I created a governance and programme structure for a £6M portfolio of projects towards Vodafone, a key client. • Implemented stakeholder management and reporting by setting up a programme board and reporting to client senior management. • Adopted enhanced governance and reporting metrics. Introduced programme and project assurance by implementing KPI metrics and dashboard. • Performed an audit and aligned Dimension Data delivery methodology to Vodafone engagement processes and their defined gateways and milestones. • Portfolio consisted of 20 projects, divided between IT Security & IT Network Infrastructure. Show less

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  VMware

  Mar 2015 - Apr 2016

  Engagement Manager

  Worked as an Engagement Manager for VMware in a client-facing role delivering VMware solutions.Responsible for customer engagement and driving it to successful completionDelivered IT Cloud virtualisation software development and implementation projects based on VMware Could Technology software suit in a client-facing role.Defined and aligned VMware delivery methodology with clients methodology. Achieved joint agreed stakeholder business and technical requirements, and software design in customer workshops.Chaired customer delivery review meetings and milestone acceptance. Delivered a vCloud Automation Accelerator Service to Infrabel, Belgium.Delivered a vRB addition to Virgin Media existing Cloud solution.Delivered a vRealize Operations Insight engagement to Bank of England.Delivered NSX and vRealize Automation development and deployment POC (Proof-Of-Concept) to London Stock Exchange to their internal Cloud infrastructure. Show less

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  Microsoft

  Apr 2016 - Apr 2017

  Engagement Manager

  Responsible for successful client relationship in delivery engagement. • I managed a consulting service delivery engagement to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and their SI provider HPE. This technology lead business transformation engagment was divided between technical consulting around the design to transforming the legacy infrastructure to a hybrid cloud enabled environment in preparation for O365 migration and rollout. The second part was organisational business transformation for service management processes and cloud operating model to prepare and set-up DWP for in-sourcing the IT Service Management function. • In a separate engagement to DWP I managed a Windows 10 End User Compute Surface Pro thick client Proof Of Concept (POC). The POC was to validate DWP AD authentication set-up, DWP specific tools and LOBs, and CESG security implementation and ongoing maintenance. Reporting to DWP Head of Infrastructure. • I also worked on a discovery engagement with a London Borough. The outcome outlined a digital business transformation strategy with business benefits which was mapped into a journey plan on how the organisation could best implement and utilise cloud technologies.The work streams include an adoption and change management work stream for the O365 and Windows 10 deployment including Skype For Business. A work stream to migrate the infrastructure into the Azure cloud. A Dynamics CRM work stream and a Power BI work stream. • In Microsoft I reported to the Head of Central Government Service Delivery Show less

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  MBNL

  Apr 2017 - Jul 2019

  Senior Programme Manager

  • • I managed a yearly multi-million pound budget portfolio of IT projects in a challenging joint venture environment. Managing governance and expectations of two different and demanding shareholders. • Managing suppliers deliveries and adherance to contract. Governance of the portfolio and reportin to stakeholders and shareholders. • Five Project Managers and five TDAs direct reports. I reported to the IT Director on day to day activities and weekly reporting to MD and Finance Director. • Responsible for the yearly IT department Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and getting it approved with shareholders. • The main projects delivered end to end from AOP to successful delivery; ◦ O365 and sharepoint deployment ◦ Windows 10 laptop rollout ◦ Hardware and software upgrade of a virtualised on-prem private cloud on VxBlock ◦ Implementation of on-prem private cloud solution with HP SimpliVity stack ◦ Upgrading a Pivotal Greenplum, Big Data, Analytics and BO platform to increase stability and capacity ◦ Upgrading an End-of-Support Citrix farm to new software release on a virtualised environment ◦ Microsoft Active Directory migration ◦ Performing security penetration testing and continuous IT estate wide security review resulting in stand-alone work-packages with security improvement such as anti-virus upgrade, firewall re-configuration, OS patching and replacement of End-Of-Life devices • The delivery methodologies was mixed between fixed outcome, waterfall and Agile. Where Agile deliveries accounted for 40% of the portfolio. The majority of the delivery activities was done via outsourced SI partners with onshore and offshore resources. Show less

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  Wipro

  Sept 2019 - Apr 2020

  Digital Transformation Programme Manager

  Responsible for successful set-up and delivery of a Digital Transformation Programme. • I managed a Digital Transformation Programme to LV= in the financial sector. • I was responsible to set-up the governance framework with the client and establish the PMO function. I vetted and onboarded the core programme team. Together with the core team we onboarded the wider programme team. • The Pogramme consisted of the following scope ◦ Establish and build Primary and secondary Data Centres ◦ Application discovery and application migration for ~350 applications ◦ Deploy Hybrid Cloud with on-prem DC and public Cloud in Azure ◦ Procure and deploy Devices-as-a-Service (DaaS) with new Windows 10 desktops and laptops ◦ Deployment of O365 to all 1600 users ◦ Migrate on-prem sharepoint to O365 sharepoint ◦ Migrate on-prem fileshare to OneDrive ◦ Deployment of Microsoft Teams Show less

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  Allianz

  Dec 2020 - Oct 2022

  Portfolio Manager

  Responsible for successful delivery of a Portfolio of Projects within the IT space. • I manage an IT Portfolio with several IT Projects and a yearly budget of £5.2M. • I have established a renewed Governance framework and reporting across the projects within the portfolio. • I establish increased project budget and forecast control with improved governance and transparency. • Due to the use of two finance tools, I drive continuous improvement and alignment for the portfolio budget tracking. • Being responsible for the yearly IT department Annual Operating Plan (AOP) / Roadmap, I have established a rolling process balancing requirement, security and budget. Show less

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  QinetiQ

  Nov 2022 - now

  IT Portfolio Operations Manager

  Managing IT Projects and Services