Gareth Jones

Experience

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  Centrica

  Jul 1998 - Aug 2000

  Graduate/IT Change Manager

  Range of project delivery experience across the Centrica business portfolio:- Developed ‘new media’ strategic business cases across the AA, Goldfish and British Gas portfolio. (including BG website development, a home networks services, and evaluating acquisition of Freeserve).- Led the strategy & design phase for the British Gas Communications corporate intranet. - Prepared the business case and RFI/RFP phases for a new business customer gas billing system.- Audited the Y2K compliance of 100+ systems across 15 LPG/NGV sites and 40+ suppliers. Show less

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  PA Consulting Group

  Aug 2000 - Aug 2006

  Principal Consultant

  IT Strategy Consultant and Delivery Project Manager. Clients included BP, British Airways, NHS, Prime Minister's Delivery Unit, Department of Health, Home Office.- Managed desktop, critical systems and data migrations within BP’s European Data Centre consolidation.- Developed innovative applications for BP AGM eVoting, Whistleblowing, Upstream Loss Analysis.- Coordinated testing for a BA core-systems outsource to Amadeus (largest airline migration in history).- Implemented a high-profile restructure of UK travel agency commission payments.- Ran the BA Holidays website design, following termination of a joint venture with Thomas Cook.- Delivered board proposals to NHS Information Authority to improve data flow for Cancer care pathways. - Implemented solutions to reduce court and cautions data lags across 21 UK Police Force Areas. Show less

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  Sabient Limited

  Jul 2006 - Jan 2021

  Director

  Independent IT Project Management consultancy specialising in digital transformation, cloud and legacy infrastructure optimisation, enterprise system deployments, and data analytics. Portfolio of circa $30m projects delivered to date across BP, Barclays and Citigroup.

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  BP

  Aug 2006 - Nov 2006

  Senior Project Manager

  Initiated a Global Disaster Recovery Programme covering critical Order to Cash systems with a collective throughput of $20bn pa revenue for Refining & Marketing. Resulted in full business case and plan approval across all Refining & Marketing CIOs.

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  Barclays

  Nov 2006 - Jun 2007

  Senior Project Manager

  Desktop Services Migration Programme to replace NT4 estate for 30,000 users. Programme Release Manager for Data Centre DR & End User Work Area Recovery:- Prepared the architecture and proof of concepts to achieve “Active/Active” high availability and highly automated infrastructure services (e.g. Network, SAN, Backup, Exchange, VMware, Citrix & SQL farms). - Coordinated design for browser based, dynamic user desktops to support circa 3000 users. Utilised leading-edge solutions including VM desktop & brokering, Microsoft app streaming, Citrix thin clients. Show less

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  Citigroup

  Jun 2007 - Nov 2007

  EMEA Senior Project Manager

  Global IT Transformation Programme to reduce Infrastructure run rate by over $10bn within 4 years. Led a $5m programme to migrate critical EMEA Citi Markets and Banking systems & data into shared, virtual hosting platforms (AIX, Solaris 10, x86 VM). Fundamental to Citi IT strategy (preceding Cloud), delivering market leading technologies such as IBM P frames and Solaris containers to optimise workload efficiencies.

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  Bp

  Nov 2007 - Mar 2020

  Successful delivery of over $11m of initiatives spanning cloud deployment, digital transformation and data analytics within BP Castrol. - Transformation of the global Castrol Business Intelligence platform for Sales, Marketing and Finance. Major SAP Business Objects upgrade and report optimisation. 80% reduction in on-premise servers and related opex. Cloud initiative to define critical use cases, data pipelines and models as part of a strategic deployment to AWS Analytics and related services (Mulesoft, Semarchy etc).- Financial Forecasting & Analytics automation programme, deploying SAP Business Planning & Consolidation On HANA within AWS as part of a major, multi-year Americas Regional Business Transformation programme. - Data driven Digital Transformation programme for the Castrol Distributor route to market (sales over 1bn litres pa). Developed and deployed custom SaaS on Azure IaaS. Solutions spanned Collaboration Tools, Business Intelligence, Vendor Managed Inventory and Business Planning. Also evaluated proprietary Salesforce SaaS for CRM and Sales Force Optimisation. Successfully integrated with over 900 business partners in 75 countries resulting in significant volume and Gross Margin growth, Supply Chain efficiencies, and strengthened partner relationships. Show less Successful delivery of $9m of projects to optimise critical Downstream infrastructure, applications and related business processes. - Data Centre migrations - Server virtualisation- EOSL software risk removal - Support process and organisation optimisation- Disaster and Operational Recovery solution delivery and testing - Business Continuity Planning activity- Software Asset Management reviews to expose cost opportunities & potential breaches across a 3000 server estate Show less

  • Castrol - Senior Project & Programme Manager

    Mar 2014 - Mar 2020

  • Downstream IT&S - Senior Project Manager

    Nov 2007 - Mar 2014
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  Bp

  Sept 2020 - now

  Air BP - Airfield Automation Programme Manager