Martin Donegan

Martin Donegan

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Manager, Solution Architecture at Ensono

  • Education

    • Reading Grammar School

      1991 - 1998
      Maths, Physics, Technology, Computing (4 x full A-Levels). Plus 11 x GCSEs
    • The Open University

      2005 - 2008
      BSc Computing
    • Swansea University

      1999 - 2003
      BSc Computer Science

      Activities and Societies: Committe member of the Mountaineering Club

  • Experience

    • SEMA Group (UK) Ltd

      Jul 1997 - Sept 1997
      Intranet Developer

      Creation of SEMA Groups's first hard-coded HTML intranet.

    • CfBT Education Services

      Jul 2000 - May 2003
      Conference Administrator

      Initially I was the Company Secretary's Assistant, which involved helping with legal paperwork relating to formation and management of subsidiary entities.After that I performed administrative duties at a series of nationwide head teachers' conferences. This included making unscripted speeches to conference rooms full of head teachers several times per day.

    • Takeda

      May 2003 - Feb 2005
      Web Developer

      • Developed company Internet site after having gathered input by hosting a seminar at the company national conference.• Prepared and rolled out new intranet site based on SharePoint, mainly using ASP, ASP.net, JavaScript, DHTML and third party websites that I integrated into a single intranet experience. Development of a PDA version of the SharePoint intranet. The training of in-house staff on maintaining their department’s intranet pages.

    • Derbyshire Dales District Council

      Feb 2005 - Apr 2006
      E-Government Project Officer

      • The inception and organisation of a network and telecoms upgrade project across 45 sites, including an audit, financial forecasts, the ordering of all hardware and software and distribution of responsibilities.• The co-ordination of a website creation and launch based on Microsoft CMS, including the training of 50 staff, allocation of responsibilities and the creation of a permanent task group.• The creation of a SharePoint Portal Server based intranet. Responsibility for every aspect of this project beyond inception, including requirements gathering and specification (including hardware), project scope, implementing the project and training ongoing intranet administrators. Certain aspects of SPS were heavily customised to meet requirements. The training of over 100 key users in small groups. Show less

    • Palm Computing Limited

      Apr 2006 - Sept 2006
      Senior Consultant

      Short term project contracts with various clients:• Microsoft – Strategy consulting for NHS trusts around Wales• Aegis Media – Custom intranet development• Taylor Woodrow – Custom intranet development

    • Barclays Wealth Management

      Sept 2006 - Mar 2008
      Intranet Developer

      • Application architect of global intranet upgrade for Barclays Wealth and Stockbrokers• Multiple small digital transformation projects (moving paper processes to the intranet)• The training and support of around 50 content managers to be responsible for specific sites.

    • Palm Computing Limited

      Mar 2008 - Jan 2010
      Principal Consultant

      My primary responsibilities were to set up and run PCL as a Permanent Establishment in the PRC (Shanghai Special Administrative Region) and then to win contracts from clients based in the PRC. Palm Computing Ltd was used mainly as a vehicle for my own contracting work.• Created Permanent Establishment for PCL in PRC, inc• Find clients, negotiate contracts, sign agreements, manage projects, manage on-site development teams, manage offshore development teams, undertake technical development work as necessary.• Clients included: Unilever, OPEN China, Bank of Australia Group, Foundation IT. Show less

    • Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR)

      Jan 2010 - Mar 2013
      Consultant and PM

      Day-to-day management and implementation of IT projects. Notable projects:• New intranet for mainland China. Workshops, collaborative content creation, training deployment.• Solution design and PM for next generation [genome] sequencing and sample tracking system.• Digital transformation: hazardous substance, chemicals, animal tissue import / export tracking

    • Capita IT Enterprise Services

      Apr 2013 - Dec 2016
      Senior Technical Consultant

      • Consultant on a range of projects, assuming different roles: Strategy Consultant, Solution Architect, Project Manager, Technical Design Authority, Development Manager, Client Liaison• Project Manager for projects up to GBP 1m, with remote and local development teams• TDA (Technical Design Authority) on large bids and contracts (Contract TCV ~£2m - £1.6bn)• Making substantial / specialist contributions to contract documents (from ~£1m – ~£65m).• Ensure projects comply with corporate governance; calculating and managing project cost.• Management and allocation of resources (Consultants and Technical Architects)• Infrastructure Design (Private Cloud, Azure, AWS, F5 load balancers, Firewalls, DR, failover)• Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients and suppliers. Show less

    • PCL

      Jan 2017 - May 2018
      Consulting, Solutions Architect

      Initially worked on a 5 year company strategy and now leading the upgrade of legacy Engineering software products from client applications to SaaS offerings.

    • ECS

      Jun 2018 - Sept 2018
      Principal Consultant

      ECS are a professional services firm helping organisations adopt Cloud, DevOps, Continuous Delivery and other transformational approaches. We help our clients adopt modern ways of working and technology stacks such as cloud computing, container technology, automation techniques, security and network operations. We have a commitment to helping our clients leave a legacy of cultural and process change as well as helping them deliver on highly strategic technology projects.

    • Trimantium GrowthOps

      Sept 2018 - Jun 2019
      Consultant
    • Ensono

      Jul 2019 - now
      • Manager Solution Architecture

        Mar 2021 - now
      • Public Cloud Solution Architect

        Jul 2019 - Mar 2021
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Mar 2019
      View certificate certificate
    • Amazon Web Services DevOps Engineer - Professional

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Jul 2020
      View certificate certificate
    • Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Configuration

      Microsoft
    • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Configuration

      Microsoft
    • SharePoint 2010, Configuration

      Microsoft
    • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Feb 2018
    • Azure Solutions Architect Expert

      Microsoft
      Sept 2020
    • Azure Fundamentals

      Microsoft
      Apr 2020
    • Google Cloud Certified - Associate Cloud Engineer

      Google
      Jan 2022