Experience

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  Transport for london

  Apr 2000 - Dec 2000

  Cable transmission engineer

  Worked within a team to deliver London Undergrounds IT and telephony infrastructure.- Implemented IT cabinets, UPS and patch panels to support LUL telephony.

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  Royal marines

  Dec 2000 - Dec 2007

  Royal marine

  Signals specialist, SFC

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  Atomic weapons establishment plc

  Feb 2008 - Aug 2010

  Junior project manager

  Delivery of £2m+ projects with full project lifecycle experience using the NEC3 contract. Cost and budget always adhered to.- Interfaced and enabled work for future major projects understanding and administering stakeholder requirements.- Managed programmes, cost profiles and engineering solutions with great success.- Organised and chaired both major and regular meetings issuing actions to relevant persons and resolving conflicts that arose.- Competent user of Earned Value Management on projects.- Created analysis reports and presented the findings to Review Boards. Show less

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  Re-org uk ltd

  Sept 2009 - May 2014

  Managing director

  Serving the Armed Forces Leaver enabling them to getter a better start in their new life.

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  Uk government

  Aug 2010 - Apr 2012

  Pmo/project management consultant

  - Planning project activities with MS Project through whole the project life cycle and successfully managing, determining and governing the products and activities required for the business assurance (TTO) process.- Operating in a Work Package management style, assisting core delivery items for multiple projects.- Providing a Release Management role aiding the rollout of software during busy implementation periods of delivery.- Working closely with the Configuration Management teams to ensure success with the business change process.- Owning the Risk Management responsibilities for the team within which I worked. Aiding the reporting and governance around risk management. - Maintaining and monitoring progress on IT services affecting project deliveries including tracking progress on actions, issues and risk mitigations using corporate systems such as TSRM.- Assisting in the delivery of multiple ad-hoc projects in order to support major projects and programmes under challenging delivery commitment and budget restraints.- Fundamental process implementation where required to effectively manage the portfolio, this included resource management with main efforts focused on bringing effective risk management to a young business model.- Giving PSO support where necessary to the projects. Show less

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  Detica

  May 2012 - Feb 2013

  Business analyst

  - Working successfully with multiple concurrent live projects, with the ability to deliver a variety of aspects of the project all at independent stages of the project lifecycle.- Engaging the relevant people both in and out of the Stakeholder map to identify both requirements and solutions to project related risks, issues and other scenarios.- Working closely with the SharePoint Architects to define and review new instances of the platform to independent Business Units.- Writing key project documentation such as, but not limited to, Business Requirements, Communications Plans, Transition Plans etc.- Heavily involved with the Planning, Communications and Piloting and Implementation of both software and hardware upgrades across a wide selection of business users, including Windows XP to Windows 7- Analysis, management and delivery of a technical prototype solution of a Records Management solution- Analysis and propositions of upgrading Corporate Office 2003 to 2010 templates to use within the new SharePoint environment- Involved with the Inter-business deployment of the Microsoft Lync client to regional and international users.- Integral part in the testing of newly developed IT solutions Show less

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  Bank of england

  Feb 2013 - Sept 2013

  Business analyst

  - Business analyst for the desktop replacement and Windows 7 operating system upgrade project with extensive elements of a hardware, desktop to laptop, refresh for 4000 users.- Engagement with a varying level of business and user level stakeholders to obtain the best outcome dependent on business criticality.- Implementing and maintaining requirements capture database, managing the requirements at business and user level. Transition scheduling at both business unit and user level.- Developed a project specific requirements capture process necessary for the projects needs.- Managed smaller ad-hoc projects where normal project process was not fit for purpose.- Developed an end to end transition process for 4000 users spread nation wide within a challenging environment.- Understood the technical abilities of the various project teams and deployed resources when necessary to mitigate risks. Show less

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  Mufg

  Dec 2013 - Jul 2022

  - Head of Business Engagement delivering a complete solution for pricing for all investment projects requiring infrastructure. Full service catalogue and pricebook creation to deliver an efficient process for pricing change. Working with multiple organisations with differing PLCs, ensured collaboration was understood and how the processes for each entity was reflected in delivery. - Head of Infrastructure Delivery delivering a programme of work within the BAU workspace. Small work packages that drove Continual Service Improvement initiatives. Working with the Jira and Confluence platforms creating a full end to end pipeline to record, log, manage and execute delivery successfully. - Oversite and tuition of Project and Programme management principal with my teams, ensuring process management and efficient execution. Driven by honesty and integrity in delivery. Show less - Programme Managed all BAU, Invest and non-committed projects for MUFG Securities International Infrastructure projects. Encountering unplanned work challenges and with a devops ideology to manage constraints. My ability to manage senior stakeholder. Delivering a proprietary Programme Tracker to engage Project Managers to produce quality MI at a high frequency that was clearly understood by SMG.- Ownership of senior vendor relationships with the likes of Microsoft, Citrix, Excelian, Ivanti, TEK Systems and other major technology companies. Brokering the right relationship helping secure lasting partnerships.- Project Management oversight of the Cloud Strategy and delivery of a number of POC Cloud solutions. Piloting DaaS in Azure over Citrix Cloud to disparate parts of the global organization.- Project Managed O365 migrations in a multi-tenant / multi business organisation. Engagement with Microsoft to ensure all avenues for Fastrack and MCS services delivered success to the business. - Project Managed Win 10 migrations to UK, US and HK businesses using Juriba Dashworks and Flexera Technopedia toolsets. Application Management oversight transforming from Win 7 to 10. - Project Managed the technology aspect of a business wide Agile working strategy where the facilitation of the right technology saved the business money through real estate rationalization.- Project Managed the implementation of new HCI infrastructure (Nutanix AHV from legacy ESX hardware, to run both VDI (c600) and Server (c400) workloads. Show less - Project Manager for the delivery of Collaboration Tools between businesses during the merger of two different legal entities (BTMU and MUSE). Internalizing email, cross business Lync implementation, cross network shared data area, combining Active Directories with Microsoft Identity Manager. - Worked with DealHub, Thomson Reuters RET, Eikon and FXT, Bloomberg, Apama PA, Fenics, Wall Street and other proprietary Java apps. - Working with the e-Trading Platform (EFX) team to deliver new business requirements moving the business into a new era of trading capability.- Desktop replacement and Windows 7 operating system upgrade project with extensive elements of banking software as well as web-app remediation with IE11, working with Cisco UCS blade technology to deliver a power user solution to the Trade floor. Show less

  • Head of Business Engagement and Infrastructure Delivery

    Mar 2020 - Jul 2022

  • IT Programme / Project Manager

    Oct 2019 - Mar 2020

  • Project Manager

    Sept 2017 - Oct 2019

  • Business Analyst

    Dec 2013 - Sept 2017
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  Chattan consultancy

  Apr 2014 - Jan 2021

  Managing director
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  Tesco

  Jul 2022 - now

  Senior technical programme manager
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  The veteran uk

  Oct 2023 - now

  Chair