Chris S.

Experience

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  IBM

  Jun 2007 - Sept 2008

  Management Information Developer

  Development of Management Information Reports using Brio Intelligence Explorer with backend DB2 databases and advanced Excel VBA queries.

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  IBM

  Sept 2009 - now

  • Delivery Project Manager for a 4 month closeout of a major PLM systems integration project.• Major Defence based systems integration project combining leading edge CAD and PLM toolsets.• Financial, Resource, Risks and Issue control and accountability.• Responsible for management of customer relationships and communications.• Responsible for a significant element of data migration planning, strategy and delivery.• Lead numerous Go Live weekends.• Coordination of Solution Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, Performance Testing, Integration Testing, Data Migration and Service Acceptance.• Received IBM Delivery Excellent Award despite challenging cost and delivery circumstances. Show less • Senior IT Specialist within the Application Management Services practice of IBM Global Business Services (GBS). Working as the Environments, System and Infastructure Manager at a major UK Defence client. • Delivery of infrastructure and environments to support multiple projects within the IPDE Programme.• Delivery of Development, Test, UAT, Pre Production and Production environments for multiple releases.• Responsible for elicitation of environmental requirements, production of environments strategy, initiation, change control, configuration control, problem determination and finally decommission of IPDE Environments.• Working across multiple vendors and partners including IBM, Siemens, Capita, BAE and other 3rd party contractors to ensure successful timely delivery of a uniquely complex environments suite. Show less • I lead the IBM Build and Datacenter teams for the IBM element of a large MoD Account.• Responsibility for restricted classification development environments and office infrastructure including helpdesk management.• Management of virtual servers, physical servers, SAN, Networking, Network shares, files servers and workstation builds.• Responsible for Project Management and technical elements of transferring and integrating the IBM Test and Development Datacentre (Consisting of over 250 physical and virtual partitions) into a Client hosted datacentre.• ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management. Show less

  • Senior Managing Consultant

    May 2021 - now

  • Scrum Master & Environment / Infrastructure Workstream Project Manager

    Mar 2018 - Jul 2021

  • Managing IT Consultant

    Sept 2009 - Jul 2021

  • Account Project Manager (MoD Defence Infrastructure Organisation)

    Apr 2017 - Mar 2018

  • Environment and Infrastructure Workstream Lead (MoD Defence Infrastructure Organisation)

    Apr 2015 - Mar 2018

  • Project Manager

    Sept 2014 - Apr 2015

  • Environments Manager / Systems Manager

    Mar 2013 - Sept 2014

  • Technical Team Lead

    Sept 2010 - Mar 2013

  • Build Technician

    Sept 2009 - Feb 2011
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  Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO)

  Apr 2015 - Mar 2018

  Environment and Infrastructure Workstream Lead

  - Working with IBM TRIRIGA Application (Integrated Workplace Management Solution).- Responsible for managing interlock between IBM and DIO infrastructure teams. Responsible for High Level Design and Solution Outline.- Management of Dev, Test, Performance Testing and Pre Production TRIRIGA environments.- Responsible for technical orchestration of application platform and infrastructure upgrades including multiple complex Go Live weekends.