Lindy Webber

Experience

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  HM Revenue & Customs

  Sept 1977 - May 1979

  Taxation Assistant
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  Southern Water

  May 1979 - Jan 1985

  Accounting Technician

  Maintenance of Finance ledgers & production of monthly managemnt accountsProduction End of Year AccountsCash receipts & daily banking recFishing LicencesIT Liason

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  South East Water UK

  Jan 1985 - Feb 1989

  Management Accountant (Permanent)

  Production of Management Accounts, Annual Budget, and completion of regulatory reports

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  Royal United Hospital Bath

  Feb 1989 - Jul 1989

  Systems Accountant (Permanent)

  Implementation of Millennium Management Information System

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  Merchant Investors

  Jun 1989 - Dec 1995

  Systems Accountant (Permanent)

  Implementation of Millennium General Ledger & Accounts Payable systems to replace manual systems.

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  Orange

  Dec 1995 - Dec 1997

  IT Service desk Technician (Contract)

  Provide 1st & 2nd line support for MS Office products and Orange Customer Services applications

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  BBC

  Jan 1998 - Jan 1999

  Migration Lead Desktop & Email Transition (Contract)

  Responsible for Planning & Migration of 20,000+ users over multiple sites to Windows ’95 & NT server 4.0 and legacy mail systems to Exchange server 5.5 & Outlook ’97Liaise with Stakeholders to establish schedules for user & data migration, training, hardware delivery, and applications integration

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  Nationwide Building Society

  Jan 1999 - Apr 1999

  Y2k Project NT Specialist (Contract)

  Liaise with 3rd party vendors for application compliance with NT4 Service pack 4 Co-ordinate schedule of change to deploy SP4 upgrades with stakeholders and change control Install SP4 on approx 50 Servers

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  National Hydrographic Office

  Apr 1999 - Aug 2000

  Y2K & Service Desk Analyst (Contract)

  Managing a team of 3, recommend and implement a strategy to replace non-compliant hardware and software in order of business criticality and Y2K risk.Design & implementation of Remedy Helpdesk & Change Management system

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  Clarks

  Nov 2000 - Oct 2001

  Desktop Technology Trainer (Contract)

  Develop and deliver desktop training modules for Microsoft Office suite products

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  Orange

  Oct 2001 - Apr 2005

  Planned delivery of migration of over 4000 users over multiple locations from Windows Server and Lotus Notes mail to Microsoft XP & Outlook Designed & delivered the Communications Plan via series of cross site workshops and intranet publications Ensured that the ongoing operational requirements provided by Orange Technical Services were understood and met. Continued to review and highlight deficiencies in service provision against SLA’s through pro-active relationship management and acting on recommendations by contributing to the Service Improvement Plan.

  • XP Migration Lead

    Oct 2002 - Apr 2005

  • Operational Relationship Manager

    Oct 2001 - Sept 2002
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  Clarks

  May 2005 - Sept 2007

  IT Training Consultant

  Initially contracted to evaluate the overall engagement and effectiveness of the SAP R1 Training Programme post implementation. Contract was extended to assist with the SAP R3/Fusion delivery. Key Achievements Produced management summary, making recommendations for the R3 implementation. Collaboratively worked to delivered over 350 courses to approximately 2400 delegates. Had responsibility for the delivery of Training materials and courses to users across the Logistics, Wholesale Sales and Merchandising teams in a number of bespoke business applications interfacing into SAP Show less

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  AXA UK

  Sept 2007 - Dec 2009

  Programme Office Analyst

  Responsible for producing resource plan by maintaining and supporting MS Access Database, extracting data for MI Reports. Liaising with Solutions consultants and Project Managers to provide Partner estimates for Infrastructure Projects, ensuring these were reflected in the resource planKey AchievementsDefined process for review and recording of Estimates, by hosting the daily Estimate Review BoardRecommended & Implemented changes to streamline the process for raising Change requests via Peregrine Change ToolDesigned MS Access repository for tracking usage & allocation of VMWare images and build specifications for the offshore development centres Show less

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  AXA

  Dec 2009 - Dec 2011

  Applications Analyst (Contract)

  Accountable for identifying out of support Software across the AXA SunLife estate and providing acceptable upgrade solutionsKey AchievementsWorked closely with stakeholders Security, Change and Licence management to formulate an upgrade strategy to implement changes to 100+ applications across multiple sites.Ensured versioning was recorded within ClearCase, the Software Configuration Management tool Provided environments for integrated system and user acceptance testsEnsured consistent design, approach and quality of deliverables within the agreed IT Architecture and Desktop technology standards. Show less

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  Diligenta - a subsidiary of Tata Consultancy Services

  Feb 2012 - Sept 2015

  IT Delivery Lead

  Diligenta is the UK based, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulated subsidiary of Tata Consultancy Services, (TCS) I was responsible for planning the delivery of complex IT technical solutions to agreed Project timelines. Ensred Projects test environment requirements were appropriate to deliver successful implementations. Represented IT Delivery by attending daily triage of work orders, ensuring accurate estimates for work and appropriate demand for resources within the Delivery Services Teams were been secured to service Projects requirements.responsible for developing, maintaining and enhancing relationships with key stakeholders. Ensuring the required documentation, artefacts, process and standards were delivered to time and quality. I represented projects by attendance at both Technical and Business CAB’s.I pro-actively contributed to the determination of the Release schedule, by hosting the Release Control Board (RCB). Facilitating the interaction with technical and business areas to ensure that Projects are aware of interdependencies and appropriate technical options are considered. Key AchievementsManaged the Implementation work stream for the delivery of two complex multi £m data migration projects of 5m and 2m Policy holders. Including the detailed implementation planning. Stakeholder communications and resource management were key to the success of these deliveries.Worked with Test leads to shape the developer and test environment requirements and implementation activities using IBM Clearcase for code management. Ensured that implementations did not compromise the integrity of the production environment by identifying, managing and mitigating risks, placing controls around escalation.Planned and delivered the wave of activities required to transition support of the legacy Infrastructure from IBM to Diligenta. Worked closely with IT security to ensure appropriate system accesses were granted and continued support services were provided Show less

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  JD Sports Fashion plc

  Oct 2015 - Apr 2016

  IT Development Lead (Contract)

  IT Development Lead (Contract) JD Sports PLC – Oct 2015 – PresentResponsible for two streams of development work. Initially to act as the liaison between the IT Business Intelligence team and Finance to determine the specification and delivery of Oracle BI Publisher and OBIEE reports, as interfaced to a projected Oracle RMS system. Subsequently to drive the restructuring of the Java and Oracle development and support teams. Designing a detailed subset of the developing Target Operating Model. Ensuring that teams were aligned with Business Solutioning and Architecture bodies as well as the Project Office and Change and Release processes. The role facilitated the introduction of best practices for Development, such as the use of Version Control, Code Branching, Development Frameworks and Workflow management, enabling the introduction of a robust release processKey Achievements• Accomplished business agreement to a set of financial reporting specifications and led the delivery against Oracle technologies.• Produced the adopted Target Operating Model and introduced pragmatic workflow management for a team of COBOL, JAVA and Oracle developers.• Produced the development roadmap and communications plan contributing the IT strategic plan• Successfully coached and mentored the JD Development Manager to a foundation level in best practices for managing a medium sized development team.• Led the adoption of Apache Subversion version control system, including process creation and developer training. Show less

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  DXC Technology

  Jun 2016 - Aug 2019

  Implementation Manager (Contract)
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  HP

  Jun 2016 - Aug 2018

  Implementation Manager
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  JD Sports Fashion

  Sept 2021 - Aug 2024

  Project Manager