George Lambie

Experience

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  COMEX

  Mar 1982 - Aug 1987

  Inspection Diver

  Inspection and NDT Diver - Offshore Oil Industry.Comex / Comex Houlder Diving Limited / Comex Middle East / Comex Norge

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  Sysnet

  Jan 1989 - Jan 1995

  Technical Director

  (Systems & Networks Limited)

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  Lotus Development (An IBM Company)

  Aug 1996 - Jan 2000

  Responsible for technical design and deployment of solutions based on specific products within the IBM Lotus software product family. Systems Engineer working with UK Corporate Sales division of Lotus Development UK Limited.

  • Senior Consultant

    Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

  • Systems Engineer

    Aug 1996 - Aug 1998
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  IBM

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2002

  IT Systems Architect

  Responsible for technical design and deployment of solutions based on specific products within the IBM Lotus software product family.

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  Diageo

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2004

  IT Infrastructure Architect

  Responsible for redesign and implementation of Diageo's corporate LDAP directory and providing the foundation for policy-based authentication and authorisation across the enterprise using the Computer Associates SiteMinder product.

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  IBM

  Jan 2004 - Nov 2012

  Technical Project Manager

  Responsible for project management of projects delivered under contract by IBM Software Services Group on behalf of its clients. Projects generally involving the implementation and configuration of IBM software products, custom application development or supporting infrastructure.

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  Hewlett-Packard

  May 2013 - Apr 2016

  Senior Project Manager

  Responsible for core infrastructure and systems integration project with an overall project value of £9M to deliver the next technology baseline release of the Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) for deployed land and maritime environments.The project involves the design, proof of concept and industrialization of a highly secure and resilient mobile technology infrastructure deployed to the military theatre of operations. Core capabilities include directory services, user provisioning, messaging, synchronous collaboration (Lync), asynchronous collaboration (SharePoint), systems monitoring (SCOM), database serves (SQL), service desk, security and access management, wide-area networking, SAN-based storage, backup and recovery. Show less

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  J.P. Morgan

  May 2016 - Jul 2017

  Contract IT Project Manager

  Project Manager for Global Technology Refresh of J.P Morgan Equities Production and Disaster Recovery (DR) Linux hosts and SQL dataserver infrastructure in North America and Asia; with the associated migration of large volumes of SAN data from old to new environments undertaken during a series of pre-planned weekends operations. The North American host/dataserver/SAN infrastructure was consolidated from 3 to 2 geographically separated data centres to support JP Morgan’s disaster recovery standards.Similar technology infrastructure refreshes and consolidation were successfully undertaken in Hong Kong and South Korea.Cost savings in excess of $1M USD were achieved for the JP Morgan Equities line of business through consolidation of the overall supporting infrastructure and the subsequent decommissioning of redundant assets (hosts, SQL dataservers and SAN storage). Show less

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  Police Scotland

  Nov 2017 - Jul 2022

  Senior Project Manager

  Projects and Programmes within Police Scotland:1. July 2021 – Present“Transforming Corporate Services Programme” • EDMS Project – Implementation of an on-premise electronic document management system – “ELO Digital Office” • E-Recruitment Project – Implementation of a cloud-based e-recruitment service for the recruitment of police officers and staff.2. November 2017 – July 2021“Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme” (ESMCP)The Emergency Services Network will replace the existing Airwave communications network used by the police, fire and rescue, and ambulance services in the UK.ESN will transmit fast, safe and secure voice, video and data across the 4G network and give first responders immediate access to life-saving data, images and information in live situations and emergencies on the frontline. Show less

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  Kyndryl

  Aug 2022 - Jan 2023

  Infrastructure Project Manager
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  Barclays

  Jan 2023 - now

  Infrastructure Project Manager

  BARCLAYS ZSCALER PROGRAMME (“Secure Network Access”, SNA) An enterprise security transformation programme deploying cloud-based web proxy security services to support 100,000+ Barclays colleagues (UK, US, Europe, Asia). Replacing the legacy on-premise technology stack and providing secure access to internet and internally hosted applications.Project management of “Core Workstream” including “Zscaler Internet Access” (ZIA) and “Zscaler Private Access” (ZPA).Working directly with Zscaler Professional Services in the areas of Requirements Gathering, Solution Design, Policy Configuration, Pilot Deployment, Testing and Regional Deployment Planning.Identifying applications, user populations and traffic to be secured (e.g. internet, SaaS and private applications). Implementing a risk-based approach to cloud and internet applications with conditional access based on Cloud App Control, Active Directory membership and remote browser isolation. Show less