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Simon Blackwell

Simon Blackwell

Technical Consultant

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Business Consultancy Manager at ADVT Software Services

  • Education

    • De Montfort University

      1986 - 1988
      HND Computer Studies

  • Experience

    • Marcam

      Jan 1995 - Jan 2001
      Technical Consultant

    • MCKEOWN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING LTD.

      Mar 2001 - Jun 2002
      Technical Consultant

      On site and remote installation and upgrade of Integra Finance systems with a main particular focus on migrating old ‘flat file’ systems to Oracle relational database

    • Torex Plc

      Jun 2002 - Dec 2004
      Oracle Technical Consultant

      Onsite Implementation and upgrading Oracle databases and Oracle E-Business Suite systems for the NHS Shared Financial Systems.t

    • ISOFT

      Jan 2005 - Apr 2006
      Oracle Application Technical Consultant

      Upgrading and support of Oracle databases and Oracle E-Business Suite systems for the NHS Shared Financial Systems. Including on site and remote support. Migrated from Oracle EBS 11.5.7 - 11.5.9

    • CAPITA IB SOLUTIONS (UK) LIMITED

      May 2006 - Aug 2023

      Overall responsibility for the Oracle Financials Practice delivering solutions to NHS Shared Business Services who provide Finance and Procurement Services for over 50% of the NHS Organisations in England, over 4000 concurrent users, £3bn of payment transactions, 100,000’s procurement transactions and invoices per month.Providing governance and top-level escalation to the Service Delivery Manager regarding SLA and support issue management.Project management and oversight of all project’s (including quarterly security patching, biannual application patching, major application upgrades and architecture upgrades) with special attention to identify resource clashes (both human and architecture) where each project could affect another project or the service delivery to the end users.Oversaw the project management of one of the largest Oracle migrations from a private on premises data centre to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with a successful go live with minimal issues. Show less

      • Program Manager

        Aug 2019 - Aug 2023

      • Service Delivery Manager

        May 2012 - Aug 2019

      • Information Technology Support Team Lead

        Apr 2009 - May 2012

      • Oracle Application Technical Consultant

        May 2006 - Apr 2009

    • ADVT Software Services

      Sept 2023 - now
      Business Consulting Manager

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • PRINCE2 Practitioner

      PeopleCert
      Jul 2019