David Grant

Experience

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  Edinburgh District Council, Edinburgh

  Jan 1985 - Jan 1986

  Data Entry Clerk
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  Queen Street Oyster Bar

  Jan 1986 - Jan 1989

  Bar Manager
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  General Register Office

  Jan 1989 - Jan 1990

  Analyst/Programmer

  ScotlandResponsible for the design, writing, testing and documenting of COBOL programmes and surrounding SCL scripts. Also responsible for the maintenance of existing programmes involving the proper testing and documenting of all changes made to production system software.

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  General Register Office (Scotland)

  Jan 1990 - Dec 1993

  Mainframe Technical Support

  Provide technical support for the departments ICL VME Mainframe computer system. Responsible for management and maintenance of systems hardware and software. Also responsible for developing testing and maintaining SCL scipts for custom jobs. Deputised for Mainframe Systems Manager on staff management for 12 Operations staff and 40 Data Entry staff.

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  General Register Office

  Jan 1993 - Jan 1999

  Scotland. Responsible for assisting in the planning, provision and control of IT Infrastructure services for the department. Including design and implementation of ITIL compliant procedures for IT Infrastructure mgt. Additionally responsible for investigating and reporting on new technologies and managing implementation projects under PRINCE project mgt guidelines. Scotland.Responsible for system administration and technical support of the departments UNIX platforms (Sequent, SCO and HP). Also participated in small scale implementation projects as both team member and manager.

  • IT Infrastructure Support Team Leader

    Jan 1996 - Jan 1999

  • UNIX Systems Administrator

    Jan 1993 - Jan 1996
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  Mitel

  Feb 1999 - Aug 2010

  Role ResponsibilitiesResponsible for managing the Mitel Data Center defining, designing and implementing Mitel's Data Center Infrastructure Strategy and for ensuring the cost effective provisioning of IT services in support of business success. Work with other IT groups to ensure business services are provided as needed and downtime is kept to planned windows agreed with key business owners. Manage 3rd party maintenance and support relationships with vendors and suppliers of services to the Mitel Data Center. Take the Project management lead on Data Center Infrastructure related initiatives. Assist in the planning and management of the overall IT Budget, and manage directly specific Project Budgets. Show less

  • Data Center Manager

    Jul 2003 - Aug 2010

  • IT Manager

    Feb 1999 - Jul 2003
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  Hewlett Packard Enterprise

  Aug 2010 - Mar 2013

  Solution Architect

  Solution Architect working in the Data Center Consolidation and Transformation Practice (DCT) team. Responsible for the delivery of DCT consultancy services to HP customers, and for assisting HP Pursuit Teams to win new business.

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  Embotics Corporation

  Mar 2013 - Sept 2014

  Product Solutions Manager

  One of the key business and technical interfaces for all Embotics customers, working with them to help build strong relationships and ensure that they gain the best possible value from Embotics Cloud Management Platform and Embotics Services.

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  Innovapost

  Dec 2014 - Feb 2015

  Data Center Transition Project Manager

  Engaged as a Data Centre Project consultant to assist the customer with a large Data Center Transition Project. Working primarily within the Network Tower to assist with the foundational DC services and ensure that things are ready for the Move Group Project Managers to begin their transitions.

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  Bell ETI Project

  Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

  Senior Project Manager Contract

  Worked with the Bell PMO on the SSC Email Transformation Initiative Project for the Government of Canada

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  Brookfield Renewable

  Nov 2015 - Jul 2016

  Data Center & IT Infrastructure Project Manager

  Project Manager with the Brookfield NA PMO (Contractor). Worked on various project and program initiatives for the Brookfield NA group covering office reorganizations, technical debt, and data center infrastructure.

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  Canadian Blood Services

  Jul 2016 - Mar 2020

  Successfully completed a Data Centre Program to deliver on Canadian Blood Services Data Centre Strategy. The program involved developing the business case for a Data Centre migration project and obtaining the funding required to set up and execute a high level program plan to migrate Canadian Blood Services critical IT services into two new colocation data centre facilities.The plan included RFPs for the selection of a Colocation Data Centre partner, a Data Centre Migration partner, and the procurement of net new IT infrastructure equipment for the implementation of a new data centre solution design.The two new colocation data centre sites were selected and the IT infrastructure built and tested before the successful migration of the critical IT services to the new sites. Show less

  • Associate Director, Enterprise Services

    Aug 2019 - Mar 2020

  • Director, IT Operations & Infrastructure

    Apr 2019 - Aug 2019

  • Program Manager, Infrastructure Services, IT Ops & Infrastructure

    Jul 2016 - Apr 2019
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  Hewlett Packard Enterprise

  Apr 2020 - Oct 2021

  Project Director

  Working with HPE to assist Shared Services Canada with their long term Data Centre initiatives in the Workload Migration and Digital Communications and Collaboration streams.