Chris Jones

Experience

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  Royal Navy

  Sept 1984 - Sept 2012

  Engineering Director

  A “first career” of significant personal and professional development from entry, as an Engineer Apprentice, to retirement, as the Engineering Head of Department at the rank of Lieutenant Commander.Career provided extensive technical, systems, test and personnel management experience with numerous engineering / project focused roles to introduce and sustain the military capability generated by the full range of maritime combat systems and delivered by leading and motivating teams of highly qualified technicians. Show less

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  Amazon

  Nov 2012 - Nov 2012

  Engineering & Facilities Manager
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  Computacenter

  Nov 2013 - Jan 2024

  • Successful IT infrastructure lead project and test manager operating at a senior level within a wide range of UK blue chip companies• Project technologies and solutions include data centre transformations and server migrations, windows desktop upgrades, infrastructure build outs and Citrix mobility solution. • Consistently employed Computacenter’s adapted Prince2 methodology, to plan, manage, monitor and report Profitability/Governance and track Risks, Actions, Issues and Dependencies of projects delivered. • Excellent client feedback received as a result of effective stakeholder engagement and communication ability; achieving internal recognition awards and successive promotions Show less Project at MAJOR BRITISH RETAIL & COMMERCIAL BANK Completed two engagements at central London based national bank employed on the client side working with a major global IT delivery company involved in a £260m on/off premises cloud programme; First engagement was a 3-month assignment as Cloud operating model strategy and planning PM, providing management of senior consultancy resources engaged in the assessment and maturity of the Banks’ cloud operating model. Second engagement was a 6-month assignment embedded in the Bank’s central PMO in the role of deliverables, dependencies and obligation acceptance manager and programme plan oversight. Show less Project at a UK "BIG 6” ENERGY COMPANY Integration work stream PM / Lead PM for Mobile Managed Service with leading UK Energy company.Role included lead PM during initiation stage and then management of challenging ITSC/ITSM (Service Now to Remedy) Integration work stream, with particular emphasis on close management of 3rd party suppliers. Test and release management competences significantly utilised in this role, as was the adherence to selected Agile methods. Service management focus was maintained throughout the transition assignment and successful relationships fostered to enable fulfilment of deliverables to enable the Service. Show less Project at MAJOR GLOBAL PAYMENTS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LPM responsible for windows server migration project into newly built software defined data centre, which was completed within a highly aggressive timeline. Project required employment of circa 25 consultant personnel and associated project / test resources. Project Professional service baseline cost £1.2m LPM responsible for the implementation and migration of a Citrix XenMobile enterprise mobility solution to the Corporate Executive leadership team and Director level personnel. Concurrent 6 months Programme Change Manager role also conducted in this role Show less Project at GLOBAL CRUISE OPERATOR Implementation Project manager for new build cruise ship IT project. Project technologies included Datacentre, SRM, Network and end user deployment. Approach comprised of system proving at UK build and test environment and subsequent logistics move for implementation phase at North Italian shipyard.Successful project complicated despite arduous build environment within the Italian shipyard and absolute deadlines. Show less Project at NATIONAL RAIL TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE ORGANISATION Transformation and Transition Programme plan manager requiring extensive liaison with key stakeholders and identification of risks / issues to key milestone to Programme board.Transformation test manager - evidence compilation and defect reporting of component and system integration testing during transformation build; creation and ownership of Test Completion Reports throughout Client’s Test Assurance processes. Show less

  • Head of Global Service Desk Systems

    Dec 2021 - Jan 2024

  • Senior Project Manager

    Jun 2013 - Dec 2021

  • Test Manager

    Jun 2018 - Jul 2018

  • Senior Project Manager

    Oct 2017 - May 2018

  • Senior Project Manager

    Nov 2016 - Aug 2017

  • Lead Project Manager

    May 2015 - Aug 2016

  • Implementation Project Manager

    Oct 2014 - Mar 2015

  • Project Manager

    Apr 2014 - Oct 2014

  • Lead Project Manager

    Jan 2014 - Apr 2014

  • Lead Project Manager

    Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
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  Self Employed

  Jan 2024 - Nov 2024

  Career break
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  Carbon60 Project Services

  Dec 2024 - now

  Information Technology Delivery Change Management Consultant