Profile
An experienced Programme Manager/ Senior Project Manager, working in the public and the private sector
Organisations include:
- Electronic Data Systems EDS/ HP
- The Greenery (auction)
- DSM (petrochemical Industry)
- Ericsson (telecommunication)
- General Motors GMAC (automotive industry)
- Department for Work and Pensions (Government)
- Capita PLC
- Birmingham Council (Local Authority)
- Hartshead (pensions)
- Resolution (insurances)
- BBC (Broadcasting)
- Durham BSF (education)
- TfL (Congestion Charge)
- CHKS (Healthcare Intelligence)
- Agilisys (professional services)
- London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
- Deloitte PLC
- Advanced 365
- Procserve
- Ruffer Investment Management
- Cazenove Capital
- South Downs National Park
- Wogen Resources
- BT Professional Services
- Truro County Council
- Tate Galleries
- London Borough of Islington
- London Borough of Westminster
- Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
- London Borough of Enfield
- Onesource
- London Borough of Havering and Newham
- London Borough of Lambeth
Running large scale programmes with budgets up to 10 million
Degree educated; L.L. B Erasmus University Rotterdam (Civil law) in 1990; B.Sc.I.T. Erasmus University Rotterdam (Information Technology)
Professional qualifications; Prince2 Practitioner, MSP Practitioner, Microsoft Certified Professional, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, PMI Project Management Professional
Azure Migration: Application migration from on premise datacentre to Microsoft Azure cloud. Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service.
Microsoft OS upgrades: Managing upgrades on laptops, desktops and servers. (XP, W7, W10, Server 2016/19) Full project lifecycle application migration, testing and deployment.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: Managing VDI upgrades and new implementations with products from Citrix, XenApp/XenDesktop, WVD and VMWare Horizon
Microsoft product upgrade, migration and implementation; Exchange on premise to online migration, Skype to Teams migration, Office 365 implementation, SharePoint migration, Intune implementation, Yammer implementation and SCCM implementation
Financial Management: writing the financial business case, cost management and forecasting.
Third Party Management: managing contractors and time material/ fixed price work packages
LAN implementations: network upgrades covering WI-FI, distribution switches, core switches, firewalls and routers
WAN implementations: covering design, circuit upgrades and commissioning.
Security: Palo Alto Global Protect, Zero Trust network security
Datacentre migration: Migration from physical servers to virtual servers, application migration to Azure and AWS
Procurement Process: Local Government procurement using Crown Commercial Services, G-Cloud, and full tender for hardware, software and professional services
SD-WAN migration: Plan, design, testing an implementation
An energetic, motivated and creative Programme Manager with a strong background in transformation, hardware, software implementations and CMMI assessments