Experience

JELD-WEN UK

• United Kingdom
• Building Materials
• 100 - 200 Employee

• HCM Programme Manager

  • Nov 2021 - Present



DLA Piper

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Global Solutions Projects Manager

  • May 2021 - Nov 2021



Eversheds Sutherland

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• IT Programme Manager

  • Apr 2019 - Apr 2020

  Dave was engaged to lead an International SAP SuccessFactors delivery programme, to replace the company’s legacy HR and UK Payroll systems, building on an initial implementation of SuccessFactors Employee Central (EC). Working with the senior leadership team he took overall ownership and accountability for the budget and delivery of the Programme to support the delivery of a new Target operating model to provide shared services across all European locations. The Programme delivered the fastest UK implementation of UK payroll in ECP and the first implementation in a UK Legal Firm. He led the mobilisation of the Compensation and Rewards, Employee relations, recruitment and onboarding, Learning and development and international Payroll deliveries. With overall responsibility and accountability for the end to end delivery, he had day to day responsibility for the Multimillion-pound Budget, forecasting , planning and resourcing of the programme overall. He managed additional 3rd party solution providers deliveries that integrated with SuccessFactors , including Access Pay for BACS payments, Job points and Standard life Lifelens implementations deploying the solutions to company mobile devices.



TMF Group

• Netherlands
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior IT Projects / Programme Manager

  • Sep 2014 - Jan 2019

  Dave led all IT deliverables of a new shared services Payroll solution for an end client, in Russia. The solution provided payroll for 3600 + employees and required the integration with their internal SAP ERP solution. He then led a new programme of work for the scoping initiation and delivery of a new Russian data centre capability, including the migration of the existing business applications hosted in EMEA to the new Russian DC . He then led all IT deliveries of a New Multimillion pound, internally developed, Web application and was responsible for the IT engagement with the senior business stakeholders, while managing all Infrastructure, release and support functions. He lead the migration of the application hosting to Azure His final engagement was to undertake 2 separate pieces of work . The first was to lead the Local Securitisation project to strengthening the AD policies for Local countries and all end points. He also lead a Global review of the IT monitoring capabilities , across IT as a whole identify solutions to cover Application Performance monitoring (APM) , Infrastructure (SCOM) , Security, SEIM, EUEM and external Web Performance and availability.



Acutest (Part of Trustmarque)

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Environment Delivery Consultant

  • Jun 2014 - Sep 2014

  Acutest is an independent software testing consultancy who concentrate solely on testing software, business processes and IT with the goal of helping their customers to achieve the benefits of their technology-enabled change faster. They enable their customers to reduce the cost of change, increase the speed of change and improve the governance of change. Dave was engaged to provide consultancy services to Acutest to support their Testing engagement with a high profile end client and how they could provide additional services including environment management. The engagement focused on developing a strategy for the effective use of the end client’s limited infrastructure availability to minimise costs, whilst supporting a critical business delivery which was highly dependent upon the upgrade, development and enhancement of 100+ applications, which Acutest had been engaged to test.



ATE Europe

• Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Programme Manager

  • Jan 2014 - Jun 2014

  Working directly for the Managing Director of ATE Europe, the role is to drive the technical specification, business positioning and development of a brand new product and service offering for corporate clients to deliver a PREDICTIVE Data Centre control solution, building on their existing Monitoring and alerting solutions. Utilising leading edge ultra high speed database with the latest in encryption technology it delivers an integrated predictive Data Centre, infrastructure, network, server and application monitoring solution to enable an organisation to PREDICT potential downtime scenarios or failures and enable them to react before the event occurs. The solution incorporating the use of the latest in high speed ciphering encryption technology and will enable the next step in cloud based services, hosting and solutions delivery.



Barclays

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Programme Manager - Edocuments (Contract)

  • Jun 2013 - Dec 2013

  The programme of work covered the ingestion of millions of bank generated customer documents, utilising the Banks CloudIt application. The programme delivered a single customer view of all of the banks communications with an individual, or organisation that was available directly to the end customer, via the cloud through mobile technology. Responsible for the delivery of the e-Documents programme, part of the Banks CloudIt programme, reporting directly to the Programme Director. This includes the overall responsibility for the technical, business and financial delivery of the programme including 3rd party suppliers. Matrix Management 40+ People – UK, India and 3rd party suppliers



RR Donnelley

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Programme Manager (Contract)

  • Sep 2010 - Apr 2013

  RR Donnelley is the world's premier full-service provider of print and related solutions. The Data Center Relocation Programme , for a service delivered to a major high street bank, comprised multiple work streams, including New Unix infrastructure deployment, Data Center relocation to a third party managed service, implementation of Service management monitoring and reporting ,Application and data migration of 9 Billion objects and the implementation of Data Retention regulatory requirements. Achievements • Planned all stages of the Programme, from mobilisation to implementation, agreed all stage entry and exit criteria, both internally and with the end clients senior Programme management team. • Managed 3rd party suppliers including IBM, ensuring that they delivered the agreed product scope in terms of time quality and cost. • Managed the internal and external change control and configuration management for all Programme and work stream scope. Managed issue resolution and problem management meetings with internal and third party service providers • Managed Programme budget of £15M delivering the Programme below budget. • Developed and built strong relationships with Business, Technology and 3rd party service providers, ensuring that all parties are aware of the relevant elements of the Programme, and bought fully into key decisions, deliverable and Programme plan.



Rolls-Royce

• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Application Migration and Data Centre Consolidation Programme Manager (Contract)

  • Feb 2009 - Aug 2010

  AEC was a newly formed joint venture between Rolls Royce and Goodrich ECS, the IT Consolidation Programme was key to bringing the two companies infrastructure, IT operations, LAN and WAN network and business applications together into a single entity. Initially responsible for the application migration and consolidation of 650 + applications, including the update of the Wintel, Unix and NAS storage infrastructure. The applications were originally hosted in two data centers and which were migrated in to a new Computer facility. I had responsibility for the definition of new standard infrastructure platforms, including the upgrade of 1700 client desktops to Windows 7 / office 2010, 30+ UNIX servers and the virtualisation of 70+ windows servers with VMware. I was responsible for the end to end Programme taking on additional responsibilities for the organisational redesign, outsourcing of the delivery services and day to day operations of IT. Achievements • Developed the change management Programme work stream structure and governance model and recruited and managed the Programme resources on a day to day basis, including 4 senior project managers, 3 IT Architects, Information security manger and IT operations manager. • Initiated the desktop refresh and application packaging Programme. • Managed multiple 3rd party service providers including DELL and Microsoft • Gained software licence Compliance agreement with Microsoft • Engaged major service providers to provide Service desk selection and implementation, Network monitoring, windows Virtualisation, application migration and upgrade of the EMC NAS / SAN storage. • Acted as the interim Operations manager, managing the day to day BAU activities for a team of 16 internal personnel and 20+ external consultants • Working closely with all of the business areas developed the current state assessment and project delivery plan for the migration and consolidation of the 650+ applications down to less than 350.



Alliance & Leicester

• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Infastructure Environments Programme Manager

  • Oct 2007 - Jan 2009

  Appointed to initiate, develop and implement the new Environment Delivery function within Alliance and Leicester’s IT function. The Environments Manager was a new Senior IT appointment and solely accountable for the deployment, delivery and operation change of All new Infrastructure to support, Integrated Application development, Test and Production environments requirements across the group for ALL Projects and programmes.(Including IBM Mainframe, UNIX, Wintel, BT Networks and TPM, TIM, Tamos, Web Sphere, Oracle, Connect Direct MQ and Application Service Delivery). Achievements • Maximised the usage of existing infrastructure and application test areas across 2 data centres, whilst identifying, procuring and implementing new infrastructures requirements, including the implementation of a new outsourced segregated BT network, a new Strategic storage solution, 18 New IBM P570’s whilst delivering the environments in a timely manner to support the overall programme of work. • Working with 8 Programme / project managers and 4 Systems architects, was responsible for the delivery of an initial consolidated environments plan for a major change initiative across the Alliance and Leicester replacing the core Banking engine, and the Webs sphere applications, covering in excess of 70 new and existing applications. • Managed, on a day to day basis, a virtual operations team across the IT function, to ensure the delivery of the required integrated environments, to agreed service levels, additionally recruited a number of new implementation Managers to work with specific Programme streams. • Managed a 2 year budget profile, in excess of £20M, for resources and Infrastructure requirements to support the delivery of the change initiatives. • Drove the development of new, standard, Infrastructure building blocks to ensure future infrastructure requirements could be delivered in a standard, timely and cost effective manner.



Barclays

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Projects Manager – Infrastructure and Service delivery (Contract)

  • Oct 2006 - Oct 2007

  Woking as part of the Platforms Project management function, within Barclays Infrastructure and service delivery department, I managed a number of concurrent business and IT change Projects, with senior business managers internally to the technology office. Achievements • Restructured an existing Data Warehouse programme team of 25+ full time personnel, to re-prioritising their deliverables, focusing on maximising the delivery of business driven benefits. Key requirements included supporting the development of a new Internet Banking capability, based on the Warehouse, Marketing and private banking. Had Day to day management, support and mentoring to the four Project Mangers and their teams, to ensure successful and timely delivery. • Delivered a New Infrastructure and Service Delivery proposal, through accelerated estimating, for the implementation of a Legal Spend management application. (AIMS) (Oracle and Unix) • Managed the Financial engagement and Governance of two Infrastructure Audit remediation projects for the Unix Infrastructure component team. • Gained client buy in and approval for the implementation of a Legal Document Management project, Interwoven, and mobilised the project for handover to BAU.



Marks and Spencer

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Portfolio Manager IT Security Programme (Contract)

  • May 2006 - Oct 2006

  The M&S Security change Programme delivered a number of business critical initiatives covering Security Monitoring and Reporting, Identity and Access Management, Network Controls and Corporate Anti virus. The programme also provided Security Consultative and governance services to all of the other M&S I projects. (Including SAP, ORACLE, WebSphere, SQL and Microsoft) Achievements • The Implementation of pragmatic programme governance, reporting and financial control of the £1.6 million budget to ensure the successful delivery for the 2006 Security Programme. • Provision of day to day management of the 22 cross functional team members and the mentoring to the four sub Project Mangers, resulting in the successful and timely delivery of the projects • The hiring of additional resources with appropriate skills to facilitate the delivery of the four core projects and the building of a “B.A.U.” team with services procured from a 3rd party service provider. • Implementation of effective resource management processes and the provision of consultative security resources to support Non security driven projects across the business.



Barclays Wealth Management

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Windows Application Migration Manager (Contract)

  • Feb 2005 - May 2006

  The Gerrard Integration Programmes objective was to migrate all of the 1200+ Gerrard personnel from Old Mutual Investment bank to new premises along with the migration and rollout of 100+ Windows server based applications, 4 core Oracle / UNIX applications and the implementation of a new 3 tier technical architecture and data centre managed service. Achievements • Formulated a “new approach” to the £3Million migration of both the Unix and Windows Application migration, to achieve the fixed end date, whilst maintaining the overall programme budget and minimising the programmes risks. This proposal was adopted by the programme and delivered. • Developed and implemented the hardware, software and disaster recovery designs, including WAN, LAN Firewall, Intranet, Internet and thick client technology. • Developed and managed the overall windows application project plans, UAT and OAT testing strategy and data migration activities whilst managing, on a day to day basis, the projects R.A.I.D’s, budget, and a cross functional team including 6 3rd party suppliers for the Windows server based application migration. • Recruited appropriate Technical Architect, Application Packaging and Windows Development resources to meet the project deadlines, whilst maintaining the projects budget constraints.



Santander

• Spain
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• IT Solutions Delivery Senior Project Manager (Contract)

  • Nov 2004 - Feb 2005

  Abbey Solutions Delivery was responsible for all IT delivery throughout the Abbey group. Reporting to the Programme director for the IAS, SOX, Basel 2 and GL transformation programme across finance, I had an interim responsibility for the Mobilisation of four, multimillion pound, projects across the programme. Achievements • Established initial Issues, Risks, Assumptions and dependencies for the 4 projects. • Implemented corrective and mitigating actions for the Issues and Risks. • Supported the business users through the Budget submission process. • Developed initial detailed development and implementation Project plans. • Identified and sourced the appropriate resources to staff the project teams.



CGI

• Canada
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Projects manager

  • Feb 2004 - Sep 2004

  Cox IT services provides all IT Services, implementation and development for Cox Insurance, one of the UK’s major Insurance Companies. Reporting to the Senior Account management team led 6 concurrent business critical infrastructure related projects, using Prince 2 and Microsoft project. Managed the application development project for an outsourced application development project for an EPOS solution. As a member of the senior management team managed the transition of the complete IT Operation to an outsourced 3rd party service provider. Achievements • Lead the Infrastructure project for a business critical migration of a £7 million new business operation from a leading competitor, working closely with the systems J2EE development personnel, responsible for setting up a new 120 seat Call Centre, utilising Citrix, deployment of new desktop machines, provision of telecommunications services and upgrading of the LAN. • Managed the implementation of an upgraded Meridian PABX telephone solution for 550 users in one of the Key business office facilities. • Implemented a business critical DR solution, application change requests and the migration of the IT support functions to the central IT service team, for the underwriting division. The project required the management of internal,3rd party and outsourced resources. • Managed the network segregation and transition of IT support activities for a business critical operation to the outsourced 3rd party service provider. • Developed the project brief for a GIS based job management system for the Mechanical breakdown division of Cox. • Managed the technical integration of a new business acquisition.



Longview Solutions - insightsoftware

• Canada
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• UK Projects Manager

  • Jan 2002 - Jan 2004

  This North American Software House, competing with Hyperion, Cognos, Oracle etc, provides BPM (budgeting, forecasting, reporting and financial consolidation) software for Tier 1 organisations, and supports Sarbanes-Oxley regulatory requirements. Reporting to the UK Client Services Director lead the Client delivery Team, overseeing the UK client based implementations, training, and personal development of the consultants. Sitting on the Project steering boards / steering groups for all engagements, whilst managing concurrent client based engagements.



MSX International

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• European projects manager

  • 2001 - Jan 2002

  Headhunted by this multi-national Engineering Services outsourcing company to manage one off special projects for the European CFO. Achievements • Remit was rapidly extended, responsible for extensive range of European and Global projects including the setup of a shared service operation for European Finance • Delivered the European development, configuration and implementation of Hyperion, to support the Corporate Financial Reporting requirements. • Successfully managed integration of 3 major European $multi million acquisitions concurrently, implementing and harmonising HR, IT, Facilities and business processes in 12 months. The virtual project team comprised of 100+ representatives spread across the different business areas and European locations with a budget of £200 Million.



KPMG UK

• United Kingdom
• Accounting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Executive Management Consultant / Senior Service Delivery Manager ERP

  • 1997 - 2001

  Although a senior member of the European JD Edwards implementation team was hand picked to project manage the design, development and delivery of KPMG’s Academy for the induction and initial training of new and junior Consultants. Appointed to the senior management team to manage the set up and mobilisation of the KPMG Outsourcing practise, a joint venture with HP. Although a senior member of the European JD Edwards implementation team was hand picked to project manage the design, development and delivery of KPMG’s Academy for the induction and initial training of new and junior Consultants. Appointed to the senior management team to manage the set up and mobilisation of the KPMG Outsourcing practise, a joint venture with HP.



Mid kent Holdings

• Projects manager

  • 1996 - 1998

  •Joined Mid Kent as a Project Manager and within 6 months was promoted to Projects Manager, leading 2 Project Managers and 2 Team Leaders. •Promoted to Systems Development Manager in the next 7 months, subsequently acting as number 2 to the IT Manager with responsibility for all IT development across the holding company and its subsidiaries. •Managed a team of 7 full time personnel and a budget of c£1.5m, led up to 38 concurrent projects. Followed a combination of Prince, SSADM and Prism methodologies