Lead System Integration Architect

• Aug 2021 - Present

Project Manager / Environments and Release Pogramme Manager

• Apr 2019 - Jul 2019

• Senior Portfolio Project Manager on 12 infrastructure projects across NWR, including the Privilege Access Management programme and mandatory Windows 2008 replacement programme.• Leadership, technical strategy and management of project scoping, resourcing, planning, dependency management, financing and assuring ongoing support.

(SI) Programme Environments and Release Manager

• Apr 2018 - Apr 2019

• Environments and Release Manager on the strategic ‘ORBIS’ programme (7 projects).• Accountable as Systems Integrator for the IT delivery of a strategic project within the ORBIS programme.• Represented DXC at the Network Rail head office and programme HQ in London Euston offices.• Designed and matrix managed the delivery and support of the SIT and UAT test environments: Oracle databases, IIB, WebLogic, ELLIPSE (app with multiple VMs and a database holding NR assets), 1Spatial Mapping application.• Created and managed the implementation plan, change request for the production release and saw it through to implementation and ELS.• Collaborated with IT department heads, PMs and subject matter experts across Network Rail and DXC to prioritise and drive through the ORBIS delivery. • Agreed specific planned work impacting each work area and integrated IT delivery plans with ORBIS project plans.• Gained buy-in from operations team for the solution and ongoing support. • Kept abreast of incidents across NWR infrastructure, making prioritisation decisions if incidents impacted the ORBIS delivery.• Published a bi-weekly RAID dashboard report across all ORBIS projects to report progress and strategies. Show less

Technical Integration Environments Manager

• Feb 2016 - Dec 2017

• (Security Cleared) - part of the core UK wide SMART Metering programme, led the delivery of secure technical interfaces between the Government, telecommunications companies Arqiva and O2 Telefonica, CGI (the integrator) and service providers (British Gas, Scottish Power, EON). • Developed a set of control documents including process flows, integration test scripts, MS Project & Excel plans, RACI and RAID. Managed the integration setup as a project. • Ran technical workshops between SI (Triage and Testing), Security, Network specialists, Testers, Application SMEs, PMs across Organisations, to execute Test integration scripts, prove new security processes, data compatibility, prove integration defect fixes. • Managed cross-party triage investigations and drove through resolution of prioritised defects (HP ALM). • Effectively adopted a leadership role as the team grew, throughout delivery, testing and go-live. • Collaborated with department leads in all organisations - lead architects, cyber-security, networking and Test management to ensure the successful rollout of the UK-wide SMART metering programme, with direct responsibility for the CGI-Arqiva interface, gaining director level commendation. Show less

OEL Application Migration Environments Manager

• Oct 2015 - Dec 2015

• Designed the migration strategy, produced the plans for the re-platforming of c.50 systems hosted on Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL). • Sized the requirement and collaborated with the supplier manager and lead architect to manage the tender, chaired workshops with local data centre providers and impacted their proposals. • Worked with an external Cloud security consultant to explore the security considerations with the local data centre providers. • Produced a detailed migration plan following a decision to migrate to an interim in-house server/storage solution IBM-wide reseller. Show less

Programme Environments Manager

• Oct 2014 - Apr 2015

• Delivered test environments amid a total revamp of IT driven by a mainframe replacement with an application suite, wholesale upgrades and replacements of other associated applications. • Created the organisation-wide Environment & Release strategy document and established the first Environment demand management workshop. • Designed, planned and delivered a full end-to-end Test environment (c.10 servers and related databases) within a short window, using the ‘War Room’ to ensure suppliers delivery promises were recorded and reflected in a published delivery plan, to assure a quick delivery, supported by C-level executives. Show less

Programme Environments Delivery & Release Manager

• Mar 2013 - Jan 2014

• Matrix managed principal vendors TIBCO and Insight2Value, EDM (Electronic Data Management), Computacenter and KCom to make all NFUM UK-wide branches paperless - Budget £1.5 million. • With £1.5m working budget, delivered the test and production environments and produced the Environment Strategy document defining the delivery and operational management processes to support the environments through the delivery and release cycles, across vendors and functions. • Solved a £50k/week investigation into transaction failures close to go-live. Show less

Lead Environments Manager

• Nov 2008 - Sep 2012

• Team lead for c.2 years for the Service and Recovery business (S&R) with 5 direct reports. • Programme board member feeding governance, risks and issues into the programme plan, for managing, allocating and extending existing c.15 e2e environments. • Defined, documented and managed the Environments Management service (processes and catalogue) for the ‘Service and Recovery’ business of British Gas. • Produced RAID, KPI metrics & Dashboard reports. • Resolved environment scheduling conflicts, security and longer-term strategy planning (e.g. capacity, migrations, re-architecting for new projects). • Supported a 1-year Data Centre migration from T-Systems data centres to HP data centres. • Migrations and upgrades: Oracle based Pricing, Work Force Management (WMIS), Customer Parts (Banner) Oracle on Solaris, Tuxedo and E-Gate middleware and Maestro scheduling. Show less

Oracle Environments Manager

• Apr 2007 - Jul 2008

For a Funds Acquisition programme, planned and coordinated the build of several Oracle based Test environments. For a Funds Acquisition programme, planned and coordinated the build of several Oracle based Test environments.

Environment Manager

• Jul 2006 - Jan 2007

Planned and coordinated the creation of the Business Simulation, UAT, Pre-Production and Production environments : full stack including BSCS Billing, Siebel, Oracle ERP, POS, EAI Tibco, Web portal, Directory Enquiries, Service Management, Network Management, Payments. Planned and coordinated the creation of the Business Simulation, UAT, Pre-Production and Production environments : full stack including BSCS Billing, Siebel, Oracle ERP, POS, EAI Tibco, Web portal, Directory Enquiries, Service Management, Network Management, Payments.

Environment Manager

• Feb 2006 - Jul 2006

• Retail Sales Transformation project - Vodafone – IIS / SQL Server • Retail Sales Transformation project - Vodafone – IIS / SQL Server

Environment Manager

• Sep 2004 - Nov 2005

• British Gas Online, BGTB (British Gas Tariff Billing Mainframe – data extraction and re-modelling), www.House.co.uk – IIS/SQL Server, electricity system storage upgrade – Oracle/Cobol • British Gas Online, BGTB (British Gas Tariff Billing Mainframe – data extraction and re-modelling), www.House.co.uk – IIS/SQL Server, electricity system storage upgrade – Oracle/Cobol

Test Manager

• Jul 2003 - Jun 2004

W2K desktop roll out to 13k desktops W2K desktop roll out to 13k desktops

Project Manager

• Jun 2002 - Apr 2003

Project to develop an automated exam/fun questionnaire online from participating Twins world wide - known as 'The TEDS' project for the department of Psychology. Project to develop an automated exam/fun questionnaire online from participating Twins world wide - known as 'The TEDS' project for the department of Psychology.

Software Engineer

• Mar 2001 - Sep 2001

C/C++ Software Engineer C/C++ Software Engineer

Software Engineer

• Nov 2000 - Sep 2001

C++ Software engineer. C++ Software engineer.

C/C++/SQL Server admin

• Jan 2000 - Aug 2000

C/C++/SQL Server admin C/C++/SQL Server admin