Experience

Guardian Financial Services

• United States
• Financial Services

• IT Project Delivery Manager

  • Apr 2016 - Sep 2017

  Lytham, Lancashire, United Kingdom Now finally retired!

• Project Manager

  • Apr 2014 - Dec 2015

  Lytham



Self-employed

• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• IT Consultant

  • Apr 2013 - Mar 2014

  Mainframe Technical Migration Specialist



AXA Tech

• India
• Consumer Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Hosting Services

  • Jun 2011 - Apr 2013

  Lead team of up to 50 staff providing technical and applications support to 3,000 Friends Life users. Managed the migration of services from AXA to IBM.

• Regional Mainframe Services Head

  • 2009 - 2011

  Lead multinational team of 20 staff providing mainframe services to 10,000 users in AXA UK and AXA Switzerland and managed the successful insource of Swiss services from a 3rd party supplier

• Mainframe and Database Manager

  • 2006 - 2009

  Managed a team of 15 staff providing mainframe services to 5,000 users within AXA UK

• Middleware Team Leader

  • 2003 - 2006

  Led a team of 10 staff providing middleware services to 5,000 users within AXA UK

• Various Team Leader/ Senior Technician Roles

  • 1972 - 2003

  Various team leader and senior technical roles in IT Operations, Application Programming, Systems Programming, PC Support, Service Introduction, Strategy and Capacity Planning