Paul Stock

Technical Manager Precision Engineer at Management Innovation Services Ltd (MISL Engineering)
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Steve McGovern

Paul is a results orientated Project Manager with an eye for technical detail, and a great understanding of application virtualisation technologies. He proved he can thrive in challenging environments and I would recommend him for any application virtualisation project.

Steven Carr

I worked with Paul on a number of projects within Marks and Spencer and found him to be a very effictive manager with a firm grasp of the technical details with which we were working. He is very capable and always ready to assist wherever possible. I would gladly work for Paul again as I feel he has a good approach to Project Management that enables individuals to work at their best.

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Credentials

  • Mechanical & Precision Engineering
    City & Guids
    Jan, 1971
    - Oct, 2024

Experience

  • MISL Limited
    • United Kingdom
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Technical Manager Precision Engineer
      • Jun 2014 - Present

      Management Innovation Services Ltd now have been in the premises for over 3 years and our VMC capability has been quite successful. We have invested in much tooling for the VMC from HAAS, In July 2018 we acquired a second hand 4 axis CNC lathe Mazak QT 10MS with Live tooling and a bar feeder for those high volume turned part manufacture. We can now our capability to 4th axis on our newly acquired lathe. Management Innovation Services Ltd now have been in the premises for over 3 years and our VMC capability has been quite successful. We have invested in much tooling for the VMC from HAAS, In July 2018 we acquired a second hand 4 axis CNC lathe Mazak QT 10MS with Live tooling and a bar feeder for those high volume turned part manufacture. We can now our capability to 4th axis on our newly acquired lathe.

  • Management Innovation Services Ltd
    • Information Technology & Services
    • IT Consultant Project Manager Business Analyst
      • Feb 2007 - Present

      Management Consultant, IT Business Analyst/Project Manager and Precision Engineer experienced in Change and Transformation. Highly organised, versatile and adaptable, mature and experienced Engineering professional. Self motivated, enthusiastic and conscientious.. A friendly disposition, able to work well under pressure with excellent team member awareness. A diplomatic, tactful effective communicator with developed interpersonal skills. Management Consultant, IT Business Analyst/Project Manager and Precision Engineer experienced in Change and Transformation. Highly organised, versatile and adaptable, mature and experienced Engineering professional. Self motivated, enthusiastic and conscientious.. A friendly disposition, able to work well under pressure with excellent team member awareness. A diplomatic, tactful effective communicator with developed interpersonal skills.

  • Live Nation Entertainment
    • United States
    • Entertainment Providers
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Business Analyst (MISL Consultant)
      • Oct 2014 - Nov 2014

      Short term 4 week contract to assess and evaluate the engineering tools used in the company, clean up the data and present for further evaluation in a newly developed application, written in VBA code, for financial a time based analysis of licence cost and account for duplication and tool overlap in different locations. The original data required cleaning and licence cost update from the supplier for all 281 tools used over five locations in the company. This objective pulled on my business and data analysis skills combine with very extensive VBA code including data manipulation control forms for on-going enhanced data evaluation. The delivery included the cleaned and normalised data, identification if duplicated tools with an application to drill into the detail and filter by category and or location, cost and licence duplication and a brief user guide.

  • Government Digital Service
    • United Kingdom
    • Government Relations Services
    • 400 - 500 Employee
    • Business Analyst (MISL Consultant)
      • May 2014 - Sep 2014

      GDS are implementing many new digital services across the whole of government; Paul was engaged to establish the migration and potential transformation requirements for the Department of Culture Media and Sport under the direction of the Cabinet Office in Westminster. His objective was to understand and establish the user’s requirements in terms of the current line of Business application portfolio, BAU support activities and the digital services, ready for migration to a new service provider and the transition to Google cloud based services supporting the new GDS initiative for DCMS. He also reviewed ITT RFP from multiple suppliers for the Government Art Collection and various other web based systems used by DCMS. Leading on from this Paul also analysed the Service Desk changes for the department. Paul also received Security Clearance (SC) level while engaged.

  • AXA Tech
    • Tunbridge Wells (AXA PPP)
    • Project Manager (MISL consultant)
      • Jul 2012 - May 2013

      AXA PPP Desktop Refresh (DTR) for 2000 UK users. The AXA Health IT manager, previously together at Getronics, called to find out if I was available to work as a Project Manager for AXA Tech's (subsidiary of the AXA group) Desk Top Refresh project using virtual environment and Citrix technology with a combination of SBC and VDIs. Although in the mid stage of delivery, the project was not in a good shape for delivery and as the new project manager I re-planned all work streams relating to the infrastructure and took on the responsibility for successful delivery across 2,000 users in the UK. This included not only the desk top refresh but also the migration of all company data to a new data centre in Switzerland. The project was successful and delivered on time. The project was gauged at around £5m.

  • Bibby Financial Services
    • United Kingdom
    • Financial Services
    • 500 - 600 Employee
    • Project Manager (MISL consultant)
      • Jun 2010 - Feb 2012

      Project Manager and Business Analyst. BFS is an international financial organisation that hired me to project manage an operational system development underpinning all financial products in the company. Using my experience in maintaining underpinning the value proposition, the first phase took nine months to confirm the requirements and reach a milestone (Gate 1) with a logical design to consider the phase two and ongoing development cost and timescales. The design supports a completely new business system that underpins twenty five financial product variations, multi language and regional variations. This phase included a change management system supported by a newly implemented CMDB instigated as a pre-requisite for this project, an Invitation to Tender for alternative development suppliers and a proof of concept that demonstrates the feasibility for the logical designs key components. The budget was accepted in May this year and development partner ITT in progress. Also delivered two infrastructure projects in BFS while running the main initiative described below. A infrastructure change to a new internet pipe using Websense and an email archiving project using Symantec’s “Cloud” based services. Recently, BFS engaged a new CEO for 2012 start and his influence has brought about a project suspention, so now searching for another opportunity.

  • IBM
    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Transition Project Manager (MISL Consultant)
      • Dec 2009 - Feb 2010

      Transition Project Manager Midrange and Mainframe (IBM) This is a three month contract to finalise the outstanding issues and tasks relating to the mainframe functional support transition to India. In addition to this Paul took over the planning for server rationalisation of 139 Wintel servers migrated to a virtual environment under VMWare. He also implemented IBMs Voice Trust facility for Friends Provident including handover to BAU. Provisioned Mainframe access applications through Citrix layer and identified and proposed single point of failure upgrades in the IBM DR site fire walls and telephony. The company has undergone a major resource review and has decoded to remove the contract staff from the programme.

  • Marks and Spencer
    • United Kingdom
    • Retail
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Infrastructure Project Manager (MISL Consultant)
      • Mar 2008 - Feb 2009

      Paul’s role at M&S is to simply take over and recover existing projects that are floundering and sort out the outstanding work and deliver as fast as possible. Paul has eight projects; 1) Citrix upgrade and application migration. 2)New Regional office infrastructure implementation, 3) Service Continuity which has a replication capability for the DR site update and allow operational failover for all key M&S applications. 4) EDI Upgrade from MainFrame IBM computer to five Banks and the Supplier network (GXS) upgrading from SNA protocol to TCP/IP. 5) Major store communications uplift (Marble Arch) M&S primary store. 6) Third party Application Implementation (QIP) for IP address allocation for all stores in M&S deployed using Bladelogic. 7) New network card uplift and replacement of out of support components 8) Legacy Application assessment for Implementation Plan re-development. Paul also used the specialised project reporting facility at M&S using SharePoint for consolidated reporting need. Jan 2008 to March 2008

  • Friends Provident
    • United Kingdom
    • Financial Services
    • 400 - 500 Employee
    • e-Hosting Project Manager (MISL Consultant)
      • Jan 2008 - Feb 2008

      Paul was interviewed on Friday 4th Jan and an offer made the same day to start work for Friend Provident on Monday 7th the first week acted as Paul’s probationary period and a cutting edge concept POC project to deliver in a few weeks. The Solaris Zones project consisted of a proof of concept objective, his experience in BSkyB on Solaris proved very helpful in setting up the plans and approach to meet this requirement. The Project follows the new Infrastructure Adoption process and since moving this forward Paul has received another two assignments, one on support team resource management and defect resolution (Problem Management) and the other is a business critical application upgrade which was confirmed in the week ending 25th Jan. Paul is also running projects relating to WAS Defect resolution and ATG upgrade. After only 3 weeks into the contract the company announced a strategic review and is to make 600 people redundant. Currently the work assigned to is reasonably safe but this obviously leads to a level of insecurity on the original 6 month contract period.

  • Sky
    • United Kingdom
    • Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Portfolio Project Manager (MISL Broadcast Consultant )
      • Apr 2007 - Oct 2007

      The BSkyB IT corporate division, utilising typical data centre standards, found itself struggling with real time broadcast compliances in terms of delivery focus, performance and infrastructure resilience. The first objective was one of business requirements analysis and customer value and IT corporate value re-alignment for each initiative established by the broadcast division. This role also included project management of twelve key broadcast projects, varying is size and budget from £80k to £1.5m. The objective was to implement strategic change for the business without production disruption in a real time media environment. The environment in one of extremely high pressure, maintaining expectation and pre-determined deadlines for delivery, including “short notice” project implementation where the business have realised a need and require a fast track delivery. This is a politically charged, business facing role with a high demanding customer. The role involves a tactful approach combined with a practical knowledge of technology and a delivery focused attitude. The first project was a complete infrastructure design and implementation for BskyB PMO using the CA Clarity Portfolio Management tools under WebShpere and integrated with MSProject. In terms of application development, The PMO required an integrated Access database with MSProject where Paul's development approach and integration development plan was successfully presented to the company as the way forward. Application development continued by enhanced the MSProject functionality and building the “Project status” database module in MSAccess. The projects included initiatives such as; Sky Remote connect, Sky News Sports, On Screen Graphics, Video on Demand, Remote Application Access via duel authenticated remote login for suppliers and users and SKY HD services.

  • BBC
    • United Kingdom
    • Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Programme Manager (MISL Broadcast Consultant)
      • Oct 2006 - Mar 2007

      The role as Technology Refresh Programme Manager represents the new technology need for the whole customer value service and product portfolio for BBC Monitoring. The project covered all in house application development including Visual Basic, C++, Delphi, and Python source code to a consolidation of more advanced presentation capabilities as seen in .NET development as well as Infrastructure design changes. Based on the customer/stakeholder requirements the programme consists of five projects; Business Process Analysis, Technical, Procurement, Business Transformation, Project Management and Implementation where all ingestion, TV, Radio, Internet and Email source channels streams are coordinated through monitoring, translation and editing live news articles, also considering IPR on all media. The current text based media is insufficient for today’s customer needs which now demands Digital, Audio, Video, search, language translation and editing capabilities and conversion to a flexible product definition based on this multi-media objective. This programme starts with the, detailed planning and customer value proposition evaluation leading to technical feasibility and design stage to establish the business need. This then moves on to identify the appropriate COTS applications to support the functional need gained from the business process analysis. Procurement is based around the EU OJEU regulations and strictly adhered to by the BBC. The objective for Paul was to establish a programme approach for implementation, procurement and establish the plans for BBCM Board approval. The programme is part of the BBC Global initiative for change targeting 2010 completion. The project standards were based around Prince 2 with business process modelling was based on the UML standard.

  • Getronics UK Ltd
    • IT Project Manager (MISL Consultant)
      • 2006 - 2007

      Paul was give the responsibility to complete and deliver three outstanding projects in G4S, approximately 14 outstanding server migrations, a RAS deployment and one divisional data migration and application move under Citrix. The outstanding tasks presented a particularly complicated situation as the project was already overdue and scope control nonexistent until Paul took control of all three projects and the associated project managers. The RAS project was delivered on the new targets and within the predetermined cost with a level of quality that was proved by the roll-out to be excellent. The server transition of corporate Intranet access and email as well as numerous critical business applications was completed on time and within the expected cost. The quality of the transition proved effective as no business disruption was seen by the customer during any part of the server move. Paul was also assigned to evaluate business needs, set ITIL service delivery standards and maintain a high priority on project delivery using the Prince 2 method. Paul converted a cost recovery programme into a revenue earning project by establishing the contractual obligation and delivery as a high priority, this success lead onto further enhanced spin-off projects including the Global RAS solution for international use of Remote access for G4S.

  • Vodafone
    • United Kingdom
    • Telecommunications
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • I&AS Infrastructure Project Manager (MISL Consultant)
      • Apr 2005 - Oct 2006

      Paul provided project management for the Infrastructure and Application Services (I&AS) department in Vodafone HQ Newbury. The work included management of permanent resource and integration with business need for WAN/LAN Infrastructure design established from the High Level Design definition from IBM. The project plans constructed to meet the design stage completion. The next assignment was set to uplift the user base for VF Customer Management application by capacity planning and infrastructure design to support a further 2,000 concurrent users. The technology used in both projects is based around the following areas: WebLogic, Citrix, Tibco, API integration and some Jacada. Paul Also co-ordinated web server support, capacity planning workshops, detailed infrastructure design and security approval for relocations and server deployments into VF data centres. Change management for Amdocs Tactical Customer Management Clarify and billing application hardware and user uplift project management. All projects followed a gated process and required considerable approval status for each gate they also included Implementation planning and change management facilitation for the Infrastructure design, application migration and deployment. Project Management standards were based around Prince2 methodology and ITIL for operational standards.

  • C&C Technology Ltd
    • Head of Project Management
      • 2003 - 2005

      Paul joined the company as Head of Project Management to bring a new standard of consulting and management for C&C projects and recover two ailing projects while project managing the main client (BAA). Paul set the project management standards for ISO9002 approval and has extended the change management capability bringing a further £100k+ of change managed revenue into the business within the first three months. Paul has built on the companies’ customer relationship and supported larger projects with solid project reporting and contributed to ongoing opportunities by supporting the sales team in proposal writing, etc. Paul has protected C&C against negative exposure due to previous project management practices and managed to gain the respect of the once ailing client base and the technical and management teams in C&C Technology.

  • Cetrica (The AA)
    • Maidenhead
    • Project Manager (Freelance Consultant)
      • 2000 - 2001

      Multi-tier server farm implementation for a Web based application development. Multi-tier server farm implementation for a Web based application development.

  • Diagonal Consulting - acquired by G3G in February 2013
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Management Consultant
      • 1998 - 2000

      His main role as a Divisional Manager provided a high level of Consulting Service Standards to a range of Diagonal clients. In October 1998, Paul transferred to the Consulting Services Division of Diagonal as a Management Consultant. Paul has been focused on project related work as well as the management of staff. His experience in Change Management is recognised by Diagonal's SAP division and he has since helped to enhance the SAP implementation methodology ASAP. His main role as a Divisional Manager provided a high level of Consulting Service Standards to a range of Diagonal clients. In October 1998, Paul transferred to the Consulting Services Division of Diagonal as a Management Consultant. Paul has been focused on project related work as well as the management of staff. His experience in Change Management is recognised by Diagonal's SAP division and he has since helped to enhance the SAP implementation methodology ASAP.

  • OASiS Group Plc
    • Maidenhed, Berkshire
    • Management Consultant
      • Aug 1990 - Aug 1997

      Paul's experience in Information Technology combined with his business analysis skills has provided him with a unique ability to use IT to support the real business need. Enhancing this with; IT business integration, telecommunications, network management, design and production of software, procurement and Business Process development methodologies relating to the individual business service requirements. After initial Promotion to Senior Consultant, he was successful in Project Management roles and all deliverables were met in full. He was then promoted to Principal Consultant. Paul then managed many small and large international projects responsible for around £20m ranging from £300k to £5m projects. He has represented the company by writing articles for OASiS press releases and technical views. Paul UNIX expertise was also used in Oasis in terms of Unix integration with Addenbrooks NHS patient administration integration, along with his C language development skills, Paul completed a socket streams interface to the hospital legacy system from a multiple layer three tier Unix server farm.

  • Pathtrace Plc
    • Software Development Manager
      • 1982 - 1985

      CAM & Engineering Estimation Software Development CAM & Engineering Estimation Software Development

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