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Late Payment Service LimitedNon-Executive Director - Late Payment Service
Jan. 2023London, England, United KingdomFounder and Non-Executive Director at Late Payment Service is a credit control and management company for businesses in the UK and USA. I am
Ahold DelhaizeSenior Project Manager
Jul. 2022 - Dec. 2024RemoteThis was a part-time contract role for this global retailer. The role required the initiation and delivery management of a large global security transformation programme. This included developing a zero-trust based approach to implement security controls, which included a defence in depth methodology. Core projects focussed on securing the financial data of the organisation within an SAP environment along with implementation of the Microsoft security features (as provided with their M365 – E5 license) across a user community of over 50,000 information workers.
AI Sports Prediction LtdCo-Founder and Non-Executive Director
Apr. 2022London, England, United KingdomCo-Founder and Non-Executive Director at AI Sports Prediction Limited, a tech start-up focused on providing AI based sporting performance predictions for many spectator sports. Our current product range is restricted Football but in future we will be launching new products for other sports such as Golf, Basketball, American Football, Baseball and Horse Racing. The company recently launched the COPA Football Predictions App.
Cyber21Virtual CISO and CEO
Feb. 2022Shropshire, England, United KingdomOperating as a part-time CISO for client organisations including SaaS, consultancies, retailers and manufacturing. The role involves the development of strategy and plans to manage governance, risk and compliance. This includes the development of security plans to improve their security posture and reduce their risk from cyber related crime. (Contracting Legal Entity)
AdobeInformation Security and Data Protection Lead (EMEA)
Aug. 2019 - May. 2022London, United KingdomProviding information security and data protection consultancy for Adobe within the Emea region. Role requires me to advise Adobe's customers on their information security and data protection queries relating to the adoption of Adobe software products and services. Focus is on cloud security models (through AWS), encryption, data residency, data protection, utilization of collaborative storage solutions along with SSO and general identity and access management.
CentricaGlobal Information Security Programme Manager
Nov. 2018 - Aug. 2019StainesA senior consultant role to deliver an Information Security programme of work focused on a portfolio of projects related to change and enhancements to the organisations Identity and Access Management solution (Oracle Identity and Access Manager). The role was to recover a failing programme and deliver the core target outcomes within a fairly short period of time (i.e. within six months). During this period, I successfully delivered several transformational changes to the way that Centrica manage identity within its core applications (migration from Oracle IAM to Azure Active Directory). I also delivered a number of technical and process-based changes to the way that the organisation manages privileged accounts and enhanced access. Work included designing and delivering role-based access (RBAC) for privileged accounts and the changes to request processes (via Service Now) along with overall governance of the enhanced access provision. Current role is to define and establish a new global programme of work to transform the whole of the Identity and Access Management provision across the multiple organisations within Centrica globally.
Data Privacy ServicesCEO and Senior Data Protection Officer
May. 2018Shropshire, England, United KingdomOperating as the founder, CEO and senior security consultant for this data protection and information security consultancy. The role is part-time and involves the general management of the business along with managing data protection and information / cyber security related projects. These include, data protection (GDPR) compliance implementations, ISO 27001 implementations and audits and ISO 27701 implementations. This role also includes some part-time CISO consultancy for some of the organisations clients. (Contracting Legal Entity).
ArupDigital Workspace - Senior Programme Manager
Oct. 2016 - May. 2018London, United KingdomDigital transformation programme based upon the a range of technical enabling capabilities combined with a strong emphasis on business change and adoption. The programme is focused on embedding new ways of working solutions aligned to the Arup business strategy. My role is to set the strategy for the programme delivery and manage the delivery and adoption streams. Multiple technologies are involved including SaaS based products for collaboration, Microsoft based platforms (Office 365) and bespoke solutions for search, large file collaboration and mobility. The programme is delivering to a global user community which is both highly skilled and diverse in its customer and partner base.
Sainsbury'sHead of Programme - Digital Work Place and Collaboration
Jan. 2016 - Jul. 2016London, United KingdomI was heading up a major knowledge management and digital transformation programme based upon cloud solutions for Sainsbury's support services and in-store colleagues (up to 170,000 users). The programme was designed to deliver a number of key solutions, replacing legacy with the latest and best of breed of solutions to enable effective knowledge management / collaboration and new ways of working within the digital work place.
MicrosoftEngagement / Programme Manager
Jun. 2015 - Dec. 2015Reading, United KingdomI was an Engagement / Programme Manager working with multiple Enterprise customers to onboard them to Office 365 and EMS. My role required the stakeholder management of the customer and the liaison between customer and Microsoft technical teams to ensure that the customer is successfully onboarded. This activity included a wide range of programme and project management skills and has built upon my previous experience in Office 365, working with MCS and enterprise customer delivery management.
CentricaProgramme Manager
Aug. 2014 - Jun. 2015WindsorI am a senior PM / Programme Manager working on a large change programme within Information Systems Enterprise Services. My particular responsibilities are to deliver change within the mobility space, linked to mobile applications, SAP, end user computing and Office 365. I am currently delivering the following projects, Fiori SAP solutions, Air Watch mobile device management, End user computing desktop updates to IE, Office and standard build e.g. Windows. In addition, I am looking at project management solutions within Office 365.
PetrofacSenior Consultant / Programme Manager
Feb. 2014 - Jun. 2014WokingI am working as a Global Senior Consultant for a large Oil and Gas company. The role is to define and manage a global IT transformation programme focussed on end user computing (SharePoint and Office 365) and enterprise applications.
Microsoft Consulting ServicesOffice 365 Senior Consultant / Programme Manager
Oct. 2013 - Feb. 2014London, United KingdomWorking on a large scale Office 365 rollout and migration programme for MCS on a client's site in London.
Boots UK LtdCollaboration SME (Digital, SharePoint & Office 365)
Jul. 2013 - Oct. 2013Nottingham, United KingdomRole involves the definition and establishment of a digital work place transformation programme for Boots UK. The role has utilised my in-depth knowledge of digital transformation and revolved around the assessment of the adoption of cloud based technologies such as Office 365, Yammer, Jive and others. My specific deliverables have been to review the strategy for implementation and kick start the programme establishment.
Hewlett-PackardSenior Consultant / Programme Manager
Nov. 2012 - Jul. 2013Warrington, United KingdomEngaged by HP to strategically and technically design / manage numerous workstreams of a major deployment of SharePoint 2010 into a government department for up to 140,000 users. The role involved working alongside suppliers to deliver a major SharePoint 2010 infrastructure, new portal, Staff Directory and Collaboration platform. In addition, I was acting as a SharePoint SME advising both HP and the end client on the approach to migrating from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013.
Microsoft Consulting ServicesSenior Programme Manager and SharePoint SME
Mar. 2012 - Oct. 2012WarringtonEngaged by MCS to manage the initiation of a major deployment of SharePoint 2010 into a government department for up to 140,000 users. The role involved working alongside HP to shape the programme delivery and organise the work streas and resources. In addition, I was acting as a SharePoint SME advising both HP and the end client on the approach to deploying SharePoint on this scale into a government department. This included technical and business transformation consultancy.
Daily Mail and General Trust plcCollaboration Programme Lead
Jul. 2011 - Mar. 2012London Area, United KingdomMy most recent contract role is to head up a new collaboration programme of work for the Daily Mail group of companies based in Kensington, London. The programme will deliver a range of collaboration solutions, including Salesforce Chatter, Instant Messaging and a number of SharePoint 2010 based tools, which involves a new Intranet.
SABMiller plcGroup IS SharePoint Consultant / Programme Manager
May. 2010 - Jun. 2011WokingI am currently providing professional services to SABMiller plc to head up their global SharePoint delivery programme for the Group IS function. The role includes managing the delivery of a range of SharePoint enabling projects such as a new infrastructure platform and Extranet environment both on and off premise (i.e. SharePoint online). We are currently investigating the roadmap for SharePoint 2010 migration along with establishing Microsoft best practice processes and tools for software development on SharePoint. I manage a SharePoint solutions delivery team who are focussed on delivering cost effective point solutions to maximise business benefit through faster deployment by maximising the out of the box capabilities. Another key programme within my remit is the deployment of our global Intranet across mutiplie regions and countries. At present I am managing a medium size team of Senior PM's, PM's BA's and Developers along with the establishment and management of strategic SharePoint vendors.
National Institute of Health ResearchSenior Consultant / Programme Manager
Apr. 2009 - May. 2010MacclesfieldProgramme Budget - Est £3M April 2009 to Current I am working on a fixed term interim contract as the Lead Implementation Consultant for a major business change programme within the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The Programme is designed to deliver major business change with new ways of working technical enablers based around SharePoint 2010. The role has required me to initially define the Programme and develop a SharePoint strategy based upon improvements to the existing Portal and developing a new information focussed Portal. Recent changes to the scope of the Programme has now resulted in the strategic planning for the consolidation of over one hundred Internet sites into a new SharePoint based Internet site aligned to the organisations Transformational Government objectives. I have successfully defined the Programme and I have continued the establishment of the Programme in line with MSP (Managing Successful Programmes) methodology. In addition to my overall Lead Implementation Consultant role, I have focussed on keeping the 'burn rate' of our resources to a minimum and carrying out additional Project Management roles, which has resulted in the successful design and delivery of a new MOSS 2007 infrastructure (virtualised platform, Windows 2008, VMWare and SQL 2008) for the support of pilot implementations of the new Research Management Information System. Another example of a successful delivery includes the delivery of a SharePoint based EPM tool for the Programme.
Information CentreProgramme Manager
Jul. 2008 - Apr. 2009Leeds, England, United KingdomProgramme Budget - Est £5 July 2008 to April 2009 I was working on a fixed term contract as the Lead Implementation Consultant / Programme Manager for a major business change programme within the NHS Information Centre. The Programme is designed to deliver major business change with new ways of working technical enablers based around MOSS 2007, Enterprise Search and Taxonomy Management tools. The role has required me to initially review the status of the Programme and produce a set of recommendations for improvement. Following on from that, I acted upon the agreed set of recommendations in order to define the Programme (portfolio and governance) and establish the Programme in line with MSP methodology. I successfully built a Programme Team and developed a detailed and extensive business case that demonstrated a Programme return on investment model in excess of 200%. In addition to my overall Lead Implementation Consultant role, I ran a tight ship by keeping resources to a minimum and carrying out additional Project Management roles myself which has resulted in the successful design of a new MOSS 2007 infrastructure and the initiation of the new Portal project. My team were well on the way to delivering a Taxonomy for the organisation that would support the internal and external MOSS 2007 Portals. This Taxonomy was going to be linked in with Electronic and Document Records Management (EDRM) that will be deployed across the platform along with Enterprise Search.
Kone ElevatorsLead Implementation Consultant / Senior Project Manager
Feb. 2008 - Jul. 2008HelsinkiWMC SharePoint (for Kone Elevators) Project Budget - Est. £1M Feb 2008 to July 2008
Operating on a fixed short term contract as a WMC SharePoint Lead Implementation Consultant I reported to a Senior Manager and Steering Group for the design, development and rollout of a new MOSS 2007 CMS focussed Intranet application development platform for up to 10,000 users, along with the management of the SharePoint Internet development team for www.kone.com A specific objective of this role was to review the project and to make recommendations for successful delivery. Other objectives included the delivery management of the project, specifically the management of third party delivery partners (Accenture and Microsoft). Key aspects of this included general project management activities, technical and application design review and a rigorous focus on cost management. Deployment and Change Management activities were also within my planning remit with a requirement to develop deployment plans for the Intranet and the closure (and where possible) migration of the existing SAP Portal. Key Achievements
Delivery of the application design phase for the Intranet on budget
Management of complex third party relationships
Detailed review of the project approach and the approval of my recommendation for change by the project steering group that would save the project significant costs and improve the quality of delivery
Successful cost and quality management
Detailed review of the technical infrastructure issues and implementation of recommended changes
Delivery management of the Accenture development team
UnilverSenior Programme Manager / SharePoint SME
Sep. 2007 - Feb. 2008LiverpoolMicrosoft (for Unilever plc) Project Budget - Est. £5M September 2007 to Feb 2008
Operating on a fixed short term contract as a Microsoft Lead Implementation Consultant (working through a Gold Partner), I reported to a Senior VP for the development and rollout of a new ways of working MOSS 2007 Programme for up to 100,000 users. The specific objective of the role was to design and implement a Programme and project structure for the deployment of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) to a global user base of 100,000 plus users. Key initial objective was to lead the delivery of the infrastructure element of MOSS with a global architecture model together with a vanilla implementation of MOSS. As part of the wider Programme Planning activities, I was heavily involved in the design and development of deployment based deliverables including the change management strategy. This included the planning for the closure of legacy systems such as Plumtree along with the development of a suitable Migration Strategy. Key Achievements
Delivery of the infrastructure on time and in budget within a very tight timescale
Management of complex third party relationships
Development of a controlled and structured process for ongoing delivery
Collation and documentation of MOSS business requirements
Collation and documentation of application functional specifications
Establishment of the global infrastructure model
Design of a global MOSS support structure
Design of a MOSS delivery process
Motivation and team management and development
Home OfficeEDRM PMO Manager
Jan. 2006 - Dec. 2008London Area, United KingdomDuring my time at the Home Office I worked with Civil Servants to establish and manage the EDRM implementation also working with delivery partners such as Capgemini.
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