2. • A collaborative approach to successful
transformational leadership.
• Real world experience, pragmatism and
innovative thinking for challenging
situations.
• Big picture management with the ability to
drill down into the detail.
• Relationship builder and trusted adviser.
• Builds, leads, develops and motivates teams.
3. DYNAMIC PROGRAMME & PORTFOLIO
MANAGEMENT
INDUSTRY
• Financial Services
• Fund Management
• Insurance
• Investment Banking
• Retail Banking
• Aerospace / Defence
• Logistics
• Petrochemical
• IT Professional
Services
EXPERIENCE
• Global Infrastructure
Change Programmes
• Infrastructure Portfolio
Management
• Top Tier Banking,
Consultancies and
Service Providers.
• Prince 2 / MSP / ITIL
qualified
4. BANK OF TOKYO MITSUBISHI UFJ:
PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT
• Oversight of an EMEA wide IT change portfolio valued at £7-12m
p.a.
• Defining and executing strategic technology transformation
programmes, including obsolescence, platform refreshes &
migrations, network transformation (LAN / WAN), cyber security,
user mobility, datacenter enhancement and DR/BCP
improvements across 25+ sites and business verticals
• Creation of a rolling 3 year IT end of life plan and reporting
dashboard, giving management visibility of the on-going
investment requirements
• Championing and executing maturity improvements in several
areas including demand management and unified reporting
CURRENT
ROLE
5. JUPITER FUND MANAGEMENT PLC:
PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
• Ownership of the infrastructure technical strategy, architecture
standards & methods
• Defined and executed a strategic infrastructure transformation
programme (£6-10m p.a.), including platform refreshes &
migrations, virtualisation, cyber security, datacenter and network
transformation
• Championed and managed the organisational and cultural, as well
as technical step changes required
• Drove the development of all portfolio governance & reporting,
adopting & using the P3M3 model
• Represented IT on the Group Sustainability Committee,
spearheading carbon footprint reductions
CAREER
HIGHLIGHT
6. LEGAL & GENERAL
(IBM GLOBAL SERVICES):
PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
• Ownership of the Infrastructure and Operations project portfolio
(Technology Refresh); circa 5000 internal days, 4000 managed service
days and £5m external annual budget.
• Managed a team of technical project managers and a programme office
to effect delivery across both internal matrix managed resources and
external providers.
• Recovered failing delivery plans for a number of high profile initiatives.
• Accountable for all portfolio governance and reporting, as well as high
level stakeholder management.
• Shaped strategic projects within the programme portfolio to ensure that
delivery is in line with changing business priorities and the overall
technical strategy.
CAREER
HIGHLIGHT
7. ABN AMRO: FX/MM SETTLEMENT
PROGRAMME
• Managed the €9 million infrastructure and technology work
stream for the back office settlement system implementation.
• Pro-actively proposed, designed, owned and delivered a complex
Unix consolidation and utility computing, pay-per-use, initiative
that delivered unbudgeted savings in excess of €1 million.
• Delivered all infrastructure components, including servers,
failover, disaster recovery, middleware, storage, networks and
virtualised interfaces.
• Owned the development and deployment of all test
environment, release, configuration and change management
methodology lifecycles for the programme.
CAREER
HIGHLIGHT
8. PETROCHEMICAL CLIENT: IT
TRANSFORMATION
• Global, post merger, Infrastructure Transformation; a fixed price
multi million pound programme with stiff milestone penalties.
• Consolidated the IT infrastructures of three previously disparate
global business entities at 37 major sites onto a unified new
global outsourced platform.
• Managed a team of 12 Project Managers from 7 countries;
project team in excess of 100 individuals.
• Successfully refocused and recovered a previously failing
schedule to meet external milestones, despite severe challenges.
• Implemented in excess of 250 new servers (F&P, Email, Systems
Management) in 17 countries, complemented by a new AD
Domain Structure, IP Schema, MPLS WAN, Client LANs, storage
and backup infrastructure; all handed over cleanly into the
ongoing support model.
CAREER
HIGHLIGHT
9. E
X
P
E
R
T
I
S
E
• Successful transformational leadership, engaging with
business stakeholders up to CxO level, clients & 3rd
parties
• Infrastructure portfolio delivery, pipeline generation,
profit centre ownership and governance.
• Global Infrastructure Change Programmes.
• Business Acumen, Technical Understanding.
• Rescue, revival and restoration of fractured stakeholder
relationships.
• Client, vendor, outsourced, offshore and matrix
resource management.
• Information Security & Disaster Recovery.
• Data centre relocations, cost reductions and
consolidation of disparate infrastructures.