Programme/Project Manager

• managing a 1m USD project; Rollout
• Transformation of > 50 Sites (2 up to 300 employees) from legacy telephony environments to an IPT solution using Cisco Communication Manager/VoIP.
• The project included MPLS WAN Upgrades, Switch replacement, Site Surveys and Phone Rollout. End-to End Project Execution and Transition
• Business Change Management
• TOM
• Operational and Business Readiness
• Stakeholder Management
• 3rd Party Management
• Risk and Issue Management
• Budget control
• Project Reporting
• multiple concurrent projects
• IT Infrastructure

• PMO, End-to-End Project Planning and Execution
• Preparation of ISO 27001 certification as part of the Global Programme
• NIST
• Rollout SIEM Logging and Monitoring and Reporting
• Rollout DLP Data Loss Prevention
• Vulnerability
• Cyber Security in a Swiss Banking Law certified LAN/WAN IT environment
• Swiss Data Protection Law and GDPR
• complete Business Analysis for several projects
• Budget estimations
• Tax and Audit Business Projects
• Provisioning Servers and Databases
• Application implementations with 3rd party
• Penetration testing with risk mitigations
• Project Execution and Transition
• Business Change Management
• TOM
• Operational and Business Readiness
• Gate processes
• Stakeholder Management
• 3rd Party Management
• Risk and Issue Management
• Budget control
• Project Reporting
• multiple concurrent projects
• IT Infrastructure
• Server rollouts
• Desktop End-User devices rollout as part of Windows 8 Migration for 100% DLP compliance achievement
• Packaging and Release Management
• End-User Transition and Communications
• Firewall IDS
• Proxy filters
• Threat intelligence
• Malware analysis
• Varonis Data Protection

• > 3m USD project.
• An international acquired Company needed to be IT integrated into Merck standardised corporate LAN/WAN IT Infrastructure. 
• PMO, Project Planning
• Project Setup
• Reporting Templates, Budget control, Control of international PMs and Global Workstreams:
  • Rollout planning LAN/WAN Network and Firewalls/Load Balancers, Messaging, Desktop Rollout, Service Desk, Server and Applications.
• Data Rooms, Data Centres, Rollout of MS Lync based IPT
• Video Conferencing Systems, Office moves
• Rollout of new end-user Workplace for new employees regulated by  Standard Corporate Desktop
• Business Analysis for Access Change
• IAM
• Active Directory.

• > 500m USD Global project.
• RfP negotiations
• Contract/legal negotiations
• Global Outsourcing of >500 Data Centres/Data Rooms covering all continents in > 50 countries
• Global Data Protection
• Data Centre Consolidation, international Transition & Transformation
• Cloud
• Data Room/Plants analysis
• Global Architecture, Infrastructure Solutions (Data Centre, LAN, WAN)
• Active Directory model (2500 DCs)
• SLA
• Re-Organisation
• Transition
• Governance Model
• Service Delivery, CMDB
• Service Catalogue
• Risk Management.

• Transformation Projects in an outsourced environment, Project and Portfolio Team
• IBM IT managed Service
• PRINCE2 Project Management
• Business Analysis and PID
• Stakeholder Management
• 3rd party Management, internal and external suppliers; Quality Management
• Risk and Issue Management, Dependencies and critical paths
• Budget control/responsibility
• Internal & external Stakeholder meetings
• Planning/analysis with complex dependencies
• IT Infrastructure Security
• Migration Strategies
• Transition Management
• Rollout planning and execution
• Transition and Change Management including End-User Communications

Projects include:

• Architecture and High Level/Low Level Design
• Processes and operational Standards
• Managed Printing
• Multifunctional Devices, 3rd party Management
• Scanning in an automated environment with validation
• Document stores
• Rollout in Bank Branches
• Digital assets
• Paperless
• Transition and End user training

• Transformation Projects in an outsourced environment, Project and Portfolio Team
• IBM IT managed Service
• PRINCE2 Project Management
• extensive Stakeholder Management
• 3rd party Management, internal and external suppliers
• Quality Management
• Risk and Issue Management, Dependencies and critical paths
• Budget control/responsibility
• Internal & external Stakeholder meetings
• Planning/analysis with complex dependencies
• Migration Strategies
• Change Management and End-User communications
• ITIL Service Delivery: SLA, Availability
• Capacity
• Continuity
• Financials
• ITIL Service Support: Change, Incident, Problem, Release Management, Configuration management

Projects include:

• Planning of :Infrastructure and Network
• Server Virtualisation
• Data Center Technologies, -implementation
• Architecture and High Level/Low Level Design
• IaaS
• Processes and operational Standards
• Complex VDI Windows7 and PST Migration with End-User devices Rollout (approx 2000 Laptops,  Mobile Devices)
• Desktop Images
• End-User Transformation and Communications
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Citrix Farm, Provisioning, XenApp, VDI, Data Centre Consolidation with new connectivity to electronic stock exchange/Trading (Reuters, LIFFE, TheIce, Bloomberg, APX Eurolight etc)
• Integration into Websense
• CMDB (Maximo,  Asset)
• Active Directory/FIM
• Managing Service Transition Processes
• managing concurrent multiple projects

• Data Centre Transformation Project >£100m in an outsourced environment, Project and Portfolio Team
• IBM IT managed Service
• PRINCE2 Project Management
• planning of multiple projects simultaneously in different workstreams and projects with complex dependencies
• Requirements gathering
• Stakeholder Management
• Design HLD/LLD, Functional Specifications
• Technical Architecture
• Scope
• 3rd party Management
• Quality Management
• Risk and Issue Management, Dependencies and critical paths
• Milestones planning
• Stakeholder progress meetings
• Planning/analysis with complex dependencies
• Migration Strategies
• ITIL Service Delivery: Capacity; Continuity;
• ITIL Service Support: Change, Release Management

Projects include:

• Planning of: Infrastructure and Network
• LAN, WAN, MPLS,  Migration of Windows/ AIX/ SQL/ Citrix/ Linux/ Web Servers
• Lift & Shift; Server Categories
• Server Virtualisation
• IaaS
• IBM Lpar P-Series and X-Series, Build Factory
• Data Center Technologies, -implementation; distributed locations
• Architecture and High Level/Low Level Design
• Processes and operational Standards
• DR
• CISCO, Firewalls
• TIBCO

• DataCenter Move from Dallas US to IBM Central Data Centers in Germany and Regional Data Centers:
  • Transition & Transformation of Global Infrastructure and Applications
  • IT Integration Europe, US, Latin America, Africa
• International Data Centre Transition & Transformation Project >£30m in an outsourced environment, Project and Portfolio Team
• IBM IT managed Service.
• PRINCE2 Project Management
• full cycle Project Management
• multiple projects simultaneously in different workstreams
• Requirements gathering and Business Analysis
• Stakeholder Management
• Design HLD/LLD, Functional Specifications
• Technical Architecture
• Scope
• PID negotiations and solutioning/ Consultancy
• Resource (local, off-shore) and Budget planning/control
• IT Procurement
• Forecasting
• 3rd party Management
• Integration
• Quality Management
• Documentation
• Risk and Issue Management, Dependencies and critical paths
• Milestone planning/controlling
• Stakeholder progress meetings
• Reporting
• Tracking
• Project Delivery on time and within budget
• multiple concurrent projects at one time
• Implementation Management and detailed task planning/analysis with complex dependencies
• Master Plans
• Matrix Management, Milestones
• Strategies
• BAU
• Transition & Transformation
• Operational/ITIL Processes and Readiness. 
• ITIL Service Delivery: SLA, Availability
• Capacity
• Continuity
• Financials
• Service Catalogue

• ITIL Service Support: Change, Incident, Problem, Release Management, Configuration management

Managed Projects include:

• full cycle Transition & Transformation of Enterprise wide/Global Applications
• IT Infrastructure and Network
• LAN, WAN, MPLS, Firewall, Load Balancer
• IaaS
• Cloud, VPN Server related projects (AT&T, BT) , Windows/SQL/Citrix Servers
• VMWare Farms Design/Build/Test
• Server Virtualisation
• ESX
• SAN
• Lpar P-Series and X-Series, Data Center Technologies, -implementation
• distributed locations
• Architecture and High Level/Low Level Design
• ITIL Processes and operational Standards
• Implementation of IBM Maximo (Change/Asset/Reporting/Service Requests/Catalogue/Incident/User Groups)
• Load Balancer
• DR
• Firewalls
• Global Mirror
• Service Continuity Plans
• Extensive Design/Build/Test/Handover into BAU projects
• Global Active Directory, all Tiers
• MS ADRAP Audit
• IIS, Apache
• full cycle Exchange 2010 Migration, Microsoft LYNC, Blackberry BES
• Design/Build/Test of several Citrix Farms
• Citrix publishing and performance optimisations
• QA and Test environments
• Decommissioning, De-invest processes
• extensive Performance-, Capacity Management Reporting.

IT Security:

• Infrastructure and Network Security
• Active Directory, Identity and Access Management’ Processes and Policies IAM, Authentication, Privileged accounts
• GPO, AD Reporting, Access Log Reporting, Ports/Firewall, Security for Server/email scanning and processes
• Symantec, SCCM, Forefront
• Server Security Scanning
• Vulnerability, Server Patching Policies
• CIRATS, SESDR, CMDB,  Assets
• Backup: Tivoli TSM and BackupExec

• Portfolio of projects between £10k and £1m in an outsourced environment including Infrastructure, first and single customer contact for the workstreams. Key stakeholder Management
• Liaisons between technology and business groups
• RfS
• Requirements gathering, Business Analysis and Solutioning
• managing project managers
• ITIL Service Delivery: SLA, OLA, Availability
• ITIL Service Support: Change, Incident, Problem, Release Management
• PRINCE2 Project Management
• PMO, PID, Project Planning
• Requirements
• Stakeholder Management
• HLD, LLD, Functional Specification
• Technical Architecture
• Scope
• Resource and Budget planning
• IT Procurement
• Forecasting
• cash flow
• Tolerances
• Change Management
• multiple concurrent workstreams and projects
• Dependencies
• 3rd party Management
• Integration
• Quality Management
• Documentation
• Risk and Issue Management
• Dependencies and critical path
• Weekly/daily progress meetings (Internal and with client representatives)
• Internal steering committee
• Reporting
• proactive Monitoring and Tracking
• Content Management System
• Project Delivery
• Implementation Management and detailed task planning/analysis with dependencies
• Master Plans
• Matrix Management, Milestones
• Strategies
• setup and agree  Service Support Models
• BAU transition
• ITIL Service Delivery: SLA, OLA, Availability
• ITIL Service Support: Change, Incident, Problem, Release Management

Managed Projects include:

• Infrastructure and Network
• LAN, WAN
• VPN Server related projects (Cable & Wireless, AT&T) , Windows/SQL Servers
• VMWare/Configurations
• Server Virtualisation
• IaaS
• ESX
• SAN
• Data Center Technologies, -implementation
• Architecture and Design
• Processes and operational Standards
• Many Design/Build/Test/Handover into BAU projects
• Server Security Scanning
• Citrix publishing
• IT Security: User Access Management, Global Authentication SSO, User IDs, Policies, Audits, Ports/Firewall,  Sanctuary Device encryption and test strategy
• Server Security Scanning.
• Foundstone Scanning
• PixAlert
• VitalQiP
• Enterprise wide Applications’ Transition & Transformations, Migration, Upgrades and Packaging and their implementation & deployment
• Decommissioning
• Remedy
• Tivoli
• Data Warehouse: Centralised MI Shared Infrastructure
• Grid
• Information Server 8
• Cognos
• MI
• ETL and database migration
• SQL-, DB2-Server
• IIS
• Implementation Planning
• Service Provisioning & Management
• System Test
• UAT
• Operating Models

• > 20m USD project
• Key Stakeholder Management
• Customer Requirements, Bidding, Proposal, Contract
• Software Development
• Telecoms 3G, 2G
• Transformation and Rollout to deliver a managed voice and data service for the fast ICE fleet of Deutsche Bahn Railway company together with T-Mobile.

• managing a 700m £ project with a huge UK Bank in an outsourced environment
• Financial Services
• Rollout
• Transformation of > 2000 branches and offices (5 up to 2000 employees) from legacy telephony environments to an IPT solution using Cisco Communication Manager/VoIP.
• More than 60,000 handsets were installed during this 2 years project.
• The project was the Winner of ‘The Banker’ Technology Award 2008 in the 'Infrastructure Strategy category

• > 150m USD Software development project
• project portfolio, extensive business analysis, technical design, build, test, Business Implementation of a new national railway seat reservation system (NRS) as an outsourced application.
• The project went live on Dec/27/2004 on time and within the budget limits.
• The NRS project is the 2005 winner of the British Computer Society selected projects