Bedford, England, United Kingdom
A dedicated IT professional with a strong work ethos, who will always go the extra mile. I am an ex Management Accountant who is a natural communicator, who ensures that the technical jargon is communicated effectively to non-technical professionals at all levels. Never one to shy away from any obstacles, but more importantly keeping fully focused on delivery of the end results. Having worked as a Management Accountant for the first 5 years of my career before branching out into IT, I am a natural communicator who ensures that the technical jargon is communicated effectively to both technical and non-technical professionals (internal & external key stakeholders/third party suppliers) at all levels; and ensure that technical solutions are streamlined with business requirements so that key benefits can be realised. I have managed full projects life-cycle from OJEU Procurement through to project implementation (project initialisation, design, build, test, deployment and BAU service integration). I have managed many large third-party suppliers and have been a key instrument in delivering successful projects.
Project leadership and delivery, spearheading Cloud digital transformation and change initiatives within BCC Finance, engaged as part of the Digital, Data and Technology transformation in the end-to-end project delivery of a series of Cloud-based finance business systems, including Unit4 ERP (ERP7) HeyCentric Income Manager, Azure, Data Lake, Data Brick, Fabric etc. BBC Finance migration from Agilisys/Unit4 Agresso Business World (ABW) to Unit4 ABW to Cloud Service Offering (CSO) and to the Unit4 Full SaaS ERP Finance products (ORACLE EPM Finance). ServiceNow ITSM/HAM/SAM. End-to-end management of people, process, workflows, business rules and AI configurations.
Establishment of the joint venture was the selection of the ‘Boxer’ Mechanized Infantry Vehicle (MIV) for the UK MOD. RBSL is separating split and centralising from BAE systems and a programme of work for an IT Infrastructure and cloud platforms to support the new RBSL entity to be delivered by DXC. This includes design, manufacturing, engineering, export, HR, finance etc. PMP management includes resourcing, budgeting, risk and issues milestones management, baseline planning, programme planning and management, weekly PMO Programme Board dashboard reporting. The delivery of various on-prem systems/data centres to the Cloud including key Microsoft products. Deployments included M365 SharePoint/Exchange/InTune/AAD/OneDrive and NAS cloud using various tools such as Carbonite, Red Hat OpenShift using Kubernetes, ShareGate, Metalogic, Robocopy etc.). Delivery Lead for Asset Management including ServiceNow ITSM including (HAM – CI’s/asset list, asset types, devices etc.; SAM – license management, including license type, number of users per license, licensing renewal, supplier details etc.). Tooling - (Service Now, Intune, MECM/SCCM, Azure HCI/AD/AAD, CMDB, BigFix, HR ForYou etc.); Data Load (HR/Procurement/Finance). Integration with ITSM Governance, Service Desk, Service Request, Site Support.
Project leadership and delivery, spearheading Cloud digital transformation and change initiatives within UKRI (Finance), a UK central government organisation made up of 9 research councils and related organisations. Engaged as part of the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Team in the end-to-end project delivery of a series of Cloud-based business systems, including SAP Concur • Managed the development of requirement specifications and implementation of SAP Concur Travel and Expense platform. • SAP Concur end-to-end process and workflow management including travel and expense, control cost and cashflow, VAT, duty of care, compliance, integration. • Responsible for scope development, discovery planning sessions, initial customer communications and business requirements and process reviews with third party solution providers. • Vendor and Stakeholders management • Project Delivery Plan, Risk/Issues and Problem Management including weekly Project Progress Reports • Worked with users to define criteria and system configuration requirements, including data migration and systems integration between HR, vendor procurement, payroll and finance systems. • Azure, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, JIRA Scum/Kanban • Oversee requirements for systems installation, users’ access, contracts/ license renewal, PoC with stakeholder discovery workshops, workshops output and key stakeholder’s communications. • Managed the development of supplier’s enablement strategy and conducted supplier enablement progress reviews. • Worked with the change and transition teams on strategy and plan implementation, training, cutover and BAU activities, ensure changes were embedded into BAU and sustained with communications pre/post go-live. • Ensured knowledge transfer to services with the learning transformation team, configuration, aligned business process design and system setup based on agreed governance. • Managed development of project cutover and service management BAU transformation.
EUC Microsoft Morden Workplace ERP Change and Transformation programme for the delivery of various On-Prem systems to Cloud-based business systems to support the Council Digital Transformation IT Cloud-based Programme. Programme Delivery Lead – Microsoft Modern Workplace EUC M365/O365 Change and Transformation Programme. The delivery of various on-prem systems/data centres to the Cloud including key Microsoft products. Deployments included M365 SharePoint/Exchange/InTune/AAD/OneDrive and NAS cloud using various tools such as Carbonite, Red Hat OpenShift using Kubernetes, ShareGate, Metalogic, Robocopy etc.). PMP management includes resourcing, budgeting, risk and issues milestones management, baseline planning, programme planning and management, weekly PMO Programme Board dashboard reporting.
Senior Project Manager for the Open University for a Large SAP S/4HANA ERP transformation programme. Working with the main supplier itelligence UK and other sub-contractor suppliers representing the OU leading on the SAP integration workstream which was made-up of several sub-systems integration streams. Support the main ERP related people, business process, data, infrastructure, applications, architecture and integration. Including SAP S/4 - Finance – Asset, GL, AP, AR; HANA Core Finance - Procurement – SAP Ariba; Expense – SAP Concur