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Strong IT Project Management Professional Specialising in Infrastructure Projects
Aaron Taylor
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Aaron X is a small IT Consulting company based in the Midlands UK which provides project and program management services to a vast array of industries with the main focus been IT.
Our experience covers a number of industries including Retail, Finance, Hospitality, Managed Service and Construction to name just a few. Recent projects managed include server application upgrades, DC migrations, desktop refresh, and wifi rollout.
The AARON X approach is simple: 1) Understand the clients need. 2) Delight the client.
Our experience covers a number of industries including Retail, Finance, Hospitality, Managed Service and Construction to name just a few. Recent projects managed include server application upgrades, DC migrations, desktop refresh, and wifi rollout.
The AARON X approach is simple: 1) Understand the clients need. 2) Delight the client.
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United Kingdom
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English
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Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
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My experience
2018 - 2019
freelance
Project Management for IT Services at New Centres
CDW UK.
Project managed the instatement of fibre at multiple sites for my client's end client. This involved liasing with teams in the UK and in the middle east and high levels of stakeholder management with the client's end client to ensure that deadlines were achieved and sites opened on time.
IT Project Manager, Project Management, Optimization and development of processes, Stakeholder Management, Management
2017 - 2017
freelance
ICT Project Manager
Staffs County Council.
Staffs County Council.
● Managed the preparation and lead up to the migration of a large public website from on-premise to Azure considering continuous delivery and application management as part of the move.
● Planning and delivery of £2M desktop refresh project.
● Structured formation of project organisation and stakeholder management activities.
● Development of technical colleagues 'soft skills', especially in dealing with senior stakeholders.
● Attend project tollgate reviews to ensure projects progress and buy-in from the business has been gained.
● Hold technology vendors and partners to account, ensuring work is complete to support successful project delivery.
● Planning and delivery of £2M desktop refresh project.
● Structured formation of project organisation and stakeholder management activities.
● Development of technical colleagues 'soft skills', especially in dealing with senior stakeholders.
● Attend project tollgate reviews to ensure projects progress and buy-in from the business has been gained.
● Hold technology vendors and partners to account, ensuring work is complete to support successful project delivery.
Project Manager, Azure, Stakeholder Management, Management, Website, Technology, Support, Development, Organization, Application Management, Planning, UP, Manager
2016 - 2017
job
Technical Project Manager
Stoneseed.
● Successful delivery of data centre/infrastructure projects to external clients in a variety of industries (Tourism, Construction ).
● Leadership of internal and external project team members including offshore resources and onshore technology partners.
● Work with the Head of Projects to develop and document project governance and processes.
● Manage procurement, ensuring purchase orders are created, tracked and receipted.
● Support less experienced project managers and offer direction.
● Attend project tollgate reviews to ensure projects progress and buy-in from the business has been gained.
● Hold technology vendors and partners to account, ensuring work is complete to support successful project delivery.
● Leadership of internal and external project team members including offshore resources and onshore technology partners.
● Work with the Head of Projects to develop and document project governance and processes.
● Manage procurement, ensuring purchase orders are created, tracked and receipted.
● Support less experienced project managers and offer direction.
● Attend project tollgate reviews to ensure projects progress and buy-in from the business has been gained.
● Hold technology vendors and partners to account, ensuring work is complete to support successful project delivery.
Project Manager, Procurement, Leadership, Less, Technology, Support, Offshore, Infrastructure, Direction, Processes, Manager
2014 - 2016
job
Technical Project Manager
Outsourcery.
● Strong planning and leadership for complex cloud projects (IaaS).
● Leadership and delivery of project to productise Azure VMs as a service within the business.
● Successful leadership on a project to migrate many customer Dynamics CRM and MS Exchange environments from Radware to F5 loadbalancers to improve supportability and enhance features.
● Management of the upgrade of numerous Wintel server environments.
● Strong leadership of cross functional teams comprising Senior Infrastructure Engineers, Sales Reps, Developers, Business Managers and Operations staff.
● Effective management of relationships with key suppliers (e.g. Microsoft Consulting Services).
● Strong, progressive leadership on a critical programme to introduce several enhancements to the platform that underpins the company's cloud environment following a serious incident that caused a major outage.
● Timely status reporting back to management and steering on the progress of projects.
● Strong risk and issue management with timely review of both and appropriate escalation.
● Senior level engagement (COO and CEO level).
● Leadership and delivery of project to productise Azure VMs as a service within the business.
● Successful leadership on a project to migrate many customer Dynamics CRM and MS Exchange environments from Radware to F5 loadbalancers to improve supportability and enhance features.
● Management of the upgrade of numerous Wintel server environments.
● Strong leadership of cross functional teams comprising Senior Infrastructure Engineers, Sales Reps, Developers, Business Managers and Operations staff.
● Effective management of relationships with key suppliers (e.g. Microsoft Consulting Services).
● Strong, progressive leadership on a critical programme to introduce several enhancements to the platform that underpins the company's cloud environment following a serious incident that caused a major outage.
● Timely status reporting back to management and steering on the progress of projects.
● Strong risk and issue management with timely review of both and appropriate escalation.
● Senior level engagement (COO and CEO level).
CRM, Project Manager, Azure, Exchange, Cloud, Consulting, Leadership, Management, Sales, Service, Infrastructure, Ceo, Server, Issue management, Dynamics CRM, Manager
2013 - 2014
job
Infrastructure Project Manager
Alliance Boots PLC.
● Successful management and coordination of preparations for complex companywide desktop refresh project (c. 6000 machines) [XP to Windows 7]. The environment is particularly challenging with users possessing desktops and laptops from both HP and Lenovo, along with a mix of business-critical applications.
● Lead on a project to upgrade the DHCP Server environment in preparation for a move to a new single global AD domain. The new environment will manage IP addresses for all head office clients as well as those in all the stores in the UK and the rest of Europe. The current servers are IBM servers, the new servers will be HP.
● Strong leadership of cross functional team comprising Project Coordinators, Business Analysts, Data Analysts, 3rd party vendors, architects, floor walkers and Technical Managers.
● Effective management of relationships with key suppliers (these include Computacenter, Vodafone, HP and Lenovo amongst others).
● Implementation of Sharepoint solution to manage infrastructure projects.
● Timely status reporting back to management and steering on the progress of projects.
● Strong risk and issue management with timely review of both and appropriate escalation.
● Successful attendance at senior leadership forum to obtain further funds for project (Project budget more than £1 Million)
● Influenced positively (by coaching) the performance of project coordinators to elevate delivery within the team.
● Implemented project audits/peer reviews to ensure a consistent way of working and process is achieved across the entire delivery team, elevating delivery standards ensuring projects are well managed.
● Lead on a project to upgrade the DHCP Server environment in preparation for a move to a new single global AD domain. The new environment will manage IP addresses for all head office clients as well as those in all the stores in the UK and the rest of Europe. The current servers are IBM servers, the new servers will be HP.
● Strong leadership of cross functional team comprising Project Coordinators, Business Analysts, Data Analysts, 3rd party vendors, architects, floor walkers and Technical Managers.
● Effective management of relationships with key suppliers (these include Computacenter, Vodafone, HP and Lenovo amongst others).
● Implementation of Sharepoint solution to manage infrastructure projects.
● Timely status reporting back to management and steering on the progress of projects.
● Strong risk and issue management with timely review of both and appropriate escalation.
● Successful attendance at senior leadership forum to obtain further funds for project (Project budget more than £1 Million)
● Influenced positively (by coaching) the performance of project coordinators to elevate delivery within the team.
● Implemented project audits/peer reviews to ensure a consistent way of working and process is achieved across the entire delivery team, elevating delivery standards ensuring projects are well managed.
Coaching, Project Manager, SharePoint, Budget, REST, C, Leadership, Management, Windows, Implementation, Infrastructure, Office, Server, Issue management, XP, Manager
2012 - 2013
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Technical Project Manager
Capital One Europe.
● Successful delivery of multiple large complex business critical infrastructure projects using a variety of technologies (Networks, SAN, Firewall, RHEL, HPUX, Linux, Wintel, BMC, IBM )
● Wintel (Win2k8) and Linux (RHEL 5) were the standard servers used. Many tasks included migrating older HPUX environments to RHEL 5 and ensuring the appropriate DR infrastructure was in place and tested in warranty. This would always be included in design.
● Ensured firewall rules were requested and implemented by AT&T and any domain boundary exceptions were resolved with IT security.
● Ensured necessary batch scheduling and monitoring jobs were in place (Control M) for each implementation as a standard.
● Run through the full project lifecycle ensuring planning, design, build, test and implementation are all carried out in a timely manner.
● Manage desktop packaging requests with teams in the U.S to ensure an MSI package was produced and tested to the right degree and rolled out via SCCM.
● Firm leadership of project teams. These include onshore/offshore teams and 3rd party vendors. Architects, Wintel Engineers, Wintel Designers, Linux Engineers, Linux Designers, Solution Designers, Network Engineers, Firewall Engineers, Test Managers, Middleware Engineers and external consultants from vendors.
● Liaison with the Service Desk, Incident Management, Change Control and Desktop Support to ensure issues were resolved in a timely manner.
● Strong ownership of project issues through to resolution.
● Clear scope definition involving necessary stakeholders - ensuring issues are communicated in a timely manner, risks are escalated, and regular steering meetings are held. Stakeholders included senior business leaders, members of the IT leadership team as well as representatives from the 3rd parties.
● Timely management and review of project risk.
● Regularly assessed the progress of a project and recommended feasible improvements where appropriate.
● Management of infrastructure design approach.
● Successful lead on dependency management on large projects.
● Matrix managed teams of IT professionals (3 -10 staff) including the coaching and mentoring of junior members/graduates.
● Wintel (Win2k8) and Linux (RHEL 5) were the standard servers used. Many tasks included migrating older HPUX environments to RHEL 5 and ensuring the appropriate DR infrastructure was in place and tested in warranty. This would always be included in design.
● Ensured firewall rules were requested and implemented by AT&T and any domain boundary exceptions were resolved with IT security.
● Ensured necessary batch scheduling and monitoring jobs were in place (Control M) for each implementation as a standard.
● Run through the full project lifecycle ensuring planning, design, build, test and implementation are all carried out in a timely manner.
● Manage desktop packaging requests with teams in the U.S to ensure an MSI package was produced and tested to the right degree and rolled out via SCCM.
● Firm leadership of project teams. These include onshore/offshore teams and 3rd party vendors. Architects, Wintel Engineers, Wintel Designers, Linux Engineers, Linux Designers, Solution Designers, Network Engineers, Firewall Engineers, Test Managers, Middleware Engineers and external consultants from vendors.
● Liaison with the Service Desk, Incident Management, Change Control and Desktop Support to ensure issues were resolved in a timely manner.
● Strong ownership of project issues through to resolution.
● Clear scope definition involving necessary stakeholders - ensuring issues are communicated in a timely manner, risks are escalated, and regular steering meetings are held. Stakeholders included senior business leaders, members of the IT leadership team as well as representatives from the 3rd parties.
● Timely management and review of project risk.
● Regularly assessed the progress of a project and recommended feasible improvements where appropriate.
● Management of infrastructure design approach.
● Successful lead on dependency management on large projects.
● Matrix managed teams of IT professionals (3 -10 staff) including the coaching and mentoring of junior members/graduates.
Service, Manager, SAN, Incident Management, Monitoring, Infrastructure, Middleware, Offshore, Implementation, Support, It, Security, Design, Network, Firewall, Test, Management, Leadership, Mentoring, Packaging, Project Manager, Coaching, Linux
2007 - 2011
job
Technical Infrastructure Project Manager
CENTRAL NETWORKS I.S.
● Successfully delivered technical projects to time, cost and quality in a mixed environment of both infrastructure (Wintel/Unix) and software rollout projects.
● Managed a large number of application migration projects, ensuring the landing server environment were ready and upgraded (WINTEL / Unix) beforehand.
● Successfully ran a data center consolidation project to group similar applications on to the same servers, resulting in the removal and decommissioning of redundant hardware and a reduction in support costs.
● Dealt with project issues and escalated when appropriate. These projects were mainly infrastructure projects with a small amount of application development included. One such project included the migration of a GIS system linked to a SaaS cloud environment from a desktop into the Data Centre on to two IBM Web Servers. Another project was the virtualisation (and move to Data Centre) of a system called LAMP that ran on an old Unix box. This system controlled the metering and billing for street furniture in the East Midlands.
● Managed infrastructure project risk and ensured mechanisms were in place for mitigation.
● Regularly assessed the progress of a project and recommended feasible improvements where appropriate.
● Matrix managed teams of IT professionals (3 -10 staff) including the coaching and mentoring of junior members/graduates. Teams usually consisted of Architects, multiple data analysts, project leads, engineers and DBAs.
● Managed a large number of application migration projects, ensuring the landing server environment were ready and upgraded (WINTEL / Unix) beforehand.
● Successfully ran a data center consolidation project to group similar applications on to the same servers, resulting in the removal and decommissioning of redundant hardware and a reduction in support costs.
● Dealt with project issues and escalated when appropriate. These projects were mainly infrastructure projects with a small amount of application development included. One such project included the migration of a GIS system linked to a SaaS cloud environment from a desktop into the Data Centre on to two IBM Web Servers. Another project was the virtualisation (and move to Data Centre) of a system called LAMP that ran on an old Unix box. This system controlled the metering and billing for street furniture in the East Midlands.
● Managed infrastructure project risk and ensured mechanisms were in place for mitigation.
● Regularly assessed the progress of a project and recommended feasible improvements where appropriate.
● Matrix managed teams of IT professionals (3 -10 staff) including the coaching and mentoring of junior members/graduates. Teams usually consisted of Architects, multiple data analysts, project leads, engineers and DBAs.
Coaching, Project Manager, Cloud, Mentoring, Unix, Saas, Gis, It, Support, Infrastructure, Hardware, Development, Software, Server, Web, Manager
2005 - 2007
job
Application Deployment Team Coordinator
EON UK.
● Managed the daily application packaging and deployment program of work.
● Managed a team of application packaging specialists.
● Captured customer technical requirements for application packaging tasks.
● Initiated and carried out application 'discovery' prior to packaging (carried out using WISE Packaging Studio).
● Deployed a range of applications using SCCM/AD.
● Managed large scale application rollouts of up to 10,000 desktop/laptops.
● Managed customer relations and stakeholders and ensured problems were resolved.
● Continuously improved process to improve the team's perception and customer relations.
● Managed a team of application packaging specialists.
● Captured customer technical requirements for application packaging tasks.
● Initiated and carried out application 'discovery' prior to packaging (carried out using WISE Packaging Studio).
● Deployed a range of applications using SCCM/AD.
● Managed large scale application rollouts of up to 10,000 desktop/laptops.
● Managed customer relations and stakeholders and ensured problems were resolved.
● Continuously improved process to improve the team's perception and customer relations.
Packaging, Deployment, Coordinator, UP
My education
1999
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2001
DeMontfort
HND, Computing
HND, Computing
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