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A highly skilled, technical professional with a broad range of experience across IT infrastructure, telecommunications and project management.
Nick Courtney-Jones
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Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
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A highly skilled, technical professional with a broad range of experience across IT infrastructure, telecommunications and project management. Highly organised, with strong planning skills, adept at analysing business requirements and delivering robust solutions within challenging environments. A competent communicator with solid leadership skills and proven abilities in managing and directing skilled teams, mentoring junior engineers. Adaptable, flexible and willing to work abroad or in the UK, keen to secure an interesting role where extensive skill set can add immediate value.
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United Kingdom
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Language
English
Fluently
Ready for
Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
Full time contractor
Available
My experience
2019 - ?
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Technical Project Manager
BP Plc.
A multinational oil and gas company operating in the upstream and downstream market segments.
• Ensure that production assets are compliant with BP's cyber security controls for Process Control Networks (PCN)
• Review of BP's policy and standards
• Review each of the nessesary controls to ensure each vendor delivered package and network are compliant
• Where a package was found non-compliant, identify and implement fixes
• Travel to remote and offshore sites, Angola/Azerbaijan/Indonesia/Oman
• Managing key stakeholders and running engagement meetings with site owners to arrange field site visits
• Implementation of a global asset management tool which would hold latest asset PCN infrastructure database
• Developing backup and restore policies for non-compliant assets
• Developing anti-virus and patching policies for non-compliant assets
• Ensure that production assets are compliant with BP's cyber security controls for Process Control Networks (PCN)
• Review of BP's policy and standards
• Review each of the nessesary controls to ensure each vendor delivered package and network are compliant
• Where a package was found non-compliant, identify and implement fixes
• Travel to remote and offshore sites, Angola/Azerbaijan/Indonesia/Oman
• Managing key stakeholders and running engagement meetings with site owners to arrange field site visits
• Implementation of a global asset management tool which would hold latest asset PCN infrastructure database
• Developing backup and restore policies for non-compliant assets
• Developing anti-virus and patching policies for non-compliant assets
Project Manager, Database, Management, Asset Management, Network, Security, Offshore, Implementation, Infrastructure, Backup, Production, Oil and Gas, Manager
2012 - ?
freelance
IT Infrastructure Project Manager / Telecommunications Specialist / Consultant
NCJ Consulting LTD.
Key Projects
Project Manager, It infrastructure, It, Infrastructure, Manager
2019 - 2019
freelance
SD-WAN Consultant
Prosource.IT.
A global IT services provider focusing on infrastructure, operational and project requirements across the corporate enterprise market.
• The end client was completing a merger of two major retail giants in the USA and Canada which offered an opportunity to consolidate WAN services across 220 sites
• Assisting ATT with their bid on the SD-WAN project and implementation
• The service provider wanted to deploy using a big bang approach, however this wouldn't fit the nature of end-clients business due to various locations not being like for like in a communications space
• Steered a modular deployment approach which would mitigate risk and customer dissatisfaction of the technoliogy
• Provided technical steer on SD-WAN deployment and practices
• Reviewed technical delivery approach of the SD-WAN provider
• Provided steer on how to select Proof of Concept (POC) sites and how to measure success to allow assessment of the POC
• The end client was completing a merger of two major retail giants in the USA and Canada which offered an opportunity to consolidate WAN services across 220 sites
• Assisting ATT with their bid on the SD-WAN project and implementation
• The service provider wanted to deploy using a big bang approach, however this wouldn't fit the nature of end-clients business due to various locations not being like for like in a communications space
• Steered a modular deployment approach which would mitigate risk and customer dissatisfaction of the technoliogy
• Provided technical steer on SD-WAN deployment and practices
• Reviewed technical delivery approach of the SD-WAN provider
• Provided steer on how to select Proof of Concept (POC) sites and how to measure success to allow assessment of the POC
Retail, Deployment, Service, It, Implementation, Infrastructure, Assessment, WAN, Enterprise, USA
2016 - 2017
job
IT Transformation Programme, Data Centre and Infrastructure Migration Project Manager
Northern Powergrid.
One of UK's leading power distribution company who deliver electricity to 3.9 million customers in the UK.
• Operated at early stages of programme development lifecycle, brought in primarily to pick up infrastructure migration from outsourced data centre environment to bespoke, brand new purpose built data centres;
• Worked closely with the data centre build team in an advisory capacity to ensure all the internal networking elements were designed correctly;
• Created service criteria for the new supplier who will oversea the delivery of new infrastructure, migration of legacy infrastructure and operational lifecycle of the overall solution;
• Detailed mapping of application dependancies across multiple infrastructure environments prior migration of service;
• Created 3rd Party VPN access into Northern Powergrids domain;
• Rescoped data centre interconnect requirements for the WAN circuits to ensure growth was taken into consideration;
• Managed stakeholder expectations by presenting more realistic project timelines and budgets;
• Worked closely with the Programme Manager to re-shape programme organisational structure to ensure closer collaboration was possible across multiple workstreams;
• Provided technical steer to the contract and procurement department during tender marking and BAFO award stages;
Achievements
• Saved the programme in excess of £250K in what otherwise would have been overengineered WAN services which would have not been fully utilised;
• Operated at early stages of programme development lifecycle, brought in primarily to pick up infrastructure migration from outsourced data centre environment to bespoke, brand new purpose built data centres;
• Worked closely with the data centre build team in an advisory capacity to ensure all the internal networking elements were designed correctly;
• Created service criteria for the new supplier who will oversea the delivery of new infrastructure, migration of legacy infrastructure and operational lifecycle of the overall solution;
• Detailed mapping of application dependancies across multiple infrastructure environments prior migration of service;
• Created 3rd Party VPN access into Northern Powergrids domain;
• Rescoped data centre interconnect requirements for the WAN circuits to ensure growth was taken into consideration;
• Managed stakeholder expectations by presenting more realistic project timelines and budgets;
• Worked closely with the Programme Manager to re-shape programme organisational structure to ensure closer collaboration was possible across multiple workstreams;
• Provided technical steer to the contract and procurement department during tender marking and BAFO award stages;
Achievements
• Saved the programme in excess of £250K in what otherwise would have been overengineered WAN services which would have not been fully utilised;
Project Manager, Networking, Procurement, Service, It, Growth, Transformation, Presenting, Infrastructure, Development, Power, WAN, UP, Manager
My education
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2007
n/a
Secondary, Telecommunications
Secondary, Telecommunications
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2005
Royal School of Signals
N/a, Systems Engineering
N/a, Systems Engineering
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