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IT Project Manager
Ian McMahon
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East Grinstead, United Kingdom
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Outcome focused senior IT Project Manager having successfully delivered numerous projects primarily in Financial Services. Commercially astute with the gravitas to work with, influence and communicate with stakeholders at all levels. A sound and effective decision maker with excellent problem-solving skills. Technically strong and experienced in leading direct and matrix managed and vendor resources both on and off shore. A proven track record in new systems delivery, application migrations, infrastructure upgrades and data centre migrations. I am PRINCE2 and ITILV3 certified.
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2019 - ?
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IT Data Centre Exit Project Manager
Lloyd's of London.
The leading global market in specialist insurance and reinsurance.
• Working as a Project Manager on the migration of applications to Azure cloud environment to enable the closure Lloyd's UK data centres.
• Application and infrastructure discovery across the estate with responsibility for identifying applications and infrastructure for migration or decommission involving extensive interaction with application owners, business users and IT operations.
• Management of the environment build team ensuring designs were produced in adherence to new cloud standards following an agile build process for all environments.
• Led the daily stand-up using Azure DevOps for the build of Lloyd's Azure data lake working with DevOps engineers and architects to automate the environment build with terraform pipelines.
• Matrix management of various technical resources across multiple skillsets including DBA's, Wintel, Storage and networking.
• Stakeholder management of business and technical users requiring risk, issue and status reporting weekly.
• Working as a Project Manager on the migration of applications to Azure cloud environment to enable the closure Lloyd's UK data centres.
• Application and infrastructure discovery across the estate with responsibility for identifying applications and infrastructure for migration or decommission involving extensive interaction with application owners, business users and IT operations.
• Management of the environment build team ensuring designs were produced in adherence to new cloud standards following an agile build process for all environments.
• Led the daily stand-up using Azure DevOps for the build of Lloyd's Azure data lake working with DevOps engineers and architects to automate the environment build with terraform pipelines.
• Matrix management of various technical resources across multiple skillsets including DBA's, Wintel, Storage and networking.
• Stakeholder management of business and technical users requiring risk, issue and status reporting weekly.
Project Manager, Operations, Azure, Networking, DevOps, Agile, Stakeholder Management, Cloud, Management, It, Infrastructure, Insurance, Storage, LED, Manager, UP
2018 - 2018
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IT Project Manager
Deutsche Bank.
A global financial services organisation providing investment banking, wealth management and retail services with over 90,000 employees globally.
• Responsible for the delivery of new physical server Infrastructure as part of the bank's Brexit programme, providing new servers and application migration services to the investment, wealth management and retail divisions.
• Project managed the delivery of 400 new physical machines to several different data centres and co-location facilities globally utilizing numerous vendors and 3 party service providers.
• Managed the implementation of a new reporting process to track new infrastructure requests from initiation to handover and escalation of missed SLA's along with the introduction of a new solution design "light" process to validate requirements for physical infrastructure.
• Management of resources (in house and vendor provided) throughout the provisioning process including solution designers, delivery managers, procurement and application transition managers.
• Responsible for presentation of weekly and monthly reports of all risks, issues, milestones and change requests to the program board in accordance with company standards and methodology.
• Accountable for ensuring all in-scope applications have current plans for remediation of aging (EOL) infrastructure software components including operating system, middleware and databases.
• Responsible for the delivery of new physical server Infrastructure as part of the bank's Brexit programme, providing new servers and application migration services to the investment, wealth management and retail divisions.
• Project managed the delivery of 400 new physical machines to several different data centres and co-location facilities globally utilizing numerous vendors and 3 party service providers.
• Managed the implementation of a new reporting process to track new infrastructure requests from initiation to handover and escalation of missed SLA's along with the introduction of a new solution design "light" process to validate requirements for physical infrastructure.
• Management of resources (in house and vendor provided) throughout the provisioning process including solution designers, delivery managers, procurement and application transition managers.
• Responsible for presentation of weekly and monthly reports of all risks, issues, milestones and change requests to the program board in accordance with company standards and methodology.
• Accountable for ensuring all in-scope applications have current plans for remediation of aging (EOL) infrastructure software components including operating system, middleware and databases.
Design, Project Manager, Retail, IT Project Manager, Procurement, Management, Service, Middleware, Banking, It, Implementation, Infrastructure, Software, Organization, Server, Manager
2016 - 2017
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Senior IT Project Manager
Trafigura.
A leading independent global commodities trading and logistics house.
• IT Infrastructure Project manager working on the concurrent delivery of several business, infrastructure and IT Security driven projects across all lines of the business and subsidiaries.
• Responsible for project documentation preparation ensuring project initiation and design documents adhered to company standards for new projects.
• Identification of required resources for project delivery across all Infrastructure disciplines and ensuring resources were budgeted for and allocated to the projects.
• Management of weekly project meetings with technical resources to track progress and provide weekly reports to all project stakeholders. This included risk and issue management, milestone tracking, change request tracking and financial reporting of both capex and opex spend. Project budgets ranged from £50,000 to £1.5M+.
• Resource management and liaising with software vendors and 3rd party service providers working on projects ensuring adherence to standards and delivery of assigned project tasks - this involved the matrix management of globally dispersed operational and engineering resources.
• Accountable for ensuring the required documentation was produced to ensure applications could be handed to operational support teams for post go live support. This included automation (Ansible/PowerShell) of pre-production and production application installation and configuration by operational teams and that DR testing was completed prior to production go live and all new Infrastructure components were correctly monitored and repowering to the CMDB.
• Business driven projects delivered included electronic invoicing solution for LATAM, regulatory reporting system for IFRS, GST solution for Indian tax reporting on Azure, platform upgrade for Alfresco document management system.
• IT Security and Infrastructure driven projects delivered included Oracle estate upgrades to 11.2.0.4, VSAN and LACP implementation on ESX clusters, MSSQL upgrades, Microsoft ISA replacement with Checkpoint solution for global internet access, Enterprise Vault upgrade, Citrix CAG replacement with Netscaler solution for remote access, Skype for Business message auditing solution, Citrix application migration, Message Manager upgrade, office relocation in Yangon-Myanmar.
• IT Infrastructure Project manager working on the concurrent delivery of several business, infrastructure and IT Security driven projects across all lines of the business and subsidiaries.
• Responsible for project documentation preparation ensuring project initiation and design documents adhered to company standards for new projects.
• Identification of required resources for project delivery across all Infrastructure disciplines and ensuring resources were budgeted for and allocated to the projects.
• Management of weekly project meetings with technical resources to track progress and provide weekly reports to all project stakeholders. This included risk and issue management, milestone tracking, change request tracking and financial reporting of both capex and opex spend. Project budgets ranged from £50,000 to £1.5M+.
• Resource management and liaising with software vendors and 3rd party service providers working on projects ensuring adherence to standards and delivery of assigned project tasks - this involved the matrix management of globally dispersed operational and engineering resources.
• Accountable for ensuring the required documentation was produced to ensure applications could be handed to operational support teams for post go live support. This included automation (Ansible/PowerShell) of pre-production and production application installation and configuration by operational teams and that DR testing was completed prior to production go live and all new Infrastructure components were correctly monitored and repowering to the CMDB.
• Business driven projects delivered included electronic invoicing solution for LATAM, regulatory reporting system for IFRS, GST solution for Indian tax reporting on Azure, platform upgrade for Alfresco document management system.
• IT Security and Infrastructure driven projects delivered included Oracle estate upgrades to 11.2.0.4, VSAN and LACP implementation on ESX clusters, MSSQL upgrades, Microsoft ISA replacement with Checkpoint solution for global internet access, Enterprise Vault upgrade, Citrix CAG replacement with Netscaler solution for remote access, Skype for Business message auditing solution, Citrix application migration, Message Manager upgrade, office relocation in Yangon-Myanmar.
Resource management, Manager, Go, NetScaler, Enterprise, Production, Issue management, Skype for business, Internet, Software, Office, Regulatory, Testing, Infrastructure, Support, Implementation, Design, It, Security, Engineering, Service, PowerShell, Citrix, Management, MSSQL, It infrastructure, Automation, IT Project Manager, Azure, Oracle, Project Manager
2015 - 2016
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Senior Project Manager
RBS.
A UK headquartered financial services firm with over 70,000 employees.
• Senior Project manager responsible for delivering several projects in parallel to the Finance Technology area.
• Managed the delivery a Delphix solution and new WAN link between data centres to enable the replication of Oracle databases and application components between data centres allowing the refresh of test and development environments. The project reduced the time taken for environment refreshes from weeks to hours.
• Managed the delivery of 13 disparate test environments for the Ledger Transformation programme hosted on a combination of physical and virtual hardware compromising of Oracle databases and applications.
• Managed the delivery a BMC software deployment/release management solution utilising RPM and BSA to enable consistent code deployment from development through all environments up to and including production. The project enabled the release management function to reduce the time for code deployments from days to hours.
• Defined and owned the project plans from initiation through to delivery and project closure ensuring the solutions were fit for production and successfully transitioned from project to production support teams.
• Accountable for the delivery of all project documentation and adherence to governance framework including the preparation and successful completion of all project stage and technical gates utilizing PRINCE 2 methodology.
• Responsible for providing weekly status updates to project boards utilizing PlanView for reporting and RAID management. Leadership of weekly project board meetings involving relevant stakeholders.
• Matrix management of all project resources including on shore/off shore/3rd party technical delivery resources.
• Accountable for project budgets, forecasts and actual's including Infrastructure hardware and resource costs along with responsibility for project and technical change management.
• Senior Project manager responsible for delivering several projects in parallel to the Finance Technology area.
• Managed the delivery a Delphix solution and new WAN link between data centres to enable the replication of Oracle databases and application components between data centres allowing the refresh of test and development environments. The project reduced the time taken for environment refreshes from weeks to hours.
• Managed the delivery of 13 disparate test environments for the Ledger Transformation programme hosted on a combination of physical and virtual hardware compromising of Oracle databases and applications.
• Managed the delivery a BMC software deployment/release management solution utilising RPM and BSA to enable consistent code deployment from development through all environments up to and including production. The project enabled the release management function to reduce the time for code deployments from days to hours.
• Defined and owned the project plans from initiation through to delivery and project closure ensuring the solutions were fit for production and successfully transitioned from project to production support teams.
• Accountable for the delivery of all project documentation and adherence to governance framework including the preparation and successful completion of all project stage and technical gates utilizing PRINCE 2 methodology.
• Responsible for providing weekly status updates to project boards utilizing PlanView for reporting and RAID management. Leadership of weekly project board meetings involving relevant stakeholders.
• Matrix management of all project resources including on shore/off shore/3rd party technical delivery resources.
• Accountable for project budgets, forecasts and actual's including Infrastructure hardware and resource costs along with responsibility for project and technical change management.
Transformation, UP, Manager, Framework, Production, WAN, Software, Development, Hardware, Infrastructure, Change management, Support, Technology, Test, Finance, Management, Leadership, Deployment, Oracle, Project Manager
2014 - 2015
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Infrastructure Project Manager Global Data Centre Relocation
UBS.
A global financial services organisation providing investment, wealth management and private banking services.
• FRDS Line of Business Project Manager for a Global Data Centre relocation program spanning US, UK and APAC DC's. Responsibilities included estate analysis and tracking, budget submissions in conjunction with the application teams, Infrastructure requirement and extensive solution design work across servers, storage and networks requiring collaboration between application and Infrastructure Services teams.
• Communication of new Infrastructure standards in target DC's to the impacted application teams including migrations to new standard stacks, IaaS and DBaaS - internally hosted private cloud infrastructure services.
• Responsible for the delivery of all new Infrastructure in the target DC's while also ensuring application Infrastructure standardization across all environments and regions - migrating from End of Life hardware and Operating Systems.
• Stakeholder management requiring reporting of progress, risks and issues to the central DC Program and LOB management along with resource forecasting and full budget tracking of forecast and actuals (CHF4.6m).
• FRDS Line of Business Project Manager for a Global Data Centre relocation program spanning US, UK and APAC DC's. Responsibilities included estate analysis and tracking, budget submissions in conjunction with the application teams, Infrastructure requirement and extensive solution design work across servers, storage and networks requiring collaboration between application and Infrastructure Services teams.
• Communication of new Infrastructure standards in target DC's to the impacted application teams including migrations to new standard stacks, IaaS and DBaaS - internally hosted private cloud infrastructure services.
• Responsible for the delivery of all new Infrastructure in the target DC's while also ensuring application Infrastructure standardization across all environments and regions - migrating from End of Life hardware and Operating Systems.
• Stakeholder management requiring reporting of progress, risks and issues to the central DC Program and LOB management along with resource forecasting and full budget tracking of forecast and actuals (CHF4.6m).
Design, Project Manager, Budget, Forecasting, Stakeholder Management, Cloud, Management, Banking, Infrastructure, Hardware, Storage, Organization, Forecast, Manager
2012 - 2013
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Infrastructure Project and Service Delivery Manager
Maersk Line.
Maersk Line is part of the APMM Group with over 25000 employees globally represented in over 125 countries.
• Responsible for the delivery of the Work-Place Services projects to the Future Mode of Operation environment. Projects include the Windows 7 global upgrade, SCCM upgrade to 2012, Application packaging and rationalisation, PC Hardware refresh and Group Policy and Logon Script updates. Responsible for ensuring the project deliverables were operationally ready for the production environment.
• Vendor management responsibility for the work stream as the programme involved outsourcing of services. Attendance at vendor reporting and tracking meetings for the programme.
• Management of the weekly global stakeholder meetings ensuring all risks, issues and actions are recorded and allocated to appropriate resources.
• Change Management responsibility for the work stream - ensuring changes are scheduled, submitted, reviewed, approved and allocated to the correct global implementation teams.
• Responsible for ensuring all projects delivered the appropriate documentation and processes to enable services to enter the Future Mode of Operation.
• Responsible for the delivery of the Work-Place Services projects to the Future Mode of Operation environment. Projects include the Windows 7 global upgrade, SCCM upgrade to 2012, Application packaging and rationalisation, PC Hardware refresh and Group Policy and Logon Script updates. Responsible for ensuring the project deliverables were operationally ready for the production environment.
• Vendor management responsibility for the work stream as the programme involved outsourcing of services. Attendance at vendor reporting and tracking meetings for the programme.
• Management of the weekly global stakeholder meetings ensuring all risks, issues and actions are recorded and allocated to appropriate resources.
• Change Management responsibility for the work stream - ensuring changes are scheduled, submitted, reviewed, approved and allocated to the correct global implementation teams.
• Responsible for ensuring all projects delivered the appropriate documentation and processes to enable services to enter the Future Mode of Operation.
Infrastructure, Manager, Service Delivery, Processes, Production, PC, Mode, Service Delivery Manager, Hardware, Change management, Implementation, Outsourcing, Vendor Management, Windows, Service, Management, Packaging
2011 - 2012
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EU Windows Server Support Team Leader
Nomura International.
International Investment Bank with over 30000 employees globally.
• Managed all aspects of the EU Wintel Server Infrastructure responsible for the engineers with ownership for change, incident, problem management and resolution for over 3500 servers running Microsoft Server 2003/2008/2008R2 on physical and virtual platforms.
• Directed the decommissioning of the Wintel Infrastructure estate and services once business application migrations from legacy data centres were completed.
• Managed the implementation of a high availability solution for continental branch offices file and print services using Double Take and DFS.
• Represented European Platform team on the Global Virtualization Task Force which is responsible for driving the Firm's virtualization strategy globally.
• Co-ordination of all vendor escalation for problem and incident management to ensure resolutions are provided and implemented. Managed vendor relationships for hardware maintenance service, an off-site computing farm and interim staff provisioning.
• Ownership for the creation and maintenance of run books for Wintel infrastructure ensuring procedures are followed and daily pro-active checks implemented reducing incidents.
• Reorganized off shore team hours of cover leading to increased levels of support during the UK business day and reduced costs.
• Managed the implementation of a new server deployment process involving extensive requirements gathering resulting in reduced server delivery times and the elimination of common errors.
• Planned the implementation of a new global automated monthly maintenance process for servers reducing the need for weekend overtime support and associated costs.
• Managed all aspects of the EU Wintel Server Infrastructure responsible for the engineers with ownership for change, incident, problem management and resolution for over 3500 servers running Microsoft Server 2003/2008/2008R2 on physical and virtual platforms.
• Directed the decommissioning of the Wintel Infrastructure estate and services once business application migrations from legacy data centres were completed.
• Managed the implementation of a high availability solution for continental branch offices file and print services using Double Take and DFS.
• Represented European Platform team on the Global Virtualization Task Force which is responsible for driving the Firm's virtualization strategy globally.
• Co-ordination of all vendor escalation for problem and incident management to ensure resolutions are provided and implemented. Managed vendor relationships for hardware maintenance service, an off-site computing farm and interim staff provisioning.
• Ownership for the creation and maintenance of run books for Wintel infrastructure ensuring procedures are followed and daily pro-active checks implemented reducing incidents.
• Reorganized off shore team hours of cover leading to increased levels of support during the UK business day and reduced costs.
• Managed the implementation of a new server deployment process involving extensive requirements gathering resulting in reduced server delivery times and the elimination of common errors.
• Planned the implementation of a new global automated monthly maintenance process for servers reducing the need for weekend overtime support and associated costs.
Deployment, Print, Management, Microsoft Server, Windows server, Service, Windows, Virtualization, Implementation, Support, Infrastructure, Hardware, Incident Management, International, Server, Interim
2001 - 2008
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My education
Waterford Institute of Technology
BSc, Applied Computing Science
BSc, Applied Computing Science
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