Employment
Summary
Worked in IT since leaving university. Currently
pre-sales consultant for HP. Previously had worked for companies using IT in a
variety of technical and management roles. Worked 23 years for Hoechst, the
chemicals company.
Skills
and Experience
IT
·
Pre-Sales
for SAP hardware infrastructure
·
Java
programming (self taught).
·
Management
and design of SAP R/2 & R/3 systems
·
Management
of IBM mainframe systems software (MVS, JES2/3, VTAM, CICS, TSO/ISPF, VPS)
·
Management
of mainframe automation (Netview, AOC, CA7).
·
Mainframe
systems programming, programming COBOL/CICS/DL1, and Assembler.
·
Some
SAP/R2 and R/3 basis technology and ABAP programming.
·
Use
of Windows, MS office
People Management
·
Managed
a team of up to twenty people including two managers
·
Responsible
for whole range of management activity from recruitment to exit
·
Developed
staff through training and on the job coaching
·
Planned
and implemented a programme of restructuring which involved helping staff
through redundancy
Financial Management
·
Personally
accountable for an annual budget of up to £2.5m including budget planning and
monitoring, authorised signatory
Service Management
·
Complete
responsibility for operational service delivery including help desk.
·
Responsible
for customer contracts and service level agreements.
Project Management
·
Complete
responsibility and accountability for the planning and monitoring of complex
projects.
·
Significant
international and multi-cultural dimension to project management
·
Hands
on management of complex technical issues
Management of change
·
Practical
experience of helping people through major organisational change
Personal
qualities
Personal
details
Key details: Age: 52, Marital Status: Divorced, Nationality: British
Interests: Walking,
Reading, Finance and Economics, Singing.
Education: University of
Cambridge, Selwyn College - BA (2nd) in Mathematics, MA
Career
History
June
2001 – present - Pre sales consultant – Hewlett Packard UK
Responsible for the design of
Infrastructure solutions for HP customers specialising in SAP platforms
including hardware sizing, hardware selection and customer presentation.
Feb
2001 – May 2001 SAP support manager (contract) – 24seven Utility Services
Responsible for SAP IT support including the management
of, and contract negotiation with, outsourced service providers during project
implementation of SAP R3 4.6 system. Issues included backup & disaster
recovery planning, deployment of SAP via Citrix & stress testing.
1999
– 2000 – self-employed consultant
Provided support on a self-employed basis for home and
home office users in all aspects of computing.
1987
– 1999 Operational Services Manager – Hoechst UK & HiServ (IT subsidiary of
Hoechst)
Member of the management team involved in all aspects of
IT commercial management including contract negotiation with customers and
suppliers. Latterly responsible for the development and management of the SAP
R/3 technical (Basis) and operational services groups. Prior to that, when
Hoechst UK had its own mainframe Data Centre, responsible for all aspects of
Data centre Management. Made redundant after merger Hoechst and Rhone-Poulenc
to form Aventis.
Achievements
in this role:-
·
Conversion
an operational SAP R/2 system to SAP R/3.
·
Shut
down and archival of mainframe systems run for the Hoechst group in the UK.
·
Implementation
of automation software in the HiServ Germany Mainframe Data Centre.
·
Transfer
and integration of mainframe applications from UK to Germany.
·
Implementation
of unmanned operations in the UK Date Centre. Automation and process
improvements reduced the department size from twenty-one in 1990 to seven in
1996, while improving service quality. Presented the automation approach used
to the operations management group of UKCMG and this was featured in the 'IBM
Computing' and 'Computer Finance'.
·
Implementation
of printing management and distributed printing to replace central printing.
·
Implementation
of IBM’s SMS storage management; featured in IBM's DF/SMS Newsletter.
·
Implementation
of an integrated SAP R/2 system in the UK as part of a European project.
·
Introduction
of formal service contracts between IS and internal customers.
1984
– 1987 Technical Support Manager – Hoechst
·
Built
up the department from scratch as all system programming staff had left the
company. In the following ten years only one person left the company from the
Technical Support group.
1976
– 1983 Senior Programmer/Project Leader – Hoechst
·
Designed
and developed a COBOL code generator. This generated screen handling and
validation programs using a Data dictionary. This significantly reduced the
effort involved in developing a
1975
– 1976 Break from work travelling
1973
– 1975 Programmer – L Messel (Stockbrokers)