Personal Details:

Name: Mark Williams Address:

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Professional overview:

A highly experienced Project / Programme and IT Manager, utilising Prince 2 and ITIL methodologies over the last twenty seven years; working on multi-million-pound projects for both blue chip companies and government agencies in the United Kingdom, France and Luxembourg. Italy and the UK

With strong leadership qualities and excellent stakeholder management skills, I am a strong pro-active staff manager with experience gained both in direct line and matrix management project teams. With good problem solving and the ability to think outside the box to find the right solution, I am results orientated and quality focussed.

Also, direct commercial experience in business analysis, business change, design/build and deployment of hardware and software and interfaces, financial planning and European control of projects and IT in French, including 3rd party suppliers and staff recruitment. This includes data centre design, fit out and relocation (including all IT, diesel generators, air-conditioning, and electrical supplies).

Strong experience with local and central government Digital project initiatives in a and around Law enforcement and healthcare as well as in the private sector as service supplier

Key skills

Project programme and portfolio management:

Management of medium to large projects from conception through to deployment

Production of project initiation documentation (PID)and statement of requirements (SOR) documents

Production of MS project plans to cover the whole project cycle.

Team management up to 36 staff, both direct and matrix management

Run risk and issue workshops and change control.

Technical Programme and project planning

Cyber security central government Home Office, Policing and Security services

Cyber security project’s banking, Bank of England

Cyber security projects for Defence manufacturers and suppliers using internal and external teams and third-party suppliers.

Identity access management projects and reviews

Privileged access management administration reviews and projects, Deloitte, DWP, NRW& Home Office,Raytheon

European project and programme management experience in English / French

Working to Prince 2 methodology and through ITIL practices

Data centre builds and fit out is including migrations and consolidations.

Application migration and testing both load and security

New office and factory construction and fit out to include all networks and telecoms installations.

3rd party management of contract companies and service providers

e-business projects

control of other project managers through programme or portfolio management

organisational change and restructure providing road mapping session.

company transformations and mergers and acquisitions

assisting in providing a Diverse, cheerful inclusive environment for the team to excel in

company system and department segregations

Project/programme administration:

Production of all key project documents such as PID, risk and issue logs, change logs

Project estimation for all IT projects and mechanical and electrical works

Production of financial documentation, project budget setting and management to £2.5 million

Running weekly project meetings and production of minutes’/action logs

Development and delivery of business change workshops

Setting up and managing a project management office (PMO)

Government frameworks and running invitation to tender with government frameworks

Excellent practical experience of the Microsoft Office suite from 1997 to 2012

Excellent experience of MS Project and MS-project server, Visio SharePoint, excel and Visio

Cloud computing for data centre applications and disaster recovery options

Research and development projects around 3d printing and casting for aerospace component’s

Leadership:

Leading project teams by example

Excellent stakeholder management

Manage risks, budgets, and resources (people)

Coaching and mentoring all levels of staff in Prince2

Understanding and listening to people to build good working relationships

Developing team member potential by identifying skills gaps, strengths and agreeing proactive development plans

IT management:

Experience with multinational teams in a French speaking environment; working on servers, networks and office infrastructure including Microsoft technologies and Linux and Citrix environments

Coaching and mentoring all levels of staff

Setting expectations within IT and project work

Tight governance within public sector and commercial programmes and projects

highly developed programme and project resourcing planning

Resource engagement and resource Roll-off

Facilitate continuous improvement of applications, infrastructure, and processes.

Technical scoping of projects and IT department requirements and costs

Toupee and redundancies planning and HR methods.

Supporting the IT and business directors at national and international levels.

Mergers and acquisitions including from present state acquisitions.

Communication:

The ability to communicate to all staff, from the CEO to junior team members at the correct level.

To take the business requirements and convert to technical requirements.

Fully governed projects and programmes

Creation of department programme and project roadmaps

To take technical documentation and translate for senior management requirements.

To ask questions to ensure a full understanding of the requirements by all parties.

Produce timely clear project documentation.

Personal:

The ability to walk into a new post and give confidence to the new team.

Not to be fazed by a new challenge

To lead and motivate and nurture upcoming team members.

Include Team member in the wider Governance with the PMO and senior stakeholders.

Holding very transferable multidisciplinary skill set

The ability to work individually and as a team member.

To maintain focus despite changes to situations, responsibilities, and people

To get to the core of any problems and to work out a solution.

Working with dedication and enthusiasm to achieve personal and company objectives.

Thrive on reaching targets, calm and mature.

No family commitments and available at short notice

Security Clearances

Disclosure Scotland activated august 2016 - Valid 1 year

SC activated by Home Office 5th December 2016 - Valid 2023

Current and held with Raytheon UK Harlow -Ongoing

Career summary:

October 2020– April 2021

Deloitte LLP

Senior infrastructure and Cyber Security and monitoring programme and Project Manager: - SC

Working on Deloitte customer site to fulfil auditing and monitoring and cyber security projects. For Deloitte customers.

Cyber security projects

Digital services platforms -Security

SailPoint and IDAM multi factor authentication to cabinet office cyber security requirements

Internal threat and monitoring

Data Centre fit out.

Data warehouse security and monitoring to onboard Seiss Data

Data lake monitoring

Data architecture for DWP and HMRC data security

Installation of airflow to cloudera

Assist with cloudera upgrade.

And upgrade Nutanix in both the Arc Farnborough and Corsham datacentres

Installation of Nutanix to cloudera, Tanium

Airflow projects and Audit-d

Installation of monitoring and logging services

Installation of monitoring and logging services

January 2020 - June 2020

Bank of England Threadneedle street

Senior infrastructure and Cyber Security programme Manager: - SC Renewed

working on secure environments within the new Datacentre build out team. Creating secure environments and Swift payment infrastructure and producing Highly Cyber secure Banking environments systems for RTGS secure Enclave Development zones Predominantly performing in a senior role to Renew the banks infrastructure within two new data centres working with external providers of banking systems such as Swift and security Application providers such as L3 Harris.

deep secure and

Becrypte.

privileged access management.

Banking security related projects.

Secure platform delivery physical.

Secure platform delivery cloud.

Cyber security.

Security for collaborative development partners.

Banking Cyber security aspects for secure enclaves and development platforms.

Identity access management -IADM for banking systems and access to banking development secure enclave areas.

Garrison Ultra-secure isolation technology protecting against cyber-attacks.

L3 Harris secure enclave entry via amiosec Dongles.

Deep Secure document and file transition over secure boundaries

Becrypte using a Paradox cut down operating system.

Microsoft active directory, Deep secure data handling.

Utilising both prince and Agile with Jira.

Also working on the banks new Ark datacentre installations provisioning connectivity for Swift financial transaction payment systems.

Agile working environment balanced out with waterfall and some prince documentation. Although using Jira

VMware.

Azure cloud Technology for some banking environments.

AWS environments as an alternate offering.

Digital transformation.

And proprietary Webservers and applications from security vendors.

Working to provide virtual environments within the new “ARK “data centre and a Highly secure zone within the bank’s DMZ and boundary crossing for Development partners inside and externally located for the bank.

IDAM Multiple factor authentication (MFA).

Provisioning and providing “Swift” Services and new dedicated Bearer and planning the upgrade and update of the swift service -dependent upon the delivery of swift partner bearer lines (BT& Colt).

Millrain LTD

Director

February 2019 July 2019

Working within other business interests of my company to prepare for summer 2019 and assisting with the operation of services

July 2019 to October

Natural resources wales senior Project Manager

Working as a senior Project Manager to deliver a series of infrastructure and application projects utilising Agile, Devops and prince II that had been dormant for a reasonable time into the Azure cloud utilising standard PoC and go live procedures .Working on security multiple Factor Authentication projects and initial conceptual Azure active directory updates .and Identity & Access Management, spanning 3k users throughout wales .reviewing Cyber Security controls in line with the Cabinet office Recommendations for government departments.

Multiple factor authentication (MFA)

(IAM)Identity Access Management initial review to Cabinet office minimum Cyber security requirements

Privileged Access management (PAM)

Review of cyber security to align multi factor authentication.

Cyber security Review to cabinet office requirements to Cabinet office requirements.

Azure cloud provisioning

Azure infrastructure design

Placing 22 scientific applications into azure

Private cloud provisioning and delivery

Participate in the whole of team governance objectives around planning, budgeting and resource issues

September 2018 February 2019- finished

Raytheon Defence contractor UK LTD Senior project manager

Working as a senior infrastructure project manager within Raytheon UK as part of the transformation team within a SC level environment. Providing project management for a range of engineering (aerospace) and IT transformation programme projects within Raytheon and it UK and European sites.

Providing joint shared working environments and development platforms for battlefield analysis utilising VMware.

oPlate spin P to V and occasional V to P Technologies

oSpecialist SC software. Including Anaplan cloud planning

oAzure, AWS and private cloud provisioning and Design

oLow level API’s for platform demonstration

Procurement of simulation software AND ADVANCED Cyber security products and services.

Preplanning and expansion of airfield facilities to enable government contracts to be catered for and fulfilled.

Developing shared environment deployment and security methods for access.

Authentication sign on software SSO Saml for internal staff and partners

Active directory crested for each development platform

And project specific SharePoint instance to retain project development document repository workspace

Creating digital workspaces inclusive of Office 365 components

Platform cyber security

Business transformation

Secure platform delivery physical

Secure platform delivery Cloud

Lead and motivate resources into and enhanced delivery schedule.

Creating a Diverse collaborative environment for the whole team to work inclusively towards the same Goals

Network security

Identity access management protocols to allow collaboration on the defence collaboration platforms

Active directory authentication Fimm/Mim

Digital transformation

Information technology Transformation

SharePoint platform repositories

Using both Azure and AWS to assist in creating a wider infrastructure environment

Setting up disaster recovery points and snapshotting onto the San

Providing systems and offices for airfield and aircraft maintenance contracts

Providing windchill PDM (document management) for AutoCAD libraries to assist maintenance and drawing indexing.

Transformation projects and internal ongoing projects utilising Prince II, Waterfall, and agile methodologies

Airfield office fit outs (Boughton)

RAF airfield fitouts (Waddington)

Budget responsibility: - approximately 2.5 million

January 2018 July 2018

EDF Energy Debt Improvement programme manager project office

Working with senior management and Directors of EDF on Debt improvement projects of around 128 million Debt within the Gas and electrical supply industry Debt Improvement programme in both residential and commercial supplier markets. Working on workstreams such as

Venerable customers

Debt sale

oLegal requirements and Ofgem compliance for sale of debt

oProceeding through the legal system CCJ’s and resale of debt options

Digital (sending debt digital)

Faster payments -Re initiating management processes

Digital payments

Financial transformation

Venerable customers

CredAgility and, dunning processes and IT infrastructure aligning with management processes.

Digital payments

Programme and programme controls reporting up to EDF central directors.

Business change programme and projects

SaaS debt control software and applications

Smets-2 smart metering version 2 debt control

TDX debt sale to third parties

Infrastructure for “COTS” Debt control applications provided by 3rd party suppliers

Infrastructure as a service IaaS

Software as a service SaaS

Millrain ltd July 2018 to October 2018

Working on behalf of other business interests

January 2018 July 2018

EDF Energy Debt Improvement programme manager project office

Working with senior management and directors on Debt improvement projects of around 168 million Debt within the Gas and electrical supply industry Debt Improvement programme in both residential and commercial supplier markets. Working with senior EDF management on workstreams such as

Venerable customers

Debt sale

oLegal requirements and Ofgem compliance

oProceeding through the legal system CCJ’s and resale of debt options

Digital (sending debt digital)

Faster payments

Digital payments

Financial Debt transformation, resource planning, working with senior managers and stakeholders.

Vulnerable customers

Iterative Debt recovery process road mapping finance director roadmaps

And working with senior managers to manage process dependencies, risks and Resources.

CredAgility and, dunning processes and IT infrastructure

Programme and programme controls reporting up to EDF central directors.

Business change programme and projects

SaaS debt control software and applications

Smets-2 smart metering version working with the processes.

TDX debt sale to third parties

Infrastructure for “COTS” Debt control applications provided by 3rd party suppliers.

Budget responsibility: - approximately non

January 2017 October 2017

Programme Manager

Home Office- Organised crime and Counter Terrorism (Lawful Data intercept)

Contract working on Data retention and Lawful Intercept Methodologies for Organised Crime and Counter Terrorism

Utilising shared platforms and cloud technologies SaaS and Paas and Iaas

Working with all UK based law enforcement agencies to achieve agile Retention and disclosure technologies with mobile phone web and mobile phone web services and possible re issuance of notices to mobile providers.

Working with 3rd party suppliers and internal Legal disclosure and intercept teams.

Working with government Law Enforcement agencies, Police, HMRC, MI5, MI6 etc

Working with communications service providers CSPs such as Vodaphone to provide systems and access systems to lawfully intercept and disrupt both phone and internet communications being used by Organised crime and Terrorist organisations

Business change with the law enforcement agencies operational transformation with Paas and SaaS and legislative requirements

Assisting with sending Law enforcement digital within the UK

To create non-Governmental automated data retention systems with data ownership remaining with the original LEA’s whilst providing law enforcement agency’s the ability to lawful access and utilise data subject to Lawful requests and telecoms companies whom themselves have been served notice of compliance

Also, to act as an infrastructure project manager to automated acquisition projects providing services to the IPA Act and its requirements (replacement for Ripper and Dripper) more commonly known as the snooper’s charter?

Secure Wi-Fi and lawful interception methodologies

Maintaining disaster recovery points and data segregation within offsite disaster recovery

Also, in the vain of the IP-act, Ripper Dripper GDPR compliance in the light of law enforcement requirements

Digital policing and digital law enforcement systems across the law enforcement agencies including HMRC

Cloud SAAs and security enabled transfers through PSN and Cryptology

AWS also used for comparable sites

Related cyber security

Digital Government projects based on cloud, Azure and AWS

ERP and CMP Test and Development and Anaplan for test and evaluation resource (ERP functions)

Joint shared data base platforms for cloud service providers and other small Wi-Fi operators

AWS and private Cloud including Azure Backstop planning and configuration.

Data centre fit out to include

Secure platform delivery

Secure platform delivery physical

Secure platform delivery Cloud

oChassis

oBlades

oSan

oDC networking

oClient connectivity

Secure data mobility within Raytheon and connections to 3rd party suppliers

Platform cyber security and development testing matrix’s

Providing cloud solutions for security into law enforcement through third parties internal teams

Performing security level ITHC’s for the Data handling system designs and data retention systems and data

handling requirements through Crypto to non-crypto and internal data request procedures applicable in current law

Budget responsibility: - approximately 1.5 million

Platform Delivery, Programme Manager

Dev- Ops Platform manager January 2015 to May2016

Hampshire Constabulary and Thames Valley Police

Objectives: - rationalise two forces into one through a portfolio of projects, update infrastructure, working practices, applications through design and long-term reduction of Opex. Through design, and business reduction of internal headcount. To achieve cost savings over 5 years of 45 million pounds through the rationalisation and leveraging of the joint police forces application operating models and infrastructure by providing joint shared services Platform as a service (Paas) and software as a service (SaaS)

Acquiring new datacentre estate and running merger and acquisition programmes for infrastructure, software and HR activities.

To realign the combined and disparate computer departments into a singled shared platform using internal virtualised applications and hardware, And Microsoft Azure products including federated identity management. Products include: - (but not limited to)

Active Directory / identity management. both forces into one

Active directory provisioning Mim/Fimm designs

Provision of the shared environments for the business transformation of both forces into one singular ICT identity

Transformation team lead for main infrastructure and control applications Ad, Exchange

Cost reduction of 30 million over 5 years Targeting

Assist with the Wider programme governance assisting the CIO with Roadmap inputs

Shared infrastructure platforms, datacentres, MS-Azure cloud technologies and applications

Secure platform delivery both physical and cloud options

Single sign on authentication for non-secure networks and enhanced for secure platforms

Organisational change and restructuring team merger and supporting change within the Teams

Program costing and cost benefits

External audit working group

Cyber security aspects across all the infrastructure platforms public and private cloud.

Data mobility and portage throughout both forces and the secure network

Digital policing and customer service platforms

2020 vision group member

HR slotting and job re-application design

Business rationalisation and reorganisation

Application rationalisation works streams

Creating environments to making law digital

Provisioning new secure Wi-fi throughout the kidlington main office complex

Review and revision of Wi-fi services at satellite police station sites

Management of 3rd party suppliers -direct management and negotiation

Identity management projects using Fimm/ Mimm within AD resource domains

Business realignment with HR slotting exercises within the public sector

Police and government procurement processes

MS-Azure Cloud solutions (initial 80k ongoing 3 million) (some utilisation of Anaplan

Cots

Digital transformation and continuous systems improvement

Working in a supportive culture to create a situation where we could engender more fluid delivery

Information technology transformation

Group /company merger

AWS and private Cloud

Secure networking and encryption to all law enforcement agencies

Authentication software and logging processes through fully tracked data request mechanisms

ERP and CMP Test and development environments

Anaplan tools for development and test with ERP

Digital Policing initiatives, body worn video, evidence sharing, digital crime file ANPR, etc.

Data mobility trough thorough use of encryption technologies

Digital policing work streams and data handling systems both in flight and at rest in all live and storage facilities

Setup of Paas service police systems (Platform as a service)

Setup SAAS police systems (software as a service) Office 365 etc.

And Police Business Transformation Team senior manager

Tendering with external parties and other 3rd parties

SaaS service enablement for all police forces

MS-exchange migration to one instance

SharePoint 2013 rollout onto the staging platform to provide a script testing platform

oRollout to ICT user groups (initial) for test and snagging purposes and continued engagement of SharePoint front end developers Gui’s for departments and projects

oWhole of internal ICT rollout and on hold until the live link (police central document repository programme

oDependency on phase II identity management enterprise architectural overview

MS -SQL cluster and enterprise SQl Design

Oracle true up and HLD architectural design for the future and preliminary migration requirements

SharePoint 2016 Enterprise proof of concept built and sized to encompass expansion or multiple install instances depending on home office requirements for security separation (changing over 2016 under the Go digital government initiatives)

New Data centres using the cabinet secure DC framework with Ark

Staging platforms for pre-public cloud / private cloud

Crown hosting agreements and services and realignment of service contracts from BT

ARK and cabinet office Crown hosting agreement for secure data centre hosting (police)

Police ICT company collaboration

Exchange 2010 and 2013

Office 365

SharePoint migration to one instance

Lync

MDM (device manager)

Niche /RMS Command and control systems update

Sepsna networks upgrades (secure networks upgrade including Dark fibre) (1.8 mil)

IBM flex chassis and blade systems

IBM V7000 SAN (760K) IBM flex fabric

VMWARE

Juniper switches

Palo Alto elastic load balancers

F5 load balancers

Cisco switches external facing firewalls

Juniper internal facing firewalls

Palo alto firewalls

IA information assurance

Initial GDPR forthcoming regulations

Resource reduction (two forces into one) and senior management realignment and help lead and motivate resources into the new culture Group culture

Datacentre consolidation and rationalisation for internal private cloud

Data centre power and airflow design

Electrical distribution

Airflow baffles and balancers

A conditioning

Data centre acquisitions and disposals

Data centre fit outs X2 and collaboration with other forces

Disaster recovery of data centres to active -active

New backup and disaster recovery technologies

Working with joint internal test team for application assurance and conformity for operability and function and security

Platform provisioning for the Office 365 rollout

Early career

Job

Titles

Dates

City of London Police

Programme / Project Manager

Project objectives: Office fit out and move

June 2014 to September 2014

J.D Weatherspoon

Project Manager data Centre power hyper -V and VMware

September 2013 to June 2014

Health management

Project manager Data centre fit out

October 2014 February 2015

TFL

Project /Portfolio Manager

November 2012 to March 2013

Home Office, London

Portfolio manager

November 2009 – April 2010

EDS, Derby

Project manager

November 2008 to March 2009

Sussex Police, Lewes

Project manager

Data center consolidation and close downs in Lewes and Gatwick airport emergency rooms

May2009 to October 2009

Northamptonshire County Council, LGSS

Project manager

May 2010 - April 2011

Alliance healthcare

Project / programme Manager

March 2013 to August 2013

Gatwick Airport, Sussex

Project Manager

March 2012 – June 2012

Hampshire County Council

Project manager

June 2008 to November 2008

Atkins engineering

Business Project Manager

June 2012 to November 2012

British Gas, Staines, Middlesex

Project / Portfolio Manager

July 2011 – January 2012

Lexmark, Orleans, France

Printing Consultant

July 2000 3 months

Stafford County Council

Project manager

December 2007 to May 2008

Rolls-Royce, Derby, Bristol

Project manager

December 2005 to August 2007

Crawley Airmails, Crawley, Sussex

Project manager

April 2011 - July 2011

Transcom Luxembourg

IT Manager Telecoms/ Private Banking

1999 Sept to Jan 2000

Nottingham CC

Server Administration

1999 for 3 months

J.D Edwards, Paris

IT Manager / project manager

1997/1999

Jacobs Suchard

Database Support

1997

Welsh Water

IT systems support engineer

1994/1996

Peristome

Computer engineer (banking)

1991/1994

Tudor Business systems

Computer engineer

1987/1990

Motive Forklift

Electrical forklift truck engineer

1983/1985

Royal Navy

Marine engineer

1978/1983

Cygnus /Cadbury

Project manager

08/2004 >11/2004

Accentuator

Technical lead

08/2002>05/2004

Global Crossing / Exodus

Paris IT manager and PM

08/2000>08/2002

Gateway2000 Paris

IT Manager

07/200>11/2000

Serco o/ IT Net

Project manager

01/2005 >10/2005

Qualifications

Marine engineer qualified with the Royal Navy

generators

air-conditioning

chilled water plants

hydraulics

Prince 2

Electronics qualified C&G

Marine engineer Royal Navy

Catering qualified C&G

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