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RUSSELL MORGAN
PROGRAMME & PORTFOLIO MANAGER
• Brings real world experience, pragmatism and innovative thinking to challenging situations.
• Big picture management with the ability to drill down into the detail.
• Relationship builder and trusted adviser.• Shapes, leads, develops and motivates
teams.• Thrives in unusual situations and can deliver
where others have failed.
Dynamic Programme & Portfolio Management
Financial Services Insurance Investment Banking Retail Banking
Aerospace / Defence Postal Petrochemical Retail IT Service Providers
Global Infrastructure Change Programmes
Infrastructure Portfolio Management
Top Tier Consultancies and Service Providers.
Prince 2 Practitioner ITIL V3 qualified
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Legal & General (IBM Global Services): Portfolio Management
CAREERHIGHLIGHT
Ownership of the Infrastructure and Operations project portfolio (Technology Refresh); circa 5000 internal days, 4000 managed service days and £5m external annual budget.
Managed a team of technical project managers and a programme office to effect delivery across both internal matrix managed resources and external providers.
Recovered failing delivery plans for a number of high profile initiatives.
Accountable for all portfolio governance and reporting, as well as high level stakeholder management.
Shaped strategic projects within the programme portfolio to ensure that delivery is in line with changing business priorities and the overall technical strategy.
ABN Amro: FX/MM Settlement Programme
CAREERHIGHLIGHT
Managed the €9 million infrastructure and technology work stream for the back office settlement system implementation.
Pro-actively proposed, designed, owned and delivered a complex Unix consolidation and utility computing, pay-per-use, initiative that delivered unbudgeted savings in excess of €1 million.
Delivered all infrastructure components, including servers, failover, disaster recovery, middleware, storage, networks and virtualised interfaces.
Owned the development and deployment of all test environment, release, configuration and change management methodology lifecycles for the programme.
Petrochemical Client: IT Transformation
Global, post merger, Infrastructure Transformation; a fixed price multi million pound programme with stiff milestone penalties.
Consolidated the IT infrastructures of three previously disparate global business entities at 37 major sites onto a unified new global outsourced platform.
Managed a team of 12 Project Managers from 7 countries; project team in excess of 100 individuals.
Successfully refocused and recovered a previously failing schedule to meet external milestones, despite severe challenges.
Implemented in excess of 250 new servers (F&P, Email, Systems Management) in 17 countries, complemented by a new AD Domain Structure, IP Schema, MPLS WAN, Client LANs, storage and backup infrastructure; all handed over cleanly into the ongoing support model.
CAREERHIGHLIGHT
EXPERTISE
Infrastructure portfolio delivery, pipeline generation, profit centre ownership and governance.
Global Infrastructure Change Programmes.
Managing teams of Project Managers and Programme Offices.
Business Acumen, Technical Understanding.
Rescue, revival and restoration of fractured stakeholder relationships.
Transformation, outsource and resource rationalisation.
Client, vendor, outsourced, offshore and matrix resource management.
Information Security & Disaster Recovery.
Data centre relocations, cost reductions and consolidation of disparate infrastructures.
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