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The last 22 years I have worked as both in senior project manager and Infrastructure manager roles, both interim and full time. During this time, I have used my people skills, life experience and IT knowledge to bring together third parties, Stakeholders, senior managers and IT staff to deliver projects and install IT infrastructure to the highest standard possible making sure contracts are fully met while all the time maintaining commercial business awareness. Having started in IT as a desktop support officer quickly moving to servers support, network support, infrastructure team lead, infrastructures manager and IT manager (all hands on) gives me a great understanding of the fundamentals of IT. An innovative and passionate, problem-solving, IT Project Delivery Manager, IT manager and Technology Leader. Skilled in fully utilising current Solutions, IT Architecture, Business Transformation, IT Delivery, Team Management and People Development that takes teams to the highest level. Strategic thinker with excellent IT skills and a track record of achieving positive results. Confident presenter with strong people management skills to complement solution design and strategic development at the topmost level. Delivering on programme budgets over £10B for the NHS. Personalized communication skills to articulate strategy and liaise confidently at key business stakeholder level. Committed to continuous improvement, devising and implementing IT strategies that reduce costs, increase service levels and revenues using in house tools as well as seeking out new technologies. Proven expertise in the implementation of Microsoft Server, On-Prem& Cloud, VMware, Azure Cloud Services (IaaS and SaaS), Staff Mobility, Unified Communications Integration, Video Conferencing, IT Operations Management, ITIL, Network Architecture and Office365.