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Director of Group Information Technology

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I am an extremely experienced IT professional with a proven record of achievement within leading organisations across the transportation, logistics and financial service sectors. I have a reputation for delivering major business benefits through the direction of highly complex software implementations and transformational change programmes; driving growth, reducing costs and dramatically improving product quality.Career Highlights include;-Reduced IT operating costs by more than 29% for KCS, generating a P&L benefit in excess of £15m over a three year period. -Led the largest initiative of its type undertaken by KCS, modernising the complete IT applications portfolio for the US and Mexican operations and cutting the mainframe annual operating budget by 90%. -Transformed business process efficiency at KCS through the initiation and implementation of a comprehensive, multi-country SAP instance consolidation across 45 US and Mexican sites. -Protected KCS on-going operations through the leadership of a major program to update disaster recovery and business continuity plans. -Generated annual savings of more than £10m for Trans World Airlines through the implementation of a £600k client server system. Similarly, achieved a P&L benefit of over £14m per annum for Sprint PCS; delivering a major, £4m ebilling and web project.SpecialitiesTransformational Change Programmes, Strategic Leadership, Major Software Implementations