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Information Technology Portfolio Manager

ReAssure Limited is a financial services company which specializes in Pensions, Insurance, Investments.

• Experienced MSP & Prince II, IT change management professional with a proven track record of delivering multiple, concurrent initiatives in the cloud or on-premise, within client, internal or outsourced environments within various organisations in line with business benefits, time and budget constraints. • Excellent communication, people and technology skills at all levels within an organisation; alongside running multi-skilled technology teams. I am used to managing small and large budgets between £5m & £10m. • Management of a matrix of teamed resources including internal technical / development / support teams, external suppliers, individual contractors and on/off-shore teams. • Full life cycle delivery covering client pre-sales engagements, business case development, requirements gathering, PDD & PID production, planning and estimating, programme & project control, design, testing, implementation, reporting, dependency, risk and issue management, project closure, benefits realization and programme closure. • Accomplished Technical Services change manager delivering technology solutions including applications, systems development, infrastructure & data centre migrations, networks, DR, VDI/virtualisation, telecommunications and security projects. Specialties: • Strong skills in Programme and Project Management (MSP & PRINCE II), Systems Analysis (ISEB), ITIL V3, Hardware, Cloud Computing, Infrastructure and Data Centre Hosting & Disaster Recovery, Storage & Backup, Networking, Virtualisation, Security, VDI, Citrix, XenServer, XenApp, XenDesktop, Hyper-V, App-V, VMware Vsphere, Cisco, Microsoft, Systems and Web development, Middleware, SAP, MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle, Progress; HP, Avaya, Aspect, HP, IBM, Dell. • A first class team leader with excellent financial management experience.