Ken Wood

Suite 22, 5 High Street, Maidenhead, Berkshire. SL6 1JN (Mobile) +44(0)7733594844 Suite105, #345 5001 1st Avenue SE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52402 ken@mr-agile.co.uk

OVERVIEW:- An experienced hands on Technical Consulting Project Manager with a proven track record of success working with global high profile organisations. Providing exceptional project control capabilities to deliver strategic, business critical solutions on-time, to budget, maintaining a high level of quality. A strong pro-active leader, providing coaching, training and mentoring to build cohesive teams, working together to achieve individual targets and company objectives. Delivering competent project management, high level trouble shooting, detailed technical auditing to ISO 9001 standards, practising Prince2/Agile/6Sigma Methodologies, ITIL procedures, client relationship management, staff training & development, mentoring, service delivery. Fully Certified in Agile Project Management from APMG International, using SCRUM & Kanban Agile methods integrating within Prince2 to provide project governance. CAREER SUMMARY:-

Sep 2013 – Present Contracted to a northern District Council to manage a Data Centre relocation program initially. Incorporating a new Cisco UCS environment to integrate with legacy systems prior to the move. Delivering multiple projects including CheckPoint - End Point security infrastructure, internal Oracle migrations to the Cloud, Egress security integrating with Exchange, WAN network upgrade programs across entire estate. Managed MS-Surface Hub project for new building AV requirements, Windows 8.1 to endpoint tablets & mobiles all using Agile methodologies. Primarily a Prince2 domain, implementing Agile demonstrated speedier project delivery, maintained on time and to budget projects, this soon became accepted by management as a valuable, cost saving and quality delivery mechanism.

FEB 2007 TO SEP 2013 Contracted to STS Communications Ltd as Technical Project Manager to plan and manage all customer Data Centre migrations and consolidation projects for MOD UK sites using my SC clearance. Introduced a blend of Prince2 and Agile methods into a predominantly Prince2 centric MOD environment. Agile methods were well received and highly praised on delivering quality, to time and budget.

Sep 2006 to Feb 2007 Consultant for Pfizer to investigate and plan the implementation of VMware on new Sun Server infrastructure in Belgium. Focusing on defining a total Data Centre VMWare solution on new Sun X64 Technology servers and plan the migration and integration of existing SunFire servers from Sandwich in Kent. April 2006 to Sep 2006 Contracted to EDS Defence to plan, manage and define new service offerings and upgrade schemes to replace tired services and tool sets, which were to be phased out. I was also responsible for the definition of resource requests under matrix management and planning of a new Secure Data Centre for EDS Defence in Gloucester. It was required to provide a secure infrastructure to support the latest secure email and Oracle applications service provisioning. Jan 2004 to April 2006 Contracted to Sun Microsystems Ltd in London as a Technical Project Manager. I was responsible for planning and managing the deployment of Data Centre relocations and consolidations. Prime customer was BP Europe for the redeployment and consolidation of their UK and European Data Centres along with many applications into the Docklands at Global Switch. The last phase of the BP plan was to be on-site full time at Bochum Germany regarding the investigation and planning the migration and consolidation of many major applications and Databases like Oracle and BEA Web Logic services, together with defining a technical refresh of the server platforms. Whilst working for Sun I was responsible for planning and managing the redeployment of secure data centres for EDS, Centrica, AON and most of their respective customers. Provided phase one procedures and costing for all new projects e.g. EDS for the Met Police regarding a relocation of their data centre in London for early 2006.

Dec 2002 to Jan 2004 Contracted to Phoenix Managed the installation of 9,600 Windows XP desktops rolled-out under 2003 Active Directory for the MOD/QinetiQ. Responsible for overseeing the deployment of image builds to desktop and laptop hardware via Power Quest Imaging software and Radia for additional client applications. Oracle databases were all upgraded as part of the DII plan directive as provided by Atlas(EDS/Fujitsu/DG/Logica).

Dec 2001 to Dec 2002 Atlas Consortium Group I was involved in using my network and comms knowledge to perform the Due diligence site surveys for the DII project via EDS/Cogent/LogicaCMG/Fujitsu. The deliverable was a full audit report per MOD site of technology infrastructure status, encompassing applications functionality and interdependencies, with recommendations of upgrade plans for network infrastructure and server services from an overall network perspective. Jan 1995 to Dec 2001 USA UNIX DELIVERY TECHNICAL CONSULTANT: Compucom Systems Inc

Responsible for developing technical resources to deliver HP, SCO, Solaris Became the technical management resource for major clients within CA, USA Utilised technical abilities to control the rollout of major upgrades & resilient server deployment Developed standard client images to be downloaded to client PCs’ front-end interfaces Project managed installation of 90,000 new desktops to Kaiser Hospitals throughout CA

EARLY CAREER INCLUDES:- • Ken Wood Associates • MBS Microtex • MV Solutions Ltd • Tetra Business Systems • Micro Business Systems • Quartz Computing Ltd • Lineartron Cabling Ltd • Plesseys • Teva UK • BP UK & Germany • SUN Microsystems • Chase Manhattan

SKILLS SUMMARY:- • Agile PM, DEVOPS • Sun VMWare & x64 • Oracle 9i • ISO9001 Quality Auditor • NT 3.5, 4.0, 2000, XP Pro • Exchange • SCRUM Master • Project in a Box • Cognos • KanBan, Hansoft, Eyelean, ServiceNow • SOLARIS, HPUX • SharePoint • Prince2 PM • AutoCAD 2010 • Prince2, SUN AIM, Method 123 • SOLARIS, HPUX • CheckPoint Devices & Security • IBM AIX • Egress Secure Email Gateways • Novell 4.0 • Microsoft Lync Infrastructure • Embedded SCO • LINUX – all flavours • Wells Fargo NT • Apple AIX • Altos Unix • Mac O/S • SCO OpenServer 5.00 QUALIFICATIONS:- • Agile Project Manager Practitioner Certified • HND Electrical & Electronic Engineering • ISO9001 Quality Auditor • OND Technology • Btec Computer Studies & Business • Rit Intelligent Patching Designer/Planner • HND Computer Studies & Business MEMBERSHIPS:- • BiCSi • British Computer Society • DSDM Consortium Member PERSONAL:- • Clean driving license • References & projects managed in detail, available on request