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Curriculum Vitae - Colin Johnson

Email: ctj0112@hotmail.com Telephone +44 (0)1422 204245

Location: Halifax, West Yorkshire, England

Personal Statement

Colin Johnson is a widely experienced ITIL trained Program Manager with previous experience as Head of IT for multiple company groups and Systems & Software development management. His cumulative knowledge

and training enables him to visualise from Business Opportunity through specification, develop or procure, test and implement systems into a supported service and understand the impact on the company’s performance.

Key Skills

He has strong experience in Program Management having deployed large scale transformation programs in many different geographies and now acts as mentor to Program and Project Managers delivering Workplace programs and new business bids around the world. He has used this experience to create CSC Repeatable

Project Delivery and solve some key business problems for CSC. As Head of IT (Multiple roles) Colin developed the IT strategy using internal , 3rd party supplier, consultant and

his own knowledge to support the differing business needs of the groups he worked for, He has implemented major change to multiple companies with newly selected or developed systems alongside implementing disaster recover procedures to support 7*24 business operations.

Colin’s system development experience has included most of the basic commercial systems as well as real time control systems He has strong experience of Rapid Application development (fore runner to Agile) and

amended waterfall project delivery and the requirements – development – testing and deployment process. Developing people is a key factor in the successful delivery of new systems.

CSC – Transformation delivery and development in $14 Billion Company

o Programme Director – Global Repeatable Project Delivery (4 Years) 2011 - Current o EUSC Programme Director (2 years) 2009- 2011 o Global Transformation Manager (ETS) (3 years) 2005 – 2009

o EMEA Transformation Manager (EPO) (3 years) 2003 - 2005 o UN1TY Transformation Senior Project Manager (2 years) 2001 – 2002

Selected as one of CSC’s top 100 emerging leaders, Colin has executed several roles in CSC including major Workplace and Infrastructure program delivery across multiple disciplines and geographic regions. He now acts as a mentor to CSC bids and Transformation programs across

CSC and is involved in the preparation of bids and transformation delivery programs

Development of CSC’s Repeatable Project delivery approach has surpassed the original requirements and through repeated communications/stakeholder management it has been adopted

by CSC globally. The combination of original thinking, strategy preparation, influencing stakeholders, toolset and process development, resource selection and training and delivery to global teams with continuous updates and new releases has resulted in CSC being ahead of their

competitors in this area.

The RPD approach has been adopted across in CSC to reduce bid costs, eliminate discrepancies between new business bid and Transformation program start-ups. It increases quality in CSC’s

large scale program delivery in its outsourcing business.

He has increased his capabilities in customer presentation, stakeholder management, influencing people and end to end delivery of services. Selecting and developing of key resources has proved

beneficial to both CSC and Colin.

Previous Employments Summary

Colin enjoyed 15 years’ experience as Group IS Manager/Systems development manager in multi -company groups. He moved from entry-level position as a trainee operator on mainframes to head if

IT in 5 years. Gaining experience in systems design, software development & team management, business problem to solution and on to service delivery. Cross-training in Business, Accountancy

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(Part Time Study) and IT enabled Colin to deliver cost-effective, business-benefit orientated systems

which met his customers’ objectives. .

Dawson Fur Fabrics (Dec 96 – Jan 2001) Group IS Manager Textiles Group

£40m turnover

Define the strategy and solution to facilitate supporting systems for a Group expansion of business

Modernise Group systems involved the preparation of the requirements definition, supplier selection and subsequent £1m AS400 based ERP implementation (Movex) for a multi-site manufacturing company alongside introducing email and web solutions.

Implemented Disaster Recovery process, which required annual testing in order to maintain a 24 hours by 7 days production environment on multiple sites.

Autosystems (Feb 94 – Dec 96) Systems Development Manager Food

Industry Systems Integration - £2.5m Turnover

Rewrite the development process and lead the development teams into professional working practises

Developed the team and managed a software development specialised in shop floor data capture systems worldwide.

Reworked the technical strategy which produced a more robust product and made the systems re-usable.

Re-design of the shop floor data-capture software extended the life of the bespoke waterproof and rugged hardware enabling a move into new markets

MS International (Feb 88 – Feb 94) Group IS Manager – Engineering, Defence,

Manufacturing - £55m

Definition of Group IS strategy for this 15 company Engineering , manufacturing and Defence PLC

Formation of a new Group company to provide IS services as a Value Added reseller

Recruit and retrain software development teams in rapid development techniques.

Development of Financial , Commercial and Contractual systems

Supplier management including contract negotiation

Implementation of developed and packaged software

British Mohair Spinners PLC (Jul 85 – Feb 88) Group IT Manager Textiles and Engineering £4.5m

Managed the introduction of packaged and bespoke systems (working with the designated supplier) into all companies who had zero IT infrastructure or experience.

I was educated in accounting and business practice in this thriving textile specialist

Various 1979 – 1985 Trainee Operator – Shift Leader

Operations based in a Computer Bureau – Mainframe batch processing and time share, Food Manufacturer & Brewery

Education

Professional Training CSC Emerging Leader Graduate , ACCA Level 1 Accounting training , Insights Leadership, Saville Wave,

Outsourcing TFM Management, ITIL 3 Foundation, MARGA Business simulation Systems Development , Program & Project management, Network design & Management, Database Design, CAD, Database Report writing, New business Estimating, Colour Management(Textiles)

Exam Passes ITIL Foundation, CSC Advanced Program management, CSC Management Fundamentals Graduate, 3 ‘A’ levels, 8’ O’ levels.

On the Job training Company management, Budgeting, Analysis of business needs , solution design , SLA management, Board

level reporting, strategy development, resource planning & management , cost management, company right

sizing & rationalisation, staff management & recruiting, MRP, Financial audit, Process flow IT, Process flow production, Inventory management

IS and Business Environment :

IS strategy development, Solution design, Repeatable Project Delivery, Team creation & development, New Business Estimating, ERP implementation, Service Development, Resource planning, Budgeting, Implementing Business systems, Disaster recovery, solutioning to business

problems. IT Outsourcing, Internal Service Management ,IT Systems Integration, Food Production, Heavy and Light Engineering, Defence, Brewing, Manufacturing, Electronics, Textiles, Aerospace, Mining, Finance and Insurance , Distribution and Nuclear amongst others.