Tony Watts 07753 131588 wattstony@yahoo.co.uk

IT Interim CIO / Programme managerhttps://uk.linkedin.com/in/wattstony

OVERVIEWExperienced in: Infrastructure Services Transition, Application Services Transition, Programme and Project Management, Client IT Engagement & Planning, Trading Application Systems Development, IT Service management, SAP.Business sector experience includes: Mining, Energy, Consulting, Consumer Goods

A commercially astute IM manager, with a broad range of experience, skilled in forging and developing excellent client relationships thru collaboration.

Enterprising, goal orientated and highly effective in building and motivating teams to achieve excellent results in challenging, results driven environments.

Experienced in managing a portfolio of change and enabling the development of business cases and contracts.

Strong Programme Management skills delivering services to cost and quality. Significant experience working in outsourced IT service environments with a variety of

implementation partners. High energy with gravitas and an inner drive to make a difference.

CAREER SUMMARY

2008 - 2016 Anglo American - MiningSuccessfully completed 4 roles that included client engagement, contracting, service establishment & transition, IT organizational capability building and application solution architecting and delivery.

Global Commercial IT Manager – A client facing role responsible for establishing the Singapore & London marketing and trading office ($6M annual run budget). A new Singapore office opened on schedule with full IT services and a 5 year strategic IT roadmap. An SAP S&D solution was built for the Platinum business. A strategic project to establish the company’s future trading platform was delivered and approved and subsequently delivered a $16M CXL trading solution for the Thermal Coal commodity trading team. It subsequently secured a further $20M of marketing systems investment (SAP/CXL).

Accenture Global Applications Service Transition Manager - Accountable for the transition of 200 application services to a new partner on time and to budget ($6 million). Wrote and evaluated the service requirements as part of the tender and contract negotiations. All application availability and Priority 1 and 2 Incident SLA’s achieved on target. Was also the de-facto contract manager pending a permanent appointment and set up the contract governance. Governed the awarding of $9 million of new project business to partner.

Office of CIO - Performance Assurance Manager - Accountable for a range of IM capability improvements that included: ITIL Maturity Assessments (together with Pink Elephant) , IM Global performance scorecard reporting, Global IM Conferences, IM Technical Competency Definition (SFIA subset) and deployment. Also accountable for specifying, selecting and negotiating an application services outsourcing contract with Accenture ($75M contract)

HP/BT Global Infrastructure Transformation Programme Manager - Joined when the programme had already started and was experiencing major challenges and saw it through to completion. Exceptionally challenging contract and stakeholder environment was successfully handled

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Tony Watts 07753 131588 wattstony@yahoo.co.uk

Accountable for a project spend of $39M on transforming the Anglo American IT infrastructure into a single global Wide Area Network, 4 regional Data Centres, a standard Work Place Computing environment and a global Service Desk operation.

This resulted in an IT infrastructure that is now 90% standard. In the computer server estate, over 600 legacy servers were decommissioned, a further 784 servers were transformed and 75% were transitioned to the new Data Centres. Transformed 20,000 PCs and migrated 30,000 e-mail accounts to a single standard AA system. Total of 401 wide area network circuits commissioned.

2006 – 2008 PearceMayfield Programme Management Trainers & ConsultingSuccessfully completed a role as a consultant trainer and built upon my practical experience with sound structural programme management knowledge.

Consultant Trainer - Achieved accreditation as a PRINCE2 and MSP certified OGC trainer and delivered practitioner level training. Developed a business case training course for a major government security agency and successfully executed business case consulting for a NHS trust hospital.

2002 - 2006 Centrica Plc - Energy Successfully completed a board role in a major programme office and contributed to the programme lifecycle from inception to start of delivery.

Programme Office Manager – For a SAP application programme from contracting through to requirements gathering, blueprinting and realisation phase. Included tender process management, product and service supplier negotiations, project planning and IT mobilisation.

1980 –2002 Procter and Gamble - Consumer goodsSuccessfully completed a broad range of roles of increasing responsibility that included operation IM responsibility for production and manufacturing offices as well as the European Head Quarters. Included 9 years living in Asia Pacific.

Project Manager - Interactive Marketing Solutions (2001 –2002) Programme Manager -Manufacturing and logistic systems (1998 – 2001) IT Manager – European Office (1995- 1998) IT Manager – Philippines (1992 – 1995) Project Manager Asian Logistics System deployment - Japan (1990 –1992) Project Manager Sales System- Japan (1987 – 1990)

BackgroundA graduate of Sheffield Hallam University with a 1st Class Degree and with a track record of continually investing in my professional development including undertaking the following programmes in recent years:

Association of Project Manager Professional accreditation (APMP) PRINCE 2, Managing successful programmes (M_S_P) practitioner accreditation, Management of Risk (M_O_R) ITIL Foundation Certificate in core consulting skills – Institute of Management Strategic Consulting Training – Cranfield University

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