Head of IT Operations @ From November 2012 to Present (3 years 2 months) Functional IT Manager (Sussex) @ • IT Manager for Sussex covering all NHS staff and GP’s in the county of Sussex based in 520 sites.
• Responsible for Desktop support of 30,000 users and 25,000 PC’s.
• Responsible for an IT Budgets totalling £3M.
• Management of 60 staff, reviews and appraisals of four direct reports
• Control of budgets and IT purchasing for the Trusts and IT department.
• Management of projects From April 2011 to November 2012 (1 year 8 months) Sussex IT Manager (Operations) @ • IT Manager for Sussex covering all NHS staff and GP’s in the county of Sussex based in 520 sites
• Responsible for Desktop and Infrastructure support of 30,000 users and 25,000 PC’s.
• Responsible for an IT Budgets totalling £8M
• Management of one hundred and thirty staff, reviews and appraisals of six direct reports
• Control of budgets and IT purchasing for the Trusts and IT department.
• Management of projects
• Support of Active Directory, Exchange, EMC SAN, VMware virtual servers and VDI and approximately 25000 desktop machines and 1000 servers From February 2008 to March 2011 (3 years 2 months) Regional IT Manager (West Sussex) @ • IT Manager for West Sussex covering eight organisations. Responsible for an IT Budget of £2M
• Management of fifty staff, including developers, infrastructure engineers and desktop engineers, reviews and appraisals of direct reports
• Control of budgets and IT purchasing for the Trust and IT department.
• Management of projects
• Support of Active Directory, Exchange, EMC SAN, Approx 1250 desktop machines and 90 servers From September 2005 to February 2008 (2 years 6 months) IT Manager @ • IT Manager for an IT department covering a large acute hospital trust. Turnover £110M having an IT Budget of £900K
• Management of fifteen staff, assigning work as required, reviews and appraisals
• Control of budgets and IT purchasing for the Trust and IT department. From January 2004 to September 2005 (1 year 9 months) UK IT manager @ • IT Manager for the UK covering four sites at Camberley, Eastbourne, Birmingham and Aberdeen. From May 2002 to December 2003 (1 year 8 months) Business Support Analyst/Data maintenance Co-ordinator @ • Support of BPCS 6.04 Mixed mode Business Enterprise system. Approx. 1000 users.
• Set-up of BPCS base data for migration from version 4 to version 6 From July 1999 to December 2001 (2 years 6 months) Kingston upon Thames, United KingdomSystems Manager @ • Administration of two AS/400s running OS/400 4.3 and BPCS version 6.04 Client Server. From March 1997 to July 1999 (2 years 5 months) Systems Manager @ Responsible for Management Information system ans MRP system as well as line management of data entry staff. From January 1994 to January 1997 (3 years 1 month) Duty Technical Analyst @ From January 1982 to January 1994 (12 years 1 month) Laboratory Technician @ From January 1978 to January 1981 (3 years 1 month)
CMI Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership (QCF), Strategic Management, Level 7 @ Chartered Management Institute From 2008 to 2009 Foundation degree Business Management, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Pass @ University of Portsmouth From 2005 to 2007 Chichester College TechnologyUCS Test Drive for Technical Decision Makers @ CiscoCloud and IT as a service for Business Transformation @ EMC Grant Harris is skilled in: Prince2 qualified, Management, Project Management, Enterprise Architecture, Desktop Environment, Change Management, ITIL Certified, Active Directory, Business Analysis, Business Process Improvement, Business Intelligence, Business Transformation, Citrix, Data Center, Governance