Ernst & Young, London

Skype for Business Telephony & MPLS Deployment Project Management UKI/MENA

Delivered Skype for Business & supporting network, replaced legacy PBXs in UKI and MENA regions across 14 countries and 25 EY locations. Budget $7M.

  • Detailed budget planning, business case preparation and senior stakeholder management through project governance meetings and reporting.
  • Vender RFP management and review for new network.
  • Workshop planning for technical, legal and regulatory requirements.
  • Replacement of network infrastructure to legalise and support new telephony platform.
  • Implementation of new vendor and technology support processes.

Skype for Business Enterprise Voice Deployments Project Management EMEIA/APAC

Delivered Skype for Business Enterprise Voice with Unified Messaging to multiple concurrent EMEIA and APAC locations against a tight schedule. Budget $500k

  • Complete re-budgeting, resourcing, planning and scheduling; set up new governance reporting and stakeholder management.
  • Accelerated learning and process development required to deploy a new technology in order to fulfil cost saves for the business.
  • Promoted internal behavioural change through the adaptation to a new form of technology replacing various aging telephony platforms.

Global Audio Conferencing Replacement Project Management

Large-scale global deployment to replace the legacy end-of-life audio conferencing service within EY, enabling an improved feature-set, audio quality and future integration with Lync Shared Integration/Skype for Business. Budget $400k

  • Consultancy-led project team of EY telecoms and communications staff with a third party vendor replaced a service utilised over 10 years by 75,000 global users.
  • Deployment strategy encouraged the migration to the new product using extensive and detailed communications to drive adoption.
  • Analysis of shortfalls in the project led to re-planning of the budget, resourcing and schedules through change control.

UK Wi-Fi Deployment Project Management

Management of an inflight high-profile project to deliver Corporate, Staff and Guest Wi-Fi services across 13 EY sites within UK & Ireland. Budget $1M

  • Urgent project with tight deadlines due to previous mis-management.
  • Re-established project and stakeholder meetings; new project plans, documentation, approvals, orders and delivery processes set up to successfully deploy the Corporate, Staff and Guest Wi-Fi services to all 13 sites within four months.
  • Project efficiently delivered under re-planned budget and one-month prior to plan.
  • Plans created for subsequent Corporate, Guest and Staff Wi-Fi global deployments.

Global Archiving Program Management

Delivered of a new HP Autonomy global archiving solution for EY to meet its application remediation program, email retention requirements, physical and electronic records management, compliance and regulatory retention requirements. Budget $14M

  • Rebuilt an EY & HP based project team to gather requirements, re-plan and deliver a phased approach spread across a three year timeline to accommodate for the complexity of the type of data held by EY.
  • Established new processes, governance and support to transition the HP Autonomy global archiving toolset into operational readiness.
  • Enforced the adherence to data retention policies and Information Lifecycle Management through formal liaison with the Business, Compliance, Risk and Legal teams.
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