Warran Dawson, Head of Infrastructure Delivery

Warran Dawson

Head of Infrastructure Delivery

Tonomus

Lieu
Arabie Saoudite - Jeddah
Éducation
Baccalauréat, Law
Expérience
16 years, 3 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :16 years, 3 Mois

Head of Infrastructure Delivery à Tonomus
  • Arabie Saoudite - Tabuk
  • Je travaille ici depuis juin 2022
Regional Operations Director à Kbr Inc. - Saudi Arabia
  • Arabie Saoudite - Jeddah
  • novembre 2019 à avril 2022

 Overseeing and spearheading all aspects of delivery, operations, maintenance, and training across the western region of Saudi Arabia to the Ministry of National Guard.
 Providing senior leadership and oversight to a team of 300+ technical and delivery experts
 Managing engagement with senior stakeholders across multiple government departments and at corporate executive level.
 Financial Management of both opex and capex budgets including introducing cost saving initiatives. Ensuring that both internal and customer targets are met, that savings and opportunities are identified and that reporting is provided t senior executive levels.
 Driving delivery and efficiency within the supply chain to maximise delivery, service and margin
 Spearheading transformation initiatives to modernise and drive change across the business and change attitudes within the customer to identify better ways or working

Head of IP Network Delivery à Airbus Space & Defence
  • Arabie Saoudite - Jeddah
  • novembre 2016 à avril 2019

 Led a 300+ strong kingdom wide department of delivery staff including Project Managers, Construction Managers, Engineers and various on-site personnel to deliver strategic secure IP networks to the National Guard
 Spearheaded initiatives to increase delivery and revenue across strategic contracts as well as identifying additional revenue streams.
 Negotiated new and existing supplier contracts to enhance benefits to the business, increase margin and revenues and increase delivery rates to the National Guard
 Worked at a strategic and executive level with KSA, UK & Multinational executive boards delivering business updates on targets and updates on core business financial milestones

Portfolio/ Program Manager à VODAFONE / BARCLAYS BANK PLC
  • Royaume Uni - Manchester
  • juin 2013 à octobre 2016

Accomplishments:
 Acknowledged for saving contract value up to £100 Million by utilizing MSP, Prince, and Agile methodology and £25 Million by securing new contracts and implementing various initiatives.

Job Profile:
 Led a team of project managers and coordinators to install Juniper WAN and LAN network for Barclays Bank, enabling new Cisco call manager V10 solution to 3500 banks across the UK, with approx. 25000 users deployed
 Spearheaded team efforts during the pre-sales stage to support creation of programme strategies and financial resource plans. Followed up with the PMO manager in ensuring compliance to MSP standards.
 Delivered WAN connectivity at approximately 60 sites for Barclays key global locations. Developed new global platform for Barclays to support call centre management.
 Coordinated with HR pertaining to employee selection, training, career development, performance assessment, workload planning, recognition, and disciplinary actions.
 Updated stakeholders on progress of programs, opportunities and projects for implementing effective remedial measures based on identified deviations.

Program Manager à VODAFONE UK TRINITY MIRROR GROUP
  • Royaume Uni - Liverpool
  • février 2010 à juin 2013

Job Profile:
 Rendered support to Vodafone UK Trinity Mirror Group, UK during the presales stage and assisted in contractual discussions.
 Focused on upgrading bandwidth & LAN, replacement of new Cisco based IP telephony, video conferencing and deployment of new mobile network across 70 sites.
 Prepared and presented various status reports for the senior management and other stakeholders to enable effective decision making.

Project Manager à CENTRICA
  • Royaume Uni - London
  • juillet 2007 à août 2010

Accomplishments:
 Assigned to manage new Mitel PBX solution across the entire Centrica estate for successfully delivering new UK wide WAN network with connectivity to off shore platforms and into Canada prior to due date.

Job Profile:
 Focused on development of new IT network across the UK and Canada across 60 sites including off shore platforms.
 Coordinated with the executive management to develop project scope and requirements and with teams to administer project budgets, project estimations, financial oversight, vendor contracts, change requests, and variance reporting.

Earlier Roles:
 Project Manager - Cable & Wireless Off Shoring Programme, Chennai, India
 Project Contract Analyst - Cable & Wireless, Manchester, UK

Éducation

Baccalauréat, Law
  • à University of Lincoln
  • juillet 2004

Law Degree, specialisation in Corporate Law

Specialties & Skills

IT Financial Management
PRINCE2
Project Portfolio Management
Program Management
IP Networking
Strategic Planning & Execution, Internal & External Audit, Stakeholder Interaction
MIS & Reporting, Client Relationship Management, Departmental Representation
Client Service Delivery, Risk Mitigation & Management, Performance Management
Process Re-engineering, Quality Control, Liaison & Coordination
Operations Management, Productivity Enhancement, Training & Mentorship
SLA Compliance, Presales and business development, People Management

Langues

Arabe
Débutant
Anglais
Langue Maternelle

Adhésions

Association of Project Management
  • Member
  • July 2010
Project Management Institute
  • Member
  • November 2015
Institute of Directors, South Africa
  • Member
  • May 2020

Formation et Diplômes

ITIL V4 (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Axelos
Date de la formation:
June 2020
MSP Programmes Practitioner (Certificat)
Prince2 Practitioner (Certificat)
Professional Development (Certificat)

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