Infrastructure Project Management

Are you a CEO CIO CTO in a company based in the UK?

• Do your IT Infrastructure projects continually over-run their budget?
• Have your systems reached end-of-life and are no longer being offered supplier support?

Are you a CEO, CIO or a CTO in a company based in the UK?

• Do your IT Infrastructure projects continually over-run their budget?
• Does this cause you embarrassment during board-level meetings?
• Have your systems reached end-of-life and are no longer being offered supplier support?
• Do your team have to manually update data to produce accurate reports that should be automated?

Wouldn’t it be better?
• If you knew you could deliver on your strategic IT goals and contribute to the success of the business without overspending on your budgets continuously.
• If you could ask your team to work out how to do the same for less money and know what process could achieve that.
• If you were not the person taking the blame for rising costs during the next Board meeting.

Is the Reason
you can’t resolve these problems due to not having sufficient bandwidth to deliver on a cost-reduction strategy while also looking after the regular
Run the Service processes?

**I can help you**

What makes me stand out is my ability to administer large-scale IT projects, determine customer requirements, identify problems, deliver technology improvements, and achieve business objectives utilising the best project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall)

My passion is for delivering excellent service that goes beyond organisational expectations, creating a win-win scenario for everyone involved.

I look forward to helping you too.

If you want to have a confidential discussion about reducing your IT costs and achieving the kind of wins I have delivered in the past, then please use any of the following options:

Email – steven.duncan@sdn.scot
Mobile – +44 (0)7974 739585 or
Complete the form at the bottom of the page

Steven Duncan

I support CEOs, CIOs and CTOs in the Private and Public (NHS) sectors, and deliver reductions in IT costs in excess of £500k by effectively leading Infrastructure Projects.

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Project Experience

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Senior Project Manager (February 2022 --> December 2023)

Objective: To assist in producing operational cost savings of at least £1m by managing the migration of the Bank's critical Batch Scheduling Service to the new strategic Data Centre, including replacing servers and upgrading Operating Systems, Application stack and Databases.

Senior Project Manager

Result: Contributed to the successful Data Centre Migration and reduced operational costs by > £1m.

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Senior Project Manager (February 2021 --> January 2022)

Objective: To assist in producing operational cost savings of at least £1m by scheduling the migration of servers and services from the end-of-life hardware-defined DMZ environments to new virtual, software-defined infrastructure.

Senior Project Manager

Result: Contributed to the reduction in operational costs by c. £1m.

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Infrastructure Project Manager (September 2018 --> January 2020)

Objective: To assist in producing operational cost savings of at least £500k.

Infrastructure Project Manager

Result: I managed a multi-server and multi-platform virtual deployment across the development, testing and production environments. This effort has led to a reduction in overall operational costs by a significant c. £500k.

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Project Manager (March 2018 --> July 2018)

Objective: Identify legacy Bank systems no longer supported by third-party vendors.

Project Manager

Result: Reviewed legacy Bank systems to confirm the availability of third-party support. Highlighted Systems that the Bank could upgrade or require replacement. Prepared the analysis to assist in future reductions in operational costs.

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Infrastructure Delivery Manager (PM) (May 2016 --> March 2018)

Objective: To assist in the reduction of operational costs of at least £2M.

Infrastructure Delivery Manager (PM)

Result: Assisted in the reduction of operational costs by approx. £2.5M.

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Infrastructure Delivery Manager (PM) (November 2014 --> May 2016)

Objective: To minimise the operational risk of receiving future FCA fines for PPI.

Infrastructure Delivery Manager (PM)

Result: Completed the program, reducing the operational risk of receiving additional penalties.

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Infrastructure Delivery Manager (PM) (May 2013 --> November 2014)

Objective: To reduce operational costs by c. £1M.

Infrastructure Delivery Manager (PM)

Result: Working with the partner project teams reduced operational costs by c. £1M.

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Project Manager / Project Lead (September 2011 --> May 2013)

Objective: To reduce operational costs by approx. £2m.

Project Manager / Project Lead

Result: Assisted in the relocation of the legacy European Infrastructure to the UK data centres. Contributing to the operational cost reductions by around £2M.

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Testimonials

Steven has consistently proven himself to be professional, focused and knowledgeable in any role he has undertaken.
I have worked with Steven in technical and project management roles across various technologies and scenarios, and he has excelled in all areas.
He has demonstrated an ability to pick up technical concepts and translate them to stakeholders, similarly communicating business requirements to a specialised audience.
Steven is continually working to build good relationships and camaraderie, but at the same time, he can lead a team by example and demonstrate success.
As a leader, Steven can prioritise the customer requirements and balance the needs and capabilities of his team, a challenging skill.
I would not hesitate to work with Steven again, and I look forward to doing so soon.

Mark Dawson

IT Consultant

I cannot recommend him highly enough.
He is a very persistent and knowledgeable technical consultant with great enterprise-level experience.
He has excellent infrastructure design and project skills that delivered the many multiple pieces of work assigned to him on time and to a very high standard.
Steven stays calm, even under pressure, and is always approachable and friendly.
I would have no issues recommending Steven to any other IT organisation and would employ him again if the opportunity arose.

David Green

Infrastructure Architect

Steven’s work was professional, technically superior and delivered in a pleasant and helpful manner.
He inspired trust in his work with the client and provided help and assistance far beyond his original remit.

Martin Kerr

Programme Manager

If you want to have a confidential discussion about reducing your IT costs and achieving the kind of wins, I have delivered in the past, then use this form to send a message.