1. CORRINA WOOLLEY (Bsc)
7 Fielders Close, Enfield, EN1 2AY
Tel: 07899 283387
E-mail: cwoo@hotmail.co.uk
Date of birth: 1st
April 1972 Nationality: British
I have worked at Interactive Data promoted to various roles (mainly within the technical and production areas)
for over 16 years. I have managed projects working with various departments within the company, projects
varied from Data Center moves, implementing new production systems (including client migrations), installing
new Real Time exchange feeds and migrating legacy systems from FTP (Batch) feeds to these new Real Time
feeds, New billing system and Implementing, testing and documenting complete Disaster Recovery solutions.
Changes within the company and limited career prospects, now make it time to look for new opportunities and
expand my working experience.
Key Skills:
Project Management, Technical Project Management, Stake holder management, Business Continuity, Disaster
Recovery, Data Centre relocation and Prince 2 certified.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
March 1998 – October 2014 FT Interactive Data Interactive Data (IDC)
September 2010 – October 2014 Senior Project Manager Team Lead Production Implementation
Management
A move back into the now Global Production Project Management team as a senior team member. Assisting the
team manager and providing managerial cover in the team manager’s absence, providing guidance to the team
members as well as managing global projects.
During an interim period I also became the team lead when there was a reshuffle in the department, managing a
team of three project managers.
Projects in this role included those mentioned previously, continuing to assist in Disaster Recovery testing and the
introduction of Real Time Service and Global Omega projects:
• Real Time Services - New content
Managing, coordinating and requirements gathering to install connectivity, and develop the Real Time
Ticker Plant to obtain real time and reference data from global exchanges. This required working with
internal teams and external teams either at the exchange or exchange preferred third parties.
• Migration of Real Time Services Data Center
Migration of an old retired IDC Data Center in Keybridge House (Oval London) to a newly leased Data
Center in Slough. This included managing budgets, ordering and coordination of hardware and
communication line installations, and testing for final sign off, and closure of the Keybridge House Data
Center.
• Omega project – Migration of legacy systems
Omega was a global initiative brought in by new private owners of Interactive Data, The Omega project
was an initiative to implement a central data “bus” system and then develop the central bus to
accommodate the processes, applications and product output of legacy systems. I was assigned to
project manage the migration two legacy systems into the “bus” this required working with Legacy
system and Omega development teams, Omega release managers and Operations, reporting to senior
management on status, issues and risk.
The role also required involvement in projects at an earlier stage and required producing Business Cases, Project
Definition documentation, Requirements and Scope for approval by Senior management, prior to any project being
initiated.
As a global team, it was required to work with teams from global offices, with reporting to global senior management
on status, issues and risk.
2. April 2008 – September 2010 Project Manager, BCPO (Business Continuity Program Office)
Managing Disaster Recovery and Work Place Recovery for Interactive Data’s European Offices and Data Centers:
• Managing the implementation of High Availability and Disaster Recovery Systems to meet required RTO’s
(Recovery Time Objectives)
• Managing and coordinating Bi Annual Data Centre Disaster Recovery tests, to insure that required RTO’s
were being met.
• Ensuring all Disaster Recovery procedures were documented and updated for all systems at all Data
Centre sites.
• The role also included assisting all departments within the European offices to implement and manage
Work Place Recovery plans and carry out full testing of these plans.
July 2003 – April 2008 Project Manager Production Services Division.
Project Managing projects for Production areas of Interactive Data, including Global projects:
• Migrations of Corporate and Production systems.
Migrating old Legacy systems to new hardware.
Managing resources with allowance to Business as Usual requirements.
Coordination of resources across departments and other business units.
Prioritisation of production system requirements.
• Project Managing migration and development of production systems.
Managing projects to develop new or existing systems for new products, or to accommodate an existing
product on new infrastructure.
Managing customer migrations to new production systems.
This role involved working with multiple global departments within Interactive Data; producing project plans from a
development stage to completion, reporting to Senior Management on issues and successes at regular intervals.
December 2001 – July 2003 Project & Licensing Manager, Networks
I.T. Project Manager for all projects in the scope of the Networks Support department, including all European offices
and liasing with Global network departments. Projects included:
• Integration of acquired companies into the FT Interactive Data network infrastructure.
Investigating the needs of the acquired companies.
Providing costs for project requirements within budget guidelines.
Produce plans for implementation of each requirement to external deadlines.
Manage resources to integrate, equipment and employees with minimal disruption to business.
• Implementation of Central Deployment systems.
Negotiation of requirements within each business unit.
Prioritisation of implementation to business areas.
Coordination of deployment to each remote office.
Training of staff within each office location.
This role involved working closely with and managing members of both the Corporate and Production network teams
and team leaders; reporting to management on the progress of each project, escalation of any issues critical to
project delivery.
Every project required use of the internal change management system and the system booking calendar, to ensure no
project work would impact daily production requirements.
Another aspect of this role was management of software licensing and auditing, this involved:
• Investigating software and maintenance costs.
• Reviewing license agreements.
• Producing reports for budgets, compliance, maintenance renewal and cost reduction.
• Liaising with suppliers on purchases and maintenance renewal.
• Corresponding with the FTID parent company Pearson to ensure leverage of any global agreement.
3. March 1998 - December 2001 PC/LAN Analyst Desktop Team promoted to Desktop Team Leader
Starting in March 1998 as a PC/LAN Analyst I was promoted after 6 months to the role of Team Leader for the FT
Interactive Data (FTID) Desktop Support team, the team supported all Ft Interactive Data (Europe) desktop environments
and assisted with some areas of network issues.
• Managing the team to ensure business as usual problems and requests were dealt with efficiently and
within a suitable SLA.
• Training for newly implemented systems, including documentation.
• Mentoring new members of staff
• Advising on the set up and operation of the new Problem Management system; Lotus Notes GWI.
• Software audits to ensure license compliance.
• MigrationsUpgrades of Corporate systems i.e. cc mail to Lotus Notes mail, Novell server and client
upgrades.
• Liasing with all levels of FTID business.
November 1995 - March 1998 ICL - Power of 4
November 1995 – March 1998 I.T. Service Provider
Providing various I.T. services to ICL’s customers around the UK, including:
• Novell and Windows NT server builds, upgrade, migrations and client installations.
• Documentation of project plans and training manuals for customers’ requirements.
The position involved a high level of customer interaction and presenting ICL as a professional company to those
customers. An independent professional attitude was required as the majority work was carried out at customer sites
unaided.
QUALIFICATIONS
2005 - 2015 PRINCE2 Practitioner
1990-1994 University of Westminster
BSc (Hons) Business Information Technology & HND Business Information Technology
Driving License: Full clean British Drivers license
Interests: Reading, foreign travel; including trekking around Peru and safari in Kenya.
References: Available on request.