Colin Nixon is a PRINCE2 certified and ITIL v3 experienced project manager with over 11 years of experience managing projects in banking, education, healthcare, and other industries. He has extensive experience leading large-scale infrastructure projects including office moves, network upgrades, and cloud migrations. His background includes managing teams of over 20 people on global projects with budgets in the millions of pounds.

1. COLIN NIXON
PERSONA L PROFILE
Home Address: Flat 9 Linden House
Centre Drive
Epping
Essex
CM164JE
Mobile: 07808212652
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Date Of Birth: 01/07/1977
Gender: Male
Nationality: British
Marital Status: Single
E-mail Address: colinnixon77@gmail.com
Driving License: Full, Clean
A PRINCE 2 certified and ITIL v3, Agile/Scrum experienced Programme/Project Manager and IT Delivery Manager spanned over
11 years. Extensive experience of working in challenging and highly pressurised Banking, blue-chip FTSE 100 companies, Higher
Education, Public Sector, NHS, CCGs, CSU, Health Care, Media. A proactive and diligent professional who is excellent at building
relationships, has well developed communication skills, common sense and a very conscientious attitude to work. A tenacious and
motivated individual, who is also flexible, self-disciplined and versatile.
Key Projects
o Programme/Project manager Large scale company migrations relocations, office moves, rebuilds
o Programme /Project manager VLAN,LAN,WAN, Wi-Fi, VoIP/telephony and AV projects
o Senior/Project manager Implementation of Laptops, PCs, Smartphones & Tablets
o Project Manager Cloud Migrations, Active Directory
o Senior Project Manager Windows 7, 8 & office 365 Upgrades
o Programme Manager Business & Solution Change, ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
o Senior Project manager MPS (Managed Print Service) Across top 5 vendors
o Senior Project manager IT Company merges and transitions
Key Skills
Relevant Skills &
Experience ▪ Technical hands-on Infrastructure Programme/Project Manager across a number of varied and
demanding projects concurrently
▪ Additional experience in service delivery, with exceptional relationship building and customer service
skills
▪ ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
▪ Active directory refresh and upgrade.
▪ Leading major relocation (VLAN,LAN,WAN, Wi-Fi, AV and VoIP/telephony) projects.
▪ Full implementation of windows 10 and office 365 and Skype for Business in large scale environments
▪ Management of global (within Europe, Asia and USA) relocations of new builds, managed print
services, office moves to ensure all work is completed within time frame and budget
▪ Create and deliver solution descriptions, highlight reports, risk assessments and all other relevant
project reports
▪ Experience of managing teams of 20 plus globally
▪ Able to prioritise work effectively and multi-task whilst maintaining a high quality output
▪ Highly organised and meticulous in all work undertaken
▪ Persistent and resolute in following tasks through from cradle to grave
▪ Excellent communicator of technical and non-technical information
▪ Common sense approach when dealing with all tasks and situations
▪ Full understanding of all data protection and confidentiality requirements

2. Project skills
Networking
Software
ITIL V3 (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
PRINCE 2 - Foundation & Practitioner
Agile trained -Scrum
Scrum
Waterfall
Fibre/Dark Fibre installation, VLAN, LAN, WLAN, Wi-Fi, VoIP, Cloud.
Home and Office automation
Data Centre migrations upgrades
Cloud migrations
Cisco trained, Enterasys Trained. Patching and running cables cat 6+, TCP/IP, WINS, DHCP, DNS, and
dial-up networking, AV, Video conferencing on different platforms.
Microsoft Project, MS Office packages, Skype for Business, Active Directory, antivirus and firewall
software
Major Project Achievements and Employment
NHS - NWLCCG Relocation, Migration and Transformation Technical– Senior
Programme/Project manager
May 2016 – 16th December 2016
I was the Senior Project/Delivery Manager for the relocation and transformation of the HLP
(Health London Partnership).
HLP is an innovative NHS group of 32 CCGS covering over 100 sites and 1000+ users.
The main objective of the project was to transfer from UKN domain over to the NWLondon
Domain. The relocation had previously failed three times before I was assigned the large task
of completing the project realignment to a set end date. This involved a full transition,
transformation and management of internal logistics into seven separate buildings with no
NWLondon fibre presence. The project comprised a full infrastructure upgrade and a full
active directory integration. The project included procurement and full set up of Laptops,
smartphones, Home/Office Automation, SMART and tablets. A new Wi-Fi infrastructure and
implementation was decided by the project board during implemenation. It was my duty to
implement, plan and upgrade the infrastructure in order to support the testing and rollout of
a Wi-Fi solution into the overall project deadline.
Overall duties:
 Complete full project life cycle from start to finish.
 ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
 Integration of new smartphones, Laptops and tablets
 Project Board meetings and all project packs
 Full finance control and reporting to finance directors
 Risk and issues Logs
 Quality control documents
 Full procurement of project requirements
 Plan and implement an upgraded VOIP, LAN, WAN, WLAN, Fibre, broadband
 Full Wi-Fi design, implementation and installations.
 Full infrastructure upgrade
 Video conferencing Cisco, Skype for business
 Data migrations for all users and stored data.
 Procurement on SBS

3. iGaming Project Consultant November 2015 – April 2016
Throughout my time at iGaming I was the programme manager of small to large scale
relocation and software projects using ITIL and Agile methodology. Identifying and
assembling the resources required to support projects. I defined and managed the scope of
enterprise-wide business-specific projects.
• Working independently, managing small to large scale infrastructure projects.
• Identifying resources needed, assembling project team, and assigning individual
responsibilities.
• Determine scope and document scope and deliverables based on documentation and
requirements supplied.
• Communication with Project Management counterparts and project stakeholders to ensure
continuing alignment with project objectives.
• Managing stakeholders and team expectations.
• Overseeing assigned resources to ensure on-time completion of planned tasks.
• Providing senior management and stakeholders with project status.
• Coordination of all projects within the portfolio and maintaining the project register.
• Drafting of Project Briefs, Project Plans, resource plans, and project financials
• Updating of Project Plans (including milestone planning), Daily Logs, Risk and Issue
registers and ensure, where necessary, that these are completed by project leaders.
WPP Technical Project manager - FTSE 100 June 2015 – Sep 2015
Coretech is unique within the IT industry; their aim is to provide the best IT services to the
world’s leading marketing company WPP. As a brand new IT shared Services Company
Coretech is the IT engine to WPP group of companies. I was the lead technical Project
Manager for the WPP Group’s global transition project and managed print service spanning
across 7,000 companies. This lead management role was to co-ordinate a team of 20
globally placed Service Managers. The programme and associated projects is one of the
largest IT transitions worldwide with a £500 million budget.
My lead project was the office relocation and upgrade of infrastructure including new
smartphones, tablets and home and office automation and SMART and Wi-Fi upgrade. The
project spanned across Europe, Asia, USA. The user base covered 100 to 4,000 users.
I took on a large change in transition and was asked to project manage a global office move
to a brand new building holding 4,000 people in Shanghai. This was an extremely
demanding, highly pressurised role that required to me to be on call 24 hours a day, if
required. I developed and delivered the planning throughout the project transition lifecycle.
The contract was based on 34 penalty milestones and 134 dependencies that needed to
deliver on time at each stage of the project.
Kingston University Campuses – Technical project manager
Surbiton. February 2015 – June 2015
Kingston University is a public research facility located in Kingston upon Thames. It was
originally founded in 1899 and became a major university in 1992. I was the Project Manager
for the migration and roll-out of the Campus wide Cisco LAN, WAN and VoIP/Telephony and
the overall Infrastructure of the campuses. I also managed the full estate and facilities
project which dealt with SITs with 3rd party contractors. The role required a full re-plan to
bring the work streams back in line to hit the deadlines set within the agreed contract. I took
an opportunity to overview and organise the deliverables of the projects as they were not
achieving their milestones or the dependencies set in place. The projects were based on an
ITIL service management approach whilst adopting an Agile/Scrum development process

4. SECSU – March 2014 – February 2015
Senior Technical Project Manager for medium to large scale relocation projects, while
managing a portfolio of projects in progress and scoping projects to go live for the future.
Portfolio comprised of six figure sum estate and facilities projects, including the Nelson
Hospital, NHS England properties, universities and private sector refits.
I Project Managed the estates and infrastructure implementation for Nelson Hospital in
Richmond. The new high tech Nelson Hospital has been rebuilt from the ground up. Being
the senior project manager and technical lead I had 3 teams of project managers and
technical staff moving forward to complete the full implementation. This was a demanding
project with changes that required urgent re-planning and high level technical decisions daily.
This was to enable trusts between different NHS environments to relocate into one
location. The project demanded daily project reports to the stake holders, customers and
the project board.
RBS FTSE 250 company – Technical Project Manager Office/Site relocation –
Managed Print Service – May 2012 – January 2014
I was the Lead Technical Project Manager on office/Site relocations, refits and new
contracted buildings. This transition program for the Royal Bank Of Scotland covered all UK
and Ireland sites, with a user base from 50 to 2000. The relocation and refits included full
infrastructure upgrades and Wi-Fi. The relocations had to include the new fully contracted
managed print service for RBS. The project had strict timelines, milestones and scheduled
deployment dates to meet the banks contractual timelines. I was responsible for the budget
spend and reporting to the senior project team on the key milestones of the project. I
managed all 3rd party contractors ensuring that all work packages and schedules were
completed in line with the Project Plan. The overall budget for this project was £6+ million.
UCH Macmillan Cancer Centre: December 2011 – May 2012
The lead project manager for all IT Infrastructure, print and audio visual. This was within a
ground breaking, high profile and state of the art Cancer Centre (the second largest in the
world). This was a hugely challenging project to ensure timelines and budgets were met at
every stage. There have been numerous obstacles to overcome, including dealing with
contradictory stakeholders, working with them to find solutions to continually meet the strict
deadlines.
Northern Gas Utilities: August 2011 – December 2011
Brought in via Logica to support a failing transition project covering various sites across
Northern England. Working away from home for weeks at a time to resolve wide ranging
issues following the merger of the 2 largest gas companies in the North.
UCLH Infrastructure Relocations: January 2011 – July 2011
The lead project manager for infrastructure relocations for the UCLH Trust. Designing,
planning, implementing and relocating numerous departments across the UCLH Estate
Xerox Managed Print Service: Nov 2009 – Dec 2010
Lead Project Manager for the roll out of a fully Managed Print Service with Xerox, subcontracted
through Logica. The project was to deliver a Managed Print Service across the UCLH Trust
Estate. The result was the rationalisation of the current print estate of 3,000 print devices.
The transition over to multifunctional devices lead to a saving of over £1.2 million pounds for
the Trust. A spearheading, year-long project beset with numerous and wide ranging issues
which has now become a major success story and is being rolled out to other Trusts across
the UK.