Gavin Convery is a global transformation project manager with over 11 years of experience managing technical and transformation projects, primarily using VMware technology. He has extensive experience transforming complex global infrastructure environments in the financial services industry. Recent projects include discovering the infrastructure characteristics of over 7,500 servers and migrating and consolidating servers using VMware and HP Virtual Private Cloud.

1. GAVIN CONVERY
Global Transformation Project Manager
Mobile: 07896 592 757
Mail: gavinconvery@yahoo.co.uk
Global Infrastructure and Transformation Project Manager with 11 years Project Management
experience (technical and transformation) working in a global managed service environment
and the transformation of complex global infrastructure environments mostly based on
VMWare
Over 10 years experience working in the Financial Services industry including support of Front
Office Trading systems.
Experience of industry standard processes and methodologies (PMP) and working in a
geographically dispersed matrix based delivery organization. Experience of the full project
lifecycle from Project Initiation to Client Approvals and Lessons Learned.
Recent projects include:
 Discovery project to identify the Infrastructure and Application characteristics of over
7500 servers in a Global environment
 Datacentre Migration, Virtualisation and Consolidation project based on HP's Virtual
Private Cloud and VMWare.
Technical background in UNIX OS and Sybase/SQL Server databases.
Extensive knowledge of Microsoft products including Excel, Project, Visio and Powerpoint
Professional Experience
HEWLETT-PACKARD – TNT Account
Jan 2015 – Apr 2016
Discovery Project Manager
Discovery of 7500+ servers to identify migration method for Transformation based on
VMWare technology.
Key Results:
 Running of face-to-face and remote workshops with key Client Stakeholders in multiple
geographic locations – Shanghai, Taiwan, Singapore, Spain, Netherlands, UK, UAE,
Australia.
 Management of a team of 5 project resources including 2 offshore resources (Spain and
US) and Infrastructure and Application Architects
 Management of a total budget of $1.4m including weekly financial reporting
 Creation of Migration Plan including the technical approach for 7500+ servers.

2. HEWLETT-PACKARD – DATWYLER ACCOUNT
Nov 2013 – Dec 2014
Transformation Project Manager
Transformation of 200+ servers from incumbent Outsourcer. This involved the V2V migration
of application servers, the procurement and setup of Office servers and the setup of 7
Remote Data Centres.
Key Results:
 V2V migration of 200+ application servers to either HP Virtual Private Cloud or to Remote
Data Centres based on VMWare
 Procurement and setup of 51 Office servers in 51 separate worldwide locations including
China and the Middle East
 Procurement and setup of 7 Remote Data rooms in 7 separate worldwide locations
 Hands-on management of Server migrations during out-of-hours cutover periods
 Project Management of application testing in new environment
 Risk and Issue management in association with Client counterpart
 Management of offshore resources including one additional project manager and
technical implementation leads to ensure the migration progressed smoothly and resolve
any issues.
 Update of Application Infrastructure documents to reflect the new environment using
Customer’s documentation standard
 Handover of transformed environment to ongoing delivery
HEWLETT-PACKARD – NOKIA/NSN ACCOUNT
Jan 2012 - Oct 2013
Transformation Project Manager
Nokia/NSN is a global Telecommunications company whose Infrastructure was being
managed at that time by HP. NSN was the Nokia-Siemens-Network networking associated
company
 Datacentre move and Virtualisation for NSN account – virtualization of ~100 servers
for NSN account and simultaneous datacenter move in Lisbon site using VMWare
technology.
o Creation of Bill of Materials and Procurement of new hardware
o Management of hardware installation in new DC
o Management of virtualization of servers using Platespin technology to new
DC
 Nokia Disengagement project - Nokia had chosen a new service provider and my role
was to lead the disengagement for the HP Infrastructure contract and arrange
transition to the new provider (HCL) of ~1200 servers.
o Production of a “black box” process in conjunction with an offshore “factory”
team to ensure a standardized, repeatable process for performing the
migrations using P2V or V2V methods on a VMWare platform

3. o Hands-on management of migration of servers in conjunction with incoming
Service Provider including out-of-hours working.
o Additionally, I managed the rampdown and scrapping of remaining hardware
to ensure complete disengagement from the account for a hard stop at the
end of September 2013.
As a result of the successful and smooth handover from HP to the new provider, the Nokia
CIO personally commended my work to the HP leadership and I was identified as one of the
leading contributors within HP EMEA during that year.
HEWLETT-PACKARD – NOKIA ACCOUNT
Sep 2009 - Jan 2012
Transformation Project Manager
HP were implementing a new global contract with Nokia to provide enhanced SLAs based on
a virtualized and consolidated environment. As part of this process the server landscape was
being transformed to ensure that these SLAs can be met. This role involved two aspects: the
project management of a transformation stream to ensure this happens according to the
project deadlines and the verification that the SLAs can be met from an overall project
perspective.
Key Results:
 Involved in the project management of the transformation of a wide range of existing
servers using various technologies to conform to the new contract.
 Transformation methods included Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and in
place.
 Responsible for transformation of 300+ servers.
 Creation of transformation technical checklists and plans and presentation to Nokia PMs
for approval.
 Acted as an expert on SLA contractual documents for Transformation team.
 Overall management of SLA conformance of the transformation project deliverables in
conjunction with delivery stakeholders.
 SLA alignment – sole responsibility and management of the deliverables required to
ensure that the new SLAs can be met. This involves both a wide technical understanding
and communication with all stakeholders through regular meetings and workshops.
HEWLETT-PACKARD – WESTLB ACCOUNT
JAN 2005 – AUG 2009
Service Delivery Manager
HP managed the outsourced infrastructure delivery at this globally based German bank,
including the trading platform infrastructure. This role involved the service delivery of the
Unix and Database infrastructure which included among other platforms this mission-critical
trading platform based on the SUMMIT software suite.
Key Results:
 Technical project manager of the transformation associated with the outsourcing process
– including the setup of the CMDB, tool installation, process enhancement and offshoring
of selected activities.
 Technical project manager of multiple high impact projects including the following:

4. o Refresh of the Bank’s trading system databases.
o Refresh of HDS SAN storage to use EVA and XP.
o Refresh of the Unix NFS environment.
o Refresh of the Veritas Cluster environment used by NFS.
o Implementation of a standard security environment (ESM/VSM) using AD.
 Offshoring of 1st and 2nd level support – managing relationships with offshore suppliers.
 People management of a team of up to 15 people.
 1st, 2nd and 3rd level delivery of Unix (Solaris, HPUX, Linux) and Database (Sybase, MS-
SQL) infrastructure.
 Regular customer facing communication including senior management.
 Experience of Incident, Problem and Change management according to ITIL guidelines.
 Management of commercial agreements with 3rd party suppliers including contract
discussions.
WESTLB
APRIL 1999 – DEC 2004
Database Administrator/Production Support Manager
Key Results:
 Database administration of Sybase databases – including trading system databases
for Summit trading system.
 Unix system administration – Solaris.
 Production support management – management of 1st and 2nd level support team.
 Technical project management of upgrade of Swift payments environment.
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
JULY 1997 – MARCH 1999
Database Administrator
Key Results:
 Database administration of Sybase and Informix databases.
Education
 BSc Psychology – University College London
Skills
 Very strong written and oral communication – senior level reporting and running of
workshops with Client Stakeholders.
 Technical knowledge: Unix (Solaris, HPUX), Databases (Sybase, SQL server,
Informix), IBM Websphere, MS Office (incl Visio, Project, Powerpoint), wide-ranging
background knowledge of other technologies (VMWare, SAN storage etc).
 Business knowledge – banking knowledge especially trading systems
 Process knowledge – ITIL, ITSM.
 Member of the Project Management Institute
 Experienced using PMP processes
 People Management including management of geographically distributed teams as
part of a Matrix Organisation

5.  French and German to A-level standard