Steven Westwell

Current

• Collaboration Consultant at Accenture

Past

• Global Tools & Logistics Lead at Accenture @ Large Global Pharmaceutical Client
• Deployment Architect at Accenture @ Large Global Pharmaceutical Client
• Client Architect at Accenture @ Large Global Pharmaceutical Client

• Solution Engineer at iSOFT
• Project / Change Manager at iSOFT plc
• Technical Consultant (Knowledge Management) at Vertex Data Science
• Software Engineer at Parsons Brinckerhoff

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Steven Westwell’s Summary

Focused on establishing best practice and standards in all areas of work, whilst maintaining a balance between my interest in technology and the business realities.

Steven Westwell’s Specialties:

Knowledge Management, Collaboration, PRINCE2 Project Management, Sharepoint Portal Server, Windows Sharepoint Services, Business Collaborator, Vista Deployment, Best Practice & Standards identification and implementation

Steven Westwell’s Experience

• Collaboration Consultant

  Accenture

  (Public Company; ACN; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2007 — Present (3 years 1 month)

  My current role is as a collaboration specialist within the Workplace Technology & Collaboration team in the UK infrastructure consulting division. I am the UK collaboration offering lead and advise on projects and engagements globally, and integrate into the next generation workplace initiative looking at the best ways to leverage the collaboration tools more effectively within the team, to increase performance and efficiency.

• Global Tools & Logistics Lead

  Accenture @ Large Global Pharmaceutical Client

  (Pharmaceuticals industry)

  February 2009 — October 2009 (9 months)

  At this time I was responsible for the management of a deployment tracking and reporting Toolset used to plan and monitor the global deployment of Vista.
  My primary focus was on maturing the operation of the Toolset and increasing the end user satisfaction, the key challenge was to quickly address operational issues during ever increasing usage of the tools, and to provide clear lines of communication from and to the team to increase productivity.
  I was also responsible for managing the vendor relationship for the Project Vista deployment for the supply of $60,000,000 worth of new hardware. There were numerous long running issues with the hardware vendor for which I was responsible for leading the resolution.

• Deployment Architect

  Accenture @ Large Global Pharmaceutical Client

  (Pharmaceuticals industry)

  2008 — 2009 (1 year )

  As a deployment architect I Provided continuity from the development phase through to the deployment phase, responsible for evaluating, documenting and coordinating the testing for any changes made to the customised Microsoft Vista Client, qualified hardware and assisting the deployment specialists in resolution of critical issues.

• Client Architect

  Accenture @ Large Global Pharmaceutical Client

  (Pharmaceuticals industry)

  2007 — 2008 (1 year )

  As part of the Architecture team I was heavily involved in development of the clients Next Generation Microsoft Vista client for 70,000 desktops globally, this has included providing a single image solution for multiple build scenarios.
  During my time in this role I also coordinated the client and deployment solution testing and maintained strict pharmaceutical Quality & Compliance documentation required to release the client.
  I also developed a localisation solution to allow for the mid deployment localisation of the Microsoft Vista client, Microsoft Office Communicator and Microsoft Office 2007 suite.

• Solution Engineer

  iSOFT

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  August 2006 — December 2006 (5 months)

  As solution engineer, I was responsible for liaising with stakeholders within the business to identify current business needs, liaising with capability managers to determine valid solutions to meet these requirements, and tracking the resultant projects against timescales and budgets through to completion, reporting directly to the CIO.
  I conducted research & analysis of emerging technologies with an aim to identify creative solutions with suitable cost/benefit ratios.
  This included the adoption of SharePoint 2007 and Office 2007, and leveraging additional Microsoft technologies included in the Microsoft enterprise agreement such as Exchange 2007 and Office Communications Server.

• Project / Change Manager

  iSOFT plc

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  October 2005 — July 2006 (10 months)

  As a Project Manager for the global CIO Service Operations Team I lead a number of global projects, including an Infrastructure & Operations Project to integrate a newly acquired Spanish office.
  Whilst in this role I also worked closely with the Infrastructure Architect, acting as a complimentary Systems Architect to develop global strategies and architectures including:
  • Information lifecycle architecture - including the global deployment of SharePoint
  • Data Centre consolidation & virtualisation
  • Email & File Archiving with ISO 2700 Compliance
  • Global Service Desk in EMEA & APAC regions
  • ITIL standard: Asset, Issue, Configuration & Release Management
  In addition to the above I managed the Global Microsoft Licensing agreement for iSOFT PLC

• Technical Consultant (Knowledge Management)

  Vertex Data Science

  (Privately Held; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

  September 2004 — October 2005 (1 year 2 months)

  As a member of the Knowledge Management & Training Solutions Team I was the Technical lead for the pilot and deployment of SharePoint for Vertex and United Utilities, as well as the service development to provide collaboration services to external clients.
  Key aspects of this were:
  • Initial technology assessments and selection,
  • Creation of technical standards documentation and best practice identification.
  I Worked with Microsoft experts to formulate a comprehensive strategy for the development of the corporate intranet for both Vertex and United Utilities, incorporating other Knowledge Management and collaborative working systems, including:
  • Collaboration Tools, Portals, Information Lifecycle Management, Document Management & Workflow, Real Time Collaboration & E-Learning

• Software Engineer

  Parsons Brinckerhoff

  (Privately Held; Civil Engineering industry)

  August 2003 — September 2004 (1 year 2 months)

  My year at Parsons Brinckerhoff allowed me to apply the theory developed in my course to practical aspects of a real world business.
  • Involved on many ASP, SQL and VB based collaboration software development projects, and Business Collaborator utility.
  • Implemented all stages of the software life cycle
  o Requirements capture, Analysis through to Development, Testing and Deployment of solutions, including the training of end users.

Additional Information

Steven Westwell’s Interests:

Leading Edge Technology, Collaboration Technologies, Workplace Impact of Emerging Social Technologies, Kayaking, Airsoft, Rock Climbing

Steven Westwell’s Groups:

British Computer Society, British Canoe Union, PRINCE2 Practitioner

•    SharePoint Experts
•    Accenture Employees and Alumni
•    BCS Membership Group
•    The University of Manchester Alumni Association
•    UMIST Alumni
•    Enterprise2.0

Steven Westwell’s Honors:

Public Presentations & Demonstrations given:

The Changing World of Work and Enterprise Content Lifecycle, Microsoft, Content Management Expo, Olympia London, November 2005

Knowledge Management & Training Solutions, a Practical Implementation Methodology. An Agile Pursuit of Knowledge Seminar, BCS Methods & Tools Specialist Group September 2005