Contact Information for Nigel Greensitt
Mobile Phone: 07765 251166
Email at: nigel.greensitt@dsl.pipex.com
Work will be undertaken in the Greater Manchester area - No Relocation Desired

CURRENT POSITION : IT Manager
NATIONALITY : British
DATE OF BIRTH : 17 April 1955
QUALIFICATIONS : BSc (Hon) Chemistry & Computer Studies
PROFESSIONAL BODIES: Member of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

• 25+ Years experience in process control and IT department. Management of Legal Practice's information systems and network infrastructure, management of 3rd party service providers to meet SLAs. Manage team of 3 people.
• Experience of costing, proposal preparation, bid evaluation, feasibility studies, functional design and all aspects of project life cycle.
• Project Leadership of small to medium sized projects varying from medium to long-term and fast track timescales. Project values in excess of £1 million and project staff sizes of up to 14 staff.
• Computer control systems for process plant, mechanical handling plant, nuclear control and monitoring systems.

Experienced in Novell NetWare, Microsoft NT and Microsoft products in the modern office and engineering design environment to second line support level. Experience in W2000 and Citrix Metaframe XPa FR2 (3 years)

TRAINING

• Windows 2000 Server Administration Overview ( external training company)
• Windows 2000 Professional Deployment ( external training company
• NT4 Server and Workstation (external training company)
• Fundamentals of SMS (external training company)
• Fundamentals of Documentum (Documentum Inc)
• Administration of Videss Legal Office V9.1
• Citrix Metaframe XPa Fr2 Administration
• FAST Approved Software Auditor
• FAST Approved Software Manager

SUMMARY OF HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE

• IBM compatible PC's
• Servers
• DEC VAX, pdp11
• Allen Bradley PLCs
• Siemens PLCs
• ABB distributed control systems
• Ferranti Argus 700 series
• NT 4.0 Server/Workstation
• Windows 95/98/2000
• Novell NetWare 3.x
• Videss Legal Office V 8, V 9.0 to V 9.2
• SETCON scada package
• Cascade scada
• Controlview scada
• Documentum
• Support for Microsoft Office products ( Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint) + MSMail + MSSchedule+ MSProject ( v3.0 and v4.0)+ Outlook 97/98/2000
• Support for Novell network ( 200 users )
• Support for WordPerfect 5.0 (dos),for windows (v5.1,5.2) First line
• Support for Internet users (Internet Explorer all versions)
• Support for ACAD (12,13,14) First line

EXPERIENCE DETAIL at RUSSELL & RUSSELL SOLICITORS

• June 2000 - to date Awarded position of IT Manager reporting directly to the Senior Partners, after a personal recommendation.
• Manage the provision of information systems for 8 office locations duties include management of all IT related contracts, negotiation evaluation and procurement of hardware and software for the whole Practice.
• Ongoing projects include identification of document and case management solutions, feasibility studies for the introduction of web presence B to B solutions and client access to secure industry specific database systems.
• Project management and control of the opening of 4 new offices including installation of inter and intra office telecoms, structured voice and date cabling, new servers and transfer of users from two other locations with the minimum disruption to the day to day business of the offices involved.
• First successful implementation of the upgrade of Legal Software.
• Manage team of 3 people.
• Planned and managed installation of Citrix server system across the whole practice, upgrade of data comms between branches
• Managed installation of Avaya IP 30 ip telephone systems over 3 branches.

Major upgrades to servers, decommissioning of remaining W98 pcs, installation of new legal practice case management system based around MS office 2003, MS exchange and SQL server

EXPERIENCE DETAIL at KVAERNER E&C

• June 1997 - June 2000 Returned to IT department (see below) including home office NT implementation and rollout co-ordinator for 200 staff and 3 sites managing install team of 3 others and ensuring timely and accurate transfer from WINDOWS 3.1 and NOVELL 3 to NT4 SERVER/WORKSTATIONS and NOVELL file servers. Co-ordination with two other company sites in South of England. Northern England (Warrington, Ulverston, Teesside) second line technical support for DOCUMENTUM 3.1.
• March 1997 - June 1997 Validation of third party custom designed control and data handling package for a pharmaceutical pilot plant written in C and Dbase IV.
• April 1996 - March 1997 Transferred to IT department of KJB as Senior Analyst supporting a 200+ user base in-house and on upto 5 remote sites. NOVELL NETWARE user front-end Windows 3.11. In depth First and second line support knowledge of all common MICROSOFT OFFICE and project management packages plus various packages essential to an engineering company.
• Nov. 1995 - March 1996 Lead Engineer - front end study for pharmaceutical plant product enhancement and refurbishment for a large pharmaceutical company. Involved in examining feasibility of several different solutions and specification of process in S88 terms.
• Sept. 1995 - Nov. 1995 Commissioning Engineer - Precommissioning of a batch polymer plant for a UK supplier.
• April 1995 - Aug. 1995 Lead Engineer - Systems Control Group Design of control system software for a vitamin drying and packing plant for large pharmaceutical company. Control system based on ABB distributed control system
• Jan 1995 - April 1995 Lead Engineer - Systems Control Group Consultancy and testing of a batch control system based on ABB distributed control system for a large pharmaceutical company
• Nov. 1994 - Jan 1995 Lead Engineer - Systems Control Group Development of a Standard Requirements and Functional Specification for a large Pharmaceutical Company. Requested by name by the companies Chief Engineer.
• May 1993 - July 1994 Lead Engineer - Systems Control Group Front End Study and Requirement Specifications. Design and implementation of an ALLEN BRADLEY and CONTROLVIEW Control System for a continuous and batch polymer production plant.
• 1993 - April 1993 Lead Engineer - Systems Control Group Front End Study and Requirement Specifications for a water additives batch process plant refurbishment and upgrade to DCS control system based on FISHER PROVOX.
• Mid 1992 - End 1992 Lead Engineer - Systems Control Group Production of Functional Specification for a continuous and batch Glucose Production plant refurbishment project based around FOXBORO SYSTEM 50 DCS System.

1991 -Mid 1992 Senior Systems Engineer Support for in-house PC Network based on Novell Network, Software support implementation of in-house Network requirements for engineering groups. Systems Control Group Quality Procedures update. Validation of software and software support.

EXPERIENCE DETAIL at SD-SCICON

• 1988 - 1990 Johnson Matthey CSD (Bruxelles) Project Leader - Auto catalyst process system and management information system using SETCON and ORACLE. Major aspects were SPC, continuous control and batch control via 200+ sequences. Was offered a permanent position by the company but turned it down as I didn’t want to move abroad at that time.
• 1987 - 1988 Proctor & Gamble Project Leader Continuous Liquid Process control system using SETCON and Allen Bradley PLC5. Major aspects were SPC, ladder logic, algorithms for monitoring of process.
• 1985 - 1987 Nuclear Fuel Handling Systems Project Leader - Mechanical handling systems for receiving of spent nuclear fuel into pond storage and transfer of fuel rods into and out of process areas.
• 1984 - 1985 Nuclear Fuel Handling Systems Team Leader mechanical handling systems for the receipt of spent nuclear rods from external areas and transfer to internal storage containers. Mechanical handling systems for the removal of spent nuclear rods from protective casings and transfer to storage medium.
• 1980 - 1983 International Paints Polymer Plant Programmer/Team Leader Large capacity batch process control system for the production of polymers for external paints. 18 months on- site commissioning and support.
• 1978 - 1980 Ferranti Warehouse System Junior Programmer Control of large raw materials warehouse to supply a large tyre factory.