Peter Loerns
Earsham,Norfolk
Summary
Prince 2 project and change management professional with extensive experience in software and infrastructure implementations. Proven track record in managing IT infrastructure projects, office relocations, and business change initiatives within financial services, insurance, and legal sectors. Skilled in delivering high-pressure projects with fixed deadlines, including WAN circuit connectivity and telephony solutions. Strong communicator and negotiator, adept at building relationships with stakeholders and coordinating offshore resources for successful project outcomes. Accomplished Prince2 Project and Change Management Professional with a solid background in software and infrastructure implementations. Delivered significant business change and IT infrastructure projects within financial services and legal sectors. Managed high-pressure projects, ensuring effective stakeholder engagement and seamless communication for successful outcomes.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Project Manager (Contract)
Allianz Insurance
Bournemouth
07.2024 - Current
- Management of several office relocations and closures to assist with the reduction of the company’s real estate.
- Working closely with internal IT teams for the delivery of new Circuits, new networks into offices and decommissioning of old sites in readiness for landlord handover.
- Working closely with Business Stakeholders on staff sensitive moves and office closures.
- Ensuring that correct level of IT support is available to support staff and new ways of working.
- Working closely with 3rd party providers to ensure the correct support is provided and any equipment no longer required is ethically disposed of to support the Allianz position on Carbon emissions.
- London office relocation for around 1000 users. Delivery of a 530 hot desk configuration across 6 floors.
- Dual 27” screens to accompany new desktop equipment including docking stations.
- 40 varying size meeting rooms from 3 people to a 24-seat boardroom with Cisco video conferencing room kit devices and screens to suit room size.
- Eptura room booking panels installed outside of each bookable meeting room.
- Installation of resilient circuits and Cisco switches, structured cabling and Wi-Fi access points to ensure full coverage.
- New IT Walk in centre being delivered to support onsite user community.
- Working closely with various business areas to gather specific requirements.
- Complete exit and decommissioning of existing site for hand back to landlord by the end of 2025.
- New office delivery near Birmingham Airport. Delivery of all networking and desktop components and subsequent relocation of around 150 staff from City Centre office.
- Decommissioning of all IT equipment from old office consisting of three floors and delivery back to landlord.
- Delivery of new 80-seater floor in existing building in Bristol including desktop, networking, Wi-Fi and 6 Cisco equipped meeting rooms to meet the needs of the local business.
- Recycling IT equipment from recent office closures to reduce the overall spend ensuring the best use of equipment available.
- Relocation of staff from old site into the new office and subsequent decommissioning and clearance of old site to meet landlord requirements.
- Expansion of existing office space in Leeds City Centre to accommodate staff moving out of closing office in Huddersfield.
- Additional desktop delivery, Cloud based Telephony solution for call centre team and subsequent network and desktop decommissioning of Huddersfield office ready to hand back to landlord.
Senior Project Manager (Contract)
Lloyds Banking Group
London
11.2022 - 06.2024
- Management of an iSeries and pSeries (AIX) Infrastructure Migration for several core banking and insurance applications to new supported IBM Power hardware platform.
- Management of Multi location, Multi Culture team of around 75 people to achieve project success.
- Management of several external vendors to ensure delivery and licensing are to the correct standard and quality.
- Placement and build of Power 9/10 servers in LBG Datacentres according to set standards.
- Consolidation of seven servers down to three hence reducing power consumption, support requirements and overall reduction in cost of ownership.
- Management of Migration activity to move all servers to supported infrastructure.
- Creation of various pSeries and iSeries virtual servers (LPARS) on new Power9 frames to meet all business requirements.
- Working with Application and Data owners to complete discovery of applications, interfaces, structures and availability for server and data migration work.
- Creation of Migration plan for the applications in scope.
- Management of clashes with other business critical work during parallel running Datacentre exit work.
- Implementation Management across 36-to-48-hour migration exercises throughout weekend to ensure applications and servers migrate correctly and complete all post migration testing activity.
- Management of post migration decommissioning activities to reduce Datacentre footprint thus contributing to closure of Datacentres to reduce ongoing costs.
- Management of Disaster Recovery Testing of recently migrated servers and applications.
- Ensure that documentation is accurate before handover to BAU Service Continuity team.
Senior Infrastructure Project Manager (Contract)
Royal Bank of Canada
London
01.2022 - 10.2022
- Oversee IT delivery of two office relocations across Europe.
- Foster strong relations with delivery partners in real estate and onsite Senior Stakeholders.
- Delivery of WAN, LAN, Wi-Fi, Structured cabling, comms rooms incorporating cooling and drip protection.
- Delivery of desktops, meeting rooms with Cisco fit out and soundproofing, secure entry equipment including CCTV coverage.
- All delivered within schedule and budgetary constraints.
- Finalise key project governance with the inclusion of gathering and sign-off on IT requirements provided by business teams.
- Office relocations in Paris and Madrid to support business expansion and end of lease requirements for 120 users.
- Delivery of new WAN circuits, new Cisco network infrastructure and Telephony, Aruba Wi-Fi solution and structured cabling.
- Thin client and monitor refresh for all desks, Cisco phone refresh to offices and meeting rooms ensuring cabling delivery is both to required standards and tidy in appearance.
- Full Cisco/Crestron AV/VC functionality delivered to eleven meeting rooms and offices including Cisco Room Kit Plus and occupancy sensors.
- Installation of Smart Locker technology to help deliver end of day clear desk policy.
- Relocation of managed printers and subsequent decommissioning of the old office for hand back to Landlord.
IT Transformation Project Manager (FTC)
Seetec
Hockley
06.2020 - 01.2022
- Finalise Business case for the IT integration of newly acquired business into the main Seetec Infrastructure.
- Over twenty separate sites across the UK with differing requirements for end user and connectivity.
- Provided costs based on existing arrangements with managed service provider versus costs in the new environment.
- Present packages to workstream leads to ensure their support and buy in.
- Delivery of WAN, LAN and Wi-Fi connectivity across 40 sites across England and Wales as part of a move to one single supplier.
- Completion of site surveys and requirements to ensure the adequate bandwidth is delivered to meet business needs.
- Working closely with the supplier to rollout of new cloud based ‘Ring Central’ Telephony product to each office including a head office contact centre solution.
- Softphone and Physical phone solution were deployed according to the environment.
- Functionality delivered such as switchboards/receptions, personal extensions, voicemails, hunt groups and also DDI where required.
- Identification of applications and their owners to plan the successful migration to the new Azure Platform Tenancy.
- Understand application specific requirements such as capacity and processing power.
- Working with Azure Platform design partner to ensure all business requirements are met for the new acquisition in area such as Email, Intune MDM, storage, application availability.
Senior Infrastructure Project Manager (Contract)
Royal Bank of Canada
London
04.2018 - 05.2020
- Oversee IT delivery of various office relocations and trade floor implementations across Europe and APAC region.
- Foster strong relations with delivery partners in real estate.
- Working closely with building fit out, security, and M&E personnel teams to conclude the projects within timely and budgetary constraints.
- Finalise key project governance with the inclusion of gathering and sign-off on IT requisites provided by business teams.
- Key Projects: Delivered end user desktop technology in a new London Headquarters.
- 3500 desktop positions across six floors with various screen configurations according to business needs.
- A 450-seat trading floor was also delivered using latest state of art sit/stand furniture and screen technology.
- Relocated a high profile 60-seat office in Paris which included a 25-seat trade floor.
- Delivered new WAN circuits, Cisco network equipment, phones/headsets, and Video Conferencing equipment in meeting rooms.
- New desktop technology rolled out to support the needs of the various user groups.
- Supported physical weekend relocation of staff and existing equipment and decommissioning and hand back of old office space.
- Completed expansion of a 50-seat office in Malaysia, re-configuring existing floor space for business expansion.
- Ensured timely delivery of additional fifty desks and two meeting rooms with network expansion for extra desks.
- Office re-configuration in Dublin to facilitate new space for an additional thirty desks and two new meeting rooms.
- Delivery of network expansion to cater for additional devices without compromising existing connectivity.
- Thin clients delivered, tested and supported on day 1 of new space being occupied.
- Cost savings delivered above expectation of project sponsor.
- Successfully relocated a 45-seat office in Frankfurt including a 20-seat trade floor.
- Delivered WAN circuits, Cisco network infrastructure, structuring cabling to all data outlet locations and refreshing all end-of-life IT equipment.
- Delivery of four video conferencing and presentation meeting rooms with latest Cisco Meeting room equipment.
- Managed the lift and shift of staff IT and personal effects over live weekend and decommissioned then handed back old office.
- Managed the relocation of 80-seat office in Edinburgh.
- New circuit delivery, new network infrastructure and five new meeting rooms using latest Cisco technology.
- Supported day one and two floor-walking and managed decommissioning and hand over of old office space.
- Key Achievement: Concluded various office relocations and expansion across Europe within set time and within estimated budget, saving over £100k in some projects.
Infrastructure Project Manager (Contract)
Lloyds Bank
London
05.2015 - 04.2018
- Matrix management of on/offshore resources across technical delivery teams, while engaging with third party suppliers for build and troubleshooting advice.
- Delivered all infrastructure environments for Hadoop and big data comprising on up to two hundred physical and virtual Unix services across two datacentres, including resilience for the clusters.
- Supported Hadoop platform by delivering surround technology.
- Implemented WebSphere liberty core servers for supporting classification of bank customers regarding common reporting standards (CRS).
- Key Achievements: Supported tax compliance reporting for almost eighty countries by delivering Tax reporting systems/applications onto new Hadoop big data platform.
- Oversaw Data Migration activity onto new platform.
- Strengthened banks regulatory reporting requisites through delivery of big data infrastructure.
- Facilitated requirements for ‘payments service directive 2’ (PSD2) via delivery of new connectivity to existing infrastructure.
Senior Project Manager (Permanent FTC)
Fieldfisher
London
09.2014 - 04.2015
- Headed up a team of business analysts, testers, and project managers to deliver varied portfolio of software application and infrastructure projects.
- Administered multi-disciplinary stakeholders up to managing partner.
- Coordinated initial business requirements, Request for Proposal (RFP), vendor selection and Project Initiation of Practice Management and time recording solution.
- Implementation of end-to-end project and change management process and project governance.
- Key Achievement: Optimised time management applications and reduced money wasted on projects without viable business case by delivering structured project management methodology.
Project Manager/PMO Lead (Permanent)
IFDS
Brentwood
07.2011 - 09.2014
- Delivery of various infrastructure, application and business change projects as a Project Manager.
- Moved into a newly created PMO Lead/Manager role.
- Key Achievements: Developed software of new financial management system ‘Infor10’ for client finance management with associated system and UAT testing to ensure optimum delivery.
- Setup and embed new PMO function to maintain better control and reporting of projects across the portfolio.
Education
ITIL V3 Foundation - Service Management
Office of Government Commerce (Now Axelos)
London01.2014
Prince 2 Practitioner - Project Management
Office of Government Commerce (Now Axelos)
London01.2013
ISEB Requirements Engineering - Requirements
Information Systems Examinations Board
London01.2010
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator - Systems Administrator
Microsoft
London01.2001
Skills
- Active Directory
- Virtualisation
- Security
- Networks
- Data Centres
- HP Server Hardware
- MS Office
- Project
- Excel
- Project management
- Risk assessment
- Stakeholder engagement
- Resource allocation
Custom Section
- Received change excellence award from Lloyds Bank for enabling integration of modern technology into organisation (Hadoop, Big Data) by delivering infrastructure.
- Enabled delivery of Project and BAU MI for the first time across IFDS organisation by setting up Enterprise PMO from scratch within six months enabling better MI, reporting, and governance.
- Delivered many office relocations and expansions across the UK and Europe to a high standard including desktops fitout, circuit and Network installations and AV/VC across various size of meeting rooms.
- Saved up to £1.2M in retrospective licensing charges for IFDS by executing SAP business objects project after identification of licensing gap by the supplier.
Websites, Portfolios and Profiles
www.linkedin.com/in/peterloerns
Timeline
Senior Project Manager (Contract)
Allianz Insurance
07.2024 - Current
Senior Project Manager (Contract)
Lloyds Banking Group
11.2022 - 06.2024
Senior Infrastructure Project Manager (Contract)
Royal Bank of Canada
01.2022 - 10.2022
IT Transformation Project Manager (FTC)
Seetec
06.2020 - 01.2022
Senior Infrastructure Project Manager (Contract)
Royal Bank of Canada
04.2018 - 05.2020
Infrastructure Project Manager (Contract)
Lloyds Bank
05.2015 - 04.2018
Senior Project Manager (Permanent FTC)
Fieldfisher
09.2014 - 04.2015
Project Manager/PMO Lead (Permanent)
IFDS
07.2011 - 09.2014
ITIL V3 Foundation - Service Management
Office of Government Commerce (Now Axelos)
Prince 2 Practitioner - Project Management
Office of Government Commerce (Now Axelos)
ISEB Requirements Engineering - Requirements
Information Systems Examinations Board
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator - Systems Administrator
Microsoft