Simon Leyland

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Over 20 years of experience in the IT industry working with system integrators…

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  • Conferencing Review

    Other Work - smaller engagements with FTSE 100 to provide consultancy on their existing use of Office 365 and Video Conferencing technology with recommendations - especially relating to Microsoft Teams.

  • Office 365 Programme Lead

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    Led the JLR team (15 resources) which provides the governance layer to the major system integrator. Manage the JLR Dependencies required for an Office 365 deployment - Active Directory and Networks.

    Present to large audiences of JLR employees including the Board of Management on the business benefits of Office 365 and why JLR have chosen to move to the platform. Explain how Office 365 fits within the overall Digital Workplace roadmap.

    Agree the deployment approach and marketing…

    Led the JLR team (15 resources) which provides the governance layer to the major system integrator. Manage the JLR Dependencies required for an Office 365 deployment - Active Directory and Networks.

    Present to large audiences of JLR employees including the Board of Management on the business benefits of Office 365 and why JLR have chosen to move to the platform. Explain how Office 365 fits within the overall Digital Workplace roadmap.

    Agree the deployment approach and marketing campaign for the whole business.

    Regularly meet and present with the CIO on the progress.

    As a part of my teams responsibility we replaced a legacy Avaya phone system with Office 365 Voice to a major JLR location and an Office 365 BETA which included Teams Voice to 500 users.

    Led the team which created the RFP for services and procured with a major system integrator.

  • Office 365 Business Case

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    Multi million pound Business Case justification and strategy for Jaguar Land Rover G Suite to Office 365 and Cisco Voice/Conferencing to Office 365.

    After the investment agreement manage the creation of the Microsoft licence bill of material and involved in the commercial discussions led by the procurement and senior JLR management.

    https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/04/26/the-story-behind-microsoft-earnings-our-customers-digital-innovation/

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  • Virtual Meeting Room Lead

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    AZ Virtual Meeting Rooms - deploy a service to the Top 200 executives within AstraZeneca which provided each executive with their own individual Virtual Meeting Room. This required:

    • Service Transition from scheduled concierge VC meetings to ad hoc self-serve meetings
    • Training and adoption of the Executives, their EAs, VIP Support and the users who joined the meetings
    Technology deployment and integration including; Acano (Now Cisco Meeting Server), Cisco Video Conference…

    AZ Virtual Meeting Rooms - deploy a service to the Top 200 executives within AstraZeneca which provided each executive with their own individual Virtual Meeting Room. This required:

    • Service Transition from scheduled concierge VC meetings to ad hoc self-serve meetings
    • Training and adoption of the Executives, their EAs, VIP Support and the users who joined the meetings
    Technology deployment and integration including; Acano (Now Cisco Meeting Server), Cisco Video Conference Server, Skype for Business and WebRTC

    Business Outcome:

    CF(Journalist): How often do you meet as you did yesterday?
    Pascal Soriot (AstraZeneca CEA) : I meet, well we meet in the team every month, once. And we meet physically three, four times a year. The rest of the time we meet by tele-presence, by video conference. And we have a great network, in fact this year, the whole company has reduced its travel budget by 25 percent. Because we told people, you know, we have a tremendous network of tele-presence and we want to use that. So now people are able to use their laptop, If you’re familiar with tele-presence, it’s better than video conference. In every meeting I’m in myself, we have three, or four, or five sets of people connected from everywhere. We have to operate like this, we have no choice. We are truly global.

    Dave Smoley AZ CIO

    I and the IT leadership team take part in regular face-to-face town-hall meetings where employees come together to discuss and share information and feedback. Technology is playing a key role, with the introduction of webcast and virtual meeting technology, which has revolutionised the way that IT interacts with the business as a whole. In 2015, our use as a company of videoconferencing was up 63% and the use of webcast technology was up 315%, not only enabling us to communicate more effectively, but driving state-of-the-art collaboration tools which benefit us internally and externally.

    https://www.cio.co.uk/cio100/2016/david-smoley-3608311/


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  • Lync only Voice and Skype for Business Upgrade

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    Skype for Business Server

    • Deliver an in place upgrade to an existing Lync 2013 Global On Premise deployment with no downtime for 90k users over 3 weekends

    Skype for Business Client - Desktop and iOS

    • End user communication and deployment of the Skype for Business client on Windows and iOS devices

    Lync Only Buildings

    Deploy Lync only telephony services to over 10 global locations

    • Agree technical and service design
    • Select vendors to…

    Skype for Business Server

    • Deliver an in place upgrade to an existing Lync 2013 Global On Premise deployment with no downtime for 90k users over 3 weekends

    Skype for Business Client - Desktop and iOS

    • End user communication and deployment of the Skype for Business client on Windows and iOS devices

    Lync Only Buildings

    Deploy Lync only telephony services to over 10 global locations

    • Agree technical and service design
    • Select vendors to implement the service
    • Engage with local site support for in life service and take on
    • End user adoption

    Service Demand Process

    Implement a global demand process for Conferencing technologies

  • Unified Communications Programme Lead

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    Programme manage a $20million Conferencing Change Programme which was on the CIO Top Ten Programme List with visibility from the CEO. Regularly meet with the CIO on progress.

    • While maintaining service to the Senior Executive Team replace

    AZ Video Conference and Lync 2013, 25 Telepresence Suite Deployment, Acano Global Build, Service Transition to India from Specialist Provider, Implement Global VoIP gateways for Conferencing and voice services, Hybrid Office 365/On Premise…

    Programme manage a $20million Conferencing Change Programme which was on the CIO Top Ten Programme List with visibility from the CEO. Regularly meet with the CIO on progress.

    • While maintaining service to the Senior Executive Team replace

    AZ Video Conference and Lync 2013, 25 Telepresence Suite Deployment, Acano Global Build, Service Transition to India from Specialist Provider, Implement Global VoIP gateways for Conferencing and voice services, Hybrid Office 365/On Premise deployment

Honors & Awards

  • Real IT Award 2016

    Real IT Awards

    Virtual Meeting Room project won the Cooperative Enterprise award in the Real IT Awards 2016

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