Rick Savory

Current

• Infrastructure Change Manager at Aviva

Past

• Delivery Manager at Norwich Union
• Systems Analyst, Application & Web Design at Norwich Union
• Project Requirements Manager at Norwich Union

• Technical Analyst at Norwich Union
• Director and Colsultant for at CompuSerf Ltd
• Technical Support at West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust

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Education

• Staffordshire University
• University of Hertfordshire

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Industry

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Rick Savory’s Summary

During my career in IT I have had various roles, progressing from technical support through to Project Management.

Initially I was predominantly involved in technical support roles (client and server support for both software and hardware), progressing naturally to network and server support.

I spent a period of time with a couple of major migration projects (preparing for the millennium) migrating distributed infrastructure to NT4 and Win2000 environments.

After a brief period of managing a Data Management team, I moved into Applications Development. There I have spent 5 years developing scripts, and small applications for automating server and client functions, and writing ASP and ASP.NET applications for business functions.

Recently I have been more involved in analytical and management aspects of the development process, focusing on task and resource management; stakeholder management; managing requirements analysis, design, testing and implementation.

Rick Savory’s Specialties:

* Applications Delivery Management
* Systems & Business Analysis
* Web & Applications development in the .NET environment
* Programming experience in C, Perl, Visual Basic, SQL (and others)
* Distributed Server and Client Support on various Operating Systems

Rick Savory’s Experience

• Infrastructure Change Manager

  Aviva

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AV; Insurance industry)

  March 2008 — Present (8 months)

  Project management for IT infrastructure change

• Delivery Manager

  Norwich Union

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AV; Insurance industry)

  July 2007 — March 2008 (9 months)

  Project management for software development.
  Managing a team of analysts and developers working on distributed and midrange application development & support

• Systems Analyst, Application & Web Design

  Norwich Union

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Insurance industry)

  July 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 1 month)

  Customer contact for small and medium application projects internal to Norwich Union. Manageing requiremetns, design, testing and post implementation support.
  
  A developer in C#.NET, VB.NET, C++, VB, Perl, WSH, COM, SQL.
  
  Also have been involved in 3rd party product evaluations.

• Project Requirements Manager

  Norwich Union

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Insurance industry)

  February 2006 — July 2006 (6 months)

  A secondment role, providing requirements gathering, and colsultancy for a major project for Norwich Union

• Technical Analyst

  Norwich Union

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Insurance industry)

  September 1999 — January 2006 (6 years 5 months)

  Various roles, including Data Migration, Data Management, and Application and Web Developer

• Director and Colsultant for

  CompuSerf Ltd

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 1995 — September 1999 (4 years 6 months)

  Contracting for hardware, software, networking and server support for various companies from 1995 to 1999, including:
  Thomas Cook
  BT
  Eastern Electricity
  Norwich Union
  The Construction Industry Training Board
  Ionica

• Technical Support

  West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  September 1992 — April 1995 (2 years 8 months)

  Software and hardware engineer
  Network design & support
  Vendor selection

Rick Savory’s Education

• Staffordshire University

  BSc, Computer Science, 1991 — 1992

• University of Hertfordshire

  HND, Computer Studies, 1989 — 1991

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