Naveed Mirza

I am a highly motivated and results driven senior-level IT professional with an exceptional track record of managing delivery of large scale, complex datacentre and Cloud migrations. My +23 years of professional experience spans banking/finance, telecoms, broadcast and retail sectors. I have been fortunate to work with major organisations such as Morgan Stanley, Cisco, BNP Paribas, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Sky TV and NBCUniversal in America, Europe, Middle East and Far East.

Well-qualified, I have some of very best in advanced industry recognised professional certification, including CCNA, AWS Cloud Practitioner, Microsoft Azure and PMP qualifications. I am fully conversant with Agile, Scrum and Waterfall methods and PMP, Prince2 and MS Project principles. Previously I have managed large teams and budgets in excess of £20m.

Currently working on NBS payments modernisation program, which will implement a new cloud based payments systems across NBS. The new AWS cloud system will replace all existing on prem payment engines.

• Manage the connectivity between Onprem DC and AWS Cloud (including AWS Direct Connect).
• Responsible for the delivery of multiple network designs for SIT, NFT, Pre prod and prod environments.
• Migrate legacy Faster Payments / Single Immediate Payments (SIPs) to the Cloud.
• Decommission legacy payments infrastructure.
• Management reporting (running stakeholder meetings)
• Evaluate and communicate key risks/issues to senior management.
• Manage third party resources e.g. BT.

BEng in Electronics & Communications Engineering (London Metropolitan University)

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Amazon Cloud) 
• Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals (Azure Cloud)