Rehan Shaikh

A senior manager with over 15 years’ international experience leading, project/program delivery with operational business experience across multiple industries and size. Able to bring cross sector experience in the areas of Retail, Travel & Hospitality, Education, Finance sectors and other commercial organisations. Experienced at challenging and influencing at Board level, and not afraid to confront ordinary thinking by changing mind-set from ‘what does the business want’ to ‘what do we need to achieve and how are we going to make it happen’.
Skilled at managing large scale matrix teams (15+), budgets of over £5m, building strong internal/external relationships, negotiating with third party vendors, and achieving efficiencies through cost reduction, better use of resources, and technology selection.
Results driven blending big picture thinking, with the proven ability to effect and drive through organisational and technological change, talented at re-invigorating failed programs and projects. Whilst exhibiting significant political and cultural awareness to motivate staff to maximum productivity.
Core areas of expertise are Infrastructure Architecture, Continuous Delivery & Integration, Operations, Security, Business Continuity, Monitoring & Alerting, and Budgeting. With In-depth knowledge of provisioning of Datacentres, Virtualisation (IaaS, SaaS), SIEM, Networks, Storage, Servers (Wintel, Linux), and Data/Voice implementations.