Ed Almeida

Senior Project Manager @Telefónica Tech

London, GB

Senior Project Manager at Telefonica Tech UK & I in Cyber Security. Delivering medium to large-scale business transformation projects in a portfolio worth over £1.6M, collaborating with clients across sectors and tech: Cyber Security, Modern Workplace, Azure, IaaS, IoT, LBaaS, Infrastructure, Networking, Server, Storage, Application integrations, Datacentre migrations, Network and Infrastructure (incl. DR sites) migrations and decommissions. Formulated project plans covering scope, objectives, timelines, and budgets while effectively allocating resources. Managed risks, resolved issues, and monitored customer dependencies to prevent delays. Maintained stakeholder communication, enhancing transparency. Oversaw budgets, monitored expenses, motivated cross-functional teams and fostered collaboration.Delivered multiple Azure and modern workplace projects for education and health sectors, including implementing Sentinel and Defender solutions as well as application integrations. These initiatives improved visibility of IT expenses and modernised systems, enhancing security, innovation and research capabilities. Delivered several IT projects for government agencies and retail. The work included setting up on-site DC/ comms rooms, as well as network solutions (Cisco, Meraki, FortiGate firewall, inter-data centre connectivity, WAN/LAN), multiple UPS systems, various infrastructure elements, data and communications cabinets across the buildings, access points, and other wired and wireless network components. These projects improved the customers revenue, reducing costs and leveraging technical modernisation.Stood up and migrated a new Datacentre for a large retail business. The program of works involved a significant network component (Cisco Switches, FortiGate FW) as well as infrastructure (HPE ESX, HPE Alletra), enabling the business modernisation, enhancing and reforming operational efficiency and security. Reduced operational costs in 15% and improved performance.

Durham University

Bachelor of Arts - BA, Theology/Theological Studies

Instituto Superior de Informática e Gestão

Engineer's degree, Systems Engineering

Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

MSc, Management Information Systems

Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

PostGraduation, Complexity Sciences