Allan Dewar Email & Phone Number

Cape Town, WC, ZA

• As a Business and Technology Consultant, I am dedicated to ensuring the successful migration of a South African LISP proposition onto the FNZ One platform. My role includes:
• Product Design and Development: Define clear solution designs for developers that maximize the reuse of existing platform capabilities, ensuring robust and scalable product offerings.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate closely with clients and FNZ operational teams to understand business needs, finalize the joint target operating model, and manage project scope effectively.
• Operational Support: Serve as production support during ongoing production proving phases, particularly during friend and family releases, ensuring a seamless transition to live environments.
• Guidance and Mentorship: Provide expert guidance and support to project analysts, fostering a collaborative and informed team environment.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Driven the deployment, localisation, and delivery of key enhancements to an international wealth management platform that underpins the Umbrella Fund proposition of a major South African financial services provider.
• Heavily involved in recruitment activities, line management, as well as coaching and mentoring of junior consultants.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Key Projects:
• Integration and migration delivery lead on a digital transformation project involving a SAP to Workday migration, touching on several hundred downstream systems at a major bank.
• Designed a deal management solution at corporate investment bank both from a functional analysis perspective as well as designing the integration strategies (SaaS-to-SaaS and SaaS to On-Premise), and leading the.
• Successfully implemented a strategic vendor selection project and developed the business case to support implementation. The objective of the project was to critically assess key business needs, and in turn, drive the.
• Played a solutions analysis role at a large South African insurer and developed a business case to support a post to email conversion programme with adoption strategies tailored for different market segments while.
• Provided strategic support to a large banks on boarding function which included the assessment of 80+ projects that directly or indirectly impacted on boarding culminating in various sets of recommendations for.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Managed two global teams of software engineers with direct reports in Edinburgh, Israel, and the U.S.
• Responsible for the planning and delivery for enhancements to device management and health monitoring applications.
• Led the recruitment and expansion of the engineering team in the Edinburgh office.
• Presented engineering updates at local staff meetings and engineering career opportunities to students at Scottish universities.
• Ensured ISO-9001 compliance of development procedures and worked with external auditors.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Consulted on Sun Identity and Access Manager as part of an implementation at a major public sector client.
• Designed and developed components of SecureWorks Counter Threat Platform.
• Developed components of Managed Strong Authentication service (SMS delivered one-time passwords and RSA tokens)
• Developed prototype using single-sign-on (SSO) and identify federation standards (SAML) to integrate with SaaS providers such as Salesforce, and Google Apps.
• Developed components of a web portal providing a unified view to clients of their security posture and security events.
• Presented technical solutions to clients as part of pre-sales activities.

Linlithgow, West Lothian, United Kingdom

• Developed new features for its primary software offering, IntraLibrary, a web-based digital repository that facilitated management and reuse of learning resources.
• This included the development of the IntraLibrary plug-in to the Blackboard/Web CT Virtual Learning Environment
• Several agile techniques were utilised as part of our development process including test driven development.
• Technologies used daily included Java, JSP, Hibernate, and Lucene.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

• Worked as a developer on the re-Write of Perl web applications in Java and data migration from MySQL to Oracle 8i backend. The rewrite modernised the technology stack of several BiP Solutions applications that enabled.
• Drastically reduced run time and improved scalability of opportunity alert mailing service by introducing Lucene for free text search.
• Primary technologies used on a day-to-day basis were Java, Hibernate, Lucene (Text Search), Perl, Oracle & MySQL

Rosyth, Fife, United Kingdom

• Developed functionality for a web-based asset management system for navy ships.
• Utilised eXtreme programming techniques, including test driven development, automated unit testing and pair programming.
• Development technologies included Java J2EE, JSP, JDBC, SQL, Oracle 8i, & VBA.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Selected for the Nampak Graduate Development Programme and placed at a manufacturing plant in Johannesburg.
• Mapped business processes in preparation for deployment of JD Edwards ERP system.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Activities and Societies: FreshSight - a student led consultancy firm for charitable, public and private organisations.- Consultancy.

Bachelor Of Science In Engineering, Electrical And Information

Activities and Societies: Wits Rowing Club

High School

IEB Matric (A Aggregate): Maths, Ad Maths, Physical Science, Computer Science, English, Afrikaans & Accounting