Andy Davidson Email & Phone Number

The period July ‘11 to ‘today’, I have taken as a planned career break, after resigning from Barclays. I was at the leadership level of my technology organisation between 2006 and 2011. I will be looking at opportunities for my next career move during late 2012 into 2013.

• Working within the Technology Group, with full accountability for managing IT strategy and delivering change and support services for the largest volume Strategic Business Unit.
• Invoked culture change in Barclaycard leadership thinking and won the largest IT spend commitment of £30m for 2011 against 3rd party suppliers for the GIS business unit.
• Managed internal and external relationships to secure support and business change work on high spec tenders against outsourced service… Show more Working within the Technology Group, with full accountability for.
• Managed internal and external relationships to secure support and business change work on high spec tenders against outsourced service providers.
• Owned ongoing relationship and management of key Vendor partner to Barclaycard (Steria) making them an integral part of the delivery and support capability.
• Recruited and led the team, which drove forward a changed mindset in the Barclaycard Business Information Management Agenda. Team size 140, 85% off-shore in India.

• Operating across 2 key units comprising the Technology Executive, with the remit to lead transformational change within the organisation. This change had to deliver lower unit cost of operation and added value to the.
• Restructured the Information Management IT Support Service Team, analysed capability, changed the scope of operations and improved service delivery.
• Integrated the team into the GIS structure as part of the organisational change… Show more Operating across 2 key units comprising the Technology Executive, with the remit to lead transformational change within the.
• Integrated the team into the GIS structure as part of the organisational change strategy.
• Saved over £1m in operational efficiencies within 3 months and changed the operation to a 24x5 service, delivering an additional £1m cost benefit.
• Achieved a 40% reduction on business impacting incidents by introducing a 3 shift support system allowing incidents to be cleared overnight prior to start of day.

• Established a new multi-faceted Global Service capability, post-organisational change, within the overall Barclays Technology Group.
• Planned, shaped, built and managed the new Global Service Organisation Unit to deliver low unit cost support services to the Information Management Business.
• Introduced new data quality and BAU service introduction capabilities to drive value add within the overall Service Group.
• Developed a fully functioning team within 3-4 months of taking on… Show more Established a new multi-faceted Global Service capability, post-organisational change, within the overall Barclays Technology Group.
• Developed a fully functioning team within 3-4 months of taking on the role and established the off-shore footprint for on-going low cost operation across GIS.
• Improved quality and stability of delivered Projects – 50% less business impacting incidents attributed to change delivery year on year. Show less

• Recruited into Barclays Technology organisation to transform their Data Management Operation – key to all their deliveries, especially in the Data Warehousing arena.
• Initiated and drove a change programme, key elements being - supplier engagement and vendor selection, re-engineering of all the people, processes and technology aspects of the Barclays Data Management Group.
• Improved capabilities and elevated the Team profile to gain recognition as a key enabler in delivering cost… Show more Recruited into Barclays Technology organisation to transform their Data Management Operation – key.
• Improved capabilities and elevated the Team profile to gain recognition as a key enabler in delivering cost savings and improving speed to market across all projects.
• This service then embedded in all data delivery projects, leveraging enterprise level data model and metadata repository.
• Improved efficiency of team operations by 25%, cost benefit passed on to projects & business stakeholders.

• Empowered by the IT Executive to plan and deliver a support organisation for Kellogg’s new European-wide ERP solution. Vendor costs were astronomical for the required “24 x 7” requirement and a better solution was.
• Collaborated globally within Kellogg’s to leverage, and enhance the existing Latin American capabilities to pioneer a resilient, low cost off-shore IT Support model.
• Saved £12m on Vendor-quoted operational cost over a 5 Year period and kept the… Show more Empowered by the IT Executive to plan and deliver a support organisation for Kellogg’s new European-wide ERP solution. Vendor.
• Saved £12m on Vendor-quoted operational cost over a 5 Year period and kept the intellectual property and control ‘in house’.
• Recruited the team and delivered the support model for the pilot implementation in Italy.
• Developed a full off-shore resilient connectivity to Mexico, which became the “home base” of the operation further reducing costs.

• Promoted into the role with responsibility to deliver a strategy for transformational change and project delivery over the next five years.
• Conceived and established a strategic framework for a centralised Management Information capability for Kellogg’s Europe as key enabler to marketing and sales innovation.
• Presented a data strategy concept at Board level on integrated data management and IT solutions to successfully secure funding to build a data warehousing system
• … Show more Promoted into the role with responsibility to deliver a strategy for transformational change and project delivery over the next five years.
• Defined architecture and initiated a Citrix software based pilot study delivered to time and cost, saving £5m by avoiding the need to upgrade European Wide Area Network.
• Planned and progressed a £10m, 5 Year programme of project driven change to the Kellogg’s Europe data landscape.