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Product Management, Data and AI Leader | Digital Transformation | Ways of Working @ Gira Solutions
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I am a builder and problem solver. Products, teams, strategies, ways of working are all constructed and engineered with the objective of providing value to the business by delivering solutions to a customer.I believe in setting objectives, measuring results and working towards agreed goals:· Manage Partner program of $4m ARR revenue opportunities through partner program. · Execute LLM, AI(ML) features generating $10m renewal and expansion through x-functional “pods”.· Crisis managed the restoration of 56 XaaS systems over 8wks, following a ransomware attack, while 65% on-prem systems remained down for 16 weeks. Led the x-org recovery retrospectives to establish practices based upon OKRs and quantitative measurement.· Saving of +£1m over 1st 6m of iPaaS rollout, through integration efficiencies and simplification. · Assumed control of a $9m, sunk cost Digital Strategy. Rethinking: structural and -priorities to deliver a B2B iPaaS platform in 7 months for $750k. · Built and ran Technology and Digital Team generating $2.5m/year, in product delivery of B2C products, and cost reduction incorporating LLM and ML patterns.· Part of Leadership team to restructure a 40% decrease during the Covid crisis, $12m -> $7m, while retaining operational integrity. · Founded and CEO of a $3m company to build solutions: digital products, teams, strategies, ways of working with the objective of providing value to the business through complex customer-focused solutions. · Established and led delivery for Eliassen Group’s Tri-State $5m/year Agile Practice. · Delivery leadership of Citibank’s FinTech organization. Flagship product: Citi-Gold 40% of planned time: 9 months instead of 2 years; working hand-in-hand with the regulators during their product audit.· Creator of GE’s App Studio program; using ‘Brilliant Factory’ on Predix as a first implementation, saving $750k in 2 weeks.· Assumed control of an 11-year program of a trading system, started migrating clients within 6 months, saving $25m of lost client revenue.As an early adopter of Agile principles and practices in early 2000’s, and expended them across many business disciplines, and the business themselves. I employ my systems thinking and deep experience in digital strategy and product delivery to transform and enable organizations to optimize their alignment to their digital and business strategy.

Brent Hurley, Mba's Current Company Details
Gira Solutions

Gira Solutions

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Product Management, Data and AI Leader | Digital Transformation | Ways of Working
Brent Hurley, Mba Work Experience Details
  • Gira Solutions
    Managing Director Product, Innovation And Delivery
    Gira Solutions Mar 2021 - Present
    Edinburgh, Gb
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  • Scottish Courts And Tribunals Service
    Cpo
    Scottish Courts And Tribunals Service Sep 2023 - Present
    Edinburgh, Gb
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  • Agile Transformation Inc
    Head Of Ai/Ml Product/Emea Partner Program
    Agile Transformation Inc Aug 2022 - Aug 2023
    Responsible for building next generation partner program of SaaS products. This is achieved by focusing on the following objectives:· Product Ownership of Integration and LLM, AI(ML) features, generating $6.5m in new ARR sales, renewal and expansion:X-Integration: enabling cross team, organization and sector bench-marking. Delivered in time for SAFe EU Summit .Retro-Analysis: allowing for many team retrospective to be analyzed, summarized, escalated and prioritized based upon a fundamental model. · $4m revenue through partner program, managing the Strategic partners. · Attend and speaking at 12 partner CoEs and 6 public events.
  • The Weir Group Plc
    Group Digital Architect, Integration Product And Delivery Lead
    The Weir Group Plc Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
    Glasgow, Scotland, Gb
    Reporting to CTO/CDO, Digital Architect’s purpose is to frame & develop commercial solutions to unlock business and client value. This is achieved by focusing on the following objectives:· Define the Digital transformation across the Group, to support the business in establishing its agility and customer focus, ensuring it can see opportunities and threats holistically and respond rapidly and continue to lead markets.· Deliver the data science and an Integration Platform (iPaaS) to help business leaders enable their future-state business capabilities, that drive targeted outcomes.· Refining business problems into decomposed solutions and deliver to monetize and operationalize new ML/AI technologies, framed to maximise investment opportunities.· Practically apply existing, new and emerging ML, Big Data and IoT technologies to evolve operating models, backed by data modelling and analysis.· Drive innovation by Lean Value stream Mapping and Design Thinking workshops.
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  • Oneworld Alliance
    Head Of Digital, Engineering And Innovation
    Oneworld Alliance Apr 2018 - Mar 2021
    New York, Ny, Us
    Create a Digital team for the new management and rebranded OneWorld Alliance, capable of defining and delivering a digital strategy that utilizes data and machine learning in a stateless environment.- Define product candidates utilizing a Disruption and Lean Canvas to engage disruptive and Design Thinking, a Growth matrix to compare and contrast, and develop a set of AI data-driven tools into an ecosystem of customer-centric product. - Delivered 5 products: Airline orchestration Platform, Booking engine, Delay Notification platform, inter-airline sales platform and Covid Passenger Guide.- Define bottom-up software delivery, tool implementation and team working processes. - Product deliverables: a Product value proposition, customer first solution, structure set of post-production OKRs, Machine Learning persinalisation, dashboard of digital analytics and platform metrics, airline on-boarding plan with provisioning portal. Each audited by the chosen 3rd party for: process, quality and security.- Ongoing support, version rollout and upgrade plan.
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  • Gira Solutions
    Founder: Product Innovator And Delivery | Business Agility Lead
    Gira Solutions Mar 2003 - Dec 2019
    Edinburgh, Gb
    Founded Gira Solutions, actively negotiated corporate partnership with Eliassen Group and built a Product Delivery, Digital Transformation and Consulting business. We operate where it is challenging, unknown and complex.
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  • Eliassen Group
    Eliassen Group Regional Delivery Leader
    Eliassen Group Apr 2011 - Jun 2016
    Reading, Ma, Us
    Clients: GE, BNYM, Radian, Bessemer Trust, NY Life, Fidelity, MultiPlan, Viacom (Nickelodeon/NickMom), Yamaha Music, J Crew, Entertainment Weekly, Time Inc. - Coach Executive level Leaders and instigate an Organizational change program. - Establish Agile SDLC process, Organizational improvement Roadmap definition and SCRUM/Kanban/DSDM framework implementation. Scaling as part of a structured roll-out via SAFe/DAD/LeSS/Nexus.- Customized training for: Executive/Leaders, SCRUM Masters/PO, Team and stakeholders.- Workshops to improve Product definition and envisioning, MVP definition, Release Planning and User Story writing, splitting and feature splicing. - Define Agile project candidates, Agile project definition and development resource decision making.- Evolve Product based structures via Design Thinking, LeanUX, Product Mapping and Ownership. - Establish Business and Technical balance for change drivers, or project establishment.- Define MVP and Release management, scheduling of product deployment using metric-driven Scorecarding, and minimal feature delivery. Feedback loop to establish Product Pivot analysis.- Implement requirement and feasibility process to ensure structured design definitions.- Establish tooling for SDLC with control dashboards and engender transparency throughout.- Advise on technical delivery options, tools and techniques.- Agile Marketing Process definition. Marketing flow mapping and metric driven decision making. - Introduce project/product budget estimation and outsourced cost analysis.- Product data feedback analysis, BI implementation and establishment of Product Goals.- Evangelize continuous assessment and review based upon formal methodologies.- Outline issues and solutions to a distributed software development model. - Evangelize continuous integration, automated testing and technical Agile practices.
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  • Directv Latin America
    Digital Portfolio Manager / Head Of Agile Delivery
    Directv Latin America Apr 2010 - Apr 2011
    Us
    Established Agile development processes, and New Media Project governance: Project Management tools and processes, control dashboards, project definitions and cross project resource planning strategy, specification design and quality definition.Processes initially Scrum, but also Kanban and elements of DSDM for complex and large projects.Implement requirement and feasibility process to ensure structured specification definitions.- Establish tooling for development life-cycle as time-box planning and project control dashboards.- Introduce explicit project budget estimation and outsourced cost analysis.- Define test and QA strategies, integration impact analysis and decision-making processes.- Implement and evangelize a strong disciplined deployment philosophy based upon working product and minimum viability.Give training and mentor PMs and staff in the development process and methodology.- Evangelize continuous assessment and review based upon formal methodologies.
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  • Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Spa
    Enterprise Analyst (Functional And Business Delivery Lead)
    Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Spa Sep 2009 - Dec 2009
    Roma, Lazio, It
    Business and Functional analysis for PMO and alignment of IT systems with Business Strategy. Formation and definition of the Enterprise Architecture Roadmap, 3 year phased plan.- Definition and specification of the architecture prototype, and project success factors.Training and Coaching on use of business and functional analysis design specification documents.- Validation of the functional specification and dynamic logical workflow diagram documents.Client and outsourcing partner performance definition in adherence to QA and audit process.
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  • European Commission - Pay Master Office
    Head Of Software Development And Change
    European Commission - Pay Master Office Dec 2003 - Aug 2009
    Brussels, Be
    Responsible for software delivery of digital expert systems, supporting alignment of transformational Business Strategy. IRIS Change Program Objective: to align silo business units: Employment, Health and Life Insurance, Pensions, Family Benefits and Salaries. Resulting in a green/brown-field (new-build, ERP and legacy refactored) development and expert system using rudimentary ML with a fundamental model to aid: organisational restructuring, communication throughput and control management. Responsibility project budget: (+€2m/annum) development and analysis through an iterative project life-cycle via multi-site and outsourced teams in a mixed matrix/project structure. Using Agile, with early adoption of CI/CD, automated testing and disciplined deployment in self-managing and self-organizing teams.Implementation of the change program, via continuous iterative improvement to promote cultural and organizational change. - Formation and implementation of the Change Management and Digital Strategy, BPM, Bi and ML.Tools and techniques: Process driven business and functional analysis design specification documents, (Zachman Framework and UML2): Static model and data manipulation (class and composite structure diagrams with OCL), functional specification (Use and Test Case), Dynamic logical workflow diagrams (sequence, state and activity diagrams), system, and deployment and process flow diagrams.SAP BI statistical analysis and model impact analysis, BI reporting and DW design; KPI definition, measurement and control.
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  • European Volunteer Centre - Cev
    Virtual Cio (Project Manager/It Strategist)
    European Volunteer Centre - Cev Jan 2002 - Jun 2005
    Brussels , Brussels , Be
    Voluntary Position, as ConsultantDesign and facilitate ICT infrastructure (web site, telecoms, server, network and PC installation and maintenance. Liaise with third-party vendors and implement strategies. Represent CEV and host IT workshops.
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  • Procter And Gamble
    Development Consultant (Technical Lead/Agile Delivery)
    Procter And Gamble May 2003 - Sep 2003
    Cincinnati, Ohio, Us
    Reporting to Director of Development, with specific responsibility for system design, development process definition and implementation. 6 month Project, Budget €300K, managing a 6-man team. - Introduce an Agile development process based upon RUP, refining guidelines and acting as evangelist. Using a "How to" internal case study of the integration of a browser based, generic multi-business area search engine, with versatility and scalability to add other elements, thus adaptable to changing business requirements.Agile development managed in PMI framework (Planisware OPX2), using RUP team and doc structure including OO design UML. Development: OS technologies and SAP/FM using RFC (via JCO) deployed on J2EE (UNIX).
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  • Deltaconcepts (Broadbridge)
    Technical Consultant (Project Manager/ Business Analyst / Architect)
    Deltaconcepts (Broadbridge) Feb 2002 - Feb 2003
    Small IT consultancy, in the Portfolio Management market. Clients: Merchant Banks and Stockbrokers in Europe.Reporting to CEO and client PMs, responsibility: Back Office BPM, functional analysis, e-applications and BI reporting tools. IT solution via "Equalizer" back-office system, aligning complex (performance/risk Analysis) calculations for asset tools (Equities, Fixed Income, Bonds, FX etc) back office system trade management. Europe-wide responsibility, client liaison and external partner stewardship, outsourcing partner and JV coordination and performance management. Client responsibilities: technology strategy and project control and management; proposal of business case, requirement identification and proposal; solution definition, interface/data exchange policy, integration and deployment; presentation of results and recommendations; audit to client standards and methodologies. Internally: defining project process methodology and technology strategy, design and quality validation, specification definition; suitability and feasibility analysis. UML2 design and PM based upon PRINCE2/PMI (using MS Project).Client legacy interfacing (SQL Server2000, ORACLE 9ias, AS400/Olympic, SAP/FM) and Bloomberg, Reuters, IDIC.
  • Outsourced Typing Services
    Virtual Cio (Change Management/Technology Strategist/ Business Analyst)
    Outsourced Typing Services May 2001 - Dec 2001
    Reporting to the CEO, define and implement a phased Technology Strategy Plan for the growing organisation. Project Management of £50K budget via outsourced third-party solution providers.- Architectural analysis of web environment and tooling, time management and payment application re-factoring.- Human skills and requirement analysis, training and development, OBPM re-design and implementation.- Business Process Re-Engineering and technology implementation of file transfer protocols and development guidelines. Relocation Infrastructure: network creation and configuration, telecommunications (VoIP), - Negotiation of support SLAs and assessment roadmap for the long-term future continuity of the technical policy.
  • Grey Interactive
    Technical Consultant (Project Manager/ Functional And Business Analyst)
    Grey Interactive Feb 2000 - May 2001
    Clients: The Stationary Office, Banner Interiors, AstraZeneca, Fiat, Lloyds-TSB, eCoF (internal)IT Consultancy and Analysis, feasibility and impact, business and technology strategy alignment and technical architecture definition. Technical Design Lead during RAD life-cycle, ensuring continuous iterative improvement and innovation, developing and aiding prototype production.- Produce on-going client support in terms of technical solutions integrated into client strategy. Platform free environment allowed exposure to a number of technologies and architectures. - Evaluation of new technologies through interrogation of products and services of external suppliers. - The liaison and stewardship of relationships with third-parties and incorporation to aid new client solutions. Enterprise Application Integration, Distributed Internet Architecture, ECM, OO as UML or CORBA, ERP, security, WAP and knowledge of Interactive TV. Deployed on: IIS, Apache, Tomcat, LINUX, BEA WebLogic Development Languages: .NET (VB, C#, ASP), VB6, C++, VC++, C++ C#, Java, VBA, ASP, VBScript, Jscript, also using COM, DCOM, ADO, MTS, ActiveX, XML/XSL, SOAP. RDBMS: SQL Server, Oracle (PL/SQL), Access. Development Environments: MS Windows (9x, NT4, 2000) , .NET and UNIX.
  • Csc Consulting
    Technical Consultant (Delivery Manager / Technical Lead)
    Csc Consulting Jan 1999 - Sep 1999
    Global, Us
    Clients: CSC Accounting, AMP. Member of Corporate Finance Department and technology specialist at client sites. Project: CFP (Contractor Finance and Payment) Experimenting with RAD/XP and Lean IT Processes. Self-managing and self organizing team utilized some pair-programming and a flexible working plan.Responsible for the analysis of legacy systems, stakeholder functional analysis, alignment with corporate business model and technology architecture, ERP analysis and integration, solution system design, project planning, ERP application development (2 developers + 1DBA + 1 tester), phased deployment transition management, data transfer management, iterative change management and user liaison. Full life cycle carried out to ISO9001 standards. Technologies: Development of middle tier using C++, VB6, also ASP and SQL Server, legacy and external (Reuters) data imported from Oracle using ODBC and Oracle PL/SQL, SAP FO.
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  • Charterhouse Bank
    Analyst/Developer And Account Manager
    Charterhouse Bank Jan 1995 - Sep 1998
    Merchant Bank, taken over by CCF during my tenure, now part of the HSBC Group. Reporting to Director of IT Development. Design, development, production and management bespoke applications for asset and portfolio management tools, and telecommunications interfacing. Primary work on 3 projects: RAD1, RAD2 running across European WAN, and CCD, plus bespoke systems. - Design of the application architecture, specification documents, requirement analysis, development planning, production and change management maintenance of application, testing and QA. Department Account Manager: overseeing the OS upgrade and project proposal analysis.
  • Hm Customs And Excise
    Wan Engineer, Analyst/Developer
    Hm Customs And Excise Sep 1993 - Jan 1995
    Part of a team to establish a WAN connecting all major cities within the UK. Implementation and system test. Team member of project team involving 12 engineers. Data migration plan and data verification.

Brent Hurley, Mba Skills

Agile Project Management Agile Methodologies Scrum Sdlc Pmp Business Intelligence Integration Requirements Analysis Software Development It Strategy Enterprise Software Pmo Kanban Enterprise Architecture Itil Quality Assurance Jira Soa Agile Testing Erp Project Management Oracle Agile Testing Ms Project Six Sigma Versionone Rally Cmmi Cobit .net Uml Microsoft Sql Server Dsdm Version One Product Innovation Digital Strategy Management Consulting Product Management Business Strategy Strategic Consulting Executive Coaching Executive Leadership Strategy Execution Value Propositions Digital Transformation Cios Financial Analysis

Brent Hurley, Mba Education Details

  • The Open University
    The Open University
    Business Administration
  • Comptia.Org
    Comptia.Org
    Classroom Training
  • Pmi.Org
    Pmi.Org
    Project Management
  • Scrum
    Scrum
    Scrum
  • Clapham College He, London
    Clapham College He, London
    Spanish
  • Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
    Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
    Computer Systems

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