Brian Ishmael Email & Phone Number

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Developed high-level software engineering team responsible for building and maintaining microservices utilising containerised architecture. Grew the team into one of the leading cloud-based development teams in the Irish banking industry. Adopted innovative and modern SDLC best practices such as paired programming, contract-driven development, and sprint storypoints. Team made up of technical specialists, Java/API developers, software testers, business analysts, and scrum masters. Key responsibilities: • Managed day-to-day operations of a high-performing development team, escalating issues and resolving incidents as they occurred. • Monthly 1:1s with my 15 direct reports. Performance management including regular formal reviews. Engaged performance improvement plans as required. • Oversaw program of projects and initiatives involving cross-functional stakeholders across the business, including commercial, regulatory, change, and BAU projects. • Limited WIP across the team and monitored workloads and capacity in order to make data-driven resourcing decisions. • Worked with senior management in Digital Enablement to best prioritise work to deliver value to customers and drive efficiency. • Took on engineering challenges and encouraged the team to embrace change and innovation. • Led team meetings, represented the team at wider sessions and workshops with senior management, and conducted all team interviews for new hires.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Project manager within the fraud function responsible for introducing a new realtime transaction monitoring system.• Ran Scrum meetings including daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, retrospectives, reviews and demos with developers, product owner and other key stakeholders• Ran high-level project governance sessions such as SteerCo meetings with senior cross-functional stakeholders, as well as ad hoc sessions for escalation items• Maintained appropriate agile project documentation• Managed epics, user stories, tasks and issues using JIRA scrum/kanban software• Worked closely with architect, DBA and senior developers to ensure solution functions harmoniously with existing systems • Conducted risk and IT security reviews• Tracked resources and maintaining budget to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Programme/project management role. Responsible for full-lifecycle management of projects such as: a) a new iteration of machine learning model for identifying and taking action on customers at risk of problem gambling b) the creation of a central decisioning layer for combining multiple customer risk analysis models and producing single intervention actions. Also responsible for creation and maintenance of the project roadmap on the Safer Gambling Experience team. • Managed, prioritized and monitored the full project portfolio and ongoing programmes. • Identified and escalated risks and blockers. • Engaged with multi-disciplinary and cross-functional senior stakeholders on a daily basis.

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Responsible for full-lifecycle management of moderate complexity projects within Corporates and Institutions. Mainly involved with regulatory, service migration, and general business change projects. • Oversaw the execution and implementation of the Central Credit Register, AnaCredit and FATCA/CRS regulations. • Supported PSD2 related projects. • Responsible in BAU for the preparation and submission of monthly/quarterly AnaCredit and CCR reports, and annual FATCA/CRS reports. • Liaised with the Central Bank of Ireland on behalf of Danske Bank, and represented the bank in multiple Banking and Payments Federation (BPFI) working groups.

Master Of Science, Management, First Class Honours (1:1)

Certified Project Management Diploma

Nfq Level 8 Special Purpose Award, Project Management

Bachelor’S Degree, Arts, Upper Second Class Honours (2:1)

High School, Leaving Certificate, 505 Points

Activities and Societies: Bish Rowing Club