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Liverpool, England, Gb

New York, Ny, Us

Reporting to the CEO, I was responsible for the creation and implementation of the Digital and Data strategy for the UK, with goals to enhance existing and create new revenue streams, create efficiencies, and mitigate risk within all businesses in the UK.UK Digital and Data Strategy - Defined and implemented the UK Data Strategy using a mix of architecture, business and delivery teams delivering small increments in 2 weekly sprints, showcasing developments to senior stakeholders on a regular basis. Tech Used: SQL Server, Machine Learning (Spotfire Mods and Jupyter Notebooks), Qlik Sense as FrontendPensions Dashboard - Owned and delivered the Pensions Dashboard strategy and delivery – a major regulatory item. Tech Used: SQL Server, Oracle, Informatica, MongoDB, C# APIsPensions Dashboard - Owned, designed and delivered the “Single View of the Member” addendum services relating to the Pensions Dashboard regulations, involves automating address and mortality changes across the entire pension admin membership.Tech Used: SQL Server, Oracle, Informatica, MongoDB, C# APIs, various workflow appsGMPE – Provided technical leadership due to rising project costs and E&Os. Assessed the situation, mostly manual processes, split across several teams with little to no handover and no ownership at senior levels. Within 9 months I had implemented a best-in-class third-party solution with a new operating model; reducing time taken to process a stage by 70% and E&Os to 5% of the former value. Aligned business and technology strategies, strategies agreed at board level

Windsor, Connecticut, Us

Responsible for the creation and rollout of digital services for the Funds division of DST (formerly IFDS). Tech Used: Microsoft Identity, AWS Athena, Glue, EC2 and RDS, Route 53 and API GatewayFS Platform - Created a scalable, extensible digital financial services platform in AWS which underpins all digital delivery. Using AWS, Java and SOLID design principles, to build a façade on top of existing (and new) internal services, opening up functionality to the digital platform on a priority basis. Team size – 10 onshore, 20 nearshoreDOLR - Delivered the market leading Transfer Agency reporting system (DOLR) within budget and timeframe (< 9 months) – usage in excess of 3,000 users downloading 1million reporting lines per week. Team size - 4 Thailand, 4 onshore, 6 nearshore. Introduced Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to DST, and created cross-functional teams to ensure the successful delivery of new products/features and existing product enhancementsFinancial control and management of digital programme including forecasting, actuals and change.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Responsible for ensuring the integrity of the Wealth Management platform through a large programme (£100M+) of change; covering technology delivery, regulatory compliance and operational change to a FTSE 100 Company. Defined, documented and managed the strategic roadmap for the Platform business architecture, including on-going market analysis and propositional refinement to drive the solution to be the market leader.Owner of the Target Operating Model (TOM) and FTE Model for wealth management and insurance clients (different charging structures). Hosted client focused forums including regulatory change and propositional change, key attendee at clients’ internal design authority meetings.Internal and external stakeholder management regarding design issues and change management, presentation of strategic papers to senior execs for key areas of design, such as reporting strategy and client money (CASS) design.Chair of the Enterprise Design Authority responsible for IFDS wide change, particularly around regulatory projects such as MiFID II, GDPR and AML4.

Praemium is a global leader in SMA technology - recently sold to MorningstarTech Used: Microsoft Azure, SQL Server, Azure SQL, C#, APIs, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Microsoft Dynamics 365Created a 5-year product roadmap and formulated a strategy to introduce investor and adviser portals allowing clients mobile access to their entire portfolioManaged and oversaw 2 data centre migrations saving £500,000 in annual costs.Hosted platform roadshows and presented at client adviser and investor portal events with audiences in excess of 100 advisers.Introduction of an offshore technical operations centre in Yerevan, Armenia

Built an entire technology team from scratch – total of 20 (max of 30) are now administering over £1B of assets across the UK and Jersey. Member of the senior management team.Responsible for all aspects of technology in the UK and Jersey. Providing direction to 6 direct reports covering application development, internal business systems, all infrastructure (2 data centres, WAN, LAN, telephony, server administration, desktop services, and incident management), and project management office.Created a technology vision and roadmap for the entire business; including the purchase of CRM and back-office administration companies to augment and diversify the services offered.Introduced Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery to the SLDC, improving code quality, reducing merge activity and enabling regular releases.Established Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) processes.

Dublin 2, Ie

I was responsible for delivering phase 4 of 5 in the re-development of the Lloyd's Registrars business, a employee share scheme system. This was sold to Equiniti shortly afterwards.

Houston, Texas, Us

I was part of team building the Taxi licensing software for the Public Carriage Office.I also re-architected a DEFRA system registering and certifying plants as safe.

London, Gb

I built the ratings components and the documentation engine for what is now "More Than".