Doug Forbes Email & Phone Number

Sutton, GB

Birmingham, England, GB

ONQU deliver cloud migrations and data management by leveraging Oracle’s GoldenGate to recognise project reduction costs of up to 50%. Contract role project managing offshore and onshore teams, advising around the data migration delivery, ETL data management, real-time data control across hybrid cloud solutions (mainly AWS), DR/ BCP, content & document.

London, Surrey, GB

Appointed to transform a loss-making business into profit by reducing costs, improving the delivery process and increasing the revenue.Delivered programmes/projects applying an agile scrum approach with quality governance.

Watford, Hertfordshire, GB

Adaptivity provides a range of services from strategic, multi-year partnerships delivering managed Integration Team outsourcing, through to a few days high impact business consultancy advising on best practices.

Singapore, Singapore, SG

• Managed the entire life cycle for low-code solutions in Europe, overseeing Marketing, Sales, Partnerships, and P&L for Neutrinos.
• Delivered innovative solutions via Neutrinos’ platform, including omnichannel contact centers, NLP chatbots, and CRM solutions.
• Expanded presence across Europe through strategic networking and partnerships, utilizing LinkedIn, webinars, and social media.

Set up a GDPR compliance consultancy and successfully grew the business to 25+ customers across multiple verticals ranging from Blue Chip to SME in both the Private and Public sectors, whilst designing and managing the implementation of a structured agile delivery for GDPR.Identified commercial opportunities and secured contracts with The Pension.

London, GB

Aon Risk EMEA Operations Program Director for Business Convergence Programme across 8 streams, including Content/ Document Management; Sales & Marketing; Document Generation; Motor Fleet; Health & Benefits; Management Information; Payroll; Time Recording.

Lightwater, Surrey, GB

Leading International Expat Insurance company needed a complete infrastructure refresh from their communications infrastructure, anaysis of new routes to market and change of their core line of business system. Doug Programme Managed the project from solution architecture through to the selection, procurement and delivery.

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

Doug was responsible for starting up the UK presence of AWPL marketing, selling and delivering to such companies as Canada Life, Barclays and Aviva.He also program managed the US/ Canada rollout with a team of over 100 under his guidance based across 4 geographic locations.AWPL, now Candela Labs, is an IBM Global Gold Partner working with cutting edge.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Life Insurance Company delivering across Europe. Solution Architect for European re-design and rollout of their Life Insurance, IBM FileNet Content Management solution to allow them to move away from expensive incumbent suppliers. Content migrate and advisory position in the renegotiation of IBM FileNet global contract working with the central procurement.

Knowle, Solihull, GB

Founder of Oceanus who provided IBM software solutions to Blue Chip organisations, such as Barclays, BNYM, Vodafone, Unipart and O2. Responsible for running the technical services, including branding, sales, delivery, account management and the User GroupDoug was a key member of the team for designing and implementing case management, CRM solutions and.

Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

Strategic contract position for Oceanus, where Doug restructured the IT department for the company including a refresh of management and the recruitment of a new management and development team.Implemented a Document Management CRM solution, PABX using CTI integration with the Document Management/ CRM System

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Part of the start-up team for FileNet UK delivering all major implement\toins to the likes of Prudential, Scottish Amicable, TSB, PPP and Credit Suisse.Doug headed up the delivery of implementation, support and technical consultancy for FileNet and sat on the FileNet User Group board for 6 years.