Experienced IT professional with a background in financial services technology. Skilled in planning and executing strategic IT Infrastructure and Security initiatives and delivering on key business objectives. Client-focused with excellent relationship-building skills managing senior C-Suite level stakeholders. Confident and effective leader, enabling programme success through multidisciplinary team coordination in matrix organisations.• Advised teams to ensure compliance for Operational Resiliency for the most critical applications within the Markets division by reviewing the RTO and Impact Tolerances. • Led the successful exit of a critical Datacentre in 9 months for 32 applications by agreeing realistic target migration dates, closely tracking progress and resolving issues through multiple team collaboration. • Created governance and reporting frameworks for tracking Datacentre migrations by implementing approval process for changes and analysing data to provide reports via Power BI.• Delivered multiple IT audits for clients as a systems auditor for the MDIA between 2019 to 2021 by testing against established Controls Framework and providing independent reports to the audit committees. • Improved cyber security robustness for clients by conducting penetrations tests and reviews, providing assessment reports and recommendations to effectively defend against potential cyber-attacks.• Spearheaded the successful technology integration of Dresdner Kleinwort and Commerzbank in London for Compute, Storage, Networks and Datacentres by selecting best of breed, optimising the teams/contracts/budgets and removing/consolidating repetition of operation and processes. • Collaborated in the selection process and implementation of KPI measures for multiple vendors in the provision of hardware, software and services through a structured RFI/RFP process to obtain better pricing and ROI. Tracked the performance of the selected vendors through reporting conducted in regular service review meetings. • Delivered the successful implementation of managed services for IT efficiency and cost optimisation in the region for compute, storage, networking, firewall management, voice & multimedia and Datacentres for L1 support by setting clear requirements on expected service and costs, TUPE expectations for existing teams to transition, to then select a suitable supplier through a rigorous RFI and RFP process.