Stuart Galloway Email & Phone Number

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Sandton, South Africa

★ Consulting to Nedbank on CIB related projects as a lead/solution architect. ★ Performing the role of Lead/domain architect on Fleet Management, Generic lending & Loyalty & Rewards, Nedgroup Investments International

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

I have been appointed at Nedbank as a consultant in Solution Architecture. I am responsible for defining the architectural design and components for the delivery of a number of project in the Retail and Capital Divisions within Nedbank.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

I was the Head of Development – Payment Systems responsible for a team of 24 staff. Apart from the line responsibilities I was the Programme Manager for a business unit called FNB Online and RMB Corporate Bank. These business units were responsible for all Corporate Payments systems as well as FNB’s Internet banking presence. I also looked after all of FNB’s Interbank Clearing transactions and processes. This included all Electronic Clearing House interfaces in RSA, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, Zambia and Tanzania. It also includes interface to Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) and Real Time Clearing within RSA. Within this team we are responsible for approximately 20 systems. Apart from SDLC responsibility, I had full operational responsibility for those systems which included change, problem and performance management. I was also a member of FNB Online’s Executive and Strategic Committees and Hogan Technology’s Executive and Management Committees.Projects implemented recently• New Clearing House architecture to enable easy implementation into Africa• New ECH interfaces for Zambia, Tanzania, Lesotho, Botswana & India• Zambia Kwatcha rebasing• Real Time Clearing for Business Online Banking• Paydate Management system for improved Collections timing.• Interfaces to FNB Insurance & FNB Forex for access via Online Banking• Major performance enhancements to Payments systems to cater for increased volumes• Development of Public Key Infrastructure solution• Development of a single EFT Corporate limits engine• Development of inContact SMS & emails solution• Development and major enhancement of EDO/NAEDO• Development of a centralised Nominated Electronic Payments System accessible from all channels• Development of Account Verification System• Development of SARS eFiling• Project managed the implementation of a full emersion Telepresence video conferencing solution.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

I took over responsibility for FNB payment systems and the Bank’s Homeloan systems. Apart from managing a number of projects, I am required to maintain the system to an SLA, ensure cost effective performance of the systems, schedule projects and resources against prioritised projects. Additionally, this involves staff management (including counselling, goal setting & measurement, day-to-day team leading, training, etc.), change control & management, and problem determination and resolution. I am a member of the Technology Management committee, which directs all IT initiatives and defines policies. I have recently been requested to join the Strategic and Executive committee for the Homeloans Division within the group. I am also a member of a technical board that consults and approves the design of strategic and complex projects.I was also a member of one of two core technology deployment teams, whose focus was to establish a feasible and practical way of deploy IT end-to-end, into the appropriate business units. This includes the development and application systems as well as the operational aspects, networking, systems management

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Project & line manager for a team designing and developing technical infrastructure used for the rewrite of FNB’s FirstOnline Internet banking system. This technical infrastructure was constructed for use as a generic mechanism for connectivity into the FNB Hogan mainframe systems, but initially implemented in the new FirstOnline system. By using this infrastructure the FirstOnline rewrite was delivered under budget and 6 months ahead of the originally quoted date. Member of FNB’s Executive IT team that was accountable for the definition of the overall strategy of IT within the group. In particular I was made process owner for Architectural Frameworks. I led a team that defined the process of defining IT Architectures, established the scope of IT Architecture within FNB and its interrelationships with other IT processes. I was also the Technical Architect and Strategist for PC based systems. I was accountable for defining the technical architecture and strategic direction for the construction of PC solutions particularly focussing on the use of middleware, component based design and the use of messaging & queuing. Core member and team leader in the establishment of a new division formed to align Business and IT strategy. Was a key member of a team that defined a multi-channel delivery architecture. Researched and adopted the use of a messaging architecture for the development of middleware.1997 Core member and team leader in the establishment of a new division formed to align Business and IT strategy. Was a key member of a team that defined a multi-channel delivery architecture. Researched and adopted the use of a messaging architecture for the development of middleware.Project managed the development of custom-built middleware based on IBM’s MQSeries. Provided strategic direction for Wesbank researching the replacement of their current systems. Was the IT consultant on a team that evaluated 2 alternatives for Wesbank.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

1994-1996 Team member mandated to re-establish Architecture at FNB. This involved researching local and international trends in architecture and translating this into a relevant approach to be adopted at FNB. Proposed and had accepted the use of MQSeries as technical middleware for the development of off-host systems. Proposed and had accepted at strategic level the use of ACI’s range of products for payments processing. Proposed and established a team to design, develop and implement generic technical infrastructure to simplify and speed up development of PC based systems. Consulted to various business units from an IT Architectural perspective during the evaluation of packages. Consulted in the adoption of APPN and its use from an architectural perspective.