I am currently on a world tour with my son after parting company with Verizon a few months back.Follow our adventures at www.getjealous.com/samham

Managed several development teams across the complete international arm of Verizon. Covering the Business areas of Billing, Finance, Line Cost, Credit and Collections and Reporting.Also integration between the new parent company Verizon after the takover of MCI Worldcom. My most recent achievement was to sell and implement the Agile/scrum methodology to both the business and senior executives in order to deliver solutions quicker and therefore cheaper. One recent success is a billing… Show more Managed several development teams across the complete international arm of Verizon. Covering the Business areas of Billing, Finance, Line Cost, Credit and Collections and Reporting.Also integration between the new parent company Verizon after the takover of MCI Worldcom. My most recent achievement was to sell and implement the Agile/scrum methodology to both the business and senior executives in order to deliver solutions quicker and therefore cheaper. One recent success is a billing replacement costing $250k to carry out in 4 months saving $900k/year running costs. This development would have traditionally taken 2 years with more resources and cost $2M. Show less

Consultant DBA, covering Unit Trusts and Share dealing systems. Covering large volumes of transactions and databases.

Developing Mainframe systems under Cobol, CICs and IDMS, DB2 databases.Involved with the industries newly emerging Unix platforms running Sybase databases, pushing the limits at the time to terrabyte databases covering all international companies ratings with on-line delivery before the internet became available.