Led the programme for a major UK based health insurance to define and implement a new Target Operating Model focused on creation of security focused organisation in response to regulatory requirements. Defined a two year programme of work to uplift the NIST maturity model across all geographies, in line with the Board’s risk appetite, regulatory and industry best practice.

Senior member pf team conducting diagnostic work worldwide for Allianz holding company, providing analysis, consultancy and guidance to major infrastructure and application development projects.Led assessments for Allianz Australia and Allianz UK to determine and implement IT strategy in both the P&C policy administration and claims space.Lead major reviews across major infrastructure project with a worldwide scope including desktop virtualisation for 130k employees and data centre… Show more Senior member pf team conducting diagnostic work worldwide for Allianz holding company, providing analysis, consultancy and guidance to major infrastructure and application development projects.Led assessments for Allianz Australia and Allianz UK to determine and implement IT strategy in both the P&C policy administration and claims space.Lead major reviews across major infrastructure project with a worldwide scope including desktop virtualisation for 130k employees and data centre consolidation project, resulting in quantifiable benefits in terms of project organisation, timelines and costs. Show less

Conducted a review and analysis of the current Allianz France application maintenance organization, with a focus on maintenance spend reduction.Negotiated local Allianz France contracts for both run and project engagements across a large number of services provided centrally by Allianz Group. Re-negotiated major fixed price and T&M ADM delivery contracts with major systems integrators.

Led the global relationship between Allianz and the application development and maintenance partners, working with Allianz countries to drive volume to chosen partners, and giving support to a number of projects using partners.

Defined and implemented the IT strategy for the Commercial Insurance and Claims Divisions of Allianz UK, building strong relationships across the board members, setting and influencing strategic direction.Lead a delivery team of 100+ developers and architects across several technologies, ensuring on time and on budget deliveries whist driving work offshore enabling higher capacity for the same cost.Initiated a process of internal and external project and program reviews to drive faster… Show more Defined and implemented the IT strategy for the Commercial Insurance and Claims Divisions of Allianz UK, building strong relationships across the board members, setting and influencing strategic direction.Lead a delivery team of 100+ developers and architects across several technologies, ensuring on time and on budget deliveries whist driving work offshore enabling higher capacity for the same cost.Initiated a process of internal and external project and program reviews to drive faster project delivery with the right quality across Allianz UK.As a member of Commercial Division board defined the e-business strategy for the next three years, in line with the business imperatives, drawing on knowledge of both Insurance and technology. Show less

Responsible for service delivery to 20 European countries delivering systems development and maintenance service to an outsourced major telecommunications company.Defined and drove a successful transformation program for the world-wide account, transforming the people and processes for over 1000 employees. Implemented the move of 300 roles from several countries to India.

Influencing and selling IBM software to both Independent Software Vendors and Systems Integrators.Working at board level within major partners of IBM, enabling these independent software vendors to key IBM strategic technologies to drive volume for IBM.

Development manager for internal product development for the insurance industry.Set up and ran the Y2K conversion centre for IBM Global Services UK

Member of the technical hardware development at IBM’s research and development facility, working on the development of a new generation of communication controllers.