Iain Drummond Email & Phone Number

East Kilbride, Gb

Virtual

Defining enterprise-wide analytic systems in the cloud and on-premise to answer complex business challenges for public sector and finance customers.

Uk

HPE Enterprise Services merged with CSC to create DXC.Same job - Solution Architecture for Public Sector and large commercial accounts

Erskine, Scotland

HPE Analytics & Data Management – Big Data solutions for all industry and government sectorsSolution Architect (2015 to date) providing design and architecture ownership for both commercial and government sector customers. Mainly operating in a pre-sales capacity to provide direction/guidance, ITT responses, estimates and more detailed collateral for system design. End-to-end ownership of several analytics Proof of Concepts (PoCs). Projects have involved many different engagement and deployment models (on-premise, VPC, hosted, etc.), and has given an excellent opportunity to become familiar with the HPE portfolio as well as a number of Open Source components in the Big Data space• Instrumental in multiple projects for a large Telco involving multinational teams• Designing and project managing an analytics PoC for a large UK bank• Designing a PoC for a mobile pilot for the UK Government• Multiple analytics projects for the UK Government

San Francisco Bay Area

Business adviser, content contributor and editor of a book ("They Will Be Giants") on Purpose Driven Business Ecosystems recently published on Amazon.com

Glasgow, United Kingdom

SAS Software – analytical, business intelligence, fraud and policing solutionsPrincipal Solution Architect in the Fraud and Security Business Unit. Providing pre-sales and post-sales support for complex bids. Liaison with development, consulting on solution architecture, program management, business process re-engineering and numerous technical and design challenges. Specifying integration points between existing deployed components and proposed products• Worked as the sole pre-sales support for an £8m+ bid and a consultant to capture and document the complex end-to-end counter-terrorism processes• Negotiated with a customer to completely change the focus of a published bid. We were awarded the £2m+ contract with no competition• Main pre-sales resource for a bid in excess of €40m and from the outset and have helped influence and shape the thinking of the primary stakeholders• Prepared numerous Proof of Concept systems using live customer data• Presented on multiple occasions to cabinet ministers, senior police and military officers, C-level heads and others on various topics including intelligence-led policing, predictive policing, insider threat detection and best practice for investigations and case management

Memex (acquired by SAS July 2010) – policing, intelligence and search solutionsDirector of Solution Strategy – responsible for Product Management, including functional development of new and existing products. Principal author of very complex use cases incorporating many aspects of legislation required for UK Policing and leading Agile teams to produce these. Providing pre-sales support for major bid responses• Managed an agile team of 10 to produce a proof of concept for an end-to-end policing system. The functionality delivered within the timeframes significantly exceeded expectations and was taken forwards into full production• Sole pre-sales resource for a major UK bid. Presented to the customer during formal dialogs and awarded £5m+ contract. Subsequently led the design of the most challenging modules• Designed and led the development of a Covert Human Intelligence Sources solution

Development ManagerResponsible for day to day running of development department

Responsible for major projects and the primary contact for the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) account• Negotiated and designed a major Intelligence System upgrade in excess of £6m • Negotiated and designed the Enhanced Disclosure Request processing system still being used today - £2m initial contract and subsequent revenue of £5m• Ran a project partly sponsored by the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) resulting in a series of well received academic papers, a prototype software system, a patent application (I am one of the named inventors) and formal recognition by the SERC of a highly successful tri-partite project involving academia, a target customer and an enabling SME

Responsible for all sales support, implementation projects and customer support. Project Managed numerous large deployments

Management of internal and external projects ranging from the development of new functional areas to implementation of enterprise-wide intelligence management solutions

Secondment to oversee integration of acquired US company

Glasgow

Axiom Business Computers - Development and supply of software solutions for solicitors.Responsible for the software department, technical support, pre-sales support, third party product R&D, applications development, product specification and support/training within the company.

Bsc Computer Information Systems, Systems Analysis And Design, Commendation

Activities and Societies: Diving, Table TennisDegree focused on Systems Analysis, programming and business practices

8 O-Grades, 5 Highers

Activities and Societies: Gymnastics and Life Saving

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