John Brady Email & Phone Number

Dunfermline, Gb

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Senior leadership role including delivery, troubleshooting, negotiating and building high-performing teams.- Sponsored and led a £100m pipeline of projects to improve customer outcomes and reduce organisational risk, accountable to members of NatWest Retail Executive.- As unofficial "Chief of Staff", addressed organisational barriers to success using high EQ and influencing skills- Negotiated a £40m consultancy contract, orchestrating approvals up to NatWest CEO- Build and led a high-performing cross-functional team, coaching the team to success

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Interim consultant, leading a £40m portfolio of programmes. Direct report to a member of the NatWest Retail Executive team. Solved a number of long-standing business problems involving Financial Crime and Anti-Money Laundering. Mobilised a large (£200m+) remediation programme to remediate over 500k customers.

While looking for my next opportunity, I had the chance to explore topics which interest me, particularly artificial intelligence and systems thinking. I've also explored data science, blockchain, Agile/SAFe and DevOps.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Head-hunted by RBS to join the transformation leadership team. Responsible for a portfolio of large-scale bank-wide regulatory change programmes using both waterfall and Agile methods. Working closely with senior executives across multiple brands and facing off to regulators such as FCA and PRA. Influential member of a high-performing leadership team.

Accountable for a portfolio of high-profile programmes for the Insurance division, managing teams of up to 150 and budgets of £15-20m per annum.Member of the "Platinum Circle" of the most senior Programme Directors in Lloyds Banking Group.Invited to join the Experienced Managers Programme, a rapid development programme for high-potential colleagues.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Led the Scottish Widows elements of the main bank integration programme, integrating and migrating HBOS customers into Lloyds Banking Group. Led a sizeable team on a multi-year programme, using DevOps techniques to simplify and de-risk delivery.

Programme Manager within Group IT, delivering some of the largest and most complex programmes in HBOS. Specialised in the turnaround of troubled programmes.

Managed all customer-facing aspects of the IT Operation, leading a team of 12 including IT Account Managers, UAT team and Helpdesk. Introduced ITIL best practices, used Six Sigma methodology to improve service and reliability, led the outsourcing of the IT Helpdesk to an offshore provider.

Relationship manager for all backoffice functions, managing the IT project portfolio on their behalf and running multi-disciplinary projects. Interim manager for IT Infrastructure Team following a period of instability

Ownership of multi-disciplinary projects, including development of IT and eBusiness strategy, implementation of new Disaster Recovery process, creation of an extranet that streamlined proposal capture processes for large customers

Member of the team that developed a next-generation Point of Sale system. Responsible for designing and implementing a robust, web-standards-based communications architecture that foreshadowed Service-Oriented Architectures.

User support and implementation of small projects, including implementation of a hot-desking setup for call-centre staff