John Millington Ba Hons Mbcs Citp Ceng Email & Phone Number

EMEA

United Kingdom

Full P&L responsibility for multiple seven-figure engagements across the European Insurance Sector.

EMEA

Full account-management and multi-track implementation accountability for EMEA insurers and brokers.

UK / EMEA

Oversight of multiple projects across the entire Guidewire Suite with regular onsite visits to ensure conformance with best practice. Solution Design, Upgrade Support new Project Setup are all a part of the day-job. Account Management of multi-billion GBP GWP insurers.

Europe

Almost two years hands-on, delivering ClaimCenter 7 into leading European insurance companies. Markets including Workers Comp, Auto and Specialities. Various roles including Trainer, Developer, Scrum-Master, Technical-Lead and Architect.

A return to a strategy and technology role

During this role with Homeserve I was given the opportunity to take on operational responsibilities as well as retaining the remit for the enterprise architecture. Managing a range of teams, I developed their respective capabilities by enabling better local decision-making and by providing a strategic context within which they could act.

Building on my previous role as Systems' Architect I took on a group-wide remit to build a brand-new CTO function. The road was sometimes rocky but during my tenure I proved the value of strategic technology thinking and materially increased the maturity of the IS team.

Lead architect on a business transformation programme with a group-wide remit. The role involved providing thought-leadership to allow for the creation of a consolidated technology platform, based on service-oriented principles, to provide the flexibility enabling new routes to market. This appointment required me to establish credentials within the IT.

Asked to form a new practice specialising in service-oriented architecture. Responsible for defining the offering, recruiting appropriately and taking to market. Extensive dealings with customers and vendors in designing best-of-breed solutions for a diverse range of domains whilst managing an argument of senior architects. Strong understanding and.

During this time I was involved in, and often led, the transition of Marsh’s technology framework to a modern web-centric service-oriented architecture based on the IBM WebSphere stack. As a founding member of the Architecture and Strategy department I drove all aspects of the creation of the enterprise architecture. This was facilitated through my.

-Brought in as the lead developer / architect on a failing flagship Government Pathfinder project (J2EE)-Turned it around and the resulting architectural definition was put forward as an example of best practice for local and national Government projects-Solution was delivered under-budget and ahead of schedule

-Lead developer (J2EE) at ship-broking ASP start-up-Defined technical architecture including scalability, performance, robustness, resilience, security, source configuration management, build & release and internationalization-Substantial coding responsibilities for EJBs using GoF patterns in a J2EE context-Instrumental in introducing Struts MVC.

-Founding member of technical team at a software start-up-Developed product vision, technical architecture, recruited and managed technical team of 10-Led this group through the analysis, design and delivery of the first two production releases-Technical Authority on all aspects of product-Drove use case analysis for requirements definition-Extensive.

-International consultant with a focus on J2EE technologies -Roles from Chief Architect through to straight developer -Frequently the technical lead and mentor to other team members -Broad range of projects including systems relating to logistics, e-ommerce, EAI and marketing -Numerous blue-chip clients including Swiss Bank, MSD, Total Oil, BAe, Viasat and.

-Operations role as Unix Administrator