Paul has championed the cause of analytics within enterprises across the UK & Ireland. Currently, Paul heads the Technology Practice for SAS and works closely with key customers across the region as well as supporting some EMEA based customers. His current role is to help organizations face their AI and Data challenges by adopting an enterprise wide analytical strategy to derive value within their data.Paul Enjoys being at the coal face with customers and helping to shape successful… Show more Paul has championed the cause of analytics within enterprises across the UK & Ireland. Currently, Paul heads the Technology Practice for SAS and works closely with key customers across the region as well as supporting some EMEA based customers. His current role is to help organizations face their AI and Data challenges by adopting an enterprise wide analytical strategy to derive value within their data.Paul Enjoys being at the coal face with customers and helping to shape successful outcomes with his customer base. Show less

An expert in applied analytics and technology, with over 28+ years of experience in the industry. Paul has been at SAS over 20 years working primarily within SAS Financial Services and large public sector project with some more limited exposure to Retail customers in UK and Europe. More rcenetly he took over the remit of managing the cloud strategy for UK&I operations.Paul has been leading the adoption of Hadoop and Big Data applications within the SAS customer base for last 6 years… Show more An expert in applied analytics and technology, with over 28+ years of experience in the industry. Paul has been at SAS over 20 years working primarily within SAS Financial Services and large public sector project with some more limited exposure to Retail customers in UK and Europe. More rcenetly he took over the remit of managing the cloud strategy for UK&I operations.Paul has been leading the adoption of Hadoop and Big Data applications within the SAS customer base for last 6 years. Paul has extensive practical experience with technology change and implementation programmes at large multi-nationals, working with a number of large global organizations including Royal Bank of Scotland, LBG, Capital One, BOA, NAG and Vodafone where he has helped increase revenues and drive down costs. Specialties: IT: SAS Software (28 Years), Cloud deployment patterns inc AWS, Hadoop, Big Data, Systems and Enterprise Architecture, large systems integration, data management, ETL, data warehousing, real-time analytics, data analysis and statistics. Show less

Leading SAS UK &I strategy on the adoption of Big Data and Hadoop applications with SAS for business transformation. Lead and supported the creation and delivery of the Big Data Innovation Lab to the UK &I market.

Managing a team of the leading UK technical experts in SAS to solve business issues and drive change in large organisations. Paul has been personally leading the adoption of Big Data, In-Memory and High Performance applications within the SAS customer base.

Technical Account manager and Solution Architect (within a Sales Support Division) for an international Banking Group (Top 5 World Wide) co-ordinating and advising on all technical work within for SAS in the UK.

Previous roles included Team Leader (Delivery and Pre-Sales team), project manager, Technical Consultant. I’ve a wide range of experience in both large and scale implementations of SAS from a full lifecycle.

Key Highlights:• design and development of complex interactive SAS applications and database applications (Oracle) for large scale clinical trials. • Clinical Trial analysis. • I also managed some external research projects at UK Universities and staff within Unilever. • 6 External articles published in Journals.