Extensive and proven Leadership in the Information Technology field holding responsibilities at a Senior level Management, Engineering and Architecture for the largest financial retail and technology companies.Recognized multiple times for excellence in execution and technical leadership, flawless implementations and visionary to some of the most complex in sourcing and mergers of technology in the financial industry.Proven track of technical leadership for the largest financial data center mergers/moves, in sourcing of technology and configurations from service providers, business consulting. Strategic leadership to support the largest Financial Retail and Technology, teams.Demonstrated ability to work with internal business units as well as technology towers and vendors to execute some of the most complex technology deployments.Provided leadership that yield to significant multi-million dollar saving and TCO optimisation in data centre management, software, hardware and storage technology.Expertise in Data encryption, Data compression at the enterprise level, process optimization and TCO for large Financial Institutions for privacy and regulatory compliance.Designed and authored complex Testing facilities, Internal Disaster recovery configurations in the financial/retail sector.Lead one of the largest Parallel Sysplex consolidations worldwide for high availability and high volume transactions systems in the Retail Banking and Credit Card business.Specialities: IT Architect Business and Technology, DatacenterTechnology leadership, team management, project execution, strategic planning and progressive Datacenter consolidations and transformations.Disaster Recovery Planning, Business Continuity Planning.High Availability Mainframe and Large Midrange, Sysplex, Z Series, Security Architecture, Encryption, Storage Replication expert, Software Management expert, End to End Solution Engineering, ITL, Service automation.