Boosting corporate profitability, productivity, and performance through tactical alignmentof technical resources with the enterprise mission are the ways in which I have beeninstrumental in the success of past employers. As an innovative IT Director and CTO withover 20 years’ experience in the entertainment, financial, and technology servicesindustries, I have changed IT infrastructures, led software product deployments, and drivenstrategic operations. Moreover, I offer extensive experience leading start-up softwarecompanies to enduring success.Most of my projects have been full project life-cycle, most notably in the delivery of a global payment’s platform at Equiniti Global. My key strengths include communicatingcorporate vision, information systems management, and creating an ethos to maximizeefficiency and team performance in the organisation.Having successfully managed multiple large-scale technology projects and systeminfrastructures; as well as motivating and developing teams to fulfil their potential;my expertise is extensive and highly valuable. I am very much hands-on in a technicalsense, with a deep understanding and knowledge of the Microsoft stack, AngularJS amongothers.Key achievements:» Efficiency: Achieved straight through processing rates above 99.7% for internation payments. Facilitated large batch transactions consisting of over 400,000 international payments in a single batch.» IT Acumen: Led a staff of 25 in the End to end development, testing and commissioning of online payment platforms including security, audit trails, DR and integration with leading banks» Leadership: Co-founder to an IT start-up, growing from one developer to remote management of several teams in the UK, Germany, Poland and India to support global operations» Reliability: Developed resilience and reliability into the infrastructure for PayFac; achieving 99.999% up time» Staff: Turnover of only two staff in five years compared to a yearly industry average of 33%