Mark Fairclough Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for managing the delivery of technology changes to satisfy new regulatory reporting requirements, delivering changes in accordance with RBS policies and procedures. • Managing the delivery of technology changes required to meet the regulatory reporting requirements identified by the 2009 – 2014 Mortgage Market Review (MMR) (budget £500K).• Managing the delivery of technology changes required to meet the Bank of England (BoE) regulatory reporting requirements in line with Statistical Notice 2013/01 (budget £370K).• Managing on and off-shore technical teams, monitoring and prioritizing work according to schedules.• Matrix managed several platform delivery teams.• Building strong working relationships with project stakeholders by understanding their needs and closely managing the relationships through prompt and effective communication and reporting.• Representing technology at project boards and working groups. Producing and presenting update and spotlight decks.• Producing and maintaining project plans covering the full project lifecycle.• Agreeing technology project budgets and making sure that they are respected, observed, maintained and not exceeded.• Maintaining project forecasts & capturing project actuals in order to understand reasons for any variances.• Identifying and continuously managing project risks and issues to ensure that delivery is not negatively impacted, escalating when required.• Coaching and supporting development teams to ensure projects remain on track. • Demonstrating customer focus and a ‘can do’ attitude by accommodating late changes which add real business benefit.• Coordinating the production of change requests and associated impact assessments.• Line managed 2 members of staff, supporting development needs, conducting performance reviews, managing absences etc.• Mentoring colleagues looking to move into project management.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for leading a number of technology work streams on two multi-million pound Risk & Treasury projects, delivering changes that were critical for overall project success. • Managed the delivery of source data feeds/data dictionaries and test/production infrastructure for a new £3.3m securitization system.• Managed the delivery of the source data feeds and desktop connectivity work streams for a new £4.4m project to migrate & enhance risk reporting and analytics functionality.• Coordinated activities to migrate data to a new production environment.• Coordinated activities to close numerous issues to progress project warranty exit.• Led activities to deliver project infrastructure designs.• Delivered infrastructure for a 3rd party vendor application and collaborated with the vendor and RBS technical teams to deploy the application.• Reorganised application support responsibilities to improve efficiency and spread knowledge. • Created, maintained and tracked project work stream plans.• Managed work stream budgets and completed associated monthly financial activities.• Line managed 2 members of staff, supporting development needs, conducting performance reviews, managing absences etc.

London, United Kingdom

Senior Developer/Technical Team Leader working on mortgage regulatory reporting projects. Part of the team which delivered a new system that allowed the RBS group to submit Product Sales Data (PSD) and Mortgage Lenders and Administrators Return (MLAR) returns to the FSA and CML.• Delivered quarterly changes to a tactical COBOL system to allow the RBS group to submit the PSD mortgage return.• Led a team of 6 developers to deliver the batch (PL/SQL) and front end (Java) code required for the new strategic mortgage reporting system to allow submission of the PSD and MLAR regulatory returns to the FSA/CML. Created and monitored delivery plans, allocated work and ensured targets were met.• Co-ordinated activities to decommission the tactical mortgage reporting system.• Co-ordinated impact assessments for change requests.• Co-ordinated and actively participated in numerous project implementations. Produced implementation plans, schedule of events and monitored first runs.• Co-ordinated activities to handover system support to the BAU support team.• Line managed 3 members of staff.• Deputised for the project manager when required.

Hayes, Middlesex

Designed, built, tested & implemented applications for the Merchandising, Corporate & Marketing divisions. Member of the team responsible for supporting business critical systems 24/7.• Led a team of 6 developers to automate the promotions funding process. Led to increased revenues of £1.5m per annum.• Designed, built & tested batch & online processes to deliver promotional signage for Hypermarkets.• Managed a project to redesign a financial control system. Led a development team based in Malta. The new system delivered accurate invoicing and labour savings of ~2600 hours per annum due to enhanced visibility and generated an additional £1m per annum in revenue.• Managed a development team to migrate 3rd party PC labour scheduling software to the mainframe. Designed online & batch processes to maintain a new database required by the scheduling software. Specified and tested the 3rd parties schedule editing modules. The project delivered savings of £2.5m per annum in labour costs and increased supportability due to the centralisation of data and business processes.• Delivered changes required to integrate Safeway promotional systems into the Morrison's business.• Supported business critical systems 24/7. Acted decisively whilst working alone to resolve out-of-hours issues and job failures. Trained and supported junior team members.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for developing software applications using ICL Mainframe (COBOL/SCL/IDMSX/TPMS), Clipper, Apogee & Unix.