Mark Rendell Email and Phone Number

I'm a Software, Data, and Platforms Engineering Director with over 22 years’ experience as director, consultant and software engineer. I've primarily worked in Financial Services, Government, and Retail in roles including strategy and architecture, major program delivery, consultancy, digital transformation, and building and operating IT platforms and services. I have 9 years’ experience working at director level owning development and operations of enterprise application and data platforms. I specialise in simplifying and modernising complex application and data technology landscapes.I'm a published contributor to the DevOps community through conference speaking, blogs, and open source. I'm a passionate sponsor of psychologically safe, inclusive, diverse, and healthy work environments. Leadership Experience: - Accountability: £10M budget management (comprised of opex and capex). - Material Risk Taker: certified as part of the Financial Services Senior Managers regime. - Global delivery: led global teams of up to 350 people implementing Agile and Continuous Delivery >100 organisations. - Relationship owner: for Systems Integrators and cloud and software providers. - Product strategy: chief product owner for large enterprise platforms and applications and and open sourced software. - Engineering community leader: skills strategy, capacity management, reward, performance management for 200 people.Key Skills: - Driving business value through faster, more reliable and resilient use of engineered data. - Transforming legacy data platform environments to reduce cost, increase resilience and agility. - Defining and delivering technology, architecture, engineering and platform strategies. - Breaking down organisational silos to drive collaboration and joint outcomes. - Fostering inclusive and innovative engineering and platform teams cultures and optimising using on and offshore and in house and outsourced teams.