Dan Sharp Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

• Promoted into senior leadership role as product owner for the bank’s PaaS environments, encompassing four major platforms ‒ OpenShift Platform, Java Hosting Platform, High Performance Computer Platform, Logging Platform.
• Responsibility for all aspects of operations and engineering, product strategy and direction, roadmaps, billing and customer liaison.
• Rebuilt team of 15 in the UK, US and India with additional responsibility for 30 vendor staff.
• Reduced RTB running costs across all platforms with a significant reduction in the HPC space.
• Moved 70K legacy cores to new hardware, reducing core requirements to 50K by taking advantage of technological advances.
• Facilitated scale, accelerated speed of response and minimised costs by initiating a new OpenShift Platform in the cloud.

London, United Kingdom

• Rejoined Deutsche Bank as product owner of the Grid High Performance Computer Platform which provided a platform to run workloads for regulatory and risk calculations for a small number of specialist application teams.
• Enabled Grid / HPC burst cloud capabilities on GCP, delivering faster results for regulatory and risk calculations.
• Stabilised environment, ensuring zero P1 outage tickets during this period.
• Enhanced spend management for Grid computing infrastructure.
• Managed vendor relationships and renegotiated agreement for Grid/HPC platform.

London, United Kingdom

• Invited to join HPE due to excellent and collaborative relationship built while working at Deutsche Bank.
• Worked directly on the Deutsche Bank account, utilising personal relationships and knowledge of the bank to deliver on business-critical project.
• Transitioned Deutsche’s legacy applications to new virtualised environment.
• Ensured new Indian team met and exceeded the expectations of the client in terms of both speed and delivery as de facto operation manager for the new entity.
• Contributed to revenue growth, capturing additional wallet share from Deutsche Bank.
• Completed security and patching updates to 25K servers across the estate.

Parsippany NJ, USA

• Relocated to the US as global lead for the bank’s project to outsource parts of Deutsche’s technology operations to Hewlett Packard Enterprise, acting as SME around the banks operational process and procedures.
• Led the UNIX team of up to 30 employees across 1st, 2nd and 3rd Lines of Support.
• Accelerated Deutsche’s preparations for HPE outsource project