Patrick Cooper Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

The first IT Director for this national charity and large Salesforce client. Responsible for Systems, Technology, and Facilities departments (a physical estate consisting of nine offices in eight English cities), with an annual budget of £7 million. Restructured the directorate by bringing the IT support function inhouse, rationalised the technologies in.

London, United Kingdom

Simplified an outdated and unwieldy technical infrastructure by moving to open source technologies and delivered a hybrid big data platform to store billions of market prices and stream them into modern analytics engines. Refreshed the company’s technical estates in the UK, India, and Morocco. Restructured IT support and increased the development team from.

London, United Kingdom

Independent consultant working for clients in the private, public, and third sectors. Engagements are by task, by project, or on a subcontracting basis.

London, United Kingdom

Product Manager for technology platforms and enterprise products. Also Public Sector Lead, successfully enrolling the company in all four tiers of the UK government’s G-Cloud programme (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and Specialist Cloud Services).

South East London, United Kingdom

Interim relocation to south east London as a result of a domestic restructuring exercise.

London, United Kingdom

Principal Consultant, engaged on strategic and tactical technology projects with public and private sector clients. Business development activities included market analyses, establishing technology partnerships, speaking engagements, and assembling bid proposals.

London, United Kingdom

CTC‐cleared, reporting to a main director. Held a £7 million annual budget, with responsibility for Oracle enterprise platforms and core applications. Initiated then ran a project developing the use of “intelligent documents” that was cited as an example of best practice in government IT. See the case study from Adobe, below. Certified in PRINCE2 and ITIL.

London, United Kingdom

Co-founded one of the UK’s first “Community Interest Companies”, and which today retains a strong reputation in the social sector for the provision of specialist advice, data, and tools to support and improve the efficiency of social and impact investing.

London, United Kingdom

Delivered a leading-edge CRM system to support their new £3 billion international wealth management business, and then extended this bespoke platform to incorporate an advanced asset class visualisation tool.Subsequently appointed interim Head of Group IT responsible for all of the bank’s IT operations. Restructured the department, renegotiated supplier.

London, United Kingdom

Established this niche consultancy, staffed with “virtual teams“, to take advantage of opportunities arising in the City. Major assignments were at Tullett & Tokyo and Ansbacher Bank, both of which are covered separately.

London, United Kingdom

Reporting to the Equities MD and the CIO, delivered a mission critical “Y2k” project to replace a high-availability analogue green screen price distribution system with a bespoke web-technology solution. Subsequently delivered an advanced electronic trading system that integrated with the firm’s traditional voice broking business. The deliverable included.

London, United Kingdom

Final position at Reuters was Business Development Manager for the Funds Group. Wrote the strategy paper and business plan for Reuters entry into the collective investments market, including the formation of the Lipper subsidiary and acquisition of various other companies.Products Manager in The Usability Group. Managed international web and software.

Toronto, Canada & London, UK

Database Analyst managing extensive financial and economic databases, providing both programming and marketing support for them.Promoted to European Sales Manager, moving to London to head up the Data Services division.

Executive Mba, Business

B.Sc., Computer Science, Actuarial Science