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Coventry, Gb

Coventry, Gb

Coventry, West Midlands, Gb

As a Fractional CTO I Provide architecture and technology consultancy services to this start-up, producing and promoting next-generation skills management, resource management, project and collaboration toolsets.Achievements:◼️ Designed and built a resilient infrastructure platform to host Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering Opusview on Amazon AWS, providing scalability and resilience to a fast-growing company. Administrate and run the infrastructure for Production and Test environments.◼️ Developed a Devops process on Git, utilising pipeline deployments to test production environments.◼️ Advise on Security and run regular pentests using Burpsuite Pro.

Ethical Hacking and Penetration Test Services - Vulnerability Assessments - Risk Mitigation Strategies - Cyber Security Consultancy

Manchester, Gb

Engaged on DUIE (Digital Unified Intelligence Environment) program for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), advising on AWS architecture, enterprise software solutions and integration. Key Achievements:◼️ Designed a tactical solution utilising predictive ML techniques, entity resolution, and network analysis graph database technology (AWS Neptune), providing insights to present a single view service to the FCA.◼️ Prepared an ITT document and questions for a procurement process to select a supplier to build a strategic solution using graph technologies as an outsourced service.◼️ Developed a model development and deployment process and guardrails that fed into a model risk governance process for running Python ML and predictive analysis using SageMaker.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Worked in the Financial Services International providing technology, architecture, engineering leadership and consulting to clients and delivery teams. Key Achievements:◼️ Technology Lead for a new capability in the insurance market leveraging progressive modernisation to establish digital transformation programs, defining tech strategy to align to business strategy.◼️ Designed and delivered a PoC chat agent utilising ChatGPT with NeMo guardrails to assist direct SME customers and brokers with policy and claim-based queries for AXA.◼️ Developed a strategy to mobilise the current digital transformation program for Royal London to quickly deliver a new pensions platform.◼️ Lead Consultant on a change management review for Benchmark Capital, a Schroders Bank subsidiary. Provided recommendations on the delivery model and how it should be re-aligned with SAFe delivery. ◼️ Innovated solution architecture based on blockchain technology for micropayments for an electric car charging use case in collaboration with Vodafone, Finastra and HSBC.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Technology and Engineering Consulting focusing on Financial Services vertical - Converted to Permanent

Undertook a range of contract projects: outlined a selection below.Key Projects:◼️ Specified roles and staffed teams to deliver a program of change on a 'Real Asset Lending' platform for wealth management customers at HSBC with oversight on architecture designs and estimations.◼️ Lead Technologist for a deep dive consultancy and development of several technology roadmaps and investment roadmaps for the ‘Wholesale Commercial Lending’ transformation program at HSBC.◼️ Principal Architect for Contino working with the Nationwide as part of a small leadership team put together to perform an operational readiness assessment on ‘Nationwide for Business.’

Coventry, West Midlands, Gb

Worked with teams in JLR IT and external agencies on the 'New Customer Portal', 'New Car Sales' platform and SSO integration with 'Wireless Car' users and 'Connected Car' management systems.Key Achievements:◼️ Established an architecture for a new JLR mobile app that provided functionality similar to the customer portal, providing leadership for technology delivery, consultancy and SME advice.◼️ Designed tactical and strategic options and roadmaps for the new integration between SAP CDC, the SAP CRM and Salesforce CRMs used by different markets.◼️ Tech Lead for the market rollout plan to bring in 49 new markets to SAP CDC over 2 years.◼️ Designed a new e-commerce platform based on a bespoke Magento on Kubernetes and integrated with Amazon and eBay for parts sales for Jaguar SVR and older vehicles.

Liverpool Street, England, Gb

London, Gb

Engaged in architecting income validation solutions for credit cards and consumer lending for bank customers, spanning multiple domains and platforms for lending services to new and existing customers. Key Achievements:◼️ Guided projects through the architectural governance gateways and reviews, and managed the dispensations required when necessity required us to diverge from the strategic direction.

Supported digital transformation and smart cities initiatives, mapping the landscape of over 750 lines of business applications within four weeks. Key Achievements:◼️ Created an architecture governance group and architecture design authority for solution and infrastructure design, logical and data views, accounting for functional and non-functional requirements. ◼️ Established a set of architecture principles providing governance and target operating models.

London, Gb

Provided technical leadership and architecture for the Credit Risk Office and Legal and Compliance teams to implement new consumer and corporate lending affordability regulations. Key Achievements:◼️ Delivered affordability regulation changes to acquisitions and customer management platforms.◼️ Led implementation of SaaS-based solution accessed via REST API as a gateway to Bureau services, migrating from AIX and Power hardware to cloud-based Linux. ◼️ Spearheaded technical design for project automating offers to existing customers integrated with account management mainframe applications, data warehouses and analytics platform.

Engaged to provide Technical Consultancy and Architecture deliverables for a Large Program of the Education Funding Agency. I was the architect for the entire program encompassing a variety of projects including a new ERP solution, a BACS payments system linked to the ERP and validation and verification systems (Experian and Equifax). Online Forms submission and validation and other projects.

London, London, Gb

Lead Mobile solutions architect to design and deliver the Barclays implementation for the industry wide mobile payments scheme now known as PAYM, as sponsored by the payments council. This was a large project integrating many existing products and systems such as Falcon (Fraud), AML, Base24, Mainframe RPS, FPS, ATM(lLIS5 ink), UKBA as well as the mobile application platforms. Achievements ◼️ I was responsible for the delivery of the E2E high level designs and managing all technical aspects of the project.◼️ Preparing all the Barclays mobile solutions for the migration to a new debit card management service. ◼️ Designed the integration with 3rd party mainframe (TSYS) via an enterprise service middle tier application. ◼️ Integration with cryptographic solutions has been a key technology aspect in all projects ◼️ Troubleshooting integration issues with both Link and FPS payments platforms for the PAYM project.

Paris, France, Fr

I worked on the VoIP delivery project and G-Cloud implementation at HMRC. I specifically was responsible for the estate wide NTP solution, designing and delivering several small back end service modules to support the VoIP rollout and finally delivered a million pound decommission project. I left having delivered a design architecture document that was approved at governance council for a solution to provide resilience for a quarter of the ex C&E estate in the data layer.

London, Gb

Provide Technical Feasibility Studies and High Level Design documentation for a content management platform upgrade, initially for UK Retail Bank but growing to a wider global CMS based utility. I liaised between the applications and infrastructure teams and assisted the project managers in dealing with the technical aspects of Proof of concept work and also managed the key stakeholder business teams in terms of requirements gathering and reporting. ◼️ Personally designed the DR solution to provide a strategic capability utilising 3rd party services and technologies and also introduced and integrated a Demand Management Workflow tool. ◼️ The solution was a resilient tier 2 service designed for high availability and a non resilient full sized DR facility on standby for business continuity. ◼️ The project involved managing 3 external supplier companies as well as internal Barclays’ teams for infrastructure and component teams.

Paris, France, Fr

My role was that of an infrastructure architect on the YPLA/SFA account architects team. The job involved high level solution design documents and low level detailed technical infrastructure design documents. I was accountable for the implementation of a new terminal services farm running windows server 2008 R2 on a virtualised blade centre with xsigo connectivity units. The purpose was to expose various internal applications to approved 3rd parties via the public internet using Remote Desktop Services remote app functionality. We built a model office environment as well as live infrastructure. The model office sat behind a ISA array whilst live was shielded with bluecoat appliances managed by BT. The customer was very happy with the results and as soon as the solution was in place several other projects were looking to host there applications on the new farm.

JLR were transitioning all systems from Ford to JLR as part of the TATA takeover. My role was varied in that I would assist project teams with design and support of solutions that are either wholly cloned or partly using ford infrastructure or are alternative solutions where a clone is not a best fit. I then manage the technical aspects of the projects I am responsible for. Consolidation via VMWare and integration with migrated mainframe LPAR’s as well as EDI and network migrations were all aspects of the role. Additionally I fed into an improvement program to provide the architecture framework with new and improved templates and ensuring compliance with industry standards such as SOX and ITIL. I led the solution designs for 11 projects 7 of which were concurrent and included an intercontinental invoice management system and a federated single sign on solution for the whole estate.

London, Gb

Contracted to analyse and performance test/tune the end to end stack of colt online applications including the new SME portal application

• Clearneeds Ltd is a startup company creating an online marketplace for the services sector. I was the sole technical employee in the company responsible for the design and development of the platform. After 5 months the company hired 2 developers which I managed as a team to finish creating the web application components. The plan was to host on Amazon EC2 cloud based infrastructure. I built the components for the hosting. The platform was created using JBoss application server, MySql database server, Java and the Spring framework were used for the application development and Ubuntu Linux was used as the base platform o/s.

• Capita Design and Print and Capita Fulfilment Services Colossus Project. I was the lead architect for the implementation of a Dynamics AX based ERP solution hosted on windows server 2003. This involved an architecture spread across 3 network zones and 5 vlans. Components consisted of Microsoft Dynamics AS Application servers, a terminal server farm, web (IIS) and batch servers, Biztalk servers, Exchange servers and SQLServer clusters. I was responsible as technical authority for the design and build aspects of the project of the production and dev/test and DR environments. The project was completed successfully and on time • Capita Life and Pensions Resolution Migration Project. I part of a team of TA’s. My responsibility was for the Unix part of the estate which consisted of 9 HP-UX servers, 4 in a service guard cluster running oracle databases stored on a SAN, 4 standalone web/database servers and 3 UAT/DEV servers and 12 AIX IBM blades running websphere applications. I had to plan, resource and manage the entire aspect of the delivery. This involved the procurement of new servers and the virtualisation of the IBM kit for production.

Paris, France, Fr

• Hired as a Web Portal Technical Designer and Integration Consultant, to work on the ASPIRE contract with HRMC (Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs). In the role of Technical Consultant I assisted the Architecture team in the production of engineering design documentation through the lifecycle from Design to implementation providing knowledge support on Oracle, Weblogic J2EE and Infrastructure for the new HMRC External portal. I was also Technical Designer for the DPS (PAYE online forms) service and SA (Self Assessment) Attachments Service also providing expertise on Secure Channels for a special customer records project. All these projects went in on time with tight deadlines and timescales. I was commended for my efforts by the various Project Managers, Program Directors and senior management.• Acclaimed for the performance tuning of Weblogic for the old external portal for the SA Peak, Each year the portal had failed under peak load prior to my analysis and implementation of my results. I utilized mercury loadrunner to stress test performance environment and monitored the JVM instances using JMX tools to produce statistics which when analysed clearly showed bottlenecks that I was able to tune out. The 2006 peak passed without incident for the first time ever and the use of throttling by live service teams was not necessary.• I was the Security and SSL expert on configuring SSL and certificates troubleshooting issues in various HMRC systems.• Transferred from the External Web Hosting Team to the Aspire Architects Group as eDelivery infrastructure architect.• Solution Architect assigned to complete the Kana Project, a mail system for the HMRC which, though already live, did not have support infrastructure in place or had ever been fully tested or signed off by the customer. We achieved our implementation date and completed our objectives to customer satisfaction leading to release of ½ a million payment to Capgemini of which 60% was profit.

Dublin 2, Ie

Dublin 2, Ie

Contracted to provide expertise for an Accenture clients main web application. I resolved several architectural issues and refactored around these. I managed to resolve 2 single points of failure in the design and helped solve many trouble tickets with the application.

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