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Clients including Banks (both Investment and 'High-Street'), 'Big Five' Accounting Firm, a National Childrens' Charity, etc.

Barclays PLC (the parent company of Barclays Bank PLC) was the last company I worked for as an employee and my first client when I became independent. My longest consulting role with them developed out of my risk and project management specialisations when I was asked to be the Programme Director for the Y2k programmes in all of the company's Central Functions businesses - this grouping included operations as diverse as Group Treasury and the Chairman's office, the in-house property company… Show more Barclays PLC (the parent company of Barclays Bank PLC) was the last company I worked for as an employee and my first client when I became independent. My longest consulting role with them developed out of my risk and project management specialisations when I was asked to be the Programme Director for the Y2k programmes in all of the company's Central Functions businesses - this grouping included operations as diverse as Group Treasury and the Chairman's office, the in-house property company, the data warehouse, central policy units, Group Secretary's Office, Chief Accountant's Department, payroll and pensions, etc. The businesses for which I was responsible were the first in the Group to achieve Y2k readiness, and were reported by the Bank of England to be the first unit of comparable size to achieve it in any UK banking institution - this completion ahead of schedule was also achieved within budget. Show less

I advised on the design of a new risk sanctioning system. When the management of my client changed my work to that point was reviewed and the contract was renewed with me also gaining the contract to specify the testing methodology for the system, a job which had previously been intended for in-house staff.

I developed a new process for the control of operational risk for this client who wishes to remain un-named.

My final position as an employee before going freelance.

I led 'Project Octopus', the theoretical design and subsequent implementation of a new system for the control and measurement of the Barclays Group’s portfolio exposure to Country Transfer Risk. Implementation required me to obtain ‘buy-in’ from across the Group, secure the backing of the Chief Executive and the Board for the introduction of radical ideas not applied by anyone to this field before, and explain the new process to the Group’s regulators. The project had a budget of around £3M… Show more I led 'Project Octopus', the theoretical design and subsequent implementation of a new system for the control and measurement of the Barclays Group’s portfolio exposure to Country Transfer Risk. Implementation required me to obtain ‘buy-in’ from across the Group, secure the backing of the Chief Executive and the Board for the introduction of radical ideas not applied by anyone to this field before, and explain the new process to the Group’s regulators. The project had a budget of around £3M (exclusive of salaries), which meant that following full implementation it had paid for itself, through savings in otherwise under-employed capital, in under four months. Show less

I led a small team of specialists setting policy and managing risk related aspects of the Barclays Group’s international activities, dealing with government and other agencies (including the Bank of England and ECGD). Primary responsibility for developing Transfer Risk policy globally, and specific regional responsibilities for exposure to the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. I exercised a very large lending discretion and acted as the Group Country Risk Manager’s deputy.

A variety of roles specialising in risk policy and management and in project management. Experience of managing bank and sovereign as well as corporate risks, and dealing with both credit and market related risk types.

Photographer on an archaeological excavation in Salango on the coast of Ecuador.