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A senior leader, trusted advisor, and steady hand during rapid change and expansion, acquisitions, transformation and reorganisation. A key strategist, commercially astute, with a breadth of IT knowledge and a focus on governance, operational risk management, cyber security, information security, decision making and technology delivery. A hands-on director and team builder, able to flex the team according to the business challenges. A unifying force driving IT to be the key to a dynamic business globally, continuously evaluating new technologies and strategies for corporate and technical services.Main skills:Securing the business - effectively the CISO, orchestrating stringent cyber security, risk management, compliance, and operational resilience infrastructure deliverables, from tactical to multi-year audited strategic plans, with a commitment to risk based data-driven transformation.Standardising IT - spearheading ITIL standards to create practical structures to operations and service delivery, embedding programs for Change, Risk, Knowledge and Service Management and a framework for further ITIL governance and audits.Delivering value for money - tightly controlling £10M annual opex/capex budgets and additional transformation project budgets. An ability to pivot quickly between expansion and investment and the need to sometimes maintain operational security and resilience with greatly restricted budgets.Driving technology adoption - delivering right-sized streamlined global infrastructures from on-premise and private cloud services, with datacentre migrations to SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and DRaaS services, delivering integrated value added IT.Team leadership and collaboration - lead, unite and career progress a committed multi-disciplined team of IT Operations, DevOps, SecOps, Data Analytics, Engineering and Procurement IT professionals to enable the business to be as effective, collaborative and efficient as possible