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20+ years solving technology challenges and leading teams in software design, development, quality assurance and delivery across multiple sectors.Insurance, finance, retail, travel and tourism experience in fast paced dynamic environments for large enterprises, small organisations, private equity owned companies and software companies. Thought leadership, strategy definition and execution aligned to business vision, goals and OKRs.Forming and scaling in-house and outsourced multi-discipline global software engineering teams, using on-site, remote, onshore, near-shore and offshore resources in hybrid models to create industry leading SaaS product platforms and solutions.Adept at applying capability development, modernisation and client feedback to create market leading low-code/no-code SaaS platforms. ➢ 2022 acquired luminary status from Celent market analysts for EXL's new low/no-code and ML platform capabilities (Visual rules designer, analytics heat map, visual forms designer) and a cloud-first client solution implementation model. ➢ 2021 Gartner market analysts awarded leader status in new business and underwriting product platforms, rated fourth in top 10.➢ Experienced migrating to cloud-native serverless technologies for scalable, fault tolerant, SaaS capable solutions in parallel to existing on-premise implementations. Enabled transactional and subscription pricing models and decreased the average cost of client projectsI build high performing agile software delivery teams through trust, technical and soft skills growth, combined with self awareness and team dynamics workshops.Consistent high performer selected for multiple leadership development programs.Areas of expertise:• Strategic Planning• Cloud-native Software development• Product engineering • Cloud migration/platform engineering• Business technology innovation• Transformational leadership• Program and Portfolio Governance• Cyber-Security• Lean process improvement• Budget (P&L) management and planning• Infrastructure & operations management • Vendor & procurement management• Audit, risk & compliance experience