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Next Generation Consumer Banking program, working on the delivery of new digital products and services on public cloud platform

Lead responsibility to deliver Group wide cloud estate management by driving optimisation, conformance and post migration estate opportunities realising Total Cost Opportunities efficiencies.Projects Project Manage Barclays Container Platform RedHat OpenShift remediation for CIB & US Consumer Bank business. Drive remediation of AWS Trusted advisor opportunities to realise cost efficiencies.Strategic Change / Continuous improvement Coach and guide teams promoting strategic internal/external cloud hosting, ensure best practice adoption cloud automation and orchestration as part of cultural and maturity journey.  Devised AWS EC2 AMI compliance/evergreen indicator Group governance measure leveraging AWS Config snapshots to demonstrate current adoption behaviour and to help drive evergreen maturity. Devised analytics and insights contributing AWS focus items into CIO Monthly Operational Reviews.

 Senior infrastructure manger with primary responsibility to deliver transformational change through core bank wide initiatives. Accountable for estate management across Risk Finance Treasury global server estate of 4.5k with further progression to the management servicing Barclays International global server estate (approx.30k). Infrastructure Management activities Accountability to drive estate optimisation and TCO efficiencies - providing transparency to clients influencing prioritisations and implementing change through physical to virtual platform migrations, cloud adoption, server capacity reuse for CAPEX avoidance, server environment consolidation to managed server farms, strategic DC exits, underutilised capacity reclaim and non-strategic application decommission. Co-ordinated and managed global capacity uplift demand of physical/virtual servers and storage via forecasted CAPEX. Managed demand challenge governance, validate architectural proposals, and decision making of tactical vs strategic deployment. Thereafter secure financial approvals. Responsible for delivering estate data analytics, insights and MI reporting requirements supporting Group wide initiatives using traditional MS Excel analysis data modelling capabilities. Some experience with enterprise Tableau and Alteryx designer.  Contribute/Lead project working groups by influencing improvement common practices & processes, development of strategic firm wide toolsets and process workflows. Technology risk & control programmes Project managed & delivered satisfactory closures against Internal audit points for Investment Bank and Risk Finance Treasury businessesBusiness achievements  Barclays Basel 3 Infra delivery for bank capital adequacy, stress testing, and market liquidity risk. Strategic build out - IRC System improve the Barclays ability to manage its RWA exposure. Barclay’s Large Holdings platforms re-stack - mitigate technology risk and future proof capacity.

 Lead responsibility across Prime Services IT, managing a global estate of 1800 servers, drive server estate optimisation, capacity management and technology risk & control initiatives. Business achievements  Swift Alliance upgrades to deliver strategic swift payments solution delivering capacity uplift.  SunGuard Clearvision global Oracle database platform standardisation-strategic version re-stack. Prime Services capacity uplift Equities build out as part of Banks Lehman’s integration expansion.

 Lead accountability to project manage and deliver all technical infrastructure initiatives delivering end state architecture, hosting a suite of e-business trading applications and analytical tools. Managed design governance to deliver strategic roadmap - driving platform upgrades, standardise application stack deployment and future proofing portal platform for the next 3 years.

 Responsible in project managing key Sybase/Oracle DB projects aligned to business-driven initiatives. Completed DB estate optimisation realising cost savings via strategic centralised hosting model.  Technical lead delivering database design and support on database security reviews, BCM planning, capacity planning, performance tuning and structured database release management. Key achievement: Swiskey Clearing capacity & platform upgrade - POC delivery to production.

 Systems administration servicing front-office trading, dedicated systems administration resource (UNIX/Sybase DBA) for Spectrum, a third party front office Foreign Exchange and Money Markets system.  Additional responsibility for database systems administration of multiple MS SQL Server environments hosting third party applications.

 Systems administration servicing front-office trading and back-office settlements systems, Helaba Trading Architecture - Murex and Bloomberg for front office and Gloss for back office.  Trading architecture delivery with Andersen Consulting, thereafter primary UNIX SA/Sybase DBA responsibility on production and development environments.  Developed utilities using transact SQL procedures and shell scripts for administration/reverse engineering /monitoring.

 Client focussed consultancy providing distributed platform solutions to pre/post sales projects.