Rob Watson Email & Phone Number

Solihull, England, United Kingdom

Solihull

Independent IT consultancy

Solihull, England, United Kingdom

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Responsible for delivery of client software projects and services through Offshore Delivery Centres

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Leading the delivery of ITPM consultancy services for Deutsche Bank Global Technology in Birmingham. Established a new offshore development team in India, managed development of end user automation services.

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Managing development team supporting claims management and external websites.

Deputy IT Director and responsible for team of web and systems development staff, supporting the corporate website www.icaew.com and internal business applications. Head of Information Security responsible for audit compliance, penetration testing, user awareness training in line with ISO27001, PCI/DSS and CyberEssentials standards.

- Intranet and extranet strategy and project management. - Delivered and supported over a hundred client extranets and virtual datarooms, for major PFI projects and corporate deals valued at up to £300million- Designed and implemented a firmwide content management solution - Managed development of a bespoke legal project management/budgeting web application, which was commended in the 2007 FT Innovative Lawyers awards.

Delivered customer-funded eBusiness consultancy services to corporate customers, primarily in the financial services sector. Projects included:- Royal Bank of Scotland - Requirements, business analysis and design for web-based internal recruitment and branch capacity applications. - RBSI Jersey – straight through cheque processing system. Development team of 20.- Shell Oil - Requirements and business analysis for a personalised employee portal for 50000 users - CGU Insurance - defined strategy, requirements and architecture for a website to promote, sell and administer stakeholder pensions products. - Cazenove - Business analysis for a secure client extranet portal.

- Management of a team of 18 pre-sales consultants targeting E-commerce and Internet sales opportunities- Evangelised the future importance of the world wide web to corporate customers as early as 1994- Designed and implemented Digital UK’s first intranet, Internet and extranet web sites. The extranet site, PartnerWeb, became the primary support system for all business partners and was implemented worldwide.- Support of AltaVista Software product sales in the UK, including demand generation; channels management; liaison with US engineering groups - Delivered Internet and open systems consultancy to customers such as BT, Inland Revenue, NatWest, DERA, Oxford University Press, Sanger Centre, Kvaerner, Zeneca and Allied Domecq.- Designed the highly successful website for Richard Noble’s supersonic world land speed record in ThrustSSC.

- Responsible for all aspects of software development standards and quality control for Schlumberger Cambridge Research. - Co-ordinated software technology transfer between SCR and other Schlumberger operational sites world-wide. - Designed and implemented a database for a full-scale oilfield drilling simulator and a workstation based interactive signal processing system.

Bsc 1St Class Hons, Mathematics

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