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Richard Jacobs is listed as Head of Technical Services & Readiness at Worldpay based in London, England, United Kingdom. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at thomsonreuters.com and a matched LinkedIn profile for Richard Jacobs.
Richard Jacobs previously worked as Programme Director at Crown Commercial Service and Consultant at Abrecan Consulting Limited.
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A strategic, growth-focused technology leader, I bring to the table 20 years of experience tackling new initiatives, turning around underperforming teams or projects, and driving revenue via development of strategic products. As a leader focused on execution, I’ve aligned technical strategies with business objectives to drive teams to deliver the full lifecycle of highly complex, global, software and infrastructure within timeframe, budget, and scope. My specialty is in unifying disparate global teams to optimize overall IT performance, and thus achieve desired business results within a large corporate environment.Over the past decade, I was promoted through the ranks of Thomson Reuters’ Financial and Risk (F&R) Division, which accounts for 60% of the company’s revenue. During this time, I delivered platforms and products that led to +$1B in revenue and millions in reduced costs, that are the strategic foundation of global blue chip brands. A few of my additional career highlights at Thomson Reuters include:== Playing an essential role in delivery of high-stakes Eikon initiative to secure company’s desktop business. == Improving Eikon’s performance and stability, thus restoring confidence in desktop product/platform. == Introducing massive change in short period, resulting in more nimble response to user feedback from quickly evolving Eikon product and exponential increase in migration.== Taking over, turning around, and delivering long-failing infrastructure programmes. In summary, I excel at pivoting challenging business situations and equipping companies with a competitive advantage via the rigorous delivery of strategy. My unique combination of strategic and tactical talents, coupled with a sharp focus on delivering results through the alignment of IT delivery with business goals, has enabled me to achieve technology excellence, while driving business critical initiatives to successful conclusion, even in the most difficult circumstances.
Listed skills include It Strategy, Software Project Management, Business Analysis, Agile Methodologies, and 36 others.
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London, United Kingdom
Crown Commercial Services is an executive agency, sponsored by the Cabinet Office, the corporate headquarters of UK government. Crown Commercial Services brings together policy, advice and direct buying across the public sector.Interim Programme Director leading the delivery of a number of high profile projects, whilst also advising on the implementation.
London, United Kingdom
London, United Kingdom
Most recently, I was requested to drive unification/rationalization to converge desktop and data feed technology strategy, while aligning with company’s broader platform strategy. As a result we defined, agreed, and successfully executed a roadmap to deliver. Impact included making gainful strides towards removing massive duplication between the desktop.
London, United Kingdom
In this role, I led an organisational transformation programme and delivered key internal initiatives within the desktop organization, comprised of 2000 employees. I also led a 50-member global programme management team to deliver functional enhancement and maintenance projects across product/platform.Accomplishments included scaling delivery teams’.
London, United Kingdom
In 2011, I progressed to drive operation, enhancement, and maintenance of newly launched strategic platform/product, Eikon, during critical post-launch phase, as well as many legacy desktop products. This included overseeing global technology organisation of +1500 employees to address key functional gaps and subsequently converting over 100,000 customers.
London, United Kingdom
In this role, I lead the programme which created and delivered the Eikon product and platform, from concept to global deployment and commercial launch. This included growing my team from ~30 to 50 and managing budgets of ~$150M across multiple cost centres. Achievements included equipping the firm with its single strategic desktop platform and product.
London, United Kingdom
Initially, I was recruited to heighten the firm’s execution ability, as a member of a small, elite internal team of consultancy programme managers. In this capacity, I built and led teams to deliver mission-critical initiatives across Reuters’ business. Highlights included rescuing and driving delivery of a faltering high-profile platform and subsequent.
London, United Kingdom
Early in my career, I was promoted through a series of increasingly demanding roles to lead all of the company’s internally developed software. Ultimately, I built an in-house team to maintain and develop systems, and thus eliminated costly consultants.
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Richard Jacobs is listed as Head of Technical Services & Readiness at Worldpay.
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Richard Jacobs is based in London, England, United Kingdom.
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Richard Jacobs is listed with skills including It Strategy, Software Project Management, Business Analysis, Agile Methodologies, Vendor Management, Program Management, Software Development, and Project Delivery.
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