Steve Mcgregor Email & Phone Number

Milton Keynes, Gb

London, England, Gb

I successfully established and grew an in-house software engineering function at Allica, complimented with near and offshore partnerships.I implemented agile adoption and delivery with high performing engineers embracing solid foundations and principles of engineering practice with a continuous improvement mindset.Led the implementation of Mobile App development in flutter technology and orchestrated improvements to customer experience of the web apps for simplification and ease of use whilst maintaining product development.Increased on quality and speed of testing with automation and improved delivery cadence to bi-weekly whilst progressing the DevSecOps and CI/CD activities needed to support independent and continuous squad delivery.Fostered a highly collaborative engineering culture across the stack and supported growth with training and certification needs.

Responsible for the IT Delivery, Engineering and Design practices of Retail Mobile Banking iOS and Android Applications. Partnering with Digital leads to improve the Santander Mobile Banking Experience. As the bank undertakes digital transformation I strive to deliver best in class engineering capabilities in support of our vision to have the best Mobile Banking platform. Continually improving our practices and Agile transformation to ensure the highest quality and evolve our monolithic platform from Iaas to Paas with Continuous Integration and Delivery. Lead a community of professionals on the journey, bringing passion and commitment towards our goal. The first MVP has already been delivered successfully to the App Store and we continue to iterate developments in both platforms.

Head of Product engineering with a delivery team of designers & developers. Managed design, development, integration, test and deployment for a special complimentary Santander product launched with Apple Pay called Spendlytics (https://itunes.apple.com/uk/app/spendlytics/id979893773?ls=1&mt=8). The product was created with a new localised team using a new Agile methodology an implemented with tight timescales and budget. New technology, methodology and local resource managed daily in a collaboration environment resulting in a great product to market.Now working in agile with co-located Product Team and growing team size with the addition of local Android and Middleware resource and new Design resources. A new high profile challenge to face in our way of working and continuous integration and testing product development, the excitement of stakeholders in the UK and Corporate onlookers really focuses the mind on Quality in everything we do and the team are 100% behind this principle.Also delivered under Innovation Initiatives include;Smartbank iOS - (https://itunes.apple.com/uk/app/smartbank/id910913782?mt=8) Smartbank Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.santander.smartbankKitti - (https://itunes.apple.com/uk/app/kitti/id962051870?mt=8)

Responsible for the Management and coordination of Mobile Banking Application Deliveries including;Personal Banking iPhone/iPad - https://itunes.apple.com/uk/app/personal-banking/id482973524?mt=8Personal Banking Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.santander.santanderUKBusiness Mobile Banking iPhone/iPad - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/business-banking/id739852606?mt=8Business Mobile Banking Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.santander.businessUK.bbPersonal Banking .MOBI site - m.santander.co.ukAll for Santander UK. Managed the full development lifecycle from requirements to post rollout support and maintenance. Initiatives for 2012/2013 programme were c£2.5m excluding infrastructure costs.

Responsible for the coordination of any Multi Channel IT Deliveries (Branch, Internet, Contact Centre & Mobile). This ensures a common approach to design & implementation where multiple channels are impacted.I am the single point of contact for relaying the requirements to the various work stream leads, coordinating estimates and plans, securing funding as well as tracking and reporting progress, risks & issues.Initiatives can range from small "quick win" projects to c£2m programmes of work.

Contact Centre IT Delivery Manager. Responsible for the IT delivery of all contact centre related requirements for the UK. This includes local (UK) and global strategy driven objectives.Leading a team of 13 in the UK, mixed with Project Management, Analyst and Development\Support staff and managing a client\supplier relationship with labs based in Madrid.Managed the credential migration of Alliance & Leicester retail customers to Santander UK platforms.

London, Gb

• I worked with project team of approximately 15, from architecture through analysis, delivery, customer readiness and including key stakeholders.• Encouraged awareness on programme roadmap whilst providing project solution• Running and participating in weekly project and bi-weekly programme checkpoints ensuring good communication and early visibility of risks and issuesI have been working on a project within the Euro Services programme which delivers;• Consolidation of Reference data across VocaLink’s Euro Services product line• Tools to support bulk upload and publishing of reference data • GUI for internal operational maintenance • GUI for external participant’s viewing and maintenance of reference data • A “Quick Win” bulk data tool for clearing and settling reference dataProject budget was reduced from £500k to £355k after finding significant cost reductions without compromise to the final solution.

In this role I was responsible for;• Leading a team of 12 UK resources, 4 permanent, 8 Onsite Offshore\Contract• Utilising Spanish labs for developments, working with managers and their teams• Promoting knowledge share, ensuring work variety, growing skills and team working• Impact assessment, planning and delivery of new business requirements or ER’s • Work with architecture, UK team and software labs to for an appropriate solution• Validate estimates and plans from software labs based both in UK and overseas• Track and manage delivery of requirements, risks and issues• Ensure adequate testing and quality gates were achieved• Coordinating deployment into the clients’ live environment • Handing off to BAU\Maintenance functions.

Gb

This role focused on project management and delivery of new POS software components to be used as part of Abbey’s IT transformation program. The role involved delivering the business requirements;• With a small team of 3 UK and 4 offshore development resources • On time• Within budget • Company quality standards met

Gb

Various Consultant\Developer Roles Held, responsibilities included;• Consulting on Technologies, Methodologies and best practices• Present & provide solutions to business requirements from technical solution through physical infrastructure, DR capabilities and clear demonstration of resilience and extensibility.• Decoupling useful functionality from monolithic legacy systems producing middleware components to be utilized across other systems.• Lead developer building market leading online mortgage advisor application.• Undertook remaining development and maintenance of 3rd party software for Credit Reference Agency proxy used for application Credit Scoring.

Hnd, Software Engineering

Higher, Art & Design & Technical Drawing

Standard, Art & Design - 1, Craft & Design - 2, English - 3, Geography - 4, Mathematics - 3, Science - 3

O-Grade, Technical Drawing - 2