Andrew Olson Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, Gb

As the Chief Technology Officer at Enterprise Blueprints, I am dedicated to steering our technology strategy and driving innovation to help our clients navigate the rapidly evolving digital landscape. With a strong background in technology consulting and a passion for solving complex challenges, I lead a team of talented engineers and consultants in delivering cutting-edge solutions that propel businesses forward.In my role, I focus on:• Strategic Vision: Crafting and executing technology strategies that align with our clients' business goals and foster long-term success.• Innovation Leadership: Leveraging emerging technologies to create transformative solutions and ensure our clients stay ahead of industry trends.• Operational Excellence: Enhancing our delivery processes and technical practices to achieve superior results and maintain high standards of quality and efficiency.• Client Partnership: Building strong relationships with clients to understand their unique needs and provide tailored solutions that drive value and growth.• Team Empowerment: Mentoring and guiding our technical teams, fostering a collaborative environment that encourages creativity and professional development.

London, Gb

I drive EB's cybersecurity practice globally, and enable our clients to achieve better security through the right technology advice and support. I (and my team) focus our experience on our clients' difficult, complex cybersecurity and technology problems, and see them through. We address issues in data security, evolutionary security architectures, cyber resilience and architecture practice optimisation.

London, England, Gb

Shaping security for the group’s new cloud-based data platform to support AI,machine learning, alongside operational and customer data objectives.- Spearheaded data security architecture within Group- Enabled group-wide capabilities to support application security, identity andaccess management and security-as-code objectives- Providing security leadership on automation, microservices and eventdrivenarchitectures and platform integration security- Defined and realised cloud security architecture for group (AWS) to beadopted my multiple operating companies

London, Uk, Gb

Crafting a bank-wide strategy for cloud security and roadmap that balances aggressive adoption with “secure-by-default” thinking (Azure, GCP, AWS and other SaaS): - Focus on capabilities such as key management, data leakage and data exfiltration prevention - Integration of identity management concerns with IAM capabilities within cloudAdvocate cloud security priorities across the bankDevelop security capabilities and services to support the bank's business objectivesSupport secure cloud usage by balancing data risks with at-scale adoptionRefine multi-cloud approach to support portability and operational concerns

At Rockitt, our goal is to gets kids active and help to build a positive habit of exercise and activity.As a core team member of Rockitt, I'm responsible for designing and building our game-based fitness platform for kids. This include motion-tracking, the game system as well as apps.

London, Gb

Provide a clear strategy for cloud security and roadmap including service consumption and integration, devSecOps, response and remediationProvide industrialised approaches for securing cloud services run by the bank based on current threat landscape and risksAutomation of security patterns and guardrails across cloud platforms (GCP, AWS)Stakeholder management with a variety of technology and business leaders across the Bank’s organisational units, as well as technology vendors and consultancies

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Stakeholder management and liaison with senior business leaders, architecture and delivery teamsTechnical leadership on application security strategiesArchitectural governance and strategy across on-premise and cloudAligning security with divisional divestment strategiesArchitecture for new compliance gate enabling rapid automated deployments within cloudLed security architecture for microservices and AWS cloud deploymentsLed improvement to central devops security (devsecops) capabilities to increase agility and predictabilityUplift of API authentication methods within the bank

London, Uk, Gb

As part of the bank transformation initiative, my focus is on how we evolve our information security capabilities within architecture.I provide clear, continuous and consistent leadership across security solutions that include cloud, SaaS, ASP and on-premise, whilst ensuring customer data is sufficiently secured. For resourcing, I also need to balance third parties working alongside bank staff on a strategic basis to deliver key programmes. I'm quite comfortable with rolling up my sleeves to get things back on track, whether this is in the infrastructure security or application security space.Stakeholder management is a key part of my day-to-day role to ensure that solutions are fit for purpose, and pragmatically balance security and business needs. Alongside this, I ensure that we're identifying and addressing strategic concerns as well as reusable assets such as patterns, standards and roadmaps.

London, Uk, Gb

- Since 2013 focused on digital banking including customer applications such as online banking, consumption of SaaS and electronic identity and validation (ID&V)- Provides clear, continuous and consistent solution architecture leadership across all security domains, at a detailed level, within projects- Stakeholder management to ensure solutions are fit for purpose, meet the needs of the business and align to strategy- Produce strategy, patterns, blueprints, standards and roadmaps (and I can roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty when needed)

London, Gb

Focused on ensuring we deliver on our promise to customers and that our trading partners have a good experience with us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Responsible for enabling Microsoft's enterprise customers and partners with the adoption of Microsoft security technologies.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Responsible for providing expertise in the strategy, architecture and deployment of security technologies for Microsoft's customers.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Responsibilities:• Subject Matter Expert leading the design and delivery of enterprise solutions a leading retail and institutional bank (30,000 seat)• Develop technical and process-based standards for security-related activities including monitoring and sustainability of proposed solution.• Manage compliance for client’s IT Security policy and standards.Achievements/Major projects:• Designed and implemented security architecture for enterprise server virtualisation solution based on VMWare • Designed and implemented enterprise broadband remote access solution • Designed default Windows 2003 security base operating environment • Designed and implemented enterprise public key infrastructure (PKI) for initial use with SSL and IPSec certificates• Designed and implemented enterprise anti-virus architecture • Designed and implemented enterprise mobile code repository that complied with the bank’s security policy

North Strathfield, Nsw, Au

• Develop, plan and deliver the architecture for major systems to support the overall business requirements for the Asia-Pacific region• Project lead for all major systems implementation• Develop and maintain global security policies and procedures in conjunction with the global security team. Responsible for the Asia Pacific region for all security-related activities.• Manage system and network security compliance including monitoring of security compliance of regional applications and infrastructure.• Mentoring and technical leadership of IT team

Responsibilities:• Design and implementation of security and network solutions for customers including firewall, VPN, authentication mechanisms, High Availability network and application implementations based on client requirements and proposed design.• Producing technical proposals and specifications• Project Management of solution delivery• Pre-sales consultancy of security and network solutions• Mentoring of junior staffAchievements / Major Projects:• Police force – designed and implemented entire security infrastructure for regional police force. • Online banking – designed and implemented online banking infrastructure. • Financial web site (dotcom) – implemented revised security architecture for financial website in conjunction with client’s existing security products. • Bank Internet connections – designed and implemented bank’s Internet connections and migrated financial applications

London, England, Gb

Greenwood Village, Colorado, Us

Electronics

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