Thomas Mclaughlin Email & Phone Number

Leading the Arity NI organisation. Managing and optimizing costs across AWS cloud infrastructure ensuring efficiency and reducing unintended spend.

Belfast, United Kingdom

▪ Leading the global maintenance, enhancement and production operations teams for Allstate insurances premium generating application Alliance responsible for 85% of all Allstate Revenue.▪ Leading a team of 150 across Engineering, Testing, Triage, Production Operations and Service Management.▪ Reduced overall costs across by 28% over 3 years whilst improving productivity, reducing defects and enhancing resiliency.▪ Negotiated vendor contracts across the Allstate organization to align performance related targets to payment milestones and application improvements. Resulting in significant cost reductions and enhanced productivity and quality.

▪ Global production services manager for critical financial messaging systems processing transactions up to $10 Trillion daily▪ Reformed and continually expanded the responsibility of the department to improve operational efficiency and guarantee 24/7/365 availability of critical services▪ Successfully lead chaos engineering function across 300 financial applications improving resiliency.▪ Trained, developed and lead follow the sun teams across 7 global locations.▪ Implemented data obfuscation programs across applications to ensure they could be supported outside country of origin.

▪ Migrated internal Citi SWIFT routing system from OpenVMS to AIX and Oracle RAC, running both systems in parallel for the duration of the project with Zero impact.▪ Migrated a Sun Solaris, Java financial messaging application to high availability AIX and Oracle RAC load balanced across multiple data centers.▪ Developed bash and PERL monitoring and automation scripts, onboarded ITRS geneos ensuring one alert one action.▪ Management of systems utilizing ITIL framework

▪ Responsible for the management of data pertaining to everyday research including project management, development and support of software and the documentation of software and systems.▪ Developed encryption software for sending secure data to customers▪ Implemented laboratory information management system to track results across lab experiments and detect anomalies in samples.▪ Development of a pipeline to annotate disease specific microarrays, parsing and combing publicly available data with laboratory data.▪ Development of user-friendly versioning system for Matlab

▪ Development of databases, spiders, websites and software to store and analyze scientific data▪ Presentation of software and data at international conferences.

• Development of Specific Disease analytics databases used to analyze labor-atory samples to investigate potential targeted treatments.

• Automatic array annotation database project

Msc, Bioinformatics

Bsc Hons, Biotechnology With Business