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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.

• 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