Wayne Slater Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Lead Consultant working as an Associate of CloudStratex Ltd (A Brillio Company) and previously CloudTalent Ltd (an Avanade Company). A senior advisor & programme manager across a range of engagements. Clients have been diverse across Finance, Media, Utility & Hospitality industries. Engagements include management & delivery of an insurance company's multi-year cyber response program, advising on an insurance company's infrastructure strategy renewal, a utility company's IT demand management issues, defining & delivering a financial services company's firm wide regulatory response program (managing external auditors directly) & assisting with the restructure of their regional IT organization.

London, United Kingdom

Recruited to lead a set of initiatives to modernise operations and technology for TRM’s worldwide systems management infrastructure, running on over 60,000 servers. Stabilized & lowered the cost of this infrastructure. Delivered automated processes enabling faster adoption of the latest Tivoli product set. Developed a strategic plan for a cost effective shift to pre-emption while providing greater flexibility & ease of use. Managed a $100m IBM Tivoli relationship.

London, United Kingdom

o Global Head of Security Services. Remit to improve service, prevent inappropriate access, achieve SOX compliance & cut costs. - Delivered an integrated set of global access request & review systems (MyAccess/GARS) proven to handle over 1M transactions & reviews annually- Highly commended at the 2008 European Banking Technology awards. - Service transformation included building an effective global engineering & operation functions using a combination of on and off-shore services & outsourced processing. - Internally marketed and achieved high levels of adoption & automation across the bank. - Delivered strong PKI based authentication for system access, the foundations for smartcards & a global break glass solution. o European head of End User Technology responsible for the consolidation of multiple IT help desk, desktop support, trade floor support, hardware break fix, IMAC & access control teams. A key lead in the global outsource of many of these consolidated functions to HP. Architect of a transactional costing model that enabled automation to deliver efficiencies. Director/Mentor to HP as they developed their first financial services outsource engagement using an ITIL driven framework.o Recruited to deliver infrastructure & testing services for BPTA, a $400m Global Back Office Re-engineering project. Created the service models & built highly regarded teams that delivered.

London, United Kingdom

Working via Price Waterhouse Coopers advised Morgan Stanley during the design & specification phase of an auction based Internet trading system project.

London

CTO Steering Committee lead responsible for integration of Bankers Trust market data, middleware & Trading Floor systems with those at Deutsche Bank. Delivered 7 months ahead of schedule with high praise for the professionalism & knowledge that drove this.

London & New York

Head Global Information Systems. Delivered trading floor systems to 2,500 users in 14 locations - engineering, operations & procurement. Budget in excess of $100m. Key member of the team that delivered one of the first digital floors. Designed & built the user interface & management systems. Received a Smithsonian Institute Achievement Award in recognition of advances made in trading floor technology. Led system globalisation & ongoing development from 1994, building a successful franchise & highly motivated teams. Technology successfully deployed to Alex Brown & Nat West Equity businesses. Led a rationalisation programme that saved $10m pa on market data spend.

Bsc (Hons), Maths With Economics

Industrial placement year in the Operational Research department at British Steel, Sheffield 1982/3 (Diploma of Industrial Studies)

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