- Transformational CTO/CIO, expert at building and running world-class, complex, global technology.
- Recently supported $3Bn of revenue,13 countries, 20k+ users, all business lines for a leading Investment Bank
- Extensive experience working across Capital Markets, Retail Banking and Payments managing Complex Application and Infrastructure, creating innovative AI-driven solutions and driving continuous improvement.
- Lead Consultant at the NASDAQ, consulted at Board and CEO level to deliver Technology Transformation critical to Europe's largest IPO launch in 2019.
- Managed large. global, onshore and offshore teams of 600+ Globally, most recently, cross-APAC
- FIntech conference speaker, EDA evangelist, Silicon Valley startup experience
- Dynamic, charismatic, people-focused leader
• CTO, supporting all BNPP businesses including Investment Banking, Wealth Management, Asset Management, Insurance and Securities
• Managed 600+ Staff in 13 locations, $100M PnL
• Technology Scope included: 12000+ Servers, 3000+ Applications, 20000 End Users
• Responsible for Production SecOps and SIEM Data Lake
• Rebuilt teams after severe attrition
• Defined and executed Tech Strategy for the region, including Cloud,
• Digital Workspace, Data Centre Transformation, Obsolescence, plus stability and resilience
• Drove AI-enabled automation across the front office, restoring credibility with business, injecting urgency.
▪ Accenture GDN Technology Lead (CIO), responsible for provision of all technology services to 10,000 Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) users in 8 offshore centres, (Eastern Europe/India/China/Philippines).
▪ Created/ implemented Architecture standards with built-in BCP increasing resiliency by 100%.
▪ Created the IT cost component of Accenture’s rate-card/cost recovery model for each offshore location.
▪ Initiated successful renegotiations of Accenture’s global Microsoft, contract lowering desktop software costs by 80%.
Tech Vision & Strategy and Consulting
undefined- Technical Training Courses: Cisco ICRC/ACRC/CCNA,VAX/VMS, Systems Analysis, ITIL V2/ITIL V3 Foundation, AWS, Lean six sigma
- Project Management: PMI Certified
- Technology Exposure: RHEL Linux, MS Server, Oracle, SQL, Postgres, Apache Cassandra, Elastic Stack, ITRS Geneos, Java, C++, trading systems, settlements, back office, retail, central banking systems (POS/ATM/Issuing/Acquiring), Telecoms, Business Process Outsourcing Applications, SAP, Peoplesoft, Openshift, VMware, Hyper-V, Azure, EMC, NetApp, Solace, Dynatrace, App Dynamics, Salesforce CRM, Marketing Cloud