Archive for January, 2021

Led the rescue and delivery of upgraded applications and infrastructure across a bank’s 1,800 sites and 80,000 users, with early successes to regain exec confidence and support.

Led the closure of a retail and intermediary bank. This €250 million initiative required significant stakeholder management to downsize and exit c. 800 employees.

Led the IT integration of a building society and bank. 200+ FTE, 5 vendors and £80m budget covering design, development, test, implementation and de-commissioning.

Led set-up of a new regulated insurance business. $250m initiative covering business case, regulatory approval, processes, IT solutions, recruitment and customer on-boarding.

Built the case for infrastructure investment due to outage issues; gained support of the exec, agreed increase of £11m/year, designed the portfolio to quickly resolve the issues.

Up-skilled 200+ people in change leadership using tailored training and coaching material. Established collaboration and support facilities to sustain the improvements over time.

Established control of spend with incumbent partners and suppliers by implementing process, governance and contractual changes whilst maintaining good working relationships.

Recovered failing roll-out of new branch platform by coordinating across the multiple suppliers, providing clear accountability, strong leadership and rapid problem resolution.

Led team of 70+ people to cut the operating cost of IT by over £70m/annum, by challenging, rationalising and consolidating services, staff, suppliers and partners.

Led a joint team to develop replacement pensions platform services using a hybrid Agile approach, which was further assessed, improved and used on other similar programmes.