Personal Experience
An experienced IT professional having 18+ years of experience with consistent accomplishments in delivering Digital Transformation projects – Cloud Infrastructure, DevSecOps, Application Design, Delivery Management, Project Management for Fortune 500 companies. Specialised in Agile/SCRUM, RUP, PRINCE2 processes. Worked closely with senior management to execute strategies. Excellent communicator and hands-on approach to team leadership.
Professional Skills
Business and Technology Transformation
22 yrs
financial services
16 yrs
programme delivery
19 yrs
Areas of Expertise
DevOps, Digital Transformation, Cloud Infrastrucure, Blockchain, Applications Design and Architecture, Project Management, AWS, Azure, IT Strategy, Agile@Scale.
Core Competencies
- Architecture, Blockchain & DevSecOps – Technology Lead with over 11+ years of experience in implementing
highly available Cloud infrastructure using AWS, Azure & Openshift. Extensive experience in application design and
development complimented by technical expertise including C/C++, Java, ATG, Client/Server systems,
Infrastructure automation on Amazon Cloud. Solutions developed were related to Digital, CRM and Middleware
platforms. Ensure compliance with enterprise frameworks and meet various standards (PCI, SOX etc). Blockchain
implementation within Supply chain process, Supply Chain finance & Editorial/ Submission platform. - Leadership & Delivery Management – Lead DevSecOps team and manage Cloud projects at Nationwide, Lloyds
Banking Group, Elsevier & Barclays. Lead delivery of cloud infrastructure for major publishing platform called Evise
(Top 5 revenue generating app for Elsevier). Setup eCommerce delivery centre for UK at NTT Data – Owned P&L
KPOs, grew revenue from £50K/yr to over £2 million/yr. Established strong and successful business relationships.
Excellent management skills including staff management, financial, coaching junior staff - Project Delivery – proven skills in all aspects of project management – Prince 2 certified (P2R/618136) and
delivered solutions using multi-sited (US, UK, France & India) and multi-vendor project teams (NTT Data, Infosys,
IBM, HCL, etc). Successfully executed projects on time and budget with varying methodologies (Waterfall, Scrum,
Iterative-V process, RUP). Over 7 years of experience in Program / Project Management, including capacity
planning, resourcing, budget preparation, vendor relationships. Project size was about £3-8m - IT Strategy – consulted on IT strategy in Telecom, Retail, Publishing & Finance sector – Barclays, Nationwide
Building Society, Lloyds Banking Group, Everything Everywhere, Orange, T-Mobile, Reed Elsevier, Meteor, Kiln,
Bank of America, and Unisys. Established IT roadmap, rationalised application portfolio, implemented continuous
improvement changes to reduce total cost of ownership - Domain Knowledge – experienced in design and delivery of applications within Finance, Telecom & Retails sector.
Over 12 years of experience in defining and delivering end-to-end digital, mobile, CRM, Integrations & SOA
solutions. eCommerce solutions included use of mCommerce (PhoneGap,IOS, Android), ATG (2007, 9.4), Microsoft
Commerce & Magento