Andrew Atkinson9 Evesham Road North, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 9DW

Mobile: 0770 294 7988Email: atkinson.a.j@btinternet.com

Profile

Successful technical IT Programme Manager/Project Manager with 15 years financial services experience in Investment Banking. Proven experience in managing complex multi-year IT programmes from initiation through to successful closure. With the ability to create highly motivated technical global delivery teams in conjunction with the aptitude to engage senior stakeholders (MD, CXX) in organisations to create a successful outcome.

Career And Achievements

Awards

Short listed for the Banking Awards 2016 - best institutional infrastructure initiative.

DEUTSCHE BANK

Project Manager November 2015-PresentOn-going project management of further system integration (2 Summit systems) & re-engineering the trade processing middleware transport from TIBCO BusinessWorks into Java. New budget source and team.

Remit: Complete the final Summit consolidation while enhancing the functional scope of the system for trading and regulatory control. In addition re-engineer the trade routing & enrichment middleware architecture

Programme Manager March 2013-November 2015Programme management of a (Misys) Summit system consolidation initiative over 3 years as part of a bank wide cost reduction initiative. Successfully complete on time and budget, receiving personal acknowledgement CEO John Cryan and COO Kim Hammonds as well as other senior MD’s across operations, finance, risk and technology. Example feedback from Debt IT MD:

“Fantastic achievement!! Well done to all involved.This is a culmination of a very professionally run program that is a showcase for how GTO can work in partnership with many of the groups in the bank, to successfully deliver highly complex, multiyear programs that make us a simpler, safer and more efficient bank.

Thank you all for the massive effort, for all those lost weekends and late nights, that the team has sacrificed to ensure the many phases of the program not only delivered on time but delivered in a very stable way. (3P2’s and no P1’s attributed to the program is VERY impressive)”

Responsibilities included:

Remit: Reduce Summit system complexity globally and reduce operating costs in 3 years Scope: System re-platforming, upgrade, integration, decommission while doing BAU delivery

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Attaining costs save of €3m/annum via reduced license premiums, datacentre infrastructure footprint & IT support

Full accountability for programme success or failure Consolidation/decommission of 8 systems in London, New York, Singapore, Tokyo & Sydney Stakeholder management at senior MD level across operations, risk, finance, technology Initial vendor (x3) contract negotiation, signoff and on-going relationship management Budget responsibility for €20m over the programme lifecycle. €6m/year Team build out (max. 60) across vendor, contract and permanent staff across UK, US, India,

Romania, Australia, Singapore, Philippines Global travel to support regional go-lives Governance setup; on-going monthly Steering Group chair, weekly coordination & reporting Chaired daily, weekly working group meetings through entire delivery cycle. Understood the

detail at the (Jira) task level Dependency management across 300 global systems & interfaces and 3,000 users across 120

legal entities Change management for any scope change with internal clients or vendor Driving infrastructure sizing (application & database servers, Citrix) procurement, build &

production acceptance SDLC coordination across project, environment & delivery managers (inc. finance, risk,

regulatory, front & back office). Coordination with other internal projects/programmes Coordination of production delivery and warranty support over the delivery lifecycle Programme closure – including final cost & benefits realisation summary, workshop to

collate lessons learnt, distribution of findings to PM’s for inclusion in subsequent deliveries as applicable. Off-boarding project team

Programme Manager January 2012-February 2013Upgrade of the Openlink commodities application across trade capture, risk and finance. I was brought in to assist the incumbent Programme Manager, however after a year the Commodities business was wound down due to the high capital costs imposed by new regulations and the Programme was closed. During this time my responsibilities included:

Assisting the Houston based Programme Manager to provide a UK presence due to the geographic and time zone differences from the technology delivery team

Budget responsibility for €30m annually. Ran monthly finance meeting for the Programme Director. Worked with PMO on reporting Cash and P&L numbers

Coordination of the delivery streams, ensuring that project plans were synchronised – I setup and ran a number of workshops to synchronise the project plans across the risk, finance and trade capture delivery streams – ensuring all intra and external project & programme dependencies were captured and subsequently tracked

Setup and ran a governance structure to solidify the delivery streams – bi-weekly working group and weekly status reporting. Setup and chaired monthly Steering committee

Senior stakeholder management (MD level) via Steering Committee and status reporting On-going vendor relationship management

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Programme Manager April 2011 –December 2012I had two roles during this time, one defining the Target Operating Model (TOM) for Rates and Credit trade processing IT and the other as the delivery lead for a trade processing middleware application. Responsibilities included:

Setting up governance framework for the IT trade capture team Organised and chaired an 1 week offsite in Ukraine with vendor to finalise model Publication of the model on the intranet. Walked the affected stakeholders through the

main changes Training key staff to deliver the message as well as hosting conference calls to the trade

processing technology team (200 internal and vendor staff) Coordinating the book of work (BoW) of the TPM middleware application, associated

resource & budgeting Leading a team to enhance the performance throughput of the TPM middleware application

ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND

Project Manager June 2007 – March 2011Troubleshot two failing IT projects with demanding stakeholders. Responsibilities included:

Re-calibration of the project plans – setup and chaired workshops to understand current issues & bottlenecks, quick-wins and pragmatic delivery approach

Re-engagement of the senior stakeholders with an achievable plan Setting up a programme governance model – working groups & steering committees Augment the delivery team with appropriate SME’s and delivery manager Matrix management across UK & India with international travel to the offshore

development centre Re-energising the project team by ensuring the milestones were achievable Identification of redundant roles redundant to improve delivery efficiency Dependency management included the integration of the client valuations system into a

new Operations data warehouse, enabling the bank to have a standardised view of transactions and associated post trade events

I have also worked at Morgan Stanley (7 years), Citigroup (2 years) as well as SEMA Group Telecoms (2 years). Details available on request.

Education

Msc. Digital Instrumentation and Analytical Science (DIAS) – UMIST, by examination and dissertation. Specialising in Image Systems (Digital Signal Processing)

BSc. Geology (2(i)) – University of Manchester

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