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Work Background

Standard Life IrelandSenior Information Technology Manager

Mar. 2024 - Mar. 2025Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland• Led the IT department at Standard Life Ireland through Outsourcing and Transition, ensuring a smooth migration to target state. • Working through the architectural vision for Ireland's target state, collaborating with enterprise architecture teams and commercial partners to optimize systems and processes. • Enhanced Business Continuity processes, implementing regulatory Operations Resilience with cloud solutions for uninterrupted customer service.

Standard Life IrelandIT Development Team Manager / IT Project Manager

Dec. 2011 - Mar. 2024Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland• Delivery manager of high volumes of projects in parallel ranging from small enhancements & domestic operational improvements with small budgets, to large-scale international transformation & platform migrations with budgets of tens of millions of euro. • Team Manager of a combined team of Systems Analysts, Midrange iSeries/Cirvie & Oracle and Mainframe developers • BAU architecture governance done through threat assessments, and deilvered designs and reviews to enterprise approval boards and provided consultancy support. Owned and updated systems inventory and landscape documentation as BAU in advance for future state assessments and roadmap planning. • Proven track record of delivery across a range of programme and project experience across Strategic / Transformational including platform migrations and Transformation Programmes, Regulatory, Banking, Product Simplifications & Rationalisations, Digitisation & Modernisation, Operational Efficiences including Robotics & automation initiatives, small ehancements... and many more...

Standard Life Assurance: part of Phoenix Group CareersInformation Technology Development Manager

Dec. 2011County Dublin, IrelandDual role of Development Team Manager & Application Delivery Manager (IT Project Manager) • Responsible for the delivery of all IT-related activity in projects/programmes in all stages incl. planning, mobilization & resourcing, delivery of software to test, documentation & artefacts, implementations & release mgt, change mgt, transition to BAU & warrantee. Proven track record of delivering quality, extensible solutions across projects/programmes with no rework on time & budget, regardless of complexity or scale across multiple platforms • Responsible for leading, developing, maintaining & managing a high-performing, flexible dev team across mainframe & iSeries (aka AS/400) platforms; people mgt incl. personal development, talent mgt, goal setting, performance reviews & recruitment • Proven in the delivery of high volumes of variety of projects incl. regulatory projects (e.g. RoI Finance Acts, SEPA & banking regulation, Solvency II & EU Directives), strategic programmes (e.g. Brexit), operational improvement programmes (large/medium/small enhancements), technical projects (upgrades, migrations, business continuity & disaster recovery, costing/reducing technical debt, replacing components in containment/out-of-support & others); managing multiple projects in parallel • Experienced in waterfall and Agile methodologies. Acted as ScrumMaster facilitating Sprints & working with product owners • Proven in providing direction, quality high-level systems analysis & steer, influencing, acting in a consultative role & communicating at all levels • Providing overnight/on-call support team to do out-of-hours implementations & production support, rota mgt • Involved in procurement & onboarding of 3rd party apps & ongoing relationship mgt, legal contracts & agreements • Continuous process improvement: Evaluated & on-boarded modern toolsets (e.g. RAD for iSeries); instigation of tech forums & others

Standard Life IrelandSenior Analyst/Programmer (iSeries application development & support)

Jan. 2003 - Nov. 2011County Dublin, Ireland• Lead CIRVIE/iSeries (AS/400) developer on many critical & sensitive projects. Extensive experience in tech analysis, design, build, implementation & support of large scale components in CIRVIE (a principal multi-user life assurance & pensions admin system). Proven track record coding quality/extensible solutions with no rework & on time/budget, regardless of complexity/scale. • Experience in strategic IS exercises such as current & future state assessments using best practice tools. • Also responsible for work allocation & resource planning for dev resources across group, domestic & international projects & monitoring/ensuring delivery of same. Formulated standards & controls & Proactively introduced continuous improvements. • Involved in numerous cross-platform developments, such as client/server technologies & mainframe. Substantial exposure to SOA i.e. business/data/web services. Demonstrated creative thinking & pragmatic solutions. Delivered a solution and a ‘white paper’ for a solution to automatically use existing green screen transactions as update business services without rewriting them and secured a R&D tax rebate from Enterprise Ireland. • Expert knowledge of iSeries o/s, COBOL/400 & CL Control Language, DB/2 Database for iSeries, Websphere/RAD for iSeries, Query/400, SQL/400, DB2 UDB Query Manager, Extermin8 (debug tool), See/Change (change control), Access for iSeries (aka Ops Navigator)

Standard Life Assurance: part of Phoenix Group CareersSenior Analyst/Programmer (iSeries application development & support)

Jan. 2003 - Nov. 2011County Dublin, Ireland• Lead CIRVIE/iSeries (AS/400) developer within Standard Life Ireland for 8 years. 14+ years total experience in and expert knowledge of iSeries o/s, COBOL/400 & CL Control Language, DB/2 Database for iSeries, Websphere/RAD for iSeries, Query/400, SQL/400, DB2 UDB Query Manager, Extermin8 (debug tool), See/Change (change control), Access for iSeries (aka Ops Navigator) • Extensive experience in tech analysis, design, build, implementation & support of large scale components in CIRVIE, a principal multi-user life assurance & pensions admin system in Standard Life Ireland • Also responsible for work allocation & resource planning for dev resources across group/domestic/international projects & monitoring/ensuring delivery of same • Proven track record coding quality/extensible solutions with no rework & on time/budget, regardless of complexity/scale. Acted as the lead in many critical & sensitive projects including demutualisation, platform migrations, regulatory projects, porting of services offshore etc. • Experienced in systems analysis & steer, influencing, communicating & acting in a consultative role & in providing estimates/costing of small/medium/large scale projects. Strong communication, presentation & interpersonal skills. Record of establishing & maintaining lasting relationships • Involved in numerous cross-platform developments, such as client/server technologies & mainframe. Substantial exposure to SOA i.e. business/data/web services • Experience in strategic IS exercises such as current & future state assessments using best practice tools. Formulated standards & controls. Proactively introduced continuous improvements • Worked in SLDC, SSADM & LEAN & Agile (Scrum) frameworks. Knowledge of UML. • Demonstrated creative thinking & pragmatic solutions. Written ‘white paper’ reports & was involved in the submission for R&D tax incentives - I secured a significant tax rebate from Enterprise Ireland. Please refer to the attached document for more details.

Standard Life IrelandAnalyst Programmer

Jun. 1997 - Dec. 2003County Dublin, Ireland1. International Business Systems Support Team - 6 months (iSeries/CIRVIE development, mainframe application development & support) 2. PC Development Team primarily Visual Basic. 3. Production Support Team - 2 years (iSeries/CIRVIE application support)

Standard Life Assurance: part of Phoenix Group CareersAnalyst Programmer

Jun. 1997 - Dec. 2003County Dublin, Ireland1. International Business Systems Support Team 2. Production Support Team 1. International Business Systems Support Team - 6 months (mainframe application development & support) • Support to the business area involved in using mainframe applications • Conducting analysis of business requirements within IT and business operational areas • Documenting detailed business requirements and software solutions, • Proactively identifying continuous improvement for the Irish operation and again buy-in and approval for recommendations made from RoI and UK • Networking in the UK and RoI to maintain an awareness of improvement activities and sharing best practice • Preparing project plans and reporting on project progress • Designing, building testing and implementing software solutions • Maintaining mainframe applications, MVS Workbench & TSO • Also worked as a developer within a PC Development Team for 3 months, primarily Visual Basic 6 2. Production Support Team - 2 years (iSeries application support) • Role involved providing high-quality support to the business area of both a technical & business operational nature • Effected good communication and interpersonal skills between development team and customer service representatives • Promoting awareness of improvements to the business operational areas • Identifying genuine problems and liaising with the development team for solution derivation & delivery • Ensuring the following of best practice and handling change control of software solutions and functionality into the test & live environments • Ensuring the integrity of data in the live database & production software • Ability to work on own initiative with good organisational skills in a high delivery-intensive environment • Maintaining & effecting continuous improvement of the production support processes. • Working closely with developers, business analysts, testers and technical services • Business-as-usual type solutions design and development

DELPHI SOFTWARE SERVICES LIMITEDSystem Programmer

Jul. 1996 - Jul. 1997County Dublin, Ireland‘Y2K’ Conversion Team (mainframe Y2K conversions for clients of Delphi) – 1 year • Design, implementation of software solutions for business systems for clients including many Irish banks, financial institutions and airlines; that were not Year 2000-compliant. • General exposure to clients various insurance & banking systems. Daily usage of COBOL (RM & Microfocus), IBM PL/1 (Programming Language) on MVS & TSO on mainframe; Day to day use of OS/2 Warp, IBM Works & Lotus Notes • Analysis, design and implementation of major Change Control System for tracking status of program changes by the ‘Y2K team’ for Delphi Software in Visual Basic & MS-Access