Email Address [email protected] Full Name and Address David Weir 4 Twentyman Walk Leeds, West Yorkshire LS10 4FG United Kingdom Website weirsweb.co.uk Description The following individual disputes payments. Anyone attempting to do business or hire this person should know in advance that this person will dispute payments after ordering won't follow your directions. This complaint will be removed once this individual contacts us and resolves all past conflicts. Other Information David Weir CIO/CTO at Totemic Managed Solutions Ltd Melbourne, AustraliaInformation Technology and Services Previous EMIS, Callcredit Information Group, BJSS Education Leeds Beckett University 113 connectionsSend David InMailMore options au.linkedin.com/in/davidweir123 Background Summary A strategic leader who shapes, drives, and leads business transformation through technical expertise and delivery excellence. Focus towards rapid results, which provide a real advantage, and a meaningful return on investment. Full P&L departmental accountability of £35mil, programmes exceeding £10mil. Responsible for operational leadership of up to 400 FTE, cross functional & internationally distributed teams, to facilitate high-level corporate goals. I have success driving smaller start-up focused teams, towards faster success, maximising effectiveness through best use of modern technology and Lean principles. Excellent commercial experience, opened new channels via technical opportunities. I have experience providing strategic direction whilst remaining hands-on and very technical. Agile evangelist and technology enthusiast; UK Resident, Permanent Australian Working Visa. Dave Weir Career Infographic Dave Weir Career Infographic Experience CIO/CTO Totemic Managed Solutions Ltd July 2015 – Present (1 year 4 months)Nottingham, United Kingdom Totemic provide various Financial Services to UK consumers and European businesses. Insurance, Leasing, Corporate Banking, Loans, Insolvency and Debt Management. A shared technical platform is utilised across the group of companies. Totemic Group also contains a number of sub-companies (Payplan, Reach, FireFly, Red Potato, and Premium Plan). - Generated new revenue from SaaS into external markets (BT, Shire, Hitachi) - Significantly reduced overheads through economies of scale. Consolidation of disparate IT functions into two meaningful teams with a clear identity (Internal & External) - Forged a new department to provide financial bureau services via our Banking software to target a higher profit margin. - Created the BudgetWise brand, to provide packaged Income & Expenditure (I&E) collection services. - Adopted best of breed delivery practices to facilitate different needs (SAFe, ITIL and Waterfall) - Assisted business units through FCA compliance, and attained ISO27001 & PCI compliance within Tech. - Established new offshore Team in Portugal to plug UX, MEAN & Dev Ops skills gap. - Personally led the R&D efforts towards new Technology stack to replace legacy Oracle Form & Reports. - Negotiated existing contracts to significantly reduce overheads. Installed group procurement process. - Established key partnerships with Kofax, Credit Reference Agencies, and Finance advice groups. Established revenue from software into external markets from a cold start. Tracking at £75Kpcm with forecast of £4.5mil per year within 3 years. Actively reduced underperformance and increased overall quality. Development Director EMIS October 2013 – July 2015 (1 year 10 months)Global Responsible for all aspects of IT Service & Delivery, across EMIS range of applications and contracts. Leading a team of 300+ IT professionals across several sites and 2 continents. EMIS provides several market leading healthcare critical applications to GPs, Hospitals, Community Trusts and Pharmacies, for contracts within NHS UK, Europe, Australia and Ministry of Defense. I also support, service & develop the EMIS B2C brand Symptom Checker, Health Information and Medicines Guide | Patient which includes numerous web offerings, cloud, SAAS, and mobile applications (i.e. PatientAccess app, a launch partner with Apple iOS8, HealthKit) The majority of my time and remit is providing leadership and direction to our cross functional and distributed service & developments teams, across various offices in the UK, India and Australia. Extended responsibility across EMIS Group of companies (Ascribe, RX Systems, Digital Healthcare). Due to the increasing success of EMIS, my Department has continued to grow in line with the ever increasing demands for our products & services. To increase delivery efficiencies I have introduced a number of business improvements, based on Enterprise RUP and Cell based Delivery Teams following Scrum. To facilitate and embrace this change, a number of departmental structure changes were targeted and swiftly implemented, in conjunction with self-correcting business operations & behaviours. I worked with senior management and executives to establish the correct change framework within the organisation, and continue to mentor senior staff so they are confident with their responsibilities and can take charge of the functional towers of the department. (Delivery | Engineering | Architecture | DPMO | Service) Mandate to provide sustainable growth, established offshore offices (India) <6month benefit realisation period. Office used for staff augmentation (not separate offshore team) to ensure high technical standard coupled with experienced UK based domain knowledge, within a strict budget. Head of Development Callcredit Information Group July 2011 – October 2013 (2 years 4 months)UK and Europe To provide leadership and direction to cross functional, distributed technical delivery teams. I am accountable for the delivery of 25+ complex projects across 5 business streams and responsible for the continual improvement of process, culture and effectiveness. - Overall responsibility for the technical leadership of delivery teams with extended responsibility into Infrastructure and Operations; to deliver and maintain high quality solutions. - Quality, Design and risk management, full resource management and budgetary management - Increased delivery capability through best practices and proven techniques including the introduction of new product delivery methodology (combination of SCRUM/XP/KANBAN/LEAN) - Promote the use of appropriate technologies and tooling, and explore the potential of new technologies, - Establish standard artefacts, formats and approaches. Set and adhere to department KPIs and SLAs. - 3rd party vendor management (UK and offshore) across development, QA and infrastructure. - Provision of a Private Cloud solution to provide self-serve Development/Test environments - High Volume, High Availability, High Transactional products, using best of breed Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and BigData technologies. - Responsible for providing line management, leadership and strategic direction for approx. 100 FTE across 11 direct reports. 50% UK based and 50% based in Lithuania - Supported the,ISO9001,14001,20000,27001, PCI-DSS and IOSH department audits Key Projects Accountable for the full portfolio of products across all divisions which serve the various vertical business streams (Credit, Consumer and Marketing). Some notable projects include: - Big Data Initiatives: - Hadoop, HDFS, MapReduce, Elastic-Search, AmazonWS. - Over Indebtedness: - NServiceBus, F#, C#, MS-SQL. - ASDA Multi-Chanel-Marketing-Ecosystem: - IBM InfoSphere, MS-SQL, SSIS, SAS, F#. Senior Consultant – Programme Mgr / Enterprise Architect BJSS July 2010 – July 2011 (1 year 1 month)UK Leeds/London Engaged specifically to provide consultancy level management for top tier financial institutions and blue chip organisations. Key deliverables focus on system performance, stakeholder management; direct / indirect team management; strategic definition; project management; and budget financial management. Accountable for high level stakeholder management with responsibility for 3 principle accounts: Trafigura, CPP and Tullett Prebon, incorporating significant pre-sales, proposal writing and providing fixed cost RFP. Evaluating and implementing architectures, technologies, and development processes aligned to the overall strategy to meet business requirements. Consistently managing multiple concurrent projects to time and budget. Instigated and successfully managed service quality improvement plans. Defined enhanced business strategies to provide improved service delivery, increasing client engagement and securing additional contract awards. Co-ordinating offshore teams of up to 30 people based in Ukraine and Poland. Managing client expectation with engagement spanning from CTO / CIO to Senior Architect/Programme Manager. Utilising Enterprise Agile approach acting as Programme Manager working within Trafigura to manage all BJSS consultants involved with the account (Leeds and London) in addition to a secondary supplier (EPAM) incorporating their offshore teams. Head of IT Solutions EnServe Group Limited March 2007 – July 2010 (3 years 5 months)UK, Leeds Key responsibilities included multiple stakeholder management at Board and Group Board level; strategic and technical direction; ISO certification; bid support; solution design and implementation; overall architectural governance; due diligence and budget management. Accountable for all IT solutions across all divisions which serve the various vertical utilities business streams (Water, Electric, Telecoms, Gas, Energy) and internal support systems. Responsible for providing leadership and direction for 60 FTE UK based and 20 offshore. Successfully defined and implanted new IT processes based on SCRUM, ITIL, DSDM and UML, which resulted in a significant efficiency improvement throughout the department, and was instrumental to the successful centralisation of the IT function. Influenced the key business stakeholders to ensure that systems are delivered efficiently and form part of a broader integrated IT strategy. ISO27001 and ISO9001 department certification Championed an approachable interface between business and IT function to ensure correct project initiation and managed business expectation relating to implementation. Designed and delivered the flagship utilities work management systems JTE, which has subsequently become an industry standard and continues to secure £multimillion contracts. Defined and implemented large enterprise solution including SharePoint; MS Dynamics CRM (XRM); MS Service Centre; Salesforce.net, Blackberry Services; Vehicle Tracking; Access Dimensions and Sage Technical Architect / Development Manager Various August 2002 – March 2007 (4 years 8 months)UK and Australia Various Short Term Contracts, as either an Architect or project/developmnt manager. Euro RSCG Riley’s NCS Pearson’s Manheim - Kah Systems (UK), Fowles (Australia) Vehicle Data Systems Senior Software Developer Halifax August 2000 – June 2002 (1 year 11 months)UK, Halifax Involved in the Online Statement, Group Security Wrapper (Sign-In) and ISA projects. High-level design of Internet based applications (UML). Design & Development of encapsulated components to manage banking workflows/transactions securely. Offsite Developer ICR Group Holywell March 1999 – August 2000 (1 year 6 months)UK, Leeds Development of bespoke software using MS technologies, Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Telephony development, Computer Based Training development / Generic ID-2-Post-code retrieval (IVR) Test Engineer / Developer William Hill December 1995 – March 1999 (3 years 4 months)UK, Leeds System and Unit Year 2000 Testing. Testing and Error handle for Internet based betting. Exposed to Internet Technologies and Test cycles Education Leeds Beckett University Leeds Beckett University Bachelor's Degree, Business Information Technology, 2:1 1996 – 1999 Activities and Societies: Capoeira Leeds Beckett University Leeds Beckett University Associate's Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Merit 1996 – 1998 Additional Info Advice for Contacting David CIO, CTO, Healthcare Certifications Media Presentation, Public Speaking Talk PR TOGAF FoundationThe Open Group The Open Group Scrum MasterScrum Alliance Scrum Alliance, License 000132171 Prince2 Foundation and PractitionerAPM Group APM Group, License P2R/726494 DSDM Foundation and Practitioner Atern, License 990074423 10+ Microsoft Technical Certifications (MC-ITP, MC-PD, MC-TS, MC-PRO)(Link)Microsoft Microsoft, License mcpvirtualbusinesscard.com/VBCServer/weirsweb/profile ITIL v3 FoundationAPM Group APM Group, License 00121178 Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) Mansfield Mine Rescue Services, License 890151 Leading SAFeScaled Agile, Inc. Scaled Agile, Inc. Starting July 2015 Volunteer Experience & Causes Causes David cares about: Health Organizations CIO Network .
