Greg Wenden
Head Of Information Technology at CogniSoft- Claim this Profile
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Ken Price
Greg oversaw the design and development of our full tech stack at Avox. He was our first development hire and grew to manage a sizeable team and several rewrites of our platform. He's an experienced tech person and a pleasure to work with.
Dipen Thaker
I had the pleasure of working with Greg for 18 months at Thomson Reuters / Refinitiv on several challenging projects. Greg was a Programme manager facing off to me on the product side whilst we worked on KYC applications. Greg proved himself to be a very effective manager both in terms of delivery as well as managing a globally distributed team based in the Europe, Asia and the US. At all times Greg was collaborative; always striving for the best solution for everyone, with no hidden agenda. He is also attentive to the needs of the stakeholders involved, sorting out differences and facilitating where required. He is strong at building networks within the organisation to facilitate business, infrastructure and technology delivery. I look forward to working with Greg again in the future.
Ken Price
Greg oversaw the design and development of our full tech stack at Avox. He was our first development hire and grew to manage a sizeable team and several rewrites of our platform. He's an experienced tech person and a pleasure to work with.
Dipen Thaker
I had the pleasure of working with Greg for 18 months at Thomson Reuters / Refinitiv on several challenging projects. Greg was a Programme manager facing off to me on the product side whilst we worked on KYC applications. Greg proved himself to be a very effective manager both in terms of delivery as well as managing a globally distributed team based in the Europe, Asia and the US. At all times Greg was collaborative; always striving for the best solution for everyone, with no hidden agenda. He is also attentive to the needs of the stakeholders involved, sorting out differences and facilitating where required. He is strong at building networks within the organisation to facilitate business, infrastructure and technology delivery. I look forward to working with Greg again in the future.
Ken Price
Greg oversaw the design and development of our full tech stack at Avox. He was our first development hire and grew to manage a sizeable team and several rewrites of our platform. He's an experienced tech person and a pleasure to work with.
Dipen Thaker
I had the pleasure of working with Greg for 18 months at Thomson Reuters / Refinitiv on several challenging projects. Greg was a Programme manager facing off to me on the product side whilst we worked on KYC applications. Greg proved himself to be a very effective manager both in terms of delivery as well as managing a globally distributed team based in the Europe, Asia and the US. At all times Greg was collaborative; always striving for the best solution for everyone, with no hidden agenda. He is also attentive to the needs of the stakeholders involved, sorting out differences and facilitating where required. He is strong at building networks within the organisation to facilitate business, infrastructure and technology delivery. I look forward to working with Greg again in the future.
Ken Price
Greg oversaw the design and development of our full tech stack at Avox. He was our first development hire and grew to manage a sizeable team and several rewrites of our platform. He's an experienced tech person and a pleasure to work with.
Dipen Thaker
I had the pleasure of working with Greg for 18 months at Thomson Reuters / Refinitiv on several challenging projects. Greg was a Programme manager facing off to me on the product side whilst we worked on KYC applications. Greg proved himself to be a very effective manager both in terms of delivery as well as managing a globally distributed team based in the Europe, Asia and the US. At all times Greg was collaborative; always striving for the best solution for everyone, with no hidden agenda. He is also attentive to the needs of the stakeholders involved, sorting out differences and facilitating where required. He is strong at building networks within the organisation to facilitate business, infrastructure and technology delivery. I look forward to working with Greg again in the future.
Credentials
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PRINCE2® Practitioner
APMG International
Experience
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CogniSoft Ltd
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United Kingdom
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head Of Information Technology
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Aug 2020 - Present
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AdviserPlus
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Human Resources
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100 - 200 Employee
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Head Of Information Technology
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Apr 2019 - Apr 2020
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Thomson Reuters
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Canada
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Director, Risk Techology
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2017 - 2019
Thomson Reuters purchased the Avox business in 2017. I expanded my role to cover the technical team supporting the Enhanced Due Diligence product as well as continuing to look after the technology of the Avox product (renamed to Verified Entity Data as a Service).Responsibilities included:Managing and leading multiple teams teams in the US, UK and Asia.Sponsoring the IT transformation project to re-platform VEDaaS content to a new Enterprise solution.Enforcing and maintaining policies required to maintain regulatory standards.3rd party supplier selection and management.Key Achievements:Successful compliance with GDPR, on time and under budget.Decreased downtime and severity of incidents with improved time to restore service.Reduced Turnaround Time of queries by 75% through the introduction of a dedicated support team.
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Chief Technology Officer
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2010 - 2017
Following the purchase of a majority stake in the Avox business by DTCC, my role expanded to include all of IT for the company.Responsible for strategy development, solution design, production execution, software integration, disaster recovery and client relations.Key achievements included:The migration of mission critical applications from data centre to AWS public cloud.Overseeing the successful awarding of ISO27001; implementing all necessary IT changes and supporting colleagues across the business to recognise the benefits of the certification.Implemented a new and expanded office network to support growth of operations team to 300 staff.
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Head Of Development
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2005 - 2010
Responsible for creating and then managing the technology department.Transformed operations teams from Excel to dedicated tools; increasing daily throughput by over 25% and allow the business to scale (revenue up over 300%).Managed third party supplier relationshipsTechnical architect and team lead Responsible for creating and then managing the technology department.Transformed operations teams from Excel to dedicated tools; increasing daily throughput by over 25% and allow the business to scale (revenue up over 300%).Managed third party supplier relationshipsTechnical architect and team lead
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University of Liverpool
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United Kingdom
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Developer
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2004 - 2005
Supporting an maintaining the staff portal (TULIP), integrating it with in-house and third-party software solutions.Designed and built the system to automate the undergraduate student acceptance process.Integrated Serengeti document management system.Built the system to manage Freedom of Information requests. Supporting an maintaining the staff portal (TULIP), integrating it with in-house and third-party software solutions.Designed and built the system to automate the undergraduate student acceptance process.Integrated Serengeti document management system.Built the system to manage Freedom of Information requests.
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Senior Developer
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1996 - 2004
Designing and developing technical solutions in the E-Commerce, Customer Account Management and Distribution departments.Implemented new call centre system to handle over 4 million orders per year. Designing and developing technical solutions in the E-Commerce, Customer Account Management and Distribution departments.Implemented new call centre system to handle over 4 million orders per year.
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Education
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1992 - 1995
The University of Manchester
BA Hons, Business Management and Media Studies with Information Technology -
1990 - 1992
Varndean VIth Form, Brighton
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