Experience

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  Self-employed

  • Peterborough, England, United Kingdom

  • Technology and Data solutions consultant

    • Jul 2021 - Present
    • Peterborough, England, United Kingdom

    Technology and Data solutions consultancy- Commercial and technology perspective to drive business value- Full lifecycle experience - business requirements analysis, technical solution architecture and design, planning, quality assurance, build and implementation, live monitoring and MI.Recent su...

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  BGL Group

  • United Kingdom
  • Financial Services
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Director - Architecture and Data Services

    • Jul 2014 - May 2021

    Proactive member of Business Technology executive team.Leadership of specialist technical teams, with particular focus on Data and Pricing.Business and technical design and delivery assurance of complex business critical projects, most recently- migration to a new n-tier architecture for online insurance sales and servicing- upgrade of business data analytics and MI/BI platforms- integration with external partner pricing applications to enhance internal/external pricing optimisationExtensive experience of business and technical aspects of multi-brand/product/insurer/channel general insurance applications, including solutions architecture, design, performance, security, monitoring and tracking of benefits realisation.

  • Director - IT Systems Architecture

    • Jan 2007 - Jun 2014

    IT strategy and direction for early CompareTheMarket (CTM) IT solutions, initially using the tried and tested intermediary platform, to achieve speed to market. Subsequent migration of CTM IT onto an independent platform. Orchestrated extensive performance re-engineering improvements to BGL intermediary quote systems to cope with exponential growth of CTM and other price comparison volumes in subsequent years.

  • Director - Group MI

    • Jul 2005 - Dec 2006

    Set up BGL's first data engineering team. Employed and directed an expert consultant to assist the team to implement our first data warehouse platform, based on Kimball methodology. Handover of the fully operational team and BI platform to business users.

  • Director - Internet Technology

    • Jan 2001 - Jun 2005

    Formed and led a team to deliver our first internet sales and service solutions. Outsourced web frontend build to external software house - relationship management, detailed specifications and thorough acceptance testing of end to end solution.

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  Budget Insurance

  • IT Director

    • Aug 1992 - Sep 2001

    Pivotal role in starting up Budget Insurance in the UK, through customisation of an international sister company's IT system. Extensive and hands on involvement in the rapid growth and transformation from a single brand/product direct insurer to a multi-brand/product insurance intermediary.

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  K Huntly & Associates

  • City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

  • Founder and chief solutions developer

    • Mar 1984 - Aug 1992
    • City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    Turnkey IT solutions for a variety of organisations, including- Auto & General Insurance- Saatchi & Saatchi - KMP Compton- South African Public Servants Association- South African Diamond Board- Hadeco flower bulbs- Klein Karoo Ostrich farms