Experience

Nude

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advisor

  • Mar 2023 - Present

• Co-founder, Chief Operating Officer, SMF3

  • Oct 2017 - Mar 2023

  Glasgow, United Kingdom Nude is a savings account and financial friend that makes it easier for first-time buyers to save a deposit and buy a home. Our app guides you all the way, from saving the first £5 through to paying off your mortgage. I established Nude from scratch, and grew to support £8m in fundraising, serving 300,000 customers, and managing £19m of customer money deposited. In the 6 months to Dec 2022 Nude grew at 25% month on month. Through my effort, a new business was created, it raised a large… Show more Nude is a savings account and financial friend that makes it easier for first-time buyers to save a deposit and buy a home. Our app guides you all the way, from saving the first £5 through to paying off your mortgage. I established Nude from scratch, and grew to support £8m in fundraising, serving 300,000 customers, and managing £19m of customer money deposited. In the 6 months to Dec 2022 Nude grew at 25% month on month. Through my effort, a new business was created, it raised a large amount of funding, acquired a lot of customers, and was able to handle a significant amount of money deposited by those customers. To support this growth I established, scaled and managed daily operations, including implementing customer identification protocols, fraud prevention measures, and overseeing financial reconciliation of client assets. I also developed and improved processes for managing new investments, cancellations, withdrawals, and property purchases.



Student Loans Company

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• DevOps Lead

  • Dec 2016 - Oct 2017

  Glasgow, United Kingdom Designing and implementing DevOps strategy while building up team capabilities.



RBS

• United Kingdom
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Product Owner

  • Nov 2015 - Aug 2016

  Edinburgh, United Kingdom myBank is the creation of a new digital sales and servicing banking platform for RBS customers and staff. I'm responsible for developing the agile capabilities and delivery of the platform. Specific task include - Creation of goals and success criteria - Re-designing workflow and building consensus - Defining and communicating the release plan - Ensuring agile practices within scrum teams - Prioritising features - Creating proof of concept to extend platform into branch



Hymans Robertson

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• CTO - Risk Modelling

  • Apr 2014 - Oct 2015

  My responsibilities include: • Develop a vision for our technology and architectural platform for the Risk Modelling and Consulting Practice, secure buy-in and through close partnership with other parts of the business (e.g. IT Director) contribute to the broader technology vision for the firm. • Take strategic perspective to identify capability needs for the organisation and nurture future leaders. • Build awareness of strategic proposition, model and technology… Show more My responsibilities include: • Develop a vision for our technology and architectural platform for the Risk Modelling and Consulting Practice, secure buy-in and through close partnership with other parts of the business (e.g. IT Director) contribute to the broader technology vision for the firm. • Take strategic perspective to identify capability needs for the organisation and nurture future leaders. • Build awareness of strategic proposition, model and technology development plans across the firm and show how solutions in one area can be applied in other areas to achieve efficiencies for the firm. • Working in the leadership group to represent future technology strategy and requirements. • Collaborate with model and proposition owners at conceptual (or embryonic) stage of the strategic propositions to help the proposition leader define an appropriate commercial scope and determining the technology platform whilst identifying skills, dependencies and other key considerations relating to our broader modelling framework.

• Delivery Manager

  • May 2004 - Apr 2014

  Glasgow/London/Edinburgh My responsibilities include: • Create and manage teams to deliver commercially successful risk and actuarial software. • Manage client expectations. • Develop culture and skill sets of modelling teams. • Ensure commercial benefits are realised. • Actively contribute the modelling strategy and technology requirements.



Various Life Offices - Britannia Life, Prudential/Scottish Amicable/J Rothschild Assurance

• Actuarial Modelling

  • Jul 1993 - May 2004

  Various positions modelling final salary pension schemes, with profit bonds and unit linked products.