2008-Present: IT Security Consultant - Pirean
IT Security Consultant providing consultancy, support and education services relating to Identity Management
principles, the IBM Tivoli Security suite of software and web based application delivery to clients around the UK.
2004-2007: Manager: Identity Management - National Australia Group (UK)
Northern Court, Belfast
Manager of the Identity Management team for the National Australia Group in the UK managing a team of 8
technicians, 2 project leaders and a variable number of external contractors.
Responsible for the rollout of the security infrastructure for the Internet Banking applications for both
Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank using a mix of Tivoli and Computer Associates security products.
I acted as a customer reference site for Tivoli security products and produced a case study,
customer testimonial video and presented to both IBM officials and other customers.
1995-2002: Technical Specialist: Bull LiveLink Team - National Australia Group (UK)
Causeway House, Bedford Street, Belfast
Senior Technical Specialist designing and developing Mainframe Applications on a Bull mainframe. I joined the
callout support team to support the system overnight and at weekends, as well as supporting the system during office hours.
I was the primary technical resource working on the conversion of the LiveLink system during the switch from the DPS8000
to the DPS9000 mainframes in 1998. I also wrote a positioning paper which defined opportunities for enhancing the LiveLink
application's operability after the migration. This paper resulted in a funded programme of initiatives which lasted more
than 6 months and included technical solutions for automating manual operating tasks.
I was the primary point of contact for Service Delivery engagement during the major projects that the Bull Engineering Room
undertook, eg Year 2000 Readiness, EMU. I also worked with Service Delivery to define Bull specific change management processes
which were mutually beneficial.
I led the technical design and delivery of the Branch Mergers during the late 1990s which involved working closely with other
work streams and the business stakeholders. We suffered no loss of information or data integrity during each transition of
account information from the closing branch to the remaining branch and the merger process is still available as a documented
set of procedures should any future mergers be required.
I developed applications on an IBM RS6000 in C, primarily for the National Australia Group (Europe) Telephone Banking System.
The code interfaced with an X25 network to the DPS9000 Transaction Processing System, an IBM MVS mainframe for access to an
ORACLE database, a SUN Microsystems gateway and an IVR router. The code uses IBM's MQSeries middleware product for
asynchronous processing.
1990-1995: Programmer: Bull LiveLink Team - Northern Bank Limited
Causeway House, Bedford Street, Belfast
Computer Programmer designing and developing Mainframe Applications on a Bull DPS8000 mainframe in COBOL. Major projects that I led included:
- NBL/NIB Work Measurement System
- Customer Deposits Centre
- BACS Interfaces
During my time as a programmer with the Northern Bank, I represented the bank in a Youth Challenge for the Belfast 1991
celebrations. I was involved in a Challenge Anneka style contest which meant our team of 6 had to obtain free paint
from local suppliers in order to repaint a house run by the Simon Community for the homeless.
I also represented the bank on the Men's Hockey team. We competed and won the Interbank tournaments of 1993 and 1994.
