Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.
Overview
38
38
years of professional experience
Work History
Head of Data Services and Governance Europe
Getnet – Pagonxt Merchant Solutions (EU)
2 2021 - Current
Establish the data strategy within the new organization aligned with the global goals of Santander/Getnet and PagoNxt whilst meeting the expectations of retained and new merchants and Business units.
VP of Data Services
Wirecard AG
07.2020 - 02.2021
Create and manage a team to transition Wirecard to a new owner.
Head of Data Operations in Data Services (Global)
Wirecard AG
10.2018 - 07.2020
Leading a multi-cultural team in multiple locations (Munich, Graz, Singapore, St Petersberg)
Team Lead Service Delivery in EBI
Wirecard AG
10.2016 - 10.2018
Leading a multi-cultural team performing mentoring, personal development planning and team building
Operational Engineer in Payment and Risk
Wirecard AG
10.2015 - 10.2016
Administer the Payment and Risk applications and support application infrastructure to ensure the platform services are optimized for performance and reliability.
Manager System and Service Engineers in Critical Application Support
ESO (European Southern Observatory)
12.2010 - 10.2015
Manage within DMO (Data Management and Operations) at ESO (European Southern Observatory) the transfer, validation, ingestion, archiving, querying and delivery of the data from the telescopes to the Global Astrophysics Research community.
Principal Architect / Development Lead
GD Consulting
01.2005 - 01.2010
Design rollout and populate GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and spatial information systems for predominately Government bodies within Italy.
E-learning Consultant
IBM UK
01.2000 - 01.2005
Design and implement the development suite, process and training for the IBM Watch and further projects within the DWP.
Java Developer
QSI Payments
01.1999 - 01.2000
Project Manager (QANTM Tasmania)
01.1995 - 01.1999
Analyst in Production Control
James Hardy
01.1990 - 01.1995
Corporal in Australian Army
MOD
01.1986 - 01.1990
Education
Bachelor of arts (Game Development) -
QANTM CMC, Brisbane
Bachelor of arts (Multimedia) - undefined
QANTM CMC, Brisbane
Certificate 4 in multimedia - undefined
QANTM CMC, Brisbane
Certificate 2 in multimedia - undefined
QANTM CMC, Brisbane
Web Design Scholarship - undefined
Silicon Studios (Silicon Graphic Industries)
3d Animation Scholarship - undefined
Silicon Studios (Silicon Graphic Industries)
Skills
Friendly, Positive Attitude
Details
Experienced and passionate manager within the Information Technology Industry, starting in the data sector then gaining experience both teaching, developing, architecture and managing teams in industries such as Multimedia, Payments, and Spatial Information systems.
Personal Information
Place of Birth: Stoke on Trent (GB)
Date of Birth: 03/27/69
Timeline
VP of Data Services - Wirecard AG
07.2020 - 02.2021
Head of Data Operations in Data Services (Global) - Wirecard AG
10.2018 - 07.2020
Team Lead Service Delivery in EBI - Wirecard AG
10.2016 - 10.2018
Operational Engineer in Payment and Risk - Wirecard AG
10.2015 - 10.2016
Manager System and Service Engineers in Critical Application Support - ESO (European Southern Observatory)
12.2010 - 10.2015
Principal Architect / Development Lead - GD Consulting
01.2005 - 01.2010
E-learning Consultant - IBM UK
01.2000 - 01.2005
Java Developer - QSI Payments
01.1999 - 01.2000
Project Manager (QANTM Tasmania) -
01.1995 - 01.1999
Analyst in Production Control - James Hardy
01.1990 - 01.1995
Corporal in Australian Army - MOD
01.1986 - 01.1990
Head of Data Services and Governance Europe - Getnet – Pagonxt Merchant Solutions (EU)
2 2021 - Current
QANTM CMC, Brisbane - Bachelor of arts (Game Development),
QANTM CMC, Brisbane - Bachelor of arts (Multimedia),
QANTM CMC, Brisbane - Certificate 4 in multimedia,
QANTM CMC, Brisbane - Certificate 2 in multimedia,
Silicon Studios (Silicon Graphic Industries) - Web Design Scholarship,
Silicon Studios (Silicon Graphic Industries) - 3d Animation Scholarship,
Technical Project Manager at PagoNxt Merchant Solutions (A Santander Company)Technical Project Manager at PagoNxt Merchant Solutions (A Santander Company)
<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform