Summary
People and operational strength allied to purpose form the foundation for longevity. Many businesses strive for this but either don't have the time or experience to instigate the initiatives required.
An operations and a technology strategy are important pieces of the jigsaw to allow a business to achieve the vision but neither can be successful without the right people. Scryla helps you take the next step. We help you understand and turn it into a business advantage, to align technology and people to achieve positive business outcomes and longevity.
Expertise
A senior executive with a varied portfolio of technology projects in award winning businesses, up to date with new and emerging technology trends. Currently looking into Integration as a service (IPaas) and Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, Talend and Elasticsearch.
I focus on helping businesses improve operational efficiency, usually through technology investment. I specialise in helping businesses overcome the many challenges related to technology and operations. Providing clarity and understanding to allow businesses to make the necessary decisions to achieve their strategic objectives. Has involved implementing new technologies, operational changes, building teams, creating new departments, gaining efficiencies, information security and how to improve profitability through the use of technology.
Experience in Financial Services, Search Engine Marketing and Consultancy sectors within FTSE 100, large and small businesses.
- Evolutionary, responsible for driving the operational and technology change management at award winning organisations.
- Radical, developing strategies to enable businesses to take full advantage of operational and technology change management initiatives to drive growth. Self-service platforms, CRMs, document management systems, etc…
- Visionary, technology leader for a number of businesses. Implementing leading collaboration services and enterprise systems, coupled with operational changes to derive the full benefit.
- Established processes and internal service levels to prepare businesses for investment in technologies. Development of strategies and policies to deliver increased revenue targets.
-Information technology strategy to deliver key insights, management information and the ability to perform client segmentation strategies required to deliver strategic and compliance objectives. Leading to improvement in profitability, resource and cost control.
Experience
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Latitude
Head of Development
21 - 100 Employees 2005 - 2006Latitude - online marketing services company, one of the largest agencies in the UK, and third-largest in the world. Newly created position reporting to Head of IT and CFO with focus on delivery and management of expectations. Development\growth of the IT systems (esp. converting their bespoke Cobra system to an enterprise level able to manage up to at least 5 million key terms within 5 months - from an initial 250k terms). Maximise the ROI on IT, through extensive experience in the development and planning of commercial systems. -
threesixty services llp
Director of Technology and Operations
21 - 100 Employees 2006 - 2014threesixty is an award winning financial services business support services company. Leading professional services provider in the UK supporting the majority of large IFAs operating in the UK. Taken over by Standard Life in 2010 and now part of the Standard Life Group of companies. Owner of technology business strategy to enhance agility of the business through the use of digital technologies. Key objective to realise efficiencies and drive competitive advantage and growth through digital transformation (cloud, social networking, emerging technologies and trends such as big data). Thought leadership internally and to support client firms regarding technology strategy, business continuity, disaster recovery and information security matters. -
Bankhall Investment Associates
Senior Developer/Technical Designer
101 - 500 Employees 2001 - 2005Responsible for leading the migration of the portal to C# and ASP.NET, integrating the disparate internal systems with external life offices (Prudential, Scottish Widows etc...). -
SCRYLA
- Current
Education History
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BSc Computing with Economics
Manchester Metropolitan University
1991
Qualifications
Member of the British Computer Society, Microsoft Accreditation and BSc Hons in Computing with Economics
Clubs and Associations
Member of the British Computer Society, Microsoft Accreditation and BSc Hons