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•  English and ensuring effective communication across organisational silos
• Working with multi-disciplinary teams across multiple geographies

Overview

Andrew is an experienced consultant specialising in data and technology, mainly for blue-chip clients in the Financial Services industry. His 30 years experience combines business understanding, strong methods, architectural thinking, and detailed technical knowledge to deliver a strong data-oriented insight for his customers.

Andrew typically takes customer-facing roles on complex delivery programmes usually as a Subject Matter Expert, IT Architect or Consultant. He has particular expertise in the business, process and technical aspects of data governance, data quality, data migration and regulatory data.  He has spent most of his career working for IBM and Ernst & Young, and has been exposed to a wide variety of project types.

He has worked with most of the leading UK Banks and Life Insurance companies, as well as clients in General Insurance, Asset Management, Oil, Public Sector and Professional Services.

Andrew is fully mobile and is able to spend extended periods away from home, both domestically and overseas.

Key Skills (By Service Line)

Consulting

• Understanding and shaping complex change programmes with a significant data dependency
• Implementation of Data Governance Policies, Processes, and Glossaries, along with supporting technology
• Working closely with business and IT teams – translating complex business or technical concepts into plain English and ensuring effective communication across organisational silos
• Working with multi-disciplinary teams across multiple geographies

Assurance

• Assessing existing “in-flight” projects or programmes, identifying potential hotspots and advising on remediation

Solutions

• Solution design - including IT, Business and Data architectures
• Defining re-usable methods for Data Migration, (Practical) Data Quality and Data Readiness

Delivery

• Data Profiling and Analysis, use of Vendor Tools or generic Open-source solutions
• Knowledge of legacy data formats (e.g. VSAM) for assembler, binary, Cobol, IMS systems - how to extract and analyse data
• Data Quality Management in Financial Services companies. He has hands-on skills in
• Establishing a secure “Data Laboratory”
• Profiling and analysis of business data
• Running “data quality” workshops
• Establishing data quality measurement infrastructure with management information dashboard reporting
• Designing and implementing workflow tooling for managing the data quality improvement process
• Building and assessing the business case for data quality improvement – at a high level and a low level
• Creating a “Data Readiness” framework for time-dependent “go-live” events, such as data migration or regulatory events

Training and Mentoring

• Training and mentoring non-managerial technical staff from IT and business backgrounds. Skills and knowledge transfer.
• Writing and presenting training courses on Data Quality, Data Migration and Data Governance.