Jamie Allen

Responsible for the analysis and development of the banks I.T. payment system strategy to help the company reach the goal of becoming our customers “primary payments engine”.

Responsible for building and managing a department of 250 employees and contractors that represented a critical cog in the IT supply chain. This department delivered services that included system engineering, project management, testing, configuration management, release management and SOA services.

Responsible for a team of Infrastructure Engineers, Network Engineers, Systems Management, Messaging Specialists & DBA’s. Each role provided services that supported the installation of new or enhanced business applications within the bank. Services included; consulting, design, procurement, project management, and technical support, during the testing and implementation phases.

Responsible for a team of engineers and project mangers that developed and executed a migration plan to move all NCC business apps that resided on the Microsoft NT4 Server Operating System to the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Operating System. During the project – no production issues or customer impacts were generated

Started as their Project Lead in charge of Deployment, and then changed roles to become the overall project manager. This was a challenging program due to the level of technology and cultural change. The company shifted from a very open computing environment to a locked down, policy driven environment. This was an extremely large program that touched nearly every aspect of the computing and user environment at NCC.

I started with BP/SAIC in Scotland as a project manager. From there I was assigned increasing levels of responsibility and eventually joined a BP global project to refresh their IT systems and infrastructure. My work on this led me to assignments in leadership roles across the UK, and ultimately, to consult for them in America. After a short term engagement I was asked by the US IT management team to stay in the US on a longer term contract.