David Earles

·      Led a program at FIS to drive technological innovations and foster an innovation culture, owning financial forecasting and group budget management.

·      Expanded the InnovateIN48 hackathon brand into a multiyear, ten-event series involving clients, students, employees, and partners.

·      Planned and hosted InnovateIN48 events, resulting in 12 sponsored event ideas for further development and 21 patented ideas.

·      Executed projects that reduced cloud-based sandbox builds by 50%, saving $3 million, and simplified the developer environment with a new Developer Portal.

·      Developed an innovation portal, consolidating entry points and increasing the number of logged ideas by 14%.

·      Drove solutions enabling FIS to enter new markets, such as collaborating on a Central Bank Digital Currency with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Bank of Israel.

·      Program managed the development of Embedded Finance "as a service" APIs for developers using FIS technology.

·      Managed five Project Managers in the USA, EMEA, and two Scrum Masters in India

·      Integrated Jira and Aha! for automation between Product Owner Roadmaps and detailed work efforts.

·      Oversaw the development of an Enterprise Architecture portal and technology asset registers.

·      Led the development of a notification hub, centralising actionable items from various corporate systems and reducing reliance on email notifications.

·      Managed migrating multiple financial technology products to FIS Cloud, providing a framework for legacy technology migration.

·      Provided technology project management, achieving over $14 million yearly in real estate savings.

·      Led the program to integrate SunGard end-user environments into FIS, involving 15,000 employees, 70+ offices globally, and thousands of servers.

·      Utilized BigFix for network tests on local systems to validate network and firewall configurations before domain migration scripts.

·      Orchestrated migrating production environment access from a legacy VPN solution to a new security architecture

·      Remediated an architectural security flaw within a well-known bank's production environment through a highly visible, resource-intensive project.

·      Headed the global PMO overseeing CIO and Infosec strategy, managing up to six project managers worldwide.

·      Covered the Information Security Officer role for EMEA for a year, focusing on security incidents, audit remediation, and security-related projects.

·      Implemented infrastructure for various business segments to offer software as a service.

·      Managed client-facing projects, transitioning SunGard products into a private cloud infrastructure in UK data centres.

·      Developed business cases and presented them to the CIO and CISO-level project review board.

·      Implemented an enterprise project management solution using MS Project Server.

·      Oversaw a laptop security program, delivering the solution on time and under budget, saving $99k annually.

·      Completed a project within nine months to migrate 18,000 workstations to a Windows 7 standard image, ensuring global hardware standards, saving $2 million annually.

·      Managed the deployment of BigFix to address security, patching, and asset management risks.

·      Led the unified communications program, integrating Video Conferencing, Audio Conferencing, SIP routing, and Skype.

·      Implemented the Avaya phone system across 16 EMEA sites.

·      Managed implementation of a High-definition global video conferencing solution, integrating 82 locations worldwide.

·      Orchestrated the boundary defence security program, standardising over 90 office networks, simplifying the environment, and improving security.

·      Provided technical consultancy to Financial Systems and Public-Sector divisions, working with security-cleared government environments.

Managed a program to migrate 65 individually run businesses onto one corporate email and domain, simplifying IT operations and saving $1.5 million annually.

·      In charge of all IT with the exclusion of software developing the DB user GUI, including the IT infrastructure, IT operations & support, IT security, networking and managing IT-related projects.

·      Devised and maintained the infrastructure and supported over 170 users in five countries

·      Orchestrated a technology programme to move labour-intensive business operations to offshore staff, providing over £1 Million in annual savings.

·      Opened new offices in China, Thailand, India and Spain

·      Provided customer’s IT consultancy on how to consume our datasets and minimise their data entry

·      Engineered and migrated all locations to a centralised corporate email and domain

·      Introduced a document management system, releasing £350k in building assets.

·      Managed the development of an E-commerce system to automate the collection of property maintenance fees, resulting in 30% labour cost savings.