Andy Perry

Background

About Andy Perry

Result driven IT professional with extensive experience and a passion for great IT solutions and systems. I truly believe without great teams very little can be achieved and building those teams takes effort but is incredibly rewarding. Comfortable in managing local teams as well as offshore development teams, including trips offshore to be with the team and understand first hand any issues they may have. A conscientious and professional team build and leader with extensive team management experience covering support, development and architectural teams. A highly organised and efficient individual, whose thorough and precise approach to projects has yielded excellent results with proven delivery in multiple frameworks such as Agile Scrum, Kanban and tradition Waterfall methodologies. Excellent communication skills combining sound analytical research and clear verbal explanation using various types of media depending on audience. Key Achievements • Accountable for the system analysis and product management of the core, strategic platforms in the iPSL estate which included iPSL’s new Image Clearing Solution for three major UK banks. This was a mixture of in-house developed applications and integration of 3rd party products. This replaced the manually intensive paper cheque clearing systems with an industry wide Image solution that reduced cheque clearing from 5 days down to 2 days. • Created and led a team over 12 months that planned, designed and delivered an Image Archive and associated applications that replaced a 3rd Party product and reduced license costs by over £1 million • Negotiated and integrated a successful Offshore Development team of 28 developers and 12 designers that reduced the resource day rate by 50% whilst building the new Image Archive • Designed DevOps architecture and roadmap that delivered improvements across the development and deployment disciplines. A standard build process that created an automated installation process. This reduced deployment times from several hours of manual processes to minutes • Devised Development MI and subsequent process changes that trimmed development quality from over 2.5 faults per day down to 0.25 faults per day • Designed and implemented Control-M environment, defined scheduling standards and created multiple batch schedules to support business needs Skills • Coaching & Mentoring • Communication • Performance Management • Vendor Management • IT Management • Project Management (Waterfall and Agile) • Project Planning • Technical Analysis and Incident Recovery • Software Development Lifecycle