Tony Webb

Experience

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  Bacs Payment Schemes Limited (Bacs)

  Nov 1984 - Feb 1990

  Technical Development Lead

  Technical team lead of group focused on the creation and maintenance of industry leading Electronic Funds Transfer system in the UK, processing approx. 30% of the British economy in financial transactions. Deployed next generation client software to provide for a 'closeness' to transaction operation to increase client feedback and 'just in time' instructions and amendments to high volume financial submissions. Led a development of ~15 developers and designers in a multi phase implementation that contributed to BACS' (now VocaLink) ongoing success as the most efficient funds transfer company in the UK Show less

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  Группа компаний ICL

  Feb 1990 - Aug 1993

  Chief Architect/Technical Lead

  Architect and Technical Lead for early adopter Social Media Community Networking systems including Bulletin Boards, Chat, meta-data search systems through the use of innovative pre-Internet technologies over public telephone networks. Adopted key telecommunications technologies for connections to public domains, hardware appliances for fast low latency database searches, Thesaurus and Natural Language advanced technologies for Human Interaction. Team lead and Architect interacting with the Program Management group to shape features and subsequently deliver a road map of releases. Subsequently headed up the development of these applications using JAM application framework, C/C++, Oracle, Informix and Ingres databases and various Unix shell, awk and sed scripts Show less

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  Prolifics

  Aug 1993 - Dec 2010

  As VP & Director of Delivery Services, provided expert skills in Practice Management and Project Management governing a multi-million dollar P&L business encompassing enterprise business solutions and a consulting team of over 100 personnelDrove IBM software (including WebSphere) and services revenue by providing Business Development expertise to the Sales Divisions and dramatically increasing the repeatable business model strategyProviding strategic direction and overarching mentoring to the consulting division Member of the Prolifics Executive Management team driving overall strategic corporate direction and providing services and thought leadershipMember of PMO executive teamInstrumental in ensureing for fulfilling over $25MM in services revenues Show less As Consulting Practice Manager for WebSphere, Implemented organizational growth strategy for WebSphere Practice of Excellence increasing team from 10 to 100 within 2-3 years Personally mentored key Principles within the Practice and securing educational and career growth for critical consultants who drive revenue. This set the tone and trend and was ingrained in all consultants joining Prolifics who were quickly integrated into the teamsDelivery Manger for all WebSphere projects in Northeast attaining 96-98% success rate based on on-time, on-budget deliverables as defined by independent Gartner Group surveyAchieved over 80% utilization for WebSphere Practice whilst effecting key personal educational and growth targets for each individual and maintaining a critical focus on successful delivery of services provided.Took on Resource Management role resulting in over a 20% efficiency and increase in revenue at the same time as increasing contentment among consulting group - reduced travel and applied a more conscious approach to their skills and career desires.Based on results achieved promoted to VP of Professional Services. Show less Led Architecture initiatives for key clients building Enterprise applicationsApplied SDLC methodologies including Waterfall and AgileAfter successful Development and Deployment of the projects below, ultimately continued in a Project Manager/ Delivery Manager and Advisement role for each..Hands on Architect and Technical Lead for critical Fortune 500 companies including: Oracle - Headed up development of next generation Sales Order Processing system Bank of America - Created Executive Scorecard identifying efficient/ inefficient areas of the business Citi - Provided guidance and strategic direction for moving from client/server to n-tier technologies American multinational banking and financial services company - Pre-Sales support providing technology vision for ongoing business directives Children's Hospital - Designed and Migrated character mode application to Windows Win32 AT&T Universal Card - Built application to provide customers with amortization schedules on outstanding balancesUS Navy - Built application(s) to track and plan maintenance for US Navy ships Siemens Medical Systems - Built comprehensive Health Care plan application determining coverage and payment plans for a range of HMOs, ensuring HIPAA complianceKraft Foods - Designed and Built online reports detailing formulas for every retail product SmithKlein Beecham Pittsburgh Plate GlassQuality and success of the above projects resulted in promotion to Practice Manager Show less

  • VP & Delivery Director of IT Services - (Total of 17 years at company)

    Jan 2006 - Dec 2010

  • WebSphere Practice Manager / Solutions Director

    Jan 2002 - Dec 2006

  • Principal Consultant

    Aug 1993 - Jan 2002
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  Blue 2.0

  Nov 2010 - Feb 2014

  VP Delivery IT Solutions

  Providing overall thought Leadership and Strategic Direction for the Professional Services Team for this semi start-up company. Bootstrapped a small dynamic consulting arm to be fully billable and doubled the number of consultants 'year one' whilst increasing revenues close to 100%Drove services revenue growth with year over year increases of over 100% after year 1.Client focused, delivering large enterprise solutions on-time, on-budget and with excellence, creating considerable drag-on revenue.Excellent communication skills, so critical to clearly communicate vision, mission, and goals to the customers' business and IT audiences in addition to Blue 2.0 executives and project teams.Established Blue 2.0 branded family of expert Consultants and Contractors covering strategic IBM pillars including WebSphere (BPM, WebSphere Process Server, WODM, Lombardi), IBM WorkLight, SugarCRM. This enabled expansion of offerings and the engine to continue the growth of the company. But there was a lot of investment made to achieve this in the form of training and follow on 'boot camps' in order to be proficient in these technologies.Implemented a Consulting career growth plan resulting in high retention and attracting highly motivated consultants. Good retention was critical for growth and was achieved through investment in all consultants through training. Additionally the company purposefully sought after interesting projects using interesting technology. These were two major essentials that led to the growth of Blue 2.0.Built relationships with C-level executives and decision makers of companies targeted for BPM business. Focused for fairly lengthy periods of time on Resource Management to ensure the right resources deployed at the right time in conjunction with understanding each consultant’s particular strengths and goals. Provided the technical backbone to the Sales team to close services deals including a $MM deal with a Health Care services company. Show less

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  Accenture

  Apr 2014 - Jun 2014

  Enterprise IT Delivery Executive

  Aligned to the new Digital Growth Platform encompassing eCommerce, Mobility and Social Networking targeting Fortune 100 companies by providing them with a vision and strategy of 'Mobile First'.Injecting digital leadership across the Enterprise landscape to Fortune 100 companies, providing a technical vision for the Sales Teams to aid shortening of sales cycles on complex solutions for clients including Mattel and Caterpillar. Initiated a series of value-based presentations based on a model that they could track in terms of providing a comprehensive road map to where they wanted to be 5-6 years from the present. Additionally providing a comprehensive technology vision and strategy for modernization and cost cutting that coincided with this road map, one that was clear in spelling out their expected future targeted markets whilst respecting budget constraints. Show less

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  Randstad Digital Americas

  Feb 2015 - Jan 2017

  Delivery Director for JPMorgan Chase

  Delivery Director for Randstad brought in to provide governance and risk mitigation for their most strategic account with JPMorgan Chase. Instrumental in transforming the quality of the management team through a series of personnel changes, implemented Six Sigma/Lean business process rigor, in conjunction with re-training and empowerment initiatives. Established trust adopting a nurturing but tough approach, moving employees with high potential into roles they didn't think they were appropriate for, but turned out to be excellent. This approach paid dividends and we were rewarded with a 5 year renewal contract.Restructured the local management teams in 50% of the 13 Data Centers with quality based on SLAs and KPIs approaching a point of excellence.Point person for client relationships to advise and guide, ensuring constant commitment to value and expectations; collaborating with the Development and Deployment teams to ensure SLA commitments were understood and upheld. Implementing a Leadership methodology, incorporating support, guidance, mentoring and coaching to a series of Service Delivery Shift Managers responsible for ongoing daily operations Show less

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  Cedrus Digital

  Jul 2017 - May 2018

  Management Consultant for NYPD (IBM Contract)

  Delivering next generation Big Data and Business Analytics software tools and applications to support the NYPD, helping keep the city safe, continually reducing serious crime through supportive proactive measures. Applying Data Analysis and visualization for effective intelligence analysis complemented by advanced association patterns and power targeted search. Updated and instituted operational process to transform applications from a development footing to post production; from a highly reactive problem resolution platform to a highly predictable model based on historical data analysisKey customer advocate, jointly defining SLA's based on MTTF, MTTR and other core metrics, reducing downtime and the overall cost of supporting the environment.Production stack includes DB2 databases and data warehouses, PDOA (Pure Data for Operational Analysis), IBM i2 Analyst’s Notebook, IIB, MQ, DataPower and Ultramatics. Show less

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  IBM

  Jun 2018 - now

  • WW Head of Automation SWAT, IBM Software Support

    Jul 2020 - now

  • Success Leader, IBM Cloud Integration & Development

    Jun 2018 - Jul 2020