Barney Robson

Experience

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  Centre-file / Natwest

  Sept 1994 - May 1996

  Programmer/Analyst

  Programming, analysis and support for the bank's card systems.

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  Banque Paribas

  May 1996 - Nov 1998

  Database Administrator

  Build, maintain and provide all-hours support to the firm's Sybase database infrastructure.

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  UBS

  Dec 1998 - now

  Shaping a new role, I aimed to unify the engineering response to risk findings from Operational Risk Inventory items and the firm’s control taxonomy across compute platforms: Linux, Windows, Azure control plane & services, Kubernetes, hypervisors. To support major restructuring, I've since taken on Program Management and scrum team transformation. I managed a team of eight specialists responsible for risk control on Oracle, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase platforms; providing control oversight for analytics and scheduling services; and support and operation of the Oracle Internet Directory (OID) critical infrastructure. I acted as Database Specialist in a team dedicated to managing infrastructure security and risk including control ownership, major issue project solution development and remediation. Lead auditee for annual external and internal Database audits. Initially working in the scope of the UBS Investment Bank and then for all UBS businesses after 2009: I oversaw governance of engineering and technology adoption in the database operation; service delivery process re-engineering and productivity improvements. Lead auditee for annual external and internal IT audits for Sybase and MS SQL Server. Build, maintain and provide all-hours support to the IB business's Sybase database infrastructure.

  • Risk Specialist; Compute Engineering

    Sept 2021 - now

  • Security & Risk Lead; Database, Analytics & Scheduling (Operations)

    Oct 2018 - Aug 2021

  • Database Infrastructure Risk Specialist; Service Delivery

    Jun 2012 - Sept 2018

  • Production Product Owner for Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server; Service Delivery

    Dec 2006 - May 2012

  • Database Administrator; Investment Bank Service Delivery

    Dec 1998 - Nov 2006