Sandra B.

Experience

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  Ford Motor Company

  Sept 1990 - Oct 2007

  Senior IT Management roles including leading IT Infrastructure, IT Security & Controls and Application teams for Ford of Europe.Jan '06 to Oct-07 IT Infrastructure Manager, Ford of Europe4 Major Data Centres, 1200 Servers, 130 Staff, Pan-European responsibility for Data Centre, Network and Server Operations.May '03 to Jan '06 IT Security Manager, Ford of EuropeScale: 60,000 Desktops; 1000 Applications; Pan-European responsibility for leading the IT Security and Controls effort including Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance. Show less

  • Senior IT Manager

    Dec 1999 - Oct 2007

  • IT

    Sept 1990 - Nov 1999
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  Barclays

  Oct 2007 - Sept 2008

  Principal IT Governance Manager

  Leading IT Risk Governance for the Bank including responsibility for IT governance policies, processes and frameworks required to ensure that Barclays could demonstrate to its stakeholders that it complied with all relevant IT regulatory requirements through:• Defining and implementing the Barclays Technology Principle Risk framework supporting Policies and metrics • Developing and maintaining effective supporting Group frameworks• Maintaining Conformance Assessment and monitoring methods and approach to support Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Basel II compliance. Show less

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  Northern Trust

  Sept 2008 - Jan 2015

  Global Head of Infrastructure Operations for Northern Trust, managing a team of over 550 people supporting Northern Trust's IT Infrastructure (Data Centers, Servers, Mainframes, Storage, Middleware, Databases, Global Network Operations Center, Computer Operations, and End User Computing), across North America, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East. 9,000 servers, 12PB on-line data storage, 30,000 desktops / laptops, and 9,000,000 batch schedule executions per month. Responsible for Data Center, Mainframe, Server, Storage, Database and Middleware Operations for Northern Trust in Chicago.This involved leading Technical Services Staff based in the USA and India, providing mission critical Infrastructure services for Northern Trust's world-wide operations. Responsible for Data Centre, Network, Telephony, Desktop and Server Operations for Northern Trust’s offices in Europe, and the Middle East. This involved leading Technical Services Departments based in London, Ireland and the Channel Islands, that provide infrastructure services for 13 Northern Trust offices spread across 7 countries.

  • Senior Vice President & Head of Technology Infrastructure Operations

    Nov 2011 - Jan 2015

  • Senior Vice President Data Center Technical Services

    Nov 2009 - Nov 2011

  • Vice President EMEA Technical Services

    Sept 2008 - Nov 2009
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  VSO International

  Jan 2015 - Jan 2016

  Head of Global Information Technology

  Responsible for creating and implementing the IT strategy to meet the business requirements of the VSO, which is the world’s leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries.The role included key elements such as IT Security, IT Sourcing / Vendor Management (Cloud: IAAS / SAAS), Application Portfolio and Infrastructure Management, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning.

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  Sabbatical

  Feb 2016 - Dec 2017

  Sabbatical

  Planned sabbatical travelling and volunteering. Including providing IT consultancy / support to small businesses, and charities. GDPR consultancy and execution advice. I also trained for and completed my 8th Marathon.

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  Innopas

  Jan 2018 - Feb 2021

  Chief Technology Officer

  Providing strategic consulting, solutioning and program direction to diverse clients in Transportation Logistics, Data Analytics, Education, Automotive and Healthcare.

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  Experian

  Feb 2021 - Aug 2021

  Director of Technology

  Six-month assignment to mature the Experian Infrastructure & Operations organisation. This involved completing a current state assessment and strategic roadmap, plus assisting with the development of a balanced scorecard and KPIs. I also partnered with the UK & Ireland Data Centre Manager to lead a Data Centre health-check and determine the 5-year Data Centre strategy.

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  Essex County Council

  Mar 2022 - Jul 2022

  Head of IT Operations (Interim)

  Interim role, responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of ECC’s IT service to 8,500 staff and the 1.8 million people living in the wider Essex community. This included leading several projects relating to Cyber Security.

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  Freelance

  Aug 2022 - Jun 2023

  Freelance IT Consultant & Volunteer

  Providing IT Consultancy, Policy, and Risk Management support to Small Businesses, Charities and Athletics Clubs. This includes helping organisations identify and utilise technology to improve processes as well as increase efficiency and compliance.

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  Cabot Credit Management

  Jun 2023 - Apr 2024

  Interim IT Operations Director, UK & Europe

  Overall responsibility for IT Operations including infrastructure, cloud and virtualisation, service desk, service management and security implementation & monitoring for one of the largest debt management companies within Europe. • Leading the technical implementation of infrastructure services, including monitoring, capacity and cost management• Management of key IT SOX controls, ensuring governance and security of key business processes• Collaborating with Encore InfoSec to deliver, on NIST and ISO27001 programmes as well as striving to keep the business safe and within risk tolerance Show less