ACCOMPLISHMENTS: SGB-Bank S.A. [2011-2013]

Spółdzielcza Grupa Bankowa (Cooperative Banking Group) SGB-Bank S.A. Chief Information Officer

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

ü  I merged IT infrastructures of two large organizations, GBW S.A. and MR Bank S.A (SGP Bank S.A. was created as a result of this merger);

 (In my previous positions, I participated in three different mergers between GBW S.A. and the following banks: S.A., PKBR S.A. and BRC S.A. Each merger required unifying systems/databases/applications and IT solutions (LAN/WAN) with the standards of the GBW S.A.)

ü  I launched a cost cutting plan in the IT Department which generated savings of 25% within 3 year. It involved:

·         consolidating contracts with the suppliers of applications after the merger,

·         renegotiating contracts with software and telecommunication services suppliers;

·         implementing high-availability database architecture;

·         taking over some tasks and implementing in-house IT solutions which reduced the cost of maintenance services;

·         implementing Disaster Recovery Architecture for the main and spare Data Center of SGB Bank S.A. Before the implementation, the IT tasks of the Bank’s head office had been relocated from  Mielżyńskiego Street to Szarych Szeregów Street;

·         simplifying the management of the SAN by implementing IBM SVC solution;

ü  As a Project Manager I was responsible for implementing def3000, a central banking system, in SGB Bank S.A. After this implementation GBW S.A. received an award for the Best Transactional System given by a business magazine Gazeta Bankowa

“Every year, [our magazine] chooses the best and most advanced systems, such as def3000 which has been operating in GBW S.A. and banks belonging to the SGB Group. The system was created by Asseco Poland S.A. to meet operational and professional needs of GBW S.A.” (source: Gazeta Bankowa and SBP Brochure)

http://gb.pl/projekty-bankowej/bankowy-lider-informatyki-2010.html

(In 2006, I received an award from GBW S.A. Management Board for my contribution into the process of choosing the IT system for the SGB Group).

ü  Over 3 years I standardized:

·         IT infrastructure (servers, mass storage and network solutions);

·         operational systems, application and database area;

·         backup and virtualization solutions;

·         hardware and application solutions for users;

·         Service Oriented Architecture through launching IBM WebSphere (ESB).

ü  I restructured the IT Department in order to meet the needs of the growing Bank and comply with Polish regulatory requirements (Recommendation D):

·         created a Monitoring Team (24/7/365) and Service Desk;

·         set up a Data Warehouse Team;

·         built a Database Team and Application Servers Team;

·         launched HP Service Manager Software in the Help Desk Team and devised support solutions in line with the ITIL standards for dealing with incidents and problems.

ü  I reduced Bank’s printing costs by 34% by launching a central printing system (energy savings of 31% and a decrease in the amount of printouts of 56%, return on investment within 11 months);

ü  The following services, devised for and implemented in banks of the Group, generated an increase in SGB Bank S.A. revenues:

·         WAN management (125 banks),

·         safe Internet access (50 banks).

Launching Active Directory to authenticate and authorize Internet access in SGB Bank S.A. translated into a decrease in the use of Internet per employee (by 0.5 to 1 .5 hour per day).This trend was described in an article published on money.pl

http://manager.money.pl/news/artykul/co;robi;internauta;kiedy;szef;nie;patrzy,148,0,556180.html

·         hosting services (2 banks),

·         central group mailing system (207 banks).

    ü   I organized annual IT conferences for Board members of banks of the Group
                (about 200 participants).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: SGB-Bank S.A. [2011-2013]

Spółdzielcza Grupa Bankowa (Cooperative Banking Group) SGB-Bank S.A. Chief Information Officer

As the CIO, I was responsible for ensuring reliable, safe operation and development of Bank’s applications and IT platform (including servers, backup solutions, computer networks, system software, software tools, database software and hardware assigned to particular bank employees).

The scope of my responsibilities:

ü  participate in developing and reviewing IT systems strategy;

ü  contribute to the creation of long and medium-term development plans that ensure efficiency, capacity and accessibility of the IT platform as well as bandwidth networks (LAN, WAN, SAN);

ü  create and optimize the financial plans of the IT and Application Development Department;

ü  design the organisational structure, draw up procedures, select methods and mechanisms, and allocate resources to ensure:

·         uninterrupted functioning of the IT systems;

·         safety of the IT systems with a view to maintain data confidentiality, integrity and accessibility;

ü  standardize and manage hardware, system software, data bases and IT infrastructure;

ü  manage Bank’s computer networks and a common network of the Group
(WAN network created by 207 banks of the SGB Group)

ü  administer Bank’s IT systems and common Group’s systems (applications) which involved:

·         about 150 banking applications of which 20 applications were of critical nature for Bank’s BCM and 10 applications were created using our own programming resources;

·         around 300 IP VPN tunnels between SGB Bank S.A. and BS;

·         approximately 400,000 transactions processed daily in the def3000 system (central system of the SGB Bank S.A. and the Group’s members);

·         between 50 and 3000 users (depending on the Group member’s system);

·         about 250 physical servers (P-Series; X86_64; SPARC);

·         around 200 virtual servers using such virtualization products as VMWARE, LPAR, SOLARIS ZONES;

·         managing 200TB of resources available within the SAN and 30TB of data stored daily in the backup systems;

·         approximately 150 data bases (ORACLE; MSSQL) including 40 operational ones;

·         in the region of 300-500 enquiries processed monthly by the Helpdesk;

ü  contribute to projects which involved acquiring and implementing IT solutions dedicated to Bank’s and Group’s needs by:

·         planning and organizing the work of the IT Department;

·         coordinating the process of drawing up specifications for software and IT platform;

 (on average 40 ongoing projects in the Bank);

ü  review draft internal procedures from an IT perspective;

ü  manage software licences related to the system software, software tools, database and office software;

ü  coordinate IT projects within the Bank and common undertakings within the Group;

ü  negotiate and arrange the cooperation with external providers of IT products and services;

ü  coordinate and manage purchases of hardware, databases, system software, software tools and applications.