| 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)
(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.
