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Ludovic LE BERRE

Belfast

Summary

Intelligent Service Delivery Manager with 20+ years of experience in IT. Strong leader known for driving efficiency and cost savings through continuous process improvements. Polished individual with drive to proactively initiate positive change. Major experience forging and leading cross-functional teams to bring about fundamental change and improvement in cohesion, culture, strategy, process, and growth. Transformational leader able to establish relationships with client stakeholders and translate a scope of work or regulation review into a concrete operational implementation. Track record of implementing Service Delivery Framework (ITIL) within Financial Institutions with a drive to continuously improve Competitive advantage, Stability, Quality and ROI with a shift-left mentality. Multilingual, fluent in English and French.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience

Work History

Service Delivery Manager

Allsop Software
Belfast
08.2020 - 02.2024
  • As Service Delivery Manager, I have full accountability and responsibility for Allsop Project delivery, Product development and Service desk
  • Designed and implemented respective scorecards presiding over team performance, delivering against targets, and ensuring Allsop's customer-first core value
  • Worked closely with Business Analysts coordinating delivering of services to meet project requirements and product functional releases
  • Reduced turnaround time with effective resource allocation and task prioritization.
  • Developed Cloud based Saas Product roadmap iteration planning in line with supplied product vision
  • Stakeholder management and reporting
  • Supervision of governance process for risk and issue management
  • Implementation of go-to-market strategies for new cloud-based product
  • Cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Marketing and BA’s, facilitating product roadmap
  • Main point of contact for customers
  • Direct & improve tech delivery processes and methodologies.

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Project Director

Axiom Managed Service (rebranded Factor)
Belfast
07.2017 - 12.2019
  • During my time in Axiom (rebranded as Factor in 2020) I worked in the Projects department and was responsible for a portfolio of engagements, managing and delivering all aspects of projects implementation from the commercial phase to final handover
  • I have led the implementation of the MiFID2, IM, US Cross-default regulations, Brexit mitigation and Digitisation projects for large global investment banks
  • Main responsibilities: Managing and streamlining the strategic aspects of large engagements, alignment with global objectives
  • Ensuring projects are delivered on time within agreed scope and budget
  • Communicating meaningful project information to drive client satisfaction and seek key financial and commercial decisions and opportunities
  • Reviewing high-level deliverables across projects
  • Developing, implementing and maintaining sound business practices, strict project methodology and QA
  • Developing commercial products to standardise offering linked to specific regulation e.g
  • Brexit Readiness
  • Consolidating and analysing profitability, revenue, margins, bill rates and utilisation across Practices
  • Ensuring practices meet or exceed budgeted financial objectives, including revenue and margin
  • Updating the creation of pipeline forecasts and broad-based financial pictures.

Senior Vice President

Citigroup / CITI
Belfast
07.2006 - 07.2017
  • As Senior Vice President, my responsibilities included: PS Lead for the merged Global Funds, Wealth/Issuers, Transfer Agency and Future Collateral teams
  • Generating economies of scale and cost effectiveness by merging teams
  • Leading the expanded team and driving stability (reduction of more than 70% of incidents for Collateral and Issuers) by implementing a leadership structure and off-boarding Wealth Business (for cost effectiveness)
  • Official Global Deputy to SST Global Director – London
  • Appointed as official deputy for London Director covering key responsibilities and budget efficiency initiatives
  • Global Flexcube TTS PS head
  • Taking additional responsibilities from July 2014 to August 2015 with responsibility for key transaction service application Flexcube
  • Successfully redesigning the global team organisation and implementing global standards for an area of business originally regionally silo’d
  • January 2010 – December 2012 – Transaction Services Support Global Manager – CITI
  • My main goals were stability through strict incident and problem management and efficiency through cost review of location, consumable and automation of the manual activities Key achievements were: Belfast SFS/TTS Head
  • Managing several teams ((30+ staff) as the local head of Belfast Production Support (PS) team responsible for the IT support across Security and Fund Services (SFS) & Treasury & Trade Solutions (TTS) and PS areas
  • Promoting Belfast COE and delivering high level quality service by focusing on talent, standards and process improvement
  • PS Lead for Global Funds and Issuers Businesses
  • Implementing the follow the sun support with the development of the Global Funds Belfast team, the creation of the Singapore and Columbus teams and also restructured the vendor service on 24x7 L0/L1 activities
  • Servicing a global user base with clients in Europe, N America and Asia as part of my Leader responsibility for Production Support within the Securities Services Production Support Department.

Project Head

Equities-Risk infrastructure team
Belfast
07.2006 - 12.2009
  • Responsible and accountable for the Equities overnight batch line
  • Main achievements: Autosys Migration
  • Implementation of a scheduling system for all overnight batches
  • Documentation and coding compliance of more than 500 jobs to improve the quality, reliability and recovery
  • Redesign of batches to improve reliability of the critical path and as a consequence the performance
  • Reporting Data server implementation
  • Implementation of a second data server in addition to the main trading data server to deport the essential but non business critical jobs such as stressing and reporting (Regulatory Feeds)
  • As a consequence, the feeds could be rerun ad hoc for the trade desk without impacting BAU trading activity
  • Sybase Migration and SQLServer Implementation
  • The Sybase Migration (1202 => 1254) of the trading database and the migration of the reporting dataserver from Sybase to SQLServer in 2008 were projects which brought stability and reliability to the EQRMS systems
  • Implementation of the follow the sun support
  • Structured and documented the handover to the offshore team to avoid any impact on the service provided for the Equity Business.

Technical Consultant

Convergys Telecoms
Paris
11.1997 - 06.2006
  • Technical Consultant with the Special Projects Team for Orange Reunion and several affiliates in Eastern Europe
  • Team Leader for the HP Unix compliance certification of the Billing Software Jupiter V22 (on Unix/oracle)
  • Implementation Leader of the Mediation device interface for Jupiter
  • On-site Consultant during the live implementation of Jupiter v22
  • On-site Consultant to train an Orange Maintenance/exploitation team
  • Support & Maintenance (staff/team management) for Orange France on their legacy billing system (Jupiter V120 on VMS cluster).

Education

Master of Science - Software Engineering And Computer Science

IUP Rouen University
Rouen, France
09.1996

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

IUT Le Havre
Le Havre, France
08.1994

Skills

  • Strategic leadership skills
  • Transformational leader
  • Global project & service efficiency
  • C-Level stakeholders management
  • Technical and operational implementation
  • Systematised CI and Quality rigour
  • Service design and BCM accountability
  • Business Intelligence for risk supervision
  • Financial ownership and accountability
  • Champion CSI via automation concerning cost, tools, staff, training and process
  • Financial regulatory experience
  • Efficient and experienced communicator
  • ITIL v3 Service Operation Certified
  • Agile Practitioner
  • Customer Satisfaction
  • Data Analytics
  • Incident Investigation
  • Customer Engagement
  • Mentoring and training
  • Workload Management
  • Service Level Agreement Management
  • Risk Mitigation
  • Quality monitoring
  • Performance Improvement
  • Project Planning
  • Incident Management
  • Customer Service
  • Critical Thinking
  • Decision-Making
  • Operations Control
  • ITIL Framework
  • Project Implementation

Project Skills

  • Project Director – Managers of Project Managers, accountable for delivery and client relationships on an extended portfolio of engagements
  • Global Leader – Manager of Managers in NAM, EMEA and ASPAC - strong commitment to a co-operative and cohesive team approach
  • Global Service Manager - strong decision making and incident/problem-solving skills
  • Technical Project Manager on Maintenance & Development – infrastructure system implementation Swift Technical & functional adaptability (NT, UNIX, VMS, Oracle, Sybase, SQLServer, SQL, VBA, bash, Autosys, ab initio, Geneos ITRS, qlikview, PowerBI, Microsoft suite, Azure)
  • Quality Rigour (implemented quality processes and audited during ISO 9001 & 27001 certification)
  • ITIL certified (V3 Service Management Foundation and Service Operation)
  • PMP & Agile DSDM - trained and experienced within Citi, Axiom and Allsop

Areas Of Expertise And Achievement

  • Ownership and accountability for Project delivery, Disaster Recovery/Service Continuity (IT application and site COB) within Citi and Axiom, exceeding customer expectations, validated by positive internal 360 and external net promoter score.
  • Leadership focus; building trust with client senior leadership teams and leveraging client ROI by implementing efficient processes, successful strategies, values and developing economies of scale.
  • Manager of Managers: accountable for 100+ managers and team members including goals settings, refining training programmes, appraisals and recruitment.
  • Experience in orchestrating the transformation of global organisations, focusing on Service Design, quality and cost optimisation. Demonstrated during the global transaction services Flexcube support negotiation and integration which improved overall global stability of the BAU service and ROI for customer support.
  • Experience managing IT service and project lifecycle from concept to completion. Accountable for multiple parallel services & projects over £1M budget.
  • Outstanding ability to cultivate partnerships with client and suppliers, staff and peers, developing clear communication channels and establishing KPIs and SLAs. Standardised management information through progress monitoring and reporting in order to audit overall service and interpret trends.
  • At Citi engineered the deployment of high performing client services using strong organisational skills and providing effective, innovative and repeatable solutions. Remodelled, streamlined and automated the overnight batch processing of Citi Risk Equities improving stability by more than 80%.
  • Strong working knowledge of industry regulations, ensuring Project Service Department standardised multiple regulation event products within AMS (e.g. Brexit and Benchmark reform).

Citizenship

French citizen – UK/EU settlement status secured

Other

European Driving license

Hobbies and Interests

  • Competent Communicator certification and Toastmaster of the year 2016 at Citi Belfast
  • Cooking (Sous-chef at the British chef of the year 2008)
  • Travelling
  • Sports - Swimming, Running, Aikido black belt student and teacher

Languages

French
Native language
English
Proficient
C2

Timeline

Service Delivery Manager

Allsop Software
08.2020 - 02.2024

Project Director

Axiom Managed Service (rebranded Factor)
07.2017 - 12.2019

Senior Vice President

Citigroup / CITI
07.2006 - 07.2017

Project Head

Equities-Risk infrastructure team
07.2006 - 12.2009

Technical Consultant

Convergys Telecoms
11.1997 - 06.2006

Master of Science - Software Engineering And Computer Science

IUP Rouen University

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

IUT Le Havre
Ludovic LE BERRE