Ronan Curran
Summary
Results-driven Technical Program & Transformation Manager with 15 years of experience in enterprise technology and digital transformation across sectors including government, utilities, and finance. Led complex information management, governance, and cloud migration initiatives for regulated organisations in the UK, Europe, and North America. Delivered scalable technology solutions that enhance governance and operational efficiency.
Overview
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Certification
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years of professional experience
Work history
Systems Analyst – Digital Projects
Waterways Ireland
2025.03 - 2026.07
- Leading delivery of strategic digital transformation initiatives across a cross-border UK/EU public sector organisation, modernising enterprise platforms, data governance and digital services.
- Led delivery of 5 concurrent enterprise transformation programmes, including ERP implementation, corporate audit systems, enterprise asset management, strategic development, and organisation-wide information governance, enhancing operational capabilities.
- Leading full program delivery from business case development and requirements engineering through procurement, solution design, implementation, testing, supplier management and transition into service.
- Developed business cases, options appraisals, and impact assessments that informed executive decision-making and prioritised strategic digital transformation initiatives, driving alignment with organisational goals.
- Delivering secure enterprise platforms supporting a hybrid workforce of 400 users while improving organisational resilience, governance and operational efficiency.
- Supported modern data management through Microsoft 365, Microsoft Fabric, and Power BI, facilitating enhanced reporting, analytics, and enterprise decision support.
- Contributing to the organisation's emerging AI governance posture, helping shape policies, standards and responsible adoption of AI technologies across the business.
Senior Manager
PremCloud Resources
2018.09 - 2025.03
- Led enterprise cloud, compliance and digital transformation programs across Europe and North America, directing delivery of four enterprise software platforms, a portfolio of 200+ enterprise customers and a multidisciplinary team of 25 engineers, consultants and support specialists.
- Led a three-year enterprise data transformation program for a government-mandated divestiture, delivering a cloud-native governance platform that manages over 11PB of production data within a 30PB enterprise estate.
- Program projected to deliver approximately US$30M in operational savings through machine learning, automated governance and intelligent data lifecycle management.
- Delivered an enterprise information governance platform for 12,000 users and over 250 million corporate records, reducing storage footprint by approximately 40% and achieving first-year savings of 25–30%.
- Led design and delivery of an Azure SaaS platform enabling secure tenant-to-tenant migration of Microsoft Teams collaboration data following a complex corporate divestiture. Successfully migrated 1.5 million Teams messages, files and collaboration records with zero data loss.
- Managed Agile delivery and roadmap planning, providing executive reporting to stakeholders.
- Led customer workshops, stakeholder engagement, and product evolution.
- Team management, staffing and recruitment, and commercial events and webinars
- Executed additional tasks to enhance project outcomes.
- Enterprise Delivery Highlights
- General Electric Gas Power
- J Sainsbury Plc
- Signal Energy
Product Manager
Capax Global
2014.01 - 2018.01
- Owned product roadmap, customer requirements and enterprise software delivery for information governance, compliance and eDiscovery platforms.
- Established strategic technology partnership with Symantec UK, leading technical accreditation, deal registration, and onboarding for Enterprise Vault, NetBackup, and Clearwell product suites to enhance product integration.
- Led the design and delivery of secure mobile applications for iOS and Android, extending enterprise platform capabilities and improving customer accessibility.
- Delivered executive product demonstrations and customer workshops across Europe, facilitating enterprise solution design to support pre-sales, customer success, and product adoption.
- Oversaw programmes aligning technology initiatives with business objectives, ensuring strategic focus and coherence in project execution.
- Led the design of the Hydrate integration platform for Hogan Lovells, interfacing with Relativity, reducing enterprise eDiscovery delivery from 1 month to 5 working days.
- Led delivery of bespoke SQL recovery tooling for ThyssenKrupp, enabling recovery of a large production data archive following database corruption.
Technical Support Manager
Capax Global
2011.01 - 2014.01
- Managed service delivery for multiple customer and vendor SLAs, collaborating with Hewlett Packard software engineering and professional services teams to resolve complex enterprise issues efficiently.
- Led support operations for 400+ EMEA customers, overseeing mission-critical messaging, archiving, and compliance platforms to ensure seamless service delivery.
- Improved system efficiency by implementing innovative technical solutions.
- Established robust data recovery systems to safeguard vital information.
- Upgraded outdated systems with cutting-edge technology solutions.
Project Manager
Capax Global
2010.01 - 2011.01
- Delivered enterprise compliance, archiving and eDiscovery projects for organisations with up to 80,000 users across government, healthcare, legal and financial services.
Education
MBA - Digital Transformation & Public Sector Strategy
University of Birmingham
BSc (Hons) - Computing & Business
University of Ulster
Skills
- Digital Transformation
- Business Analysis
- Agile Methodology
- Enterprise Cloud
- Product Delivery
- Technical Project Management
- Solution Architecture
- Microsoft Azure
- Power BI
- Microsoft 365
- Information Governance
- AI Governance
- ITIL
- PRINCE2
- Vendor Management
- GDPR
- Stakeholder Management
- Leadership in technology teams
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Office 365
- Systems Analysis
- Data Migration
- DevOps Practices
- Machine Learning
- Process Improvement
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- Delivered programs projected to generate US$30M in operational savings through intelligent data management, governance, and lifecycle controls.
- Led a 3-year enterprise transformation program managing an estate exceeding 30PB of corporate data.
- Delivered enterprise transformation projects for General Electric, Lloyds Banking Group, Sainsbury's, Hogan Lovells, Network Rail, and Signal Energy.
- Successfully delivered enterprise projects supporting organisations with over 80,000 users.
- Extensive experience across UK, EU and US regulated industries supporting many world’s largest law firms, including Kirkland and Ellis, Latham and Watkins, and Hogan Lovells.
Certification
- PRINCE2
- ITIL
- SAFe Product Owner
- GDPR Practitioner
- Microsoft Teams
- Power BI
- Azure DevOps
- Cisco CCNA
- Microsoft CoPilot
- ChatGPT
- Microsoft Visio
- Microsoft Project
- Windows Server
- Exchange Server
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- Eligible to work in the UK, EU and Ireland
- Full UK Driving Licence
Timeline
Systems Analyst – Digital Projects
Waterways Ireland
2025.03 - 2026.07
Senior Manager
PremCloud Resources
2018.09 - 2025.03
Product Manager
Capax Global
2014.01 - 2018.01
Technical Support Manager
Capax Global
2011.01 - 2014.01
Project Manager
Capax Global
2010.01 - 2011.01
BSc (Hons) - Computing & Business
University of Ulster
MBA - Digital Transformation & Public Sector Strategy
University of Birmingham