
Associate Partner at Citihub
United Kingdom

Associate Partner at Citihub
United Kingdom
A highly innovative and effective IT Professional with proven results throughout his career in the private and public sector. Experienced and successful in technology and people management, developed over a career in sales, IT projects and service delivery, on an international stage. A highly articulate, confident and persuasive leader, capable of building exceptionally performing teams. A problem solver with high personal integrity.
IT and data centre economics, solution design and IT architecture, social networking technology, team building and leadership. Experienced in the successful development /deployment of commercial real-time information systems. A deep experience of Financial Services information technology. Good French spoken.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2009 — Present (2 months)
Working as a Consultant for customers with Data Centre, Cloud Computing, Infrastructure & Architectural problems
(Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2007 — August 2009 (1 year 11 months)
While working here, I wrote about my work and travel at http://blogs.sun.com/DaveLevy
(Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1997 — October 2007 (10 years 10 months)
Worked as a Consultant performing IT Economics reviews on customer data centres, proposing profitable business cases for change and improved efficiency
Worked as Solution Design Consultant to design, propose and sell workable and cost-effective platform solutions and migration projects, based on customer functional and financial requirements.
I became a Principal Engineer in 2002 and started blogging on the sun site in 2004, see http://blogs.sun.com/DaveLevy
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
1996 — 1996 (less than a year)
Also known as Citimax Integrated Information Systems, I worked as Chief DBA for Credit Suisse Treasury (NE)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1995 — 1995 (less than a year)
managed the implementation of "Steel, Burrill, Jones" Lloyd's market networked insurance platform
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Insurance industry)
March 1991 — February 1995 (4 years )
IT Director, previously Manager, responsible for software portfolio (included in-house built), hardware portfolio (networks, systems, storage), leadership and human resources
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
January 1989 — March 1991 (2 years 3 months)
Presales Consultant (SE) specialising in database solutions & benchmarking
(Insurance industry)
1987 — 1989 (2 years )
(Government Administration industry)
1981 — 1987 (6 years )
UK Civil Service
BA , Economics , September 1974 — June 1977
British Computer Society, Chartered Institute of Management, Royal Economics Society