Karim Hyatt

Current

Outsourced Product Development Director - Europe at Sierra Atlantic

Past

CEO at OffTwo
CTO at OffTwo Ltd.
Interim IT Director at Banks Sadler Ltd.

Senior Interim CTO/Development Manager at Pantheon Software Management (Sole Proprietorship)
Interim Head of Development & Business Analysis at The Caravan Club
Senior Partner, Head Development & Integration Practice at Iterion
Independent Consultant at Pantheon Ltd. (Sole Proprietorship)
Interim CTO at TK Financial Software
Interim Development Manager at Schroders
Project Manager at European Investment Bank
Project Manager at Reuters

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Karim Hyatt’s Summary

A multilingual (English, French, German), very technically aware and technically proficient CEO/CTO/CIO/IT Director with significant international experience who frequently leads and mentors directors, senior managers, business analysts and technical engineers. Works with all stakeholders – including at board level – to define and implement appropriate business/technical strategies. Can also manage the development of modern scalable and cost-effective software products which achieve real competitive advantage.

Experience with large real time multi-user high transactional systems spanning multiple countries and developed using multiple teams located in sites across Europe and Asia.

Associations with the British Computer Society and industry thought leaders allow constant evaluation of IT and its role within organisations, not only from a practical day-to-day standpoint, but more importantly, from a strategic perspective.

Main Experitise
- Board level Director
- Extensive Blue Chip and international experience.
- General management
- Technical management
- Multilingual (English/French/German)
- Business & Technical Strategy development & implementation
- Business unit turnaround
- Mergers & Acquisition technology management
- Business transformation & change management.
- Multi-sector knowledge (Financial Services, Manufacturing, Travel, Technology, Consultancy)
- Resource management
- Offshore team development
- Technical proficiency (J2EE & .NET)
- Internationally recognized professional qualifications

Karim Hyatt’s Specialties:

Board level Director, Extensive Blue Chip and international experience, General management, Technical management, Multilingual, Business & Technical Strategy development & implementation, Business Unit turnaround, Mergers & Acquisition technology management, Business transformation & change management, Resource management, Offshore team development, Technical proficiency (J2EE & .NET).

Karim Hyatt’s Experience

Outsourced Product Development Director - Europe

Sierra Atlantic

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

Responsible for the delivery of all outsourced product delivery in Europe
CEO

OffTwo

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2007 — March 2008 (8 months)
CTO

OffTwo Ltd.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2007 — August 2007 (5 months)

Responsible for the technical definition and delivery of international SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) solutions.
Interim IT Director

Banks Sadler Ltd.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Events Services industry)

October 2006 — April 2007 (7 months)

Initially retained to conduct an audit of the IT department in order to determine next steps, including a viable strategy for the next 5 years. Follow-up project until April 2007 to reorganise the IT department and mentor the existing IT manager.

Main responsibilities include
- Push through and complete lagging projects
- Put in place best practice procedure and lifecycle
- Implement a modern architectural platform based on SOA (hardware & software).
- Update technical knowledge through specific workshops
- Liaise with the board of directors to update and synchronise business/IT strategy
- Establish communication framework between the operational part of the business and IT
- Increase headcount
- Establish roadmap and plan for product development initiatives.
- Implement a framework for simplifying the integration with some of the market-leading data stream providers in this sector.
Senior Interim CTO/Development Manager
Pantheon Software Management (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

October 2000 — April 2007 (6 years 7 months)

I am a professional Interim Senior manager since 2001 with significant international experience.
Interim Head of Development & Business Analysis

The Caravan Club

(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2006 — August 2006 (5 months)

Asked to help The Caravan Club to implement best-practice processes and line manage the development and business analysis teams. This senior role within the IS Department, fulfils several important functions:

- Organise and complement the development teams in order to support a huge change programme recently authorised by the board of directors
- Run several development projects including the B2B and B2C centenary e-commerce site.
- Design authority for the whole caravan club enterprise software architecture.
- Develop procedure for and assist in the selection of strategic 3rd party suppliers.
- Manage the requirements gathering and oversee the implementation of new business analysis best-practice procedures and standards
- Implement new software development procedures such as defined deliverables, release and configuration management, coding standards, and a new toolset to support it all.
- Line management for Development and Business Analysis personnel
Senior Partner, Head Development & Integration Practice

Iterion

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2005 — March 2006 (1 year 1 month)

- To build and exapand .NET practice in the financial services industry.
- Forge links with existing customers in order to help reduce TCO of ERP systems
- Act as Chief Technical Officer for partner company Seventh Wave Systems progress their ReachIS product and support current operations.
Independent Consultant
Pantheon Ltd. (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2002 — March 2005 (2 years 6 months)

Managed and mentored development teams all over the world.

Microsoft Belgium: Commissioned to write a series of articles on .NET Architecture. A link for those can be found on my site (http://www.hyatt.lu).

I-Vantage (UK, Denmark & India): Started up development team to build a system for a major blue chip client in Denmark.

ADP Dealer Services (Denmark): Project to formulate the future architecture and direction or their flagship pan-European ERP product.

Guidance Belgium & Luxembourg (Microsoft Gold Partner): Development management and mentoring.

Arcelor (Luxembourg): Interim Development Advisor: Developed a new architecture for the department in charge of running the corporate portal applications. Mentored staff.

Husky (Luxembourg): Development team building and mentoring. Developed their corporate architecture using BizTalk 2004, SharePoint Portal Server and other .NET technologies.
Interim CTO

TK Financial Software

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2001 — October 2002 (1 year 2 months)

TKFS was a small independent software company in the Asset Management field. Responsibilities included building development teams, developing a distributed fund trading system, and help the CEO present the product to potential clients and investors. Each team in UK, Germany and Luxembourg consisted of 12 members.
Interim Development Manager

Schroders

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2000 — September 2001 (1 year 8 months)

Interim position to build and lead a highly skilled internal systems development team and carry out 2 major projects,
Project Manager

European Investment Bank

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1992 — 2000 (8 years)
Project Manager

Reuters

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

1987 — 1992 (5 years)

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Karim Hyatt’s Interests:

Piano, keyboards, guitar, snowboarding, sailing, skating

Karim Hyatt’s Groups:

Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS CITP),
Elite Group of the British Computer Society,
Chartered Engineer - UK Engineering Council (CEng),
Member of the Association of Computing Machinery