Mark Mannion

Current

Managing Director at Extra Technology Ltd
Director at Shikasuki Limited

Past

AutoSys r11 Consultant at Citi
Systems Management Consultant at Commerzbank
Systems Management Consultant at Commerzbank AG

Systems Management Consultant at Commerzbank London
Director at Citysure Limited
Enterprise Systems Analyst at Barclays Capital
Global Equities Infrastructure Support Analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson
Senior AutoSys Administator EMEA at Merrill Lynch
AutoSys Specialist, GLOSS Support at Nomura International PLC
GLOSS Support at Nomura Intl Plc
Scheduling Specialist / GLOSS Team at Nomura Research Institute
Systems Management Specialist at PLATINUM Technology
Unix Administrator at Oracle
UNIX Systems Administrator, Technical Services Group at Abbey National PLC
IBM AIX / Tetra Support Consultant at Trilogy Computers Limited
Technical Consultant at Beverley Group Limited

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Mark Mannion’s Summary

Co-founder of Extra Technology Limited. Enterprise systems management specialist. Considerable experience managing workload automation projects.
Familiar with leading workload management offerings; CA AutoSys (including all the latest r11 releases), CA dSeries, CA-7, UC4 Workload Automation Suite, IBM TWS, BMC Control-M, Tidal TES, Opalis Software and Orsyp $Universe.

Mark Mannion’s Specialties:

Delivering workload automation solutions. CA Workload Automation (AutoSys, CA-7, dSeries, ESP & WCC), CA eTrust Access Control, CA Embedded Entitlements Manager (EEM), IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler, UC4 Workload Automation Suite, BMC Control-M and Opalis Software.
Migrations from one workload automation product to another.
Veritas NetBackup, various database and scripting expertise. UNIX, Linux and Windows Systems Management.

Mark Mannion’s Experience

Managing Director

Extra Technology Ltd

(Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

Managing a boutique IT services company, specialising in the delivery of workload automation solutions.

Developing partner relationships with leading workload automation software companies including CA, IBM, UC4 and Cisco.

Finding the best talent available and building upon it.

Supplying workload automation consultancy services and training.

Customers include ABN AMRO, Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas, Bank of America, Citi, Commerzbank Securities, Fortis, Jaguar Land Rover, Liverpool Victoria, Nomura, Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS.
Director

Shikasuki Limited

(Privately Held; Retail industry)

February 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)

Director reponsible for Finance and IT.
AutoSys r11 Consultant

Citi

(Public Company; C; Financial Services industry)

February 2008 — August 2008 (7 months)

Represented CA Technical Solutions as a member of the Citi EMEA team responsible for the deployment of CA's new r11 modules for UAJM and WCC.

Working very closely with CA development and support, tackling issues that arose as we proceeded with one of the largest (and probably most vigorously tested) r11 installations to date. Joining daily Citi/CA call that efficiently addressed teething pains that were to be expected with a brand new product.
Systems Management Consultant

Commerzbank

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CBK; Banking industry)

September 1999 — January 2008 (8 years 5 months)

Responsible for Systems Management utilities including CA AutoSys, UC4 Operations Manager, Stirling Commerce CONNECT:Direct, Veritas NetBackup and a variety of in-house security tools.
Systems Management Consultant

Commerzbank AG

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CBK; Banking industry)

September 1999 — January 2008 (8 years 5 months)
Systems Management Consultant

Commerzbank London

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — 2008 (9 years )
Director

Citysure Limited

(Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1997 — August 2002 (5 years 3 months)
Enterprise Systems Analyst

Barclays Capital

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BARC; Investment Banking industry)

1999 — 1999 (less than a year)

Managed Barcap's job scheduling infrastructure for London, New York and Tokyo.
Global Equities Infrastructure Support Analyst

Dresdner Kleinwort Benson

(Public Company; DKIB; Investment Banking industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year )

Improved the Imagine trading system infrastructure. Helped ensure a smooth transition to Euro compliant systems. Implemented a robust job-scheduling infrastructure. Liased with Users, Desktop Support, UNIX System Administration and Sybase Database Administration teams.
Senior AutoSys Administator EMEA

Merrill Lynch

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MER; Financial Services industry)

1998 — 1998 (less than a year)

Part of an implementation team tasked with the design and rollout of a centralised system management infrastructure.
AutoSys Specialist, GLOSS Support

Nomura International PLC

(Public Company; Banking industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year )

AutoSys specialist working with settlement (GLOSS/CREST), accounting (Dodge) and Strategic Middle Office applications.
GLOSS Support

Nomura Intl Plc

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; 8604q.L; Banking industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year )

Part of the GLOSS Development and Support team.
Scheduling Specialist / GLOSS Team

Nomura Research Institute

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year )

AutoSys specialist working as part of the GLOSS Development and Support team.
Systems Management Specialist

PLATINUM Technology

(Public Company; PLAT; Computer Software industry)

January 1995 — August 1997 (2 years 8 months)

Senior Systems Management Specialist Consultant. Role included pre and post sales support, professional services and training.

As part of the Banking and Finance team I worked in London, Frankfurt, Lisbon, Paris and Zurich.

Systems management work included job scheduling, UNIX security, software distribution, event management, backup control and load balancing.
Unix Administrator

Oracle

(Public Company; ORCL; Information Technology and Services industry)

1994 — 1994 (less than a year)
UNIX Systems Administrator, Technical Services Group

Abbey National PLC

(Public Company; SAN; Banking industry)

1992 — 1994 (2 years )

Responsible for job scheduling, user management, capacity planning, performance monitoring, system tuning, backup, disk management, load balancing and UNIX disaster recovery planning.
IBM AIX / Tetra Support Consultant

Trilogy Computers Limited

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

1992 — 1992 (less than a year)

Supported IBM AIX, SCO UNIX, Informix 4GL/SQL and Tetra financial software.
Technical Consultant

Beverley Group Limited

(Computer Software industry)

1990 — 1991 (1 year )

Systems Administrator for all in-house UNIX Systems. Supported the group’s financial software. Developed and supported Informix 4GL applications.