Professional
IT Technical Manager and Solution Architect with strong experience in the regulated UK financial sector, managing delivery and maintenance of enterprise application systems, infrastructure and local applications, via teams of offshore and onshore technicians.
Roles include Incident and Risk Management, with responsibility for delivering secure and safe operation of IT systems, application development and including supporting and transforming vulnerable Legacy Systems and End User Computing.
NAME: Chris Tyler
CITY: London
PERSONAL: Married
INTERESTS: Tennis, Travel, Open Source Technologies
EMAIL: [email protected]
WEBSITE: www.christyler.uk
Business
- Life and Pensions
- Insurance (incl. Lloyds)
- IT Offshore (India)
- Enterprise Applications
- Incident Management
Management
- Project Management
- Change Management
- Systems Migrations
- Budgeting and Planning
- Resource Management
Technical
- Enterprise Data Systems
- IT Virtualisation and Cloud
- Application Systems Development
- Software Automation and Robotics
Interests
- Tennis
- Travel and Walking
- Science and Engineering
- Open Source Technology
- Sport and Outdoors
- Reading
Recommendations
DAVID, Head of IT Services and Delivery
…technically brilliant with strong leadership skills…continuously delivered against project deadlines.
SUE, CEO
….delighted with the expert work… which made the migration flow very smoothly.
BOB, Director
….finds pragmatic solutions….can be relied upon to deliver even in the most challenging circumstances.
Professional Experience
- Enterprise Application Systems
- IT Infrastructure
- Technical Management
- UK and Off-Shore (India)
- Business and IT Incident Management
- Risk and Crisis Management
- Ensuring safety, security and availability of legacy applications and IT infrastructure
- End User Computing (EUC) Management and Controls
- Regulatory, Compliance, Client and Internal Audit (e.g., ISO 27001)
- First-class analytical and problem solving skills
- Enterprise Application Management and Support
- All stages of the application systems development Lifecycle including Agile – Requirements, Solutioning Development, Testing, Release Management
- Application Systems Migration using Automation and Robotics to successfully move data and functionality, from legacy to modern applications systems
- In-depth knowledge of Life Assurance and Pensions products and administration
- Effective communicator at all levels for executive management, external clients, internal clients/stakeholders and auditors
- Teamworking, excellent team player attitude. Will actively seek other input, views, opinions to aid planning, and decision making. Equally comfortable working on my own initiatives
Pro Skills and Technical
- Governance
- Concurrent Projects
- Teamwork
- Stakeholder Management
- Technician Management
- Risk Management
- IT Strategy
- IT Business Case
- IT Software Solutions
- Process Monitoring and Controls (Automated)
- Process Improvement
- Active Speaking
- Enterprise Data Systems – IBM Informix, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB etc
- IT Virtualisation and Cloud – Azure, Hyper-V, Proxmox, UnRaid, XCP-ng/Xen, OpenStack
- Software Application Systems Automation and Robotics
- Microsoft Server and Desktop
- Unix (IBM AIX, Linux etc)
- .NET, IBM Informix, PHP, Python, Perl, HTML, CSS, C++, Fortran, Visual Basic, Delphi (Pascal) and others
- Office Application Development – Microsoft Office, Project, Visio, LibreOffice and others
- Apache, Tomcat, IIS, Nginx
- WordPress and CMS
Open Source Software
DB EXCEL - Data Manager
DB Excel Data Manager is built using Microsoft Excel and allows data from database tables to be viewed, added and edited using Excel Worksheets. Database table schema details can also be viewed.
DB Excel Data Manager is distributed in the hope that it will be useful for assisting with database systems administration and legacy application automation (e.g., for regression testing) – https://github.com/christyler80/DBExcelDataManager
PUTTY DRIVER - Legacy Systems Automation and Robotics
Automation for the PuTTY SSH and Telnet Client. This software provides ‘record and replay’ for applications and processes that are accessed and managed using SSH or Telnet Terminals – https://github.com/christyler80/PuttyDriver
WARBERRY 3 - IT Security Testing
Python 3 version of the automated penetration testing tool developed by SecGroundZero, which connects to any available RJ45 ethernet port and automatically runs tests based around common tools for Penetration Testing – https://github.com/christyler80/Warberry3
Delivering Successful Projects - Top 10 Influences
Clear Ownership
Clear Objectives Agreed
Good Communication + Management Reporting
Budget and Resources Agreed
Contact Me
Please get in touch if you wish to discuss hiring me.
EMAIL: [email protected]
WEBSITE: www.christyler.uk