STEPHEN C. WILLIAMS

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SENIOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL

Stephen C. Williams is an experienced professional with 30+ years in consulting, providing business and data services, advisory, and training to clients worldwide. He is a recognized leader in the Data and Analytics space with extensive international Financial Services experience. Throughout his career, he has provided advisory, training, and mentoring to business leaders and aspiring professionals alike.

25+ years’ experience in data, analytics, and business transformations

Founder and operator his own consultancy in the Middle East specializing in Data Transformation as a business partner of IBM

Senior Manager for KPMG delivering large scale transformation programs to clients in the UK and in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Worked directly with banking CxOs in as a trusted advisor

EMEA BI/DW Practice Lead for Wipro Consulting with a team of 25 across a wide range of transformation programs

Capgemini Lead for Data Architecture and Advisory with a team of 45 data architects

Extensive pre-sales experience, including developing client workshops and presentations, complete sales cycle experience, and proposal leadership

Stephen’s technical disciplines include expertise in Data Strategy, Data Integration, MDM, Data Governance, Data Quality, and Data Migration. He has experience in a range of technical tools, including ETL tools, relational DBs, and data analytic tools. He is also an accomplished large-scale Engagement Manager

Stephen has driven large-scale international engagements with multiple stakeholders across a spectrum of technical disciplines, business domains, and geographies, applying PMBOK and Scrum methodologies:

As European PMO Lead for an enterprise-wide JP Morgan change initiative, coordinated client progress with senior European business managers (equities, fixed income, etc.) as well as leading all reporting and coordination with the central PMO in New York

As Engagement Lead for Invesco’s business continuity initiative, led teams in Europe and the Far East, coordinating results with local client senior personnel and aligning these across geographies

As Engagement Lead for the World Bank’s initiative to determine the IT compliance of clients in North Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, led multiple field teams and coordinated all reporting with the client

CURRENT/RECENT ACTIVITIES

As the Lead for Architecture & Advisory Practice in Capgemini FS UK Insights & Data set the vision for Data Architecture, including solution and service offerings in Data Architecture, Data Governance, and Data Migration, recruiting and hiring of data architects, and integration of new technologies into Data Architecture. His practice consisted of 45 delivery specialists. In this role, developed collateral, expertise, and corporate capability in the regulatory and compliance areas, including GDPR and BCBS239

For the Yorkshire Building Society, led the data migration of three other recently acquired Building Societies’ data onto a single Oracle platform thereby reducing IT costs for maintenance and development from four platforms to one as well as supporting several regulatory requirements. By front-loading work while awaiting client dependencies and addressing data quality and governance issues at source, able to increase budgeted gross profit from 35.6% to 42%, resulting in an additional net £500k

The Lead for a scrum-based Requirements Analysis and High-Level Design engagement intended to provide a cloud-based, big data analytics capability (AWS) for a the FCA. Areas of focus were user and technical requirements, high-level design, tooling, data governance for cloud-based data, data migration, and security

SELECTED CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Insurance

Led a BI reporting strategy analysis for Northwestern Mutual, a large US mid-western insurer. The engagement included analysis of the current field reporting process, including data sources, tools and techniques, and delivery mechanisms to provide recommendations to optimize reporting. Analysis showed a lack of proper Data Governance, including the lack of a business dictionary, was a key cost driver. Defined a roadmap for Data Governance implementation, including subject area definition, data ownership, and the integration of Data Governance into the application project lifecycle

For Farmers Insurance, led the requirements analysis, both technical and business, for the provision of a Single Customer/Product View through a COTS MDM application. This required interface with policy, claims, and billing to initially establish the agreed-upon definition of “customer” and subsequently, the specific requirements from each business area

Within Capgemini’s I&D Innovation practice, led the development of a robust Proof of Concept, CIRA, the Commercial Insurance Risk Analytics platform, in partnership with HP, using their Vertica and Autonomy products. This application draws both internal data and external big data, including geo-spatial, to assist commercial underwriters is risk analysis. CIRA has drawn considerable industry attention

Link to Capgemini CIRA Video

Telecoms

After the merger of Slovak Telekom with T-Mobile, led the analysis for the rationalization of their two former Oracle-based Enterprise Data Warehouses. This analysis included a scoring of the two architectures by component and recommendations for the new, single enterprise-wide warehouse, including products and tools, as well as implementation planning (ETL v ELT)

Banking

For Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), led the data-related analysis for the partitioning of assets as per the EC-directed divestiture through the creation of a “bank within a bank”. This included development of a conceptual data model representing the to-be-divested bank, as well as the development of data-related artifacts supporting the divestiture. Data governance standards were established for both sets of data, including (re)assignment of ownership and stewardship

At LBG, prior to the completion of the integration of HBOS and Lloyds systems following the acquisition, served as Lead Information Architect on the design of an immediate pay-out system in case of default to satisfy new FSA regulatory requirements. This system required the implementation of a Single Customer View (SCV) across existing Lloyds and HBOS customer and product systems. In this role, was responsible for commercial data transport design, integrating over 25 diverse data sources

Advised CIOs, CEOs, and Governance Officers of three banks in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the transformation of their technology strategies in accordance with western banking standards, post Bosnian conflict. These included technology support for operations, asset management, and core banking

Led Swaps processing re-engineering feasibility study for BNY/Mellon. To streamline the current processing, the engagement’s objectives included definition of a high-level data model for the incoming swaps that could be used by all subscriber services to include all requisite indicative and pricing data, as well as creation of a long-term roadmap for implementation

Practice Leadership/Profit Shaper

Led the Wipro Consulting BI/DW Practice in EMEA. In this role, responsible for recruiting, practice P&L, staff management, client liaison and business development, as well as overall practice billability. Exceeded target revenues of $4.8M

As the Lead for Architecture & Advisory Practice in Capgemini FS UK Insights & Data, set the vision for Data Architecture, including solution and service offerings, recruiting and hiring, and integration of new technologies. Practice consisted of 45 data architects and reporting specialists. Supported the development of collateral and corporate capability in the regulatory and compliance areas. Managed revenues of £7.5M

Training and Mentoring

Taught a range of undergraduate courses in Computer Sciences, including Artificial Intelligence and Compiler Theory as an Assistant Professor at the University of North Florida. Defined content and syllabus for course in Artificial Intelligence

Provided client workshops on current trends in data and new regulatory implications, e.g., Big Data, GDPR, BCBS239

Taught multiple three- and four-day sessions of Consulting with Clients at Capgemini. This class is designed to introduce junior team members the basic tools and methodologies of consulting, including hypothesis driven problem solving, data driven evidence gathering, stakeholder management, and other topics

Entrepreneurship

Established reputation and presence of EIT (Enterprise Information Technologies, Inc.) in the Middle East through the development of a systems re-engineering/conversion business in partnership with Saudi Business Machines. Defined and developed conversion tools. Managed recruitment, logistics, and business development

CAREER HISTORY

Independent Consultant, Enterprise Information Technologies, Worldwide 2018 - present

Senior Director, FS Insights and Data UK, Capgemini. London, UK 2013 - 2017

Director Professional Services, Rolta International, London, UK 2012 – 2012

Senior Manager, Wipro Technologies, New York, NY & London, UK 2005 - 2012

Independent Consultant, Enterprise Information Technologies, Inc., New York, NY 2001 - 2005

Senior Manager, KPMG Consulting, London, UK & Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina 1997 - 2001

President, Enterprise Information Technologies, Ltd., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 1991 - 1997

Manager, Systems Integration, SYSCON Corporation, Washington, DC 1988 – 1991

SELECTED CLIENTS

Al-Rahji Bank

Ibn Zahr Refinery

US Nuclear Regulatory Agency

JP Morgan

Invesco

The World Bank

Upi Banka

Gospardarska Banka

Farmers Insurance

BNY/Mellon

Zurich Insurance

Northwesstern Mutual

Yorkshire Building Society

Lloyds Banking Group

Slovak Telekom

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATES

MS, Computer Sciences – University of Florida MA, English/Linguistics - University of Florida

BS, Computer Sciences - University of North Florida BA, English - University of Florida

Engagement Management - Capgemini University

RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN INSURANCE

“How fine-tuning data can help insurers – and their customers – save money,” Walsh, Nigel, Squires, Anthony, and Williams, Stephen, Business Reporter, 04 March 2014

“Why insurers need to realize the value of big data,” Williams, Stephen, Business Technology, 30 March 2014

“Leveraging Geo-Spatial Data for Financial Services Solutions,” Williams, Stephen, 04 December 2014, HP Discover 2014 (Barcelona)

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