Data Management Migration
Resume:
NEIL BANNISTER
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linkedin.com/in/neil-bannister
Offering a unique combination of world-class technological experience. Keeping customers secure and their data safe!
A career spent building rapid solutions for complex customer requests, consistent development, and dynamic technology changes. Significant experience managing complex global projects (>10) as well as growing many teams in low-cost areas of the world. Experience in building and operating large software teams of our 100 engineers.
Over 25 years of HPC Experience driven leadership in secure, large scale data management and secure platforms, enabling increased sales and more customer compliancy. Built fast and deep data stores, moving, and managing data between devices and cloud storage; Large customer data migration being a fundamental part.
Specialist in developing strong and loyal relationships through an empathetic management style with employees, customers, field organizations, vendors and contractors. Frequent worldwide customer interfacing has created deep customer relationship integrity. Strong history of presentation work. Regular and frequent speaker globally on storage issues.
Professional Experience
Engineering Management
Sr Director of Shared File-System, HSM, Cloud & object storage & Tape sub-systems for 20+ years
Led Web & full stack UI projects for 12+ years Defined and created extensive API’s for the UI as well as the underlying product providing common building blocks for our own use as well as customer and vendor use.
Development consultant creating and honing software engineering principles, practices, development and release (SDLC – dev-ops) processes, and development/product strategy. Held the role of Release director and engineering consultant. Defined and produced Program Management from scratch for the projects, defined and implemented Product Management Guidelines, Development guidelines and drove the projects accordingly.
20+ years of Project Management; PMP training and certification currently in progress
Created/defined software products, won a best in show at IBC for a real time analytics, UI, database analytics toolset.
Many years of software security work covering implementation schemes, vulnerability mitigation - 98% reduction and security validation standards.
Cloud Transparency between on/off Prem with AWS and Azure.
Design and enabled customer to build out Storage solutions for their IT environments
Leadership - Sr Director, Head of Engineering
Led the professional services/custom engineering team for 10+ years – delivered complex data based solutions and all necessary contract documents.
Led multiple teams which delivered substantive new functionality, which directly supported the work to grow revenue by over 50% year over year.
Improving/growing communication with monthly all hands, guiding focus and improving transparency. Morale improvement by building inclusion and trust within the company resulting in higher motivation, focus and productivity being the outcome. Feedback from HR surveys showed a 50% improvement in information flow from Execs to engineering employees. This also ensured that the management teams, Stakeholders & Engineering teams know what’s going on, current objectives & Corp plans/business.
Managed large budgets in the range $10M-$20M
Nurturing, Mentoring Leadership Style that grows team investment and commitment.
Directed projects that were global, intra-company, delivered on-time and under budget.
Created vision, conducted Strategic Roadmap Planning / Execution of those plans to stringent budgets & milestones.
Customer/Vendor Facing
Managed technical relationships with vendors, OEM’s and partners over long term relationships
Skilled at running Professional Services and Customer Engineering thru RFP’s, SOW’s and all contracts
World-wide support of customer accounts as the Sr Director of Engineering. This translated into providing the best possible support, direct from sustaining and engineering teams. It also meant I was skilled at growing customer accounts and accountable to the executive team.
Skilled Customer Escalation Management, I was personally in demand from Silicon Graphics’ largest customers.
Executive Sponsor for the BBC at Quantum, I was the pipeline into the Engineering organization and met with the BBC twice per year.
Employment History
Company3 / Method Studios, Santa Monica, CA (remote)
Quantum, Mendota Heights, MN
SGI / Cray Research, Eagan, MN
Education
University of Wales, BSC + Honors, Hardware & Software Computer Systems
University of St Thomas - Mini-MBA lecture-based class
Personal Activities
Feed My Starving Children, Polar plunge – Special Olympics Minnesota
Hiking, Fly Fishing & Swimming. Photography, Landscaping, Woodshop & Racing RC boats
Managing the technical relationship with our OEM and ODM partners, including driving requirements, qualification, defining and managing SOWs, tracking and resolving any quality issues or product defects.
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