Matthew Thomasson
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- matt at matthewt com
- www.yourdigitalchange.com
- Jersey, United Kingdom
A technology change leader and digital native with proven engineering experience in the financial sector. Backed up with proven experience I hold professional level Architecture qualifications in the three main Cloud services (AWS, Google and Azure) giving me strong multi cloud experience coupled with a current CISSP security qualification and multi year experience. I have a broad set of change experience and techniques including Agile (Scrum) and traditional methods. I have domain experience in areas such as integration, payments, compliance, banking (including schemes and integration such as Open Banking), fx, CRM & Omni channel development.
I have proven experience of complex pan jurisdictional and domain integration. I lead and architect Technology change. I can provide technology strategy insight and thought leadership across a range of business needs helping the organisation navigate the vast opportunities that digitalisation presents.
You can use my meetup bot (which checks for avalblilty and books meeting in my Outlook diary) to setup a meeting with me. Take a look at www.yourdigitalchange.com to see an example of a Serverless Live Account Balance AWS Lex bot which also serves AWS Connect. Demo shows 2FA via SMS, DynamoDB, Lambda, Javascript VUE 3.0 application and Graphql Subscriptions aswell as sentiment analysis and integration to SMS, Azure Dataverse integration & Power Apps. Videos of the demo can be found on youtube through this playlist. This website is hosted on Azure in Blob storage, served by Azure CDN, the page counter is an Azure Function backed off to Comosdb with CI/CD though Git Actions.
Work Experiences
Technology Consultant
Delivering Technology capability and insight in support of new venture activity. Subsequently leading Technology work stream to assess and develop enabling technology in support of bank Strategy. This includes areas such as Cloud & Digital Native transition, API's and Channels (Gateways through to working practices & tooling), containerisation, platform(s) adoption, partnering, innovation and support of a diverse set of customer journeys.
Head of Delivery, Transformation
End to end Delivery (programme, project, design, development, test) of RBS International Transformation portfolio including eQ Next Generation (Corporate Electronic Banking platform), a new RBS International branch in Luxembourg together with a mandatory portfolio (GDPR, Controls) and discretionary change. 6 direct reports, 60 people fulltime team, circa 12M GBP annual spend. Development of the RBS International Cloud Strategy. Consulting on Security protection strategy and audit engagement and preparation.
Head of Technology Change
Reporting to the RBS International CAO. Leading technology change including Infrastructure, application development and project delivery specialists in the delivery of technology change.
Head of Project Delivery
Leadership of all project delivery within Technology Services for the offshore bank. In addition to the delivery of change and divisional leadership role I also have practical proven experience of organisational change, IT strategy and enterprise governance, risk management, enterprise architecture, IT resiliency and IT security.
Programme Manager, Technology
Leading a program of change focused on all discretionary and mandatory change related to a broad and diverse international banking platform.
Enterprise Application Development Manager, Technology
Responsible for enterprise application development including security and architecture. Enterprise application development focused on support of multi branded and jurisdictional Retail, Corporate and Markets banking businesses (domestic and international payments, accounting and FX). Leading concurrent development across multiple projects utilising both Agile and Waterfall development methodologies. Change delivered included platform integration across multiple systems and accounting platforms, internet client channels, straight though processing, payment channel integration, technical maintenance along with regulatory and compliance mandated change.
Projects
Digital Strategy
Recent experience includes developing an enabling technology strategy to underpin an acceleration of digitalisation and shift in business strategy.
Muti Cloud - Omni Channel
While studying in 2021 I have built Serverless solutions with Azure Functions, AWS Lambda, Azure storage, Vue 3.0, AWS Appsync (Graphql), NoSQL dB (Comsos and Dynamo), AWS Connect (Omni Channel), Lex Chat, Cognitive Services and integration to the Microsoft Dataverse including Power App.