Marcus Glowasz

I work with project organizations, assisting them in building the structures and governance needed to enable effective use of data, analytics, and AI in project management. 

This includes developing the necessary data mindset and data leadership skills to unlock the full potential of data for improved and future-proof project delivery practices.

Data Coach & Transformation Strategist

I assist organizations in their digital transformation and change initiatives, with a primary focus on complex technology transformation. This includes expertise in:

- Front-to-Back Program Management
- Application development & migration
- IT & Application Strategy
- Data Strategy & Management

Senior Program Manager / IT Solutions Consultant

Fortean

I joined as a co-founder and head of product, leading the product and data strategy for the development of an AI-powered platform for intelligent IT project management.

Head of Product & Co-Founder

- Global lead for a central Financial Crime Data Hub solution, including a program to scale the hub to a global data product, serving as a one-stop-shop for all data needs of IT applications in the Financial Crime Prevention domain of the bank.
- Acted as a product owner, driving data management, data quality, and business intelligence initiatives toward a global compliance data solution, serving areas such as AML Transaction Monitoring, Client Risk Rating, Adverse Media Screening, Fraud, and Sanction Screening.

Head of AML Data Hub / Program Manager - Financial Crime Prevention IT

Delivered and rolled out key enhancements for a third-party Legal Matter & Spend Management system to automate and digitalize legal workflows, as part of a large digital transformation program for Group General Counsel, incl. responsibility for the conceptualization and rollout of a centralized legal data warehouse solution.

Program Manager - Legal Technology / Digital Transformation

Credit Suisse

- Defined a robust governance model and initiated a large-scale program to migrate legacy compliance data platforms to the strategic platform Palantir Foundry. The goal was to enhance compliance capabilities by integrating, analyzing, and modeling compliance data at scale, improving screening, investigation, and transaction monitoring capabilities.
- As a project lead, I facilitated workshops with global stakeholders, assessing source and target data platforms, existing data, and business processes, resulting in the migration strategy and plan for the program.

Senior Project Manager - Regulatory Compliance

Capco

I drove the digitalization agenda for Capco's Anti-Financial Crime practice by elaborating customized solutions for an effective and efficient AML program at financial institutions, harnessing emerging digital technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Predictive Analytics.

Managing Principal - Complex Technology Transformation

Led a critical global multi-million $ change program for the global implementation and rollout of a new third-party AML client screening application, incl. responsibilities for the design and implementation of application and data architecture, and the alignment with business strategies.

Program Manager - Financial Crime Compliance

Successfully delivered a project to migrate and integrate a legacy audit tracking system into an existing internal tool for supervisory controls, globally used within the bank for tracking of tasks related to internal policies, regulatory requirements and external standards (Audit/Supervisory Controls)

Senior Project Manager - General Counsel IT

HCLTech

Delivered a project for a critical vendor upgrade for the ERP system DATASUL (TOTVS) due to a change in local tax regulations. Successfully coordinated rollout and change adoption at client branches in São Paulo and Manaus (Brazil).

Project Manager

Senior IT Consultant

Midiaworks

Founded and managed a startup venture which provided services for website hosting and management as well as the development of web-based systems, targeting small to medium-sized businesses.

Managing Founder

Compuware

Senior Systems Analyst

With more than 20 years of experience in delivering large-scale technology-driven change, I have a proven track record of guiding multinational teams through complex and uncertain challenges and leveraging digital solutions that enhance performance and deliver sustainable business value and growth.

Passionate about driving innovation and organizational change through technological capabilities, I offer thought leadership and coach senior leaders and teams on leveraging the vast potential of data, analytics, and AI to advance and future-proof their project management and change delivery practices.

I help project leaders and teams to improve their project delivery practices by unlocking today's vast data opportunities through data literacy and data leadership.

My customized training and coaching programs are specifically designed to address common challenges and bottlenecks in the project management domain, empowering professionals with the skills to leverage data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) for improved project delivery performance.

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)

Program Manager (BISO/Cyber Security)

Established and led Cloud Cost Optimisation (CCO) activities across the £20M/pa AWS platforms underpinning critical services of the FTSE100 index.

Technical Delivery Manager

Led the transition, growth and evolution of a pan-European agile team developing the advanced serverless AWS platform for Issuer Services supporting corporate investors throughout the funding continuum.

Engineering Lead

Independent

Providing strategic advice to a start-up building ESG and Sustainable Development services for UHNW principals, families and private offices.

Interim CTO - Wealth Management Start-Up

Bank of England

Led a critical business and technology change project in support of the BoE's Monetary Policy Committee.

Consultant - Business and IT Change

AXA XL, a division of AXA

2020: Led teams in the adoption of Agile practices as they implemented private and public cloud automation, orchestration and management services in support of large scale application migrations to Microsoft Azure. 

2019: Successfully planned and delivered a data centre exit resulting in cost savings and reduced operational risk.

Consultant - Cloud Transformation & DC Exit

Deutsche Bank

Executed a number of assignments managing large portfolios of concurrent projects to virtualise, rationalise, consolidate and optimise the bank's global infrastructure estate.

Transformation Portfolio Lead

Penguin Random House UK

Provided a capability maturity and risk assessment of the data centre facilities and core technology operating practices.

Consultant - Capability & Risk Assessment

London City Airport

Led the discovery and compiled the RFP resulting in the successful outsourcing of the hosting, management and support of the airport’s IT infrastructure.

Consultant - Outsourcing

Led a large scale and global application transformation programme using external outsourced and offshore providers to migrate a portfolio of business applications to virtual platforms.

Legal & General

PCI DSS compliance activities for Legal & General as part of a migration to an external payment gateway provider.

Consultant - Compliance

MS Amlin

Restructuring, stabilisation and delivery of an IT Infrastructure refresh programme.

Program Manager

A versatile leader experienced in delivering advanced technology platforms and leading business critical assignments for the world's largest and most complex organisations.

Established, shaped and led a number of delivery and operational teams as well as a variety of very large, complex and critical project portfolios. Significant experience in establishing operating models and streamlining the management approach, processes and tools to de-risk operations and delivery for the teams on the ground and the senior c-suite executives. Product & project development from concept to production. Experienced with the full data management lifecycle from source through to elevated actionable intelligence using AI/ML assisted smart systems.

- Established and led teams across both the application and infrastructure domains.
- Delivered business and technology change for organisations categorised as Critical National Infrastructure.
- Commercial P/L accountability, forecasting and budget control (£5M run / £50M investment).
- Successfully implemented services in over 50 countries and worked with diverse teams from many more.
- Management of large scale transformation with over 400 concurrent projects.
- Managed outsourced and third-party vendor relationships from both sides of the table.
- Established Project Management methodology, governance and operating models in established and greenfield environments.
- Conducted maturity assessments and health checks as a foundation for improving effectiveness and efficiency.
- Recruited, coached and led teams with over 150 participants.
- Introduced KPI's and reporting dashboards providing transparencyon current state, progress and plans.
- Experience across Waterfall, Agile, TPS/Factory-model, Lean, Scrum, Kanban, Six Sigma and Kaizen.
- Experienced in elevating data to surface actionable insights.
- Experience across modern technology operating models & requirements: DevOps, CI/CD, SRE, Cloud-First, Digital-First, Mobile-First and Data-First.
- Experience in working in highly regulated and tightly governed environments incorporating relevant data privacy; cyber and information security; and regulatory compliance.
- Background in digital innovation and product development.
- Experience with Azure and AWS Cloud migrations and operations.
- AI/ML certifications from Microsoft and Google.
- Breadth of technology experience from monolithic mainframes to advanced serverless cloud hosted micro-services.

UK based with over 30 years experience leading globally distributed and culturally diverse teams.

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