San Cabraal

A high performance COO/CTO who increases profits and delivers multi-million pound savings. Over 22 years International experience in multiple sectors: Professional Services, Transport, Entertainment and Pharmaceutical. Extensive experience in both strategy development and implementation. Demonstrable leadership of multi-million pound strategic change initiatives from Board approval through to delivery. A politically sensitive and culturally astute leader who builds strong relationships that operate on trus

Member of Executive Management Board, identifying and executing commercial strategies that delivered 40% annual growth via cost reduction and Merger & Acquisition. Responsible for Technology, Operations and Property across EMEA. Achievements Include: Increased turnover by £20Million by creating two new operating divisions. Established new organisation structures, operating models and accountabilities to ensure success. Reduced costs by 30% and lead-times by 15% via a £40Million outsourced operations.

Recruited as first member of Discovery’s in-house IT department. Department head responsible for all technology in London HQ and local offices in Europe. Gained Board support by clear commercially focussed communication. Created, recruited and retained a business-focussed IT department who quickly established themselves as part of the business.

International management role deploying applications and infrastructure for offices Europe, Latin America and Asia, Established strategic applications infrastructure strategy to ensure London, Hong Kong, Miami and European offices had a cost effective infrastructure. Leadership and management of a cross functional applications infrastructure team: networks, database and server standards were created and executed internationally.

Initially recruited to lead a high profile project that was floundering as Executive support waned. Overcame initial resistance to create an application that was reliable and robust for a global user base. Restored quality levels by taking development in-house. Overcame complex vendor management issues to recover project. Led development of projects across the business in newly created European IS department On-time, in budget delivery of projects via In-house, outsourced or co-sourcing developments.

Development Team leader using structured methods to deliver large scale business systems. Large scale systems development with teams of 150+ delivering systems with over 10,000 worldwide users.  Increased revenues by £50Million via delivery of yield management system..  Multi-million pound savings on BA’s £1Billion inventory via delivery of enhanced inventory management and forecasting systems. Reduced costly flight delays and materials wastage.

Graduate Trainee developing research systems to bring multi-billion pound products to market over a 10 year development and regulatory lifecycle

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