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Barry Rooney

@barryrooney

CIO. Interim CIO

Highly motivated, innovative and commercially astute as a Senior IT Leader, with 20+ years of adding value via IT across B2B, B2C, financial services, banking, consulting, SME and international corporate markets

Analytical, sees both the ‘big picture’, good experience of all areas of IT, understanding the challenge of technology, and articulating technology concepts to a non-technical audience

Led technology public sector solution business in Ireland, led the Siemens and Atos public sector practice, leading all Siemens responses to public procurement tenders covering Justice, Police, Health, and Agriculture

Extensive experience in the software development lifecycle including requirement management and bespoke software development estimates

Effectively operates across the business, bridging the gap between IT, service, digital and business needs, securing stakeholder & end user buy-in, delivering change, and building trusted relationships with the business

Positive and customer-facing as a Business Leader, with good interpersonal skills, able to develop and coach talented teams of IT service & support staff, promoting an open & empowering people leadership style

Leverages extensive expertise in the areas of financial services regulatory and governance frameworks (DORA, COBIT, CISM, ITIL, PRINCE2), as well as related areas such as Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF).

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Founder and Director

Current

Parthelon

Jan 2023 - Present (2 years 6 months)

Full remit as Founder and Director for the provision of IT advisory services and consultancy expertise, engaging with a portfolio of organisations, specialising in digital transformation & shaping IT strategies, and vendor and procurement services.

IT advisory consultancy expertise IT strategy technology roadmap vendor services procurement services Digital Transformation

Chief Information Officer (CIO)

Apex Group

Dec 2013 - Aug 2015 (1 year 8 months)

Led IT delivery and transformation for a financial services organization with Private Equity backing, overseeing infrastructure, application services, information security, and cloud services across multiple global locations. Managed end-to-end project lifecycle and successfully led technology acquisition strategy and integration.

IT leadership technology strategy roadmap alignment project lifecycle management Cloud Services Infrastructure Management Information Security Budget Management Team Management Contract Negotiation

Chief Information Officer (CIO)

Taxback Group

Led the transformation and maturation of the IT function to support future business growth and development, providing business-critical IT services to up to 800 employees across 7 companies worldwide. Managed budgets of €10m+, KPI metrics, and SLAs. Spearheaded the implementation of an ITIL-based service management framework and the modernization of technology platforms.