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Summary
Peter Groom is a commercially focused CTO with significant project and operational experience ranging across a number of high technology industries:
- An experienced general manager with well developed transferable skills, acquired across a number of high volume, online sectors – such as Investment Banking, Online Travel and Online Gaming.
- A forward thinking troubleshooter with strong interpersonal and mentoring skills, experienced in building cross discipline global teams.
- Extensive project management experience coupled with an in depth knowledge of project lifecycles, software development and a reputation for delivery.
- An effective communicator with a highly consultative, client facing outlook to business who is able to build strong relationships with 3rd parties, internal stakeholders and across the organisation in order to deliver change and results.
Key achievements:
Below are some of Peter Groom's key achievements across a number of sectors (e.g. Outsourcing, Telecommunications, Investment Banking, Online Travel and Online Gaming):
- Turned around an underperforming IT division, with a budget of £36m and 125 strong, into one that drove the business, allowing profits to increase by almost 40% in 12 months.
- As CTO, he was part of the senior management team who directed through a period of huge business change, as more than 80% of the group revenue vanished over night.
- Tactically outsourced parts of software development & testing to Belgrade and India, whilst simultaneously implementing Agile development (Scrum).
- Improved scalability and uptime from 95% to 99.99% for the web sites, resulting in increased profits, customer retention and improved organisational reputation.
- Achieved a reputation for the delivery of creative solutions to critical business challenges across all areas, from sales & marketing through to corporate finance and HR.
- As CTO, he implemented automatic trading technology encountered in Investment Banking, to solve a resource challenge within Trading at an Online Gaming organisation.
Specialties:
Troubleshooting and turnaround of IT departments in high-pressure environments, business alignment, global teams, customer focus, IT strategy, commercial awareness, outsourcing, project & software development life cycles, change management across the entire organisation, prioritisation of IT services, innovation
A full list of Peter Groom's experience can be found in the Experience section, together with more information in the Additional Information section
Interested In:
- career opportunities
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- new ventures
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To contact Peter Groom regarding any of the above, please send an email to:
 peter@petergroom.com
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