Paul Crawford Email Address

Lead Software Performance Engineer and Head of Software Performance Engineering Capability

Old Mutual plc is the active portfolio manager whose managed separation strategy aims to result in four strong independent businesses.

I am currently the IT Manager of the Non-Functional Testing Capability at Old Mutual, an IT capability within an industry leading Investments, Insurance and Asset Management Co. Our mission is to improve organisational system performance and security by bringing together unique and diversely skilled people, evolving processes, and class leading technology. We are currently focused on a large scale programme engineering Old Mutual’ s new digital product offering to achieve Non-Functional business targets. Accomplishments: •Successfully engineered Old Mutual’ s new digital product offering for production release •Built and led a high performance non-functional test capability (10+) consisting of performance engineers, security engineers, software engineers, data engineers, and systems engineers •Architected and matured the model on which the non-functional test capability is built •Designed and implemented a SecDev business case concerned with building security into the software development lifecycle •Successfully performance and security engineered 30+ systems within 2 years across the organization •Successfully ran a Test Data Management Pilot and developed on organisational rollout plan •Architected and built many of the platforms on which Old Mutual’s products and services run •Full stack performance and security engineering and root cause analysis •Successfully navigated the corporate Financial Insurance environment •Participated in due diligence and IT governance •Consistently drove projects from inception to release on time and on budget I have deep expertise in: performance engineering, security engineering, building and aligning high performance technical teams, devops, devsecops, devperfops, tdm, web software development, software engineering, data engineering, data analytics, solutions architecture, data architecture, data warehousing, distributed systems, systems integration, financial insurance intellectual property, systems infrastructure, technical due diligence, agile/scrum