Mark Whitfield Career Breakdown by focus area and technology / languages

Mark Whitfield is a Senior IT Project Manager and Engagement Manager with a career spanning over three decades, evolving from early programming in Tandem Mainframe environments to managing enterprise-scale middleware, cloud migrations, and digital transformations.

Having graduated from the University of Bolton in Computing, his project history is largely centered on retail banking, financial payment architectures, and multi-sector digital deployments. He is an accredited Prince2 Practitioner and certified Agile SCRUM professional. He also authors his own repository of Project Management Templates.

The year-by-year breakdown of his project management, consulting, and development career since 1990 details his focus, technology, and methods:

1990–1995: The Software Partnership & Deluxe Data

  • Focus: Electronic banking software development, inter-account transfers, and telephone banking systems.
  • Clients: Barclays, TSB, Bank of Scotland, Rabobank, Girofon (Denmark).
  • Technology: Tandem Mainframe Computers (now HPE NonStop), Periphonics interactive voice systems.
  • Methodology: Early Jackson Structured Programming (JSP) and custom software development life cycles.
  • Software/Languages: COBOL, C, C++, TAL, PATHWAY, MS-DOS, SP/ARCHITECT-BANK.

1995–2004: Insider Technologies Limited (ITL)

  • Focus: Platform health diagnostics, batch scheduling, and IT system automation for major European financial and telecommunications institutions.
  • Clients: Bank of England, Deutsche Bank, CRESTCo.
  • Technology: Mainframe tracking applications, Tandem hardware benchmarking, and IBM environments.
  • Methodology: Structural software development, benchmark testing, and ITIL-aligned diagnostic monitoring.
  • Software/Languages: Reflex 80:20, IBM TIVOLI, MultiBatch.

2004–2013: Insider Technologies (Strategic Technical Initiatives)

  • Focus: Transaction Log extraction, Point-of-Sale (POS) infrastructure expansion, and automated ATM monitoring.
  • Clients: HSBC, Alliance & Leicester, Standard Chartered, Global Payments.
  • Technology: HPE NonStop networks, BASE24 transaction logging, and Windows server integrations.
  • Methodology: Waterfall product management, client-feedback-driven requirements gathering.
  • Software/Languages: Real-Time Log Extraction (RTLX), ACI XPNET, Sentra.

2013–2014: Wincor Nixdorf (Banking Division)

  • Focus: Project management of Professional Services work streams for bank branch and ATM modernization.
  • Clients: Lloyds Banking Group.
  • Technology: ATM Hardware Estates, AIX systems, and Oracle databases.
  • Methodology: PRINCE2 Practitioner control, commercial parameter and sub-contractor management.
  • Software/Languages: ProClassic Enterprise (PC/E), MS Project, Excel.

2014–2016: Betfred

  • Focus: Multi-million-pound programs driving retail and digital consumer gaming workflows.
  • Clients: Betfred.
  • Technology: iOS, Android, and Windows native applications, fraud detection APIs.
  • Methodology: Agile SCRUM Framework (Sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog grooming).
  • Software/Languages: MS SQL, front-end/middleware integrations, ASP.NET.

2016–Present: Capgemini UK & MuleSoft

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Author: Mark Whitfield

Welcome to my site! After graduating in Computing in 1990, I accepted a position as a programmer at a Runcorn based software house specialising in electronic banking software, namely sp/ARCHITECT-BANK on Tandem Computers (now HPE NonStop). This was before the internet became more prevalent and so the notion of enabling desktop access to company accounts for inter-account transfers and book keeping was still quite a cutting edge idea (and smartphones only ever hinted at in Space 1999). The company was called The Software Partnership (which was taken over by Deluxe Data in 1994). I spent 5 years in Runcorn developing code for SP/ARCHITECT for various banks like TSB, Bank of Scotland, Rabobank and Girofon (Denmark) to name but a few. I then moved onto a software house in Salford Quays for further bank facing projects. After a further 23 years in the IT industry and now a Senior IT Project Manager (both Agile and Waterfall delivery), I thought I would echo out my Career Profile in this corner of the internet for quick and easy access.

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