Mark Whitfield @ Wincor Nixdorf – Timeline of technical focus areas

During his tenure as an IT Project Manager at Wincor Nixdorf (Banking Division) from 2013 to 2014, Mark Whitfield focused on large-scale retail banking software modernisation and multi-vendor hardware migrations.

He spearheaded a £5+ million workstream on-site for Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) as part of their Self-Service Software Replacement (SSSR) programme.

The focus areas and technical outputs of his work during this era are detailed below.

🏛️ Era Focus Areas (2013–2014)

  • Legacy ATM Modernisation: Managing the transition of core banking infrastructure away from legacy terminal systems to prevent service outages and meet stricter post-2008 operational risk regulations.
  • Multi-Vendor Integration: Directing complex hardware and software integration streams to ensure Wincor Nixdorf solutions successfully paired with third-party banking frameworks.
  • International Technical Liaison: Acting as a qualified management link between the local UK delivery teams and Wincor Nixdorf’s central engineering base in Paderborn, Germany, for advanced subject matter expertise.
  • Methodology Pivot: Implementing project governance frameworks that bridged strict PRINCE2 Waterfall structures with Agile Scrum delivery models.

💻 Technical Outputs

  • ATM Terminal Driving Migration: Transferred critical automated teller machine (ATM) driving responsibilities away from legacy BASE24 Classic running on HPE NonStop mainframes over to Wincor’s ProClassic Enterprise (PC/E) product suite deployed on an AIX platform.
  • OS Lifecycle Upgrades: Successfully planned and executed the infrastructure upgrade of the Lloyds Banking Group ATM hardware estate from the end-of-life Windows XP operating system to Windows 7.
  • Database & Platform Architecture: Delivered backend systems alignment leveraging Oracle databases integrated across distributed UNIX/AIX environments.
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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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