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Stephen Cameron

BSc(Hons), CEng, CITP, FBCS, MIET

After more than 40 years as a business technology consultant and director of numerous start up companies Stephen Cameron works with the CEO/COO as CIO, as an external consultant or interim CIO.

The core of his experience focuses on digital transformation across many industries. He builds data driven businesses through data science encompassing information philosophy, privacy, marketing insight and operational transparency.

He has originated and been involved in a number of patents: challenging and driving their business value through software and hardware product delivery.

He founded a technology and consulting company 4 D Concepts Ltd in 1990.

Stephen is intense and passionate about the potential for transformational ideas in business. He loves being part of the journey to realisation of a new product and helping people and companies to achieve significant step change.

He is at his core an engineer who understands that change is incremental and business walks before it runs, recognizing that evolution is successful through proportionate investment and managed exploration with balanced results.

He enjoys co-opting and motivating teams to deliver outstanding innovative ideas and products and the strategy that achieves these.

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Key Skills

Stephen Cameron provides a range of executive skills across the information technology discipline…

provides leadership and mentoring for the CIO, CEO and COO.

Leadership

provides leadership and mentoring for the CIO, CEO and COO.
guidance on technology driven business start ups

Start Up

guidance on technology driven business start ups
management of technology delivery for global clients

Delivery

management of technology delivery for global clients
advise on innovation realisation, patents and targeted delivery

Innovation

advise on innovation realisation, patents and targeted delivery
effective and measurable strategic initiatives

Strategy

effective and measurable strategic initiatives
career mentoring for technologists at all levels

Mentoring

career mentoring for technologists at all levels
expertise in GDPR implementation and approaches to creating and maintaining value

GDPR

expertise in GDPR implementation and approaches to creating and maintaining value
expertise in evaluating technology start ups and establishing success factors

Evaluation

expertise in evaluating technology start ups and establishing success factors
  • March 1, 2015

    Pacific Life Re

    Stephen is supporting a global re-insurance company on the transformation of their technology strategy. He is working across Europe, Far East, Australasia and the Americas  to transform the business’ management of financial information: streamlining, harmonising and accelerating their operation through the development of their core business regulatory reporting systems, valuation and actuarial systems.  This involved driving […]
  • January 10, 2007

    BearingPoint

    Stephen joined the global business and technology consultancy, formed from KPMG, in the financial services sector, as a manager, specialising in Process & Content Management. He was responsible for and involved in a wide range of consulting assignments covering business, architecture and IM strategies, risk management and governance, effectiveness and efficiency studies, outsourcing technology studies, […]
  • July 1, 2006

    LogicaCMG

    He later transferred to LogicaCMG as part of a global outsourcing of IT, whilst retaining his responsibilities to Aon, and undertaking a number of diverse consultancy assignments including technical and business evaluations for the FTSE.
  • May 1, 2002

    Aon

    Stephen joined Aon, as an associate director of this leading global insurance broker, and it’s Technical Architecture Group to focus on strategic enterprise architecture and consultancy roles. His work has included the following: Transforming and delivering the Business Process Management strategy and capability of Aon in line with client centric initiatives and regulatory requirements, whilst […]
  • August 1, 1997

    OSI

    As a principal technical architect, Stephen joined OSI (bought by Xansa in 1999) to focus on strategy, enterprise architecture and consultancy roles. His assignments have included the following. Principal architect and technical manager for the Irish League of Credit Unions, a large 500 branch retail banking operation, transforming and migrating many different branch systems to […]
  • June 1, 1996

    Informix

    As a senior consultant, Stephen worked in the Consultancy Services Group of this global DBMS vendor where his main focus was the development of the Object-Relational methodology linked to its Universal Server product. He was engaged in a number of assignments working in the UK and Europe: data warehouse implementation for Pizza Hut; component tracking […]
  • February 1, 1990

    Post Office

    Initially working in the Technical Assurance Group, based in Farnborough, Stephen provided security consultancy for the Post Office Counter Automation Project: providing retail banking facilities at 2500 branches; based on the UNISYS PC platform, tracking authorisation platform and algorithms for transactions in an OLTP environment through to the Tandem central system. The group then became […]
  • April 1, 1988

    DA Systems

    As a design engineer, Stephen designed both hardware and software, writing micro-controller assembler, for the consumer electronic products manufacturer by this major security company. He was responsible for the redevelopment of the DRX system alarm monitoring equipment in line with fault-tolerant principles, various software test-rigs, and the new development of several digital communicators – both […]
  • October 1, 1987

    GN Citytel

    As a senior analyst, Stephen worked in London for a Danish telex bureau company, providing support for the incorporation of a Tandem based telex message switch system. He was instrumental in developing communications software to enable users to send telexes from their PC’s, as well as providing fax exchange services.
  • July 1, 1986

    British Telecom Applied Technology

    As a software engineer, on graduation, Stephen moved to the systems house arm of BT (now Syntegra), where he successfully formulated the call billing algorithm for BT’s new service “AccountCall” (now known as ChargeCard), based on the Tandem fault-tolerant architecture. His work also included support of all the office and mainframe systems within the Brighton […]
  • September 1, 1980

    Marconi Communications Systems Ltd

    As an undergraduate apprentice, Stephen underwent a full apprenticeship in all aspects of communication equipment design, manufacturing and testing, with a final focus on computer systems. He was primarily engaged in Vision & Broadcast/Satellite systems, working for a substantial time in the R&D Division on System X/Message Switch software and hardware/software design/development. This included an […]

Key Roles

Stephen Cameron has experience of a number of key roles across the information technology discipline…

CIO

  • CIO advisor at Hilton
  • CIO for a number of start up companies
  • IT Data Management at Aon
  • Manager at BearingPoint

Architect

  • Enterprise Architect at Aon
  • Architect at LogicCMG, Xansa and BearingPoint
  • Business Architect at Pacific Life Re

Technical Management

  • Technical Manager at UKHO
  • Technical Delivery Project Manager at Informix & Xansa
  • Development Manager at Pacific Life Re

Development

  • Visual Studio .NET & Azure Developer
  • dBASE Development
  • SQLServer, Oracle & Informix Database Developer
  • WordPress Websites
  • PIC and ESP8266 Electronic Circuit Development
     

Testimonials

...strong analytical capability,...

Stephen has a strong analytical capability, which provides an ability to find solutions to issues involving significant technical complexity. With  this he brings a set of experience that allows him to work out an appropriate way forward for a range of situations.

...strong analytical capability,...
David Howard
Solution Architect
Sarquol Limited

...pleasure...a total professional...

I had the pleasure of working with Steve for the majority of the project and he was a total professional. I would not hesitate to work with Steve in the future.

...pleasure...a total professional...
Richard Slater
Architect & Project Manager
Insight2Value