Founder and Chief Architect
Seamus Birch
Seamus founded technologyDo after a career leading enterprise architecture and DevOps in banks, in Frankfurt, London and Toronto.
The record
These are Seamus’s results before technologyDo, not technologyDo’s.
- Led $100M+ transformation and cost-optimisation programmes.
- Reallocated $102M of low-value tech spend; retired 533 legacy systems; cut run costs by $12.1M.
- Reduced production incidents by 83%; DevOps modernisation cut infrastructure support costs by 90% and development costs by 12%.
- Delivered an autonomous AI development platform (AGD) with real-time OSFI, SEC and GDPR compliance, in a regulated environment.
- Led organisations with 10,000+ developers.
- Deutsche Bank, VP Enterprise Architecture (London, 2011 to 2014): led a team of 60 modernising development, IT services and operations processes for 25,000 staff across 540 teams; raised productivity 30% and cut vendor headcount 50%.
Career
- DVB Bank Frankfurt, 2006 to 2008
- Lead agile coach and chief product owner, corporate and commercial banking.
- Barclays Investment Bank London, 2008 to 2011
- AVP Digital Web Portal Services.
- Deutsche Bank London, 2011 to 2014
- VP Enterprise Architecture.
- RBC Capital Markets Toronto, 2015
- Production stability, enterprise market risk.
- Scotiabank Toronto, 2015 to 2024
- DevOps, cloud and ML platform; enterprise Agile and DevOps adoption; the Global CIO product operating model; international banking portfolio and financials.
Training
Trained as a space engineer; MBA (AGSM, UNSW); PMP.
Sibling ventures
- Strategy Go: capability-based costing and zero-based budgeting for banks, government and utilities.
- Christmas Down Under, Maree Birch’s picture books about Christmas in Australia.