Empower tech innovation with agile fractional IT expertise.

With the rise of cloud solutions and large scale data programs being driven increasingly with the help of AI, the technology sector is more than ever disruptive and businesses need specific skillsets to keep up. In this dynamic landscape businesses must learn to harness innovation and agility in order to remain competitive.

Hiring top talent through traditional models is limited; the process is slow and the risk is high. Project based innovations aiming to understand business potential and growth require agility and rapidity, in order to stay ahead of competition.

At Project Brains we respond to these business needs offering highly specific fractional Tech and Engineering expertise, to help bridge recruitment barriers and help achieve business objectives faster.

 

Case Studies:

  • Business: Listed media company

    Challenge: As the company grew through M&A, their customer and service pipeline data got split across multiple systems.

    Solution: Built a CRM consolidation roadmap with a planning across entities, including fractional specialist in business and technology design.

  • Business: Technology services company

    Challenge: Near-/ offshore agile project managers were not able to manage end-client expectations, leading to frequent escalations and unacceptable commercial risk.

    Solution: Fractional programme manager took over the communication and coordination across internal project managers and the end-client contacts. This layer provided improvement in software delivery quality and speed, as well as reduction in risk of client walking away.

  • Business: Private Equity-owned international Data & AI Services company

    Challenge: As the company grows organically, their current accounts and new prospects all demand more AI services over and above data & product engineering.

    Solution: Brought forward a range of Director-level specialists with technical credibility and commercial nous to help the business grow with confidence.

  • Business: Large retailer

    Challenge: The business used a complex architecture with poor data quality leading to high cost and reconciliation breaks

    Solution: The fractional technical team built the APIs and UX/ Customer Journey layer of a Blockchain-based application to increase take-up across the supply chain.

  • Business: PE-owned renewables developer

    Challenge: Implement ERP across Head Office and project entities for financial controls

    Solution: Supported the SAP S4 HANA roll-out programme with fractional specialists in business design and leadership - guiding internal IT, systems integrator and day-to-day operations teams with insights on best way to set up digital financial and control processes.

  • Business: Big 4 consultant

    Challenge: Needed specialists with C-level FinTech experience across areas like technology, data and technical community

    Solution: Helped the business achieve a kick-off within 100 days of approval including high-impact launch events, an active community, a $30mn pipeline from standing start and 2x revenue growth across key accounts

  • Business: Regional European bank

    Challenge: Rapidly build a new category of credit risk models for creddit risk warning 12-18 months in advance

    Solution: Fractional project lead went from idea to reality in 1 week, helping the bank bring multiple specialists (inhouse, consultant, vendors) to pilot several approaches & models, benchmark them, and create a final set of models with 40% improvement to current state by moving from heuristic-based, backward-looking models to an open data-based, 12-15 month early-warning model.

  • Business: VC-owned Carbon data company

    Challenge: Improve predictive power using machine learning for their demand, supply and price forecasting models in compliance carbon markets on US West Coast.

    Solution: Connected multiple PhD specialists to the business, some with specific experience in energy transition and low-carbon models. The selected specialist worked with the business over a period of 3 months to create the model architecture and the first iteration of the forecasting models. These were handed over to the BAU modelling team for further improvement.

  • Business: Global logistics leader

    Challenge: The business used conventional supply chain and ERP systems architecture with high cost of operations and maintenance

    Solution: Fractional technical team built the first stage of open solution using Distributed Ledger Technology to improve speed and quality of supply chain data exchange, as well as reduce ops costs. Drove technology renovation, went from idea to reality in 15 days (from draft SoW to project kick-off with up to 6 engineers), High delivery agility & quality with low defect rate & rapid sign-offs

 
 

Some fractional IT experts:

S.T

Skills: Requirements analysis; Process improvement; Data analysis; Stakeholder engagement; Documentation

Industry sectors: Energy, Renewables, Chemicals, Industrials, Manufacturing

Availability: Fixed Scope/ Outcome projects, Part-time, Interim full-time, Permanent full-time

S.G

Skills: Program management; Project management; Business analysis; QA testing; Technical support; Written communication

Experience: Manufacturing, Industrials, Finance, Energy, Renewables, Chemicals

Availability: Fixed Scope/ Outcome projects, Part-time

S.J

Skills: ML Architecture; ML Models; Technical management; Application ownership

Experience: Energy, Renewables, Finance, Media

Availability: Fixed Scope/ Outcome projects, Part-time

B.F

Skills: Software engineering; Architecture; Technical management; Application ownership

Experience: Finance, Media, Technology

Availability: Fixed Scope/ Outcome projects, Part-time

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