Eleye Abdi

PMO leader with 11+ years establishing and running programme governance across global technology and financial services organisations. Founded and led a PMO for 400+ professionals across EMEA at Amazon: defined the standards, methodologies, templates, and tooling adopted across 350 teams, driving a 23% reduction in project completion time and 22% reduction in cost overruns, while coaching and developing delivery professionals. Four years inside AWS as a Technical Programme Manager brings first-hand cloud service provider fluency directly relevant to multi-cloud vendor engagement.

As founder of AETHER Pulse, an AI governance platform, works daily with enterprise AI capabilities and holds deep practical expertise in AI output validation, data sensitivity, and human-review controls. PRINCE2, PMP, MSP, and Lean Six Sigma certified, with prior banking delivery at HSBC.

Founder & CEO - Quirkitude Ltd (AETHER Pulse) - London, UK

(2025-01)

Cyber & AI Governance Evidence Platform for Regulated Financial Services. Built AETHER Pulse (aetherpulse.app), a governance evidence platform for regulated financial services firms, producing cryptographically signed (HMAC-SHA256), audit-ready evidence packs across seven enterprise connectors.

• Designed governance and reporting artefacts mapped to FCA SYSC, Consumer Duty, the EU AI Act, NIST, and ISO 42001, translating regulatory requirements into portfolio-level controls, dashboards, and MI.
• Runs an AI-assisted delivery workflow daily (Claude, OpenAI, Copilot Studio, AWS Bedrock) to accelerate planning, risk synthesis, and executive reporting, with human review, output validation, and data sensitivity controls built in by design: the platform's core rule is that AI never marks its own homework.

Technical Programme Manager II - Amazon Web Services - Seattle / London

(2022-03 - 2025-12)

Global Enablement, Field Readiness & Community Scale. Directed end-to-end programme strategy for 24 technical specialist communities worldwide, managing governance, stakeholder engagement, and delivery across complex, cross-functional teams.

• Designed and launched structured capability-building programmes across 24 technical domains, achieving 70% acceleration in specialist ramp time through outcome-focused programme design.
• Operationalised 24 Technical Field Communities into self-managed units, delivering 1,300 hours/month in saved programme management resource through embedded governance and standards.
• Partnered with senior stakeholders across product, field, and partner organisations to align programme priorities with strategic go-to-market objectives.
• Built knowledge hubs, dashboards, and content repositories that embedded ongoing programme reporting into community workflows, reducing reliance on central management overhead.

Programme Manager II - Amazon Web Services - London, UK

(2019-07 - 2022-03)

PMO Creation, EMEA Transformation & Change Delivery. Founded and led the Programme Management Office (PMO) for 400+ professionals across EMEA, establishing governance frameworks, change standards, and training programmes that uplifted delivery capability across 350 teams.

• Implemented project management standards and tooling across the EMEA estate, achieving a 23% reduction in project completion time and 22% reduction in cost overruns.
• Launched an automated onboarding programme that reduced ramp costs by 30% over four years, generating £8M in savings whilst maintaining quality of hire.
• Directed the TAPA certification programme across 400 European sites, managing a £46M budget; conducted gap analysis, built the compliance training framework, and made Amazon the first multinational TAPA-certified company in Europe.
• Designed and delivered a capability-building programme for a 15-person team, coaching on KPIs, regulatory requirements, and best practices, with measurable compliance and performance uplift.
• Ran governance cadence across the portfolio: organised governance forums, maintained RAID logs and change control, tracked actions and decisions to closure, and produced governance packs and executive MI for senior forums.

Project Management Consultant - FDM Group - London, UK

(2016-06 - 2019-06)

Client engagements: IAG GBS (British Airways) · HSBC Retail Banking Digital Centre of Excellence.

• Operated as PMO Project Manager at IAG GBS, coordinating multi-stakeholder delivery programmes in a complex, international environment, directly relevant to large-scale change programme delivery.
• Embedded at HSBC Retail Banking as Business Test Analyst in the Digital Centre of Excellence; led 3 concurrent projects and drove process improvements that increased operational efficiency by 20% across 8 business units.

Junior Business Analyst - IT Europa - London, UK

(2014-09 - 2016-04)

Conducted business analysis and data modelling to produce strategic recommendations driving continuous improvement and operational change across key business processes.

MSc - Business Systems Integration with SAP Technology - Brunel University, London

BSc - Business Information Systems - Brunel University, London