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Profile
A senior Information Technology Consultant with a wide range of
functional and technical experience,
who is an effective Team Lead, Solutions Architect and Project
Manager (Prince 2 Practitioner). Has worked mostly in the
Financial Services industry, where strong analysis, design and
problem-solving skills, coupled with industry knowledge and a
delivery focus, have made significant contributions to the
transformation of business objectives into operational
solutions. A team player (although very able to work on own
initiative), who enjoys building and maintaining beneficial
relationships.
EXPERIENCE
Oct 2006 – date [snip] – Project Manager
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are suppliers of business intelligence systems to investment and
commercial banks, extracting data from core banking systems
(primarily Midas / Midas Plus, TI and others, also from Opics as
a proof of concept) into a proprietary data warehouse and
providing OLAP analysis capability.
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Project Manager, Responsible for the implementation of systems
for two major clients, one upgrading from Midas to Midas Plus,
the other requiring a highly customised replacement for its
existing operational, cash flow and liquidity
Jul 2005 – Sep 2006 [snip] (Testing
Manager)
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Organised and executed User Acceptance Tests for several
projects migrating trading from Exis to Front Atlas. Scope
included ensuring that settlement (through Globus), accounting
(in SAP), Risk and Regulatory Reporting (in-house solutions)
were functionally unaffected by changes to their respective
feeds.
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Organised System, Performance, Regression and User Acceptance
testing for the migration of FX trading from Spectrum to Murex
3.1, acting as joint Project Manager (with the team’s Technical
Architect) after the previous PM moved on until a new, permanent
PM was appointed. Project scope included all interface changes
for settlement, accounting, Risk and Reg. Reporting and
automated inbound feeds from DealTracker, EBS, Autobahn and Citi
FX Trader.
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Organised User Acceptance Testing of new synthetic bonds
processing in Front Atlas and in downstream settlement,
accounting, risk and regulatory reporting systems.
Jan 2005 – Jun 2005 [snip]
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Business development and proposed solutions development
following an investment in this young company specialising in
packaged solutions around Applix OLAP tools for Financial and
Risk Management
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Short exercise supporting Basel 2 preparation work at UBS,
London
1996 – 2004 [snip]
2004 On-site coordinator, Deutsche Bank
London
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Overseeing the development and support work pipeline for HR
systems managed in London, including a critical and
globally-used staff evaluation application
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Ensured that work was commissioned, executed (off-shore) and
billed according to the agreed operating model
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Provided an onsite presence for the HR Systems management team
in London, acting as first point of contact for any operating
model issues, or helping to clarify any policy matters not
completely understood
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Provided an onsite presence for [snip]’s engagement management,
who were in Germany or USA, qualifying any concerns and feedback
to ensure that the responses were relevant and appropriate
2000 – 2003 Internal Roles
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March 2002 – October 2002
Programme Manager for Time & Expense system enhancements
(including American Express transactions) for the UK workforce
(ensuring security and privacy particularly for those working at
client sites), coordinating the work of the American Express
team, the off-shore development team, the off-shore operational
team and the UK-based deployment team
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September 2002 – October 2003
Application Architect/Business Analyst for Procurement
Initiatives, including implementation of web-based tool to
enforce pre-purchase approval policy, adoption of the American
Express pCard, definition of a global P2P tool set and
preparation for the introduction of SAP-FI accounting
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June 2002 – December 2002
Application Architect/Business Analyst for the introduction of a
new HR application providing end-to-end Contractor Management
capability, working with key suppliers to include viable
self-billing
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November 2000 – February 2002
Leading UK Local Application Delivery team, providing
intranet/extranet web solutions and back office applications (MS
& Lotus Notes platforms) to the UK practice, including
organising the outsourcing of excess work to software houses
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Technical Architect during design of services to be provided in
new UK HQ building, including those to be enabled by smart card
and CAFM integration, requiring close collaboration with
vendors, business owners of each capability and the internal
build/fit out team
1996 – 2000 [snip] (remaining on the [snip] account as
the outsourced service provider)
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Lead for a development/support team supporting traded options
applications (Unix/Sybase platforms), originally two teams but
merged following cross-training and release of expensive
contract resources
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Lead for the European testing team, with an emphasis on
completing testing of EMU remedial work (primarily to mainframe
accounting systems) before the implementation deadline
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Application Architect for largely mainframe settlements
processing during period of significant change, including
closing down some legacy systems after commercial banking
businesses were sold and enhancing others in preparation for EMU
1986 – 1996 [snip]
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Project managed improvements to Nostro account and liquidity
management processing, consolidation of European branch back
office processing into London and implementing business
continuity capability, all on mainframe applications
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Project managed conversion from local HP-platform SWIFT gateways
in Milan, Frankfurt, Madrid and Zurich to Tandem-platform
consolidated gateway in London, including local application
changes and ensuring a smooth transition with no loss of service
to local business functions
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Implemented the StorQM report query package for mainframe
settlement applications
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Worked closely with the Head of Security to develop fraud
detection tools, requiring extensive vendor management and an
understanding of neural computing
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Lead team developing/supporting largely mainframe settlement
applications (PL1/CICS), including Reference Data management,
Nostro Account management, processing for FX, Loans & Custody,
Cash management and SWIFT outbound & inbound messaging
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Defined feeds for and implemented the TRAM trade matching
application
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Designed and developed messaging application on a DEC/VAX
platform for Securities trade settlement, formatting SWIFT
messages and forwarding them to the SWIFT gateway
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Designed and developed interfaces between trade capture and
settlement applications to enable straight-through processing,
including implementation of Standard Settlement Instructions
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Technical Analyst on the ground-breaking FXNET implementation
across several London banks
1982 – 1986 ITT
(Belgium, Germany & UK)
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Re-engineered CHILL (a high-level language) compilers and link
editors to target Intel 80286 processors, after attending
Intel’s architecture courses
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Designed and developed an Oracle look alike package, enabling
SQL developed on the DEC platform to run on mainframes (using
the pre-compiler principles later adopted by DB2)
1978 – 1982 Rolls Royce
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Transferred applications from other sites and platforms to the
HQ site and platform
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Analyst/Programmer developing and supporting various
manufacturing applications (Mainframe PL1/IMS)
1974 – 1978
International Combustion
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Trainee Accountant with a large engineering company
1969 – 1974 Courtaulds
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Production/Despatch Controller in the nylon extrusion division
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EDUCATION
ONC Business Studies (awarded 1st prize – 1973)
Personal
DETAILS
Date of Birth – 7th May 1954
Status – Married
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