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London Area, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Providing payments using Open Banking technology to create rich user experiences at low costs, to bring down the cost of making an end to end payment, while moving to a greener world.

Derby, United Kingdom

Providing thought leadership in Open Banking and Digital Banking Transformation. Key areas:Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly finetune of Open AI (on which Chat GPT is based) models on organisation specific data. Bard AI from Google.Cloud based application deployment especially of Azure including App Services, Azure Kubernetes Services.

City Of London, England, United Kingdom

• Consultant |Driving the next generation of standards in the Banking industry through domain driven componentization and API specifications to create a road map for the future and engage with member banks towards.
• Driving the creation of a Banking Innovation marketplace as part of the BIAN portal, with standard REST and async APIs, sample Business Scenarios, and implementation specific Bank,FinTech and Vendor APIs.
• Using OpenAI (engine behind Chat GPT) models finetuned with BIAN data for Chat, Certification and Code generation as part of a BIAN starter App.
• Facilitating Business scenario / Wireframe definition form data and editing through the BIAN Portal, as part of the Bank Relations, Wealth Management, Lending and Cards and other working groups
• Standard REST and async API generation for the upcoming BIAN 12 release
• Using Azure and Kubernetes for hosing and managing services written using NodeJS, REACT, MongoDB and.NET

London, United Kingdom

• Consultant |Led Open Banking Architecture and Product Development – enhancing Virtusa’s public cloud based Open Innovation Platform (OIP) and API Exchange (APIX), for Banks to build core Open Banking functionality for.
• Open Banking Capabilities, Data Protection, FinTech Assurance Criteria and Financial Institution (Bank) Digital maturity assessment, Monetisation for the ASEAN Financial Innovation Network, AFIN’s API exchange platform.
• Product Development including Design, Specification and Pricing of a new product for Banks in Australia to become complaint with the Consumer Data Right (CDR) regulation (Open Banking Australia)
• Analysis of regulatory Open Banking developments across the world including Canada, Mexico and Brazil to identify new sales opportunities.
• Worked with the Central Bank of a country to help define their road map for Open Banking based on key drivers such as consumer data protection and generation of economic opportunities
• Worked with the World Bank Group to create recommendations for implementation of Real Time Payments Infrastructure and Request to Pay for a country

London, United Kingdom

• Direct report to CIO.
• Digital Programme and IT Strategy – led and steered the Digital Transformation programme and supported the CIO in defining and executing the bank’s IT strategy; represented IT in various other project Steering Committees
• Support – ensured the smooth running of all IT systems across 70 applications, prioritising support activities as necessary, running crisis management meetings in case of Major Incidents
• Project kick off – budget, functional and technical architecture, high level plan, resource allocation and execution capacity allocation for all new projects
• Resource management – Using a resource planner to manage full utilisation of all ITEC resources across multiple project and support streams, active contributor to the Target Operating Model (TOM) introducing efficiency.
• Month end reporting – consolidated IT spend reporting across all projects and support functions including labour, consultancy and software

London, United Kingdom

• eBanking – as the Scrum Master managed 20 Business Analysts, Developers, Testers and Infrastructure specialists across London, Jersey, Paris and Switzerland, in an Agile environment from project kick-off to delivery.
• E2E online banking solution – desktop, tablets and mobile (view only) accessibility
• New online offering for clients, providing up to date Portfolio positions and performance 24/7
• Processes / workflows automation – o online domestic BACS, CHAPS and international SWIFT and SEPA payments – ISO20022 APIo generation and printing of statements, advices, valuations and CGT document management
• electronic document management system (EDMS) upgrade – store statements at an account level
• Paperless bank documents – delivered online

• E2E technical project management, solution design and development leading a small team of integration developers.Achievements
• Real-time Enterprise service bus across all services and processes:o Reuters Kondor Plus Treasury System – integration of Spot, Forward, FX Swaps, Loans and Depositso Front Office system – incorporation of Client.
• Collected all financial data – integrated into the bank’s proprietary core reporting system, Matrix
• Intranet portal & internal document management

Deigned the integration architecture, led development to provide consultancy and manage stakeholders for a wide range of clients to implement integration components between their various systems (mostly PO Management Proactis and Microsoft GP) using Middleware solutions.Clients: SG Kleinwort Hambros Bank Limited, University of Bristol, Equity Insurance.

As the Solutions Architect, led the architecture design of the Peer To Peer, workflow systems for Insurance Policies and Claims, for re-insurers Aspen Re., using Microsoft SharePoint Web Parts, K2.net workflows.

Contributed to the technical architecture, design, development and maintenance of systems for managing Candidate details, marks, electronic scripts management and the Assets marketing Portal for Cambridge OCR, ESOL and CIE.

Munich Area, Germany

Designed and developed a proof of concept (poc) Business Intelligence module using Data Mining for IBM WebSphere Everyplace Subscription Manager.