Christopher Joseph Email & Phone Number

Princes Risborough, Gb

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Responsible for 20+ applications across Product Control, Financial Control, Regulatory Reporting, Liquidity Risk, and Valuations functions. Restructured the development group into five core teams to increase mobility and breakdown technology silos as part of transition to a strategic global model for Finance IT application architecture and delivery. Transitioned two of the teams to a co-sourced model.Technical responsibility for a 5MM~ CAD regulatory architecture renewal programme based around Axiom Controller View technology. Building out a convergent solution for capital and financial reporting with initial focus on Basel III. Replacing end-user-computing applications and existing regulatory platforms. Representative of the BA Community in the communities (of practice) coordination group. Providing leadership for continuous improvement to SDLC and PMF for back office IT. Championed DevOps as the missing element in the delivery process gaining senior management sign-off on significant spend to introduce an ALM solution.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Built out a team onshore and offshore to deliver a number of concurrent regulatory and transformation projects. Including 4M~ CAD European Liquidity Risk Reporting Project which delivered daily liquidity reporting to the FSA and Market Risk for internal stress testing. A solution that used Informatica (ETL), Sybase ASE (data warehousing), and Logica’s regulatory reporting platform, rFrame.Responsible for the data warehouse and reporting platforms supporting Product Control, Financial Control, Market Risk, and Operations for management reporting, regulatory reporting, sub-ledger consolidation, liquidity risk, and capital adequacy.Initiated a Finance IT transformation programme. Reducing operational risk by refactoring delivery processes and development hygiene. Following successful delivery of core projects, restructured the Finance IT team to better support demand and business requirements by implementing a QA group, configuration management and architectural roles, hiring a BA leadership team, segregating change-the-bank and run-the-bank responsibilities, and building out support capability.Reviewed and instigated a series of changes to reduce the use of end-user-computing (EUC). Retiring Focus and introducing OBI. Set out the roadmap for removal of end-of-life hardware and applications reducing cost and moving to strategic technologies (transition to RH Linux from Solaris and Novix, standardised on DataStage over Informatica, increased use of VMs), mandated documentation standards and practices throughout the SDLC, and facilitated better development practices (introduction of JIRA, HP Quality Centre and Test Director, Subversion, and CI for the ETL technologies).

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

European head of a global, horizontal technology group that provided teams under service, or application infrastructure support engagement models to projects requiring SOA (ESB), ETL, BI, automated workflow, or access management integration. Provided a centre of excellence for these core technologies and the application infrastructure to support them.A member of the OR&F IT European Leadership Team responsible for the transformation of the existing group to support significant growth in RBC Capital Markets over an 18 month period. Focusing in particular on refactoring the PMF and SDLC, building out delivery communities, enhancing role capabilities.Championed the ISIS architecture model and control architecture principles in the UK. Presenting to both the business and IT senior management in a series of town halls and workshop sessions. The programme aim, to establish contracts and protocols between front, middle, and back office, by building out a series of data hubs. Consolidating trade, static, risk, and financial data, populated via the ESB and ETL processes to restructure the Capital Markets application architecture.Delivered development and support for the ESB teams rolling out Solace - a high volume, hardware based, messaging solution, to support the strategic build out of SOA architecture with a particular focus on being able to provide scalable high volume support for trade data traffic.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Responsible for the rollout of Business Process Management programme in Europe with a mandate to introduce a controlled process integration layer and realise a target operating model for automated workflow that included client and account on-boarding, book management, and confirmations and matching. Using Pega, delivered solutions for: derivatives margin call processing (including cash and collateral settlement), credit derivatives notifications and first phase structured trade confirms, GL Attestation for UK and European business.Using Pega, delivered solutions for derivatives margin call processing (including cash and collateral settlement), credit derivatives notifications and first phase structured trade confirms, GL Attestation for UK and European businesses.Evangelised automated workflow with key business stakeholders running a series of town halls and presentations, and instigated an European steering group for change.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Worked with RBC Corporate Employee & Executive Services (CEES) senior stakeholders to re-develop the strategic IT plan. Resulting in the build out of a mix-source, distributed team in London, Jersey, and Bangalore to successfully deliver the first phase of a 1.5M CAD RBC CEES Regular Releases programme. Managing scope and expectations with the business to fit a time-boxed build and introducing Agile fundamentals to the UK business. Concurrently delivering an online, options management solution for CEES corporate customers (including STP) that interfaced with an instance of Charles River OMS (integrated with the FIX network). Promoting and implementing a design for the CR interface that was re-usable for other business lines.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Technical Lead for a large (10M CAD) development programme to provide the RBC cees business with a modernised IT platform that supported their executive and employee services business (management of pensions, share options, and bonus schemes). Successfully joined and engaged the pre-existing team one year into a three year programme. Co-ordinating delivery between 40 offshore and onshore resources. cees Online Services was rolled out to 200 internal staff, 500 corporate customers, 20K corporate participants, and had 160K corporate participants under management.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Release planning, testing, and deployment for CAMA an IBM WebSphere based Corporate & Institutional Corporate Actions System. Full life-cycle support and development of the DataRIBs and Milvus banking applications. Designed and built a prototype solution for STP workflow for the IWM Online Services Platform (ASP.NET 2.0 / 3.5). Interfacing with both the Equalizer (investment management) and the iSeries Milvus banking systems using SOA based architecture.

Formed a partnership with an aligned professional services company and built out an IT support and infratructure services company delivering under Microsoft partnership. Extending service offerings to include MS CRM, and proprietary relationship management software.

Responsible for both technical pre-sales and delivery for a start-up professional services company initially covering finance and and reinsurance sector for clients including AIG but transitioning to focus on broader online services.The sale, design, and delivery of a quotation management system written in ASP.NET 1.1 over MS SharePoint interfacing to the iSeries based Chorus ERP.Live music event online portal on LAMP. Creation of ‘rails' like framework for PHP. Multi-platform including iSeries. Management and Information Architecture (IA) consultancy for IDeA (http:// www.idea.gov.uk) completing IA analysis for an IDeA built CMS and presenting the results to key local and regional government stakeholders as part of a government electronic procurement efficiency review.

iSeries consultant for a professional services company in the finance and reinsurance sector. Successfully capacity planned and delivered the iSeries hardware and software upgrade programme for Capital-G Bank. Liaised with vendors, designing and implementing multiple teller and card processing interfaces to the core retail banking system (Alltel's Horizon).

Copenhagen, Dk

Analyst Programmer and Security Officer for AS/400's. MIS AS/400 representative for Y2K, and J.D.Edwards projects. Led design and development for MQSeries implementation and JDE finance interfaces across multi-platform environment co-ordinating with both internal partners and external vendors.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Archaeology

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