Hatstand is a global IT consultancy specialising in financial markets, with offices in London, Geneva, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney. We enable our clients to make the best use of technology, delivering flexible solutions to address the diverse challenges of the ever-changing financial technology environment. We focus specifically, but not exclusively, on three key areas: Trading Systems & Connectivity, Data Management and Risk & Regulation. Established in 1999, Hatstand has developed from a boutique consultancy into a global IT player.Our success has placed us in both in the London Stock Exchange’s 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain report, and the Sunday Times Tech Track Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies in the UK. Our consultancy style is driven by our domain knowledge, quality of people, track record and a strong emphasis on delivery. This enables us to provide a wide range of business solutions, managed services and highly-skilled people, delivering quality work on time and on budget. Our projects and services are tailored to our clients’ goals and organisational requirements and our global reach enables us to deliver global solutions locally. In addition to our proven highly experienced senior consultants, Hatstand nurtures the most talented IT professionals and provides them with bespoke training and mentoring to pursue prosperous careers in the financial industry. We achieve this with our unique talent management programme, Hatstand Green Berets, and through a traditional consultancy model.

Electronic Trading Solutions, Technical Project Management. Exchange Connectivity.I moved from London to Sydney to bring experience and leadership to the transitioning technical and project teams that were moving from Sydney to Singapore. The projects delivered in this role were all high pressure with aggressive time lines working across multiple geographies and cultures with a combination of experienced and inexperienced colleagues.• Successful implementation and Project Management of the Tokyo Stock Exchange TSE to TDEXP migration. Tokyo Derivatives technology was being replaced by a new trading matching engine and market data distribution protocol. As well as assuring seamless trading on day-one deep technology studies and changes were needed to assure order entry throughput was not reduced when moving to the new market.• Successful upgrade and Project Management of the ASX 24 (Sydney Futures Exchange - SFE) market data servers.• Project Management of the SFE introduction of trading in Grains.• Project Management and upgrade of Thailand Derivatives new Market data Servers.• In depth technical studies on round-trip-time of order entry to order acknowledgment on the Sydney Futures Exchange AOEI (matching engine) to try and improve JPMs order entry place in the Q during the futures expiry rolls period. Being high or first in the Q during a Roll of a futures contract can mean large gains compared to other trading members.• Regional specialist in New Market installations, examples being Korea night session and China derivatives (4 markets).• Mentoring an inexperienced Project Management team (4 people)• Management of the Technical Implementation team for Trading and Market data software( 4 people).• Assessing and piloting new technology when needed to see if it could be of use to JPM infrastructure – with an emphasis on latency benchmarking.

Provided technical consultation and project management on eTrading solutions to global investment bank.• Installed a new market (Dutch) into the Euronext.liffe suite • Project managed and migrated Euronext.liffe to the new Global architecture for NYSE-Euronext. All of the individual market technologies were being scrapped and replaced with a Universal Trading Engine to cover London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Lisbon Futures as well as New York. This was the largest project of the year in JPM Futures & Options and also the largest for many of the other exchange members (Investment Banks in Europe).• Project managed & upgraded EUREX 10– German Exchange.• Testing and integration of new Market Data architecture to JPM Global infrastructure. Upgrading all the market data servers involved the upgrading of over 90 application servers that disseminated the global market data (45 Futures Markets) in 7 main geographical regions through the JPM network used by internal traders, as well as our clients. Although the timeline was not overly aggressive the shear number of users and markets and the complexity of the infrastructure involved meant the project ran for over 9 months. For Trading and Market data there is a zero tolerance for error or misrepresentation of data,• Development of design and specifications of a new Futures Trading Risk Keeping API to allow clients to see and request changes to their own Trading Limits through a client access portal.• Testing and piloting of any new technology or software to assess its possible usefulness for JPM Futures & Options.• 3rd Level technical support for Trading Issue.

As Operations director I was responsible for the operational running of thousands of client servers connecting to over 40 different European, North American and Asian electronic stock exchanges. Including exchange membership, global order routing and data feed dissemination. Responsible for the running of 4 sub departments (staff of 75) including technical installations and support team, professional consultants (Project Managers) and the technical helpdesk.• Managing 4 technical departments with 75 staff.• Client meetings to discuss technical and business solutions as well as ongoing issues with installations and support when needed.• Implementation of service/quality orientated enhancements. Including:• Launching of an electronic email notification system to clients for incident reporting• Introduction of clear Project Management methodology (PRINCE 2 based) to London to improve the quality of large Exchange migrations• Introduction of FIX protocol to London clients as well as clarifying the support of GLs own API connectivity• Introduction of standardized code of practice for technicians• Introduced NVQ (UK Nationally recognised qualification) program for Helpdesk• Provide internal written communication and reports senior and board level executives as well as external project communication to our clients. This included presentations and client reviews for new software requirements and feedback.• Contractual and technical negotiations with the London Stock Exchange on joining their Vendor Access Project.

Line management of the Technical team (9 people) responsible for the installation, support and project management of propriety software at client sites.GL TRADE software is very bespoke and tailored to each client’s needs. This allows the software to be very functional and powerful in respect to meeting very specific and often different requirements. However, this flexibility gives so much choice that there is room for misconfiguration. Basic running of the software can be achieved quite easily but advanced streamline function needs in-depth technical knowledge not only of the generic components but for each market specific function.

Installations and support of GL TRADE software to London and Northern European clients. Back-end servers on Solaris and client trading stations on Windows.Mostly remote work into client’s sites with some on-site visits.

IT Project Management.My time at TRS was spent as a project manager on 3 projects. The main project involved me working as a member of a team managing the rollout of a Novel network to an NT based one at the head quarters of Boots (Retail Chemist) in Nottingham UK. The project had previously failed 4 times before we were brought in. The successful closure of the project was completed for over 400 terminals and servers. The project’s success was largely due to the successful co-ordination of the different teams (roll out engineers, asset acceptance, integration testing, exception reporting, snags) based on PRINCE2 methodology.