Allan Chapman Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Consulting on IT Governance and Technology Strategic Direction.

London, England, United Kingdom

• 76 employees
• Governance and operational responsibility for the entire technology stack of a multi-billion investment adviser with global reach. Working in London, Singapore and Hong Kong regulated markets.
• Responsibility for £4m IT budget, driving cost optimisation while ensuring effective allocation of resources. First year annual recurring savings of £260,000.
• Spearheaded the development of the company's technology strategy, aligning IT initiatives with business goals and objectives such as ‘work from anywhere’ and improved cyber stance.
• Digital transformation lead, leveraging emerging technologies to enhance operational efficiency, UX, and competitive advantage.
• Design and oversight of all IT service delivery. Ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and scalability. Service availability improvement from 96% to 99.99%.

London, United Kingdom

• ~175 employees
• Cloud migration to Office 365 and Azure based Reporting as a Service.
• £5m cost saving programme delivered through IaaS outsourcing over 5 years.
• Oracle UCM (Fusion) rationalisation and migration with £500k annual cost reduction.
• IT service and client/user experience improvements
• Introduction of monitoring systems, KPIs and SLAs.

City Of London

Baseline the existing service provision through a review and executive engagement process. Assessment of process maturity (CMM & ISO 15504). Suggest and agree a best practice framework to deliver change via a phased approach.Review of governance process (not limited to financial governance). Service performance analysis and formalisation of CMDB, CMS, SKMS.

City Of London

Design and project management of a state-of-the-art trading floor for 24 trading intensive positions. Required close interaction with contractors and internal IT staff. Extensive preparation and planning to address key issues such as cooling, power resilience, network port integrity and even noise suppresion.An internal wiki was created and deployed to.

London

• ~150 employees
• Global operational efficiency improvements including strategic review and restructure of IT tools, services, IT facilities and resourcing, introduction of automated middle office matching and settlement solutions and.
• Architect of global high frequency and low-latency trading environment.
• CTO as a service function for interdealer brokers and clients.
• Turret system replacement programme delivery (UK and Europe).
• Improved service availability from 98% to 99.999% globally.

Title change to reflect global nature of the role. Having established a significant presence in Paris as well as opening a Sydney office, the term "group" seemed a more appropriate reflection of the responsibilities and requirements of the role.

Modernisation of the Kyte infrastructure in order to meet the rigorous demands of high speed, low latency futures trading. Restructuring the IT department, implementation of monitoring, component management, change management, problem/event management, KPI identification and others.Development of a strong and highly focused, cross-discipline team has.

Management of the UNIX, VMS, storage, market data and exchange connectivity teams for eSpeed. Project tracking methodology was introduced to all three teams and the success led to general roll out of the solution across all London departments and then into the US.Responsibility and management of all UNIX, market data, SAN storage and exchange connectivity.

Managing a seven strong team of UNIX system administrators. In addition to the technical role I became part of the business decision making teams and was required to liaise with a number of departmental heads in order to bring projects to fruition.* Technical management for eSpeed proprietary application serving primarily UST and EGB markets to 120 London.

Following my introduction to eSpeed I was encouraged to assume responsibility for the highest profile systems in the organization. Heavily involved with the recovery of the firm following 9-11.* Maintenance of and upgrades to SWIFT secure financial messaging and GLOSS back office systems. Responsibility for delivering around 17000 SWIFT and approximately.

Management of UNIX, VMS and Market Data systems and staff.

London, United Kingdom

Management of UNIX & CDS, VMS, Storage and Market Data teams.

Maintenance of SWIFT Financial messaging system, transition and operational duties of Cantor gaming suite of applications, standardisation of UNIX platforms and builds and extension of monitoring systems.

Senior technician - shared responsibility for CTP and general server estate, UNIX, HP-UX, Wintel