• Managed a team of 250 staff with a $30M budget, overseeing 30 applications (in-house and vendor) in Prime Services, Custody, Clearing, and Funds Services.• Defined and executed technology strategy aligned with business goals, resulting in improved client services and reduced costs. Including rollout of data strategy that simplified the data model and met the data needs of internal and external consumers• Worked with Operations to define a transformation roadmap leading to improved client service levels and significant operational efficiencies.• Successfully implemented ION XTP as a strategic vendor solution, leading to cost savings, improved STP, and increased capacity.• Vendor management of third party application and data providers (TCS, Temenos, ION, Charles River)• Part of the Financing & Securities Services management team along with business heads, sales, operations and legal.

• Led a team of 100 staff with an annual budget of $10M, overseeing a portfolio of 30+ applications (in-house and 3rd party) in Securities, Prime Service, and Clearing.• Defined and executed a strategic Securities program of work, replacing legacy post-trade platforms with Broadridge GPTM, resulting in increased STP and reduced technology running costs.• Managed applications handling mandatory and regulatory changes across 40+ markets.• Managed front to back program for bonds and repos facing off to senior front office, COO, operations, finance and technology stakeholders.

Global responsibility for technology systems covering Settlement, Clearing and Asset Servicing across all asset classes in Financial Markets. Strong partnership with Operations counterparts to deliver business strategy and operational efficiencies as well as deliver technology strategy.Implemented strategic solution for handling US Treasuries settlement (Broadridge IMPACT) replacing a legacy platform delivering in excess of $8M pa of cost savings.

Front to back global strategy for Fixed Income and Repo product lines from an Operations and Technology perspective. Initiating projects and engaging with business and global technology and operations teams to deliver the strategy.

Equity Derivatives IT covering Middle and Back Office. Delivering business priorities and managing global technology delivery.Stakeholder management across trading, operations and technology.

Regional responsibility for Futures and Options Clearing technology covering middle and back officeVendor management for core applications - Clearvision, GMI, RanSys. Global Clearvision upgradesWork closely with Asia business and operations to define and deliver the Asia book of work

Singapore based, looking after team responsible for back-office development in bonds, repos and equities.Hands-on leadership across all aspects of SDLCWorked closely with regional business and operations partners to define and deliver Asia book of work

Worked as a technology freelance contractor in London across several banks within Financial Markets. Analyst/Programmer roles atBarclays: Post Trade Securities - included secondments to Singapore and Japan and ultimately led to offer of a full-time role in SingaporeDeutsche Bank: System integration post takeover of Bankers Trust - including secondment to New YorkABN Amro: Financial reporting platformTechnical skills: C, Oracle RDBMS, PL/SQL, Pro*C, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports