James Stevenson Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, Gb

• Led IP ownership resolution, saving £7M through contract and code review, securing product rights and conducted full code analysis to identify supplier modifications and product documentation review for system changes and IP ownership.• Developed and implemented change management policies, improving operational efficiency.• Directed strategic planning, aligning business and technology objectives.• Designed and executed disaster recovery policies, ensuring system resilience.• Managed daily operations, overseeing system performance and cross-functional coordination.• Enhanced data accuracy through ETL processes, data collation, and reporting for analytics support.

Belfast, Belfast, Gb

Hired on contract initially as a Contract Development Director before securing permanent position. Reporting directly to the Chief Technical Officer (CTO), to deliver transformational reform through best practice to Totalmobile’s Connect product.• Delivered several projects with an ARR of £1 million+ by building programmes of work with ambitious short, medium, and long-term goals to coalesce with the Technology roadmap to deliver projects on time and within budget. • Responsible for streamlining and reducing Azure costs. • Implemented new effective team structure (growing the dev team from 9 to 15 - 4 testers and 11 developers split across product and support) and managed ongoing team capacity planning.• Established a transparent and inclusive team environment.• Responsible for upholding and improving standards across development teams.• Set up and managed the internal development BAU support team. • Successfully delivered transformational reform to Gold Standard in under a year. • Reviewed and approved security policies, controls, and cyber incident response planning.• Performed full code review.• Aging SDLC replaced with full Agile practises. • Owned delivery and risk management.• Implemented CI/CD and TDD.• Led cross functional team of senior managers to ensure delivery of projects (Senior managers including Architecture, Customer Success, Product, Project, Pre-sales and Sales). • Managed relationships and communicated effectively with internal and external stakeholders to ensure success of projects. • Responsible for departments strategic direction within a Private Equity environment.

Stockton-On-Tees, Gb

Accountable for overseeing all software Engineering and R&D (embedded software) operations and providing support and leadership to large international technology team. Delivery and rollout of IoT insights SaaS platforms to manage vending machines and pubs beer pump dispensing. • Unified the new IoT telemetry & insights platform and supported the new CTO in rescuing £10M project from failure.• Refactored the current platform to turn batch-processing into real-time processing saving £160K per year.• Rescued underperforming software department by facilitating Software Engineering (SE) team and individual software engineers to streamline operations. • Recruited, trained, and developed Technical Leads, UK developers, overseas developers and testers and grew the software team to 50+ FTE. • Revised all SE processes and implemented new governance processes inline with new operating model and new PMO, including implementing Scrum Agile methodology across the business. • Improved productivity by vigorously enforcing development practices, including commenting, logging, patterns, short methods and unit testing. • Established and maintained a robust and effective relationship with CTO and provided technical expertise and support in devising well informed and considered strategies.

New York, Ny, Us

Strategic software development and delivery of programme of technical transformation initiatives• Saved £100K+ per year, by fine tuning the Morgan Stanley SEM trading system to enable up to 20,000 messages to be processed every second.• Managed global projects with teams across the UK, Hong Kong, India, Tokyo, and New York.• Led teams for migrating swaps from a legacy batch-based system to the newer real-time event driven system for Morgan Stanley. • Performed real-time event-driven equity swap processing by evaluating and developing server-side Java / Python components in Morgan Stanley. Managed components interface with Sybase, DB2 and MongoDb databases, communicating via IBM-MQ messaging and RESTful services; components run on RedHat Linux.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Achieved £2M annual savings by integrating Aviate Systems into Northern Trust infrastructure.• Managed staff across different time zones; London, New York and Chicago. • Investigated and catalogued the Aviate systems to assess direct comparison with the Northern Trust systems. • Devised and applied the strategy to integrate some systems and replace others. • Replaced all third-party systems with in-house developed systems. • Fully integrated the Aviate CRM system into the NT systems. • Transitioned from nightly batch data feeds to C# services and real-time systems.

Zurich, Ch

• Saved millions of pounds annually by having only one trading platform and performing successful integration to Bloomberg.• Designed and built application to allow the modelling of GAM fund data; models can then be uploaded into Bloomberg for trading. Saved £1M+ per year not having to buy Bloomberg AIM features.• Provided power users access to Bloomberg’s entire reference and historical data set depending upon licencing constraints. • Delivered Bloomberg AIM Integration using C#, Oracle, SQL Server, WCF, SFTP, XML, Bloomberg SAPI, Syncfusion, UX, UI. Steered data uploads by taking any changes to GAM’s static data and uploading in to AIM via SFTP. • Administered Static data downloads via SFTP and updates into GAM’s systems. • Directed development of integration software. • Implemented UPTIX/Corporate database instruments web interface. • Oversaw all aspects of documentation.

London, England, Gb

Project: Time and Attendance System – ASP, JavaScript, SQL Server, AS400, VB6.0ASP/JavaScript application that runs over the Debenhams WAN. It had the capacity to service up to 20,000 users. The system allows each employee to enter their time and attendance information from either Windows based tills or their office work stations. I was systems architect and senior programmer in a team of three.

Project: Consort SDS Interface – VB6.0, SQL Server, SDSApplication that supported a legacy Consort SDS system and interfaced it to an SQL Server back-end. The interface included firm, stock, deal, holdings and ledger information.Project: Various COM objectsExamples include:• MSMQ handler • Encryption handler (two fish)• Email handler • Command line processor• DB connection handler • Console application handler

London, England, Gb

Project: Engineering and Instrumentation Database – Sql Server, AutoCAD, VB6Provides a means of accurately producing and maintaining all Schedule and Data sheet documentation required for an instrumentation project. In fulfilling this function the database collates information from all the disciplines involved, providing a mechanism to store and distribute the data across a Project. Project: Automatic Drawing Generator – VB6, AutoCAD, Sql ServerProvides a means of accurately producing and maintaining all Schedule and Data sheet documentation required for an instrumentation project. In fulfilling this function the database collates information from all the disciplines involved, providing a mechanism to store and distribute the data across a Project.

Project: Operations Trade Database – MS AccessDue to the increased volume and changed format of data the legacy system required updating. The project also involved the redesigning of forms and reports to create consistency.