Jason Smith

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Program Director | Tech & Ops Program Management | Product Strategy | Digital Transformation | Agile Leadership | Program Recovery | Investment Banking | Building Global Teams @ Northern Trust Asset Servicing
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London, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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About Jason Smith

I am a decisive and approachable Program Director with extensive experience of successfully delivering multi-million-dollar global technology and operations programs. I evaluate and transform the delivery model and create enthusiastic teams vested in our shared success.✺ I am trusted by my customers to own and solve complex problems. ✺ Experienced in implementing Digital Transformation across multiple global Investment Banking business functions.✺ I have broad experience of transforming organizations delivery model to Agile, accelerating the time to market for truly valuable customer features.✺ I build and lead global high performing project teams, coaching and stretching individuals to perform to their potential.✺ Proficient in recovering failing programs, I rapidly evaluate challenge and develop recovery plans to achieve the business objectives.✺ An Information Technology Masters graduate with multiple professional management and technology qualifications, including: MSP, APMP, PRINCE2, QA, MCSE, DevOps, Cloud.My skillset includes:♦ Program Management♦ Project Management♦ Program Recovery♦ Agile Leadership♦ Product Strategy & Product Delivery♦ Continuous Process Improvement♦ Digital Transformation♦ Team Performance ♦ Coaching ♦ Stakeholder Management♦ Financial Planning & Cost Management♦ Test Automation♦ System Performance & Stability♦ Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning♦ Investment Banking: • Global Payments • KYC & Client Onboarding, • Treasury & Chief Investment Office • Derivative & Securities Collateral Management • Wholesale Credit Risk • Global Clearance and Settlement

Jason Smith's Current Company Details
Northern Trust Asset Servicing

Northern Trust Asset Servicing

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Program Director | Tech & Ops Program Management | Product Strategy | Digital Transformation | Agile Leadership | Program Recovery | Investment Banking | Building Global Teams
Jason Smith Work Experience Details
  • Northern Trust Asset Servicing
    Senior Vice President
    Northern Trust Asset Servicing Jun 2024 - Present
    Chicago, Us
  • J.P. Morgan
    Programme Director - Product Delivery - Operations Transformation - Corporate & Investment Bank
    J.P. Morgan Feb 2022 - Present
    New York, Ny, Us
    Invited to create and lead new global Product Delivery team for a multi-million-dollar strategic Operations exception management Product. Accountable for the delivery and roll out of new product features to 15,000+ global user base. Owned the delivery process improvement including Agile SDLC, test automation, program governance and reporting standards, and partnering with supporting teams to accelerate Product delivery.Principle Achievements:✔ Implemented proven Agile model continuous development of the product including business process mapping, DXD, test automation, and AI model integrations with partner teams. ✔ Markedly reduced time to market for new customer features, increased quality, and production stability.✔ Instigated standard processes for Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and benefits, OKR / KPI measures revalidating with the senior MD stakeholders for each project.✔ Digitized manual processes, eliminated spreadsheets, reduced risk, increased efficiency, controls and client satisfaction✔ Reshaped team culture and rebuilt relations to drive early shared successes and delivery productivity. ✔ Improved customer transparency through standardized Governance, Reporting, Jira MIS dashboard.
  • J.P. Morgan
    Programme Director - Kyc & Client Onboarding Transformation - Corporate & Investment Bank
    J.P. Morgan Jun 2019 - Feb 2022
    New York, Ny, Us
    Invited to lead and to transform the delivery model for multi-million-dollar KYC programme. Collaborated with senior MDs on revised business case including, strategic scope changes and expansion of digital transformation and automation scope.Accountable to program financial planning and spend, change control and governance.Responsible for evaluating and executing delivery process transformation.Principle Achievements:✔ Transformed the global program to a robust Agile delivery model – increasing delivery frequency and improving production stability.✔ Reduced time to market for new features and boosted flexibility to respond to any changing priorities.✔ Built a global team to coordinate delivery pipeline, testing, user training pilots and go-live, accelerating operations adoption/business benefits delivery.✔ Expanded operational process automation and document digitization accelerating end to end processing time.✔ Saved substantial infrastructure costs by networking, sourcing and repurposing existing infrastructure.
  • J.P. Morgan
    Technology Director - Treasury And Chief Investment Office
    J.P. Morgan Sep 2017 - Sep 2019
    New York, Ny, Us
    Led EMEA Technology Development organisation of 40 staff while retaining prior responsibilities: owned relationships with MD heads of EMEA Treasury, Finance, Compliance, Middle Office. Accountable for technology project portfolio, compliance, controls and internal / external audits in this highly regulated business function.Principle Achievements:✔ Reduced project cost significantly moving key roles to offshore, whilst maintaining delivery and stability.✔ Protected firm/customers using enhanced technology controls to ensure platform integrity and stability.✔ Ensured robust controls in place enabling successful pass critical regulatory audit.
  • J.P. Morgan
    Technology Programme Director - Wholesale Credit Risk
    J.P. Morgan Jan 2015 - Sep 2017
    New York, Ny, Us
    Invited to lead of new global firm-wide solution for real-time intraday Credit Risk monitoring to comply with a US Federal Reserve (FED) MRIA with 6-month delivery commitment to go-live with the foundational features.At the outset of the project there was no Hadoop / Spark infrastructure and no development or test team.Principle Achievements:✔ Beat the aggressive six-month delivery target for Intraday credit risk regulatory program.✔ Reduced build costs by substantially by creating new development and test automation teams in India.✔ Implemented AI - Machine Learning model for optimize credit limit usage.
  • J.P. Morgan
    Technology Programme Director - Corporate & Investment Bank Technology
    J.P. Morgan Jan 2010 - Jan 2015
    New York, Ny, Us
    Responsible for incremental delivery of a 5-year Strategic Securities Credit Risk program The program delivered integration of multiple credit systems, a new global portal providing a single global operating model and required a full system migration from UK to USA. Principle Achievements:✔ Showcased new system feature to the FSA in formal compliance reviews.✔ Reduced operational effort significantly through process automation and bringing all data and processing required to resolve global credit breaches into the single view.✔ Implemented Automated functional, regression, performance and security testing reduction of UAT defects and increased production release cadence, maintained production stability.📌 Promote from SVP to Executive Director January 2013
  • J.P. Morgan
    Technology Senior Project Manager - Worldwide Securities Services
    J.P. Morgan Jan 2002 - Jan 2010
    New York, Ny, Us
    Responsible for project portfolio delivery across Global Clearance, Securities and Derivatives Collateral Management businesses. Accountable to MD level sponsors and annual budgets of up to $8MM. Responsible for resourcing, financial planning, risk & issue management, change control, reporting, stakeholder management, and Programme Governance. Line management of 11 VP / AVP grades and vendor relationship management for Accenture, Wipro, Cognizant, Mphasis.Principle Achievements:✔ Established and Led global project team 48+ FTEs and FTCs✔ Successfully delivered broad portfolio of projects across Securities Clearance and Collateral Management✔ Implemented Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Level 2, reducing production incidents by 14%✔ Recognised with JPMorgan Delivery Execution Commendation and 9 service awards📌 Promote from Vice President to Senior Vice President📌 Promote from Associate to Vice President
  • J.P. Morgan
    Technology Project Manager - Global Clearance & Collateral Management
    J.P. Morgan May 2000 - Jan 2002
    New York, Ny, Us
    Responsible for infrastructure and application upgrade projects. Managed global support team for client facing applications supporting Global Clearance and Collateral management products.Principle Achievements:Successfully implemented ✔ Euclid Server for global operations team✔ Program Debt Reporting portal client application✔ Global Trust Access global client application for trade settlement instructions & reporting📌 Assistant Vice President
  • Logica
    Project Manager Information Systems Division
    Logica Jun 1999 - May 2000
    Montreal, Qc, Ca
    Responsible for end to end delivery of firmwide email fax solution
  • Logica
    Server Support Manager - Information Systems Division
    Logica Aug 1998 - Jun 1999
    Montreal, Qc, Ca
    Responsible for UK level 3 Server support
  • Logica
    Web Developer - Finance Division
    Logica Jan 1998 - Aug 1998
    Montreal, Qc, Ca
    Web developer in HTML, JavaScript, Java and Reuters Financials Information Products group.
  • Napier University - Computer Science Department
    Tutor - Information Technology
    Napier University - Computer Science Department Jun 1997 - Jan 1998
    Responsible for tutoring and course work of the 80 HND computer science students.

Jason Smith Skills

Agile Technology Programme Management Business Analysis Banking Technology Project Portfolio Management Credit Risk Big Data It Strategy Vendor Management Financial Planning Financial Services Risk Management Derivatives Requirements Analysis Back Office Agile Project Management Global Delivery Agile Methodologies People Management Staff Development Conflict Management Offshore Application Development Line Management Global Custody Sdlc Devops

Jason Smith Education Details

  • Edinburgh Napier University
    Edinburgh Napier University
    Information Technology
  • Edinburgh Napier University
    Edinburgh Napier University
    Information Technology
  • University Of Stirling
    University Of Stirling
    Biology
  • George Heriots Secondary School
    George Heriots Secondary School
    High School

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