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Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Shrivenham, England, United Kingdom

Oxfordshire

Sn6 8Ty

http://www.hweurope.com/For over ten years Hemisphere West Europe Ltd (HWE) have provided payment products for accepting credit cards, bank notes and coins, working with our partner suppliers and having a wide and detailed understanding of the market we are able to provide a consultative approach to understanding our customer’s needs and matching that with available solutions.Credit card payments in particular can be complex, HWE can provide industry insights not just manufacturer preferences as to the best solution for your application. Working with our payment gateway, hardware manufacturers and acquiring partners we can offer unrivalled advice to help you decide the best solution. No-one else offers the complete solution of hardware, payment gateway and acquirer choice.

South Cerney, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Project deliver on a 24/7/365 managed IT services from an IBM Managed Service Provider and Cisco Premier partner for IBM Power servers, storage and network environments.

Salisbury, United Kingdom

Delivery of all aspects of the migration project for 3 Corporate Partners to new Third Party Providers.My role delivered the Migration strategy, Migration approach, data profiling, data extractions, Infrastructure delivery (incremental Servers, NAS and VM's), Planning for the ened to end project, to meet the clients dry run, dress rehearsal and go live requirements.

Austin Friars London

Planning and delivery of the Bravura's WRAP platform Sonata to an Wealth Management company in Bath.Controlling aspects of workshops, Infrastructure definition and delivery (production, test, staging, migration), Code delivery, Bespoke changes, to meet the clients needs.

Swindon

Bristol, United Kingdom

Bristol / Edinburgh

FNZ offer the UK life and pension providers a fully integrated WRAP platform, for both Corporate and Retail products. My role, as Senior Project Manager encompasses the end to end delivery of FNZ’s first Corporate WRAP platform for one of the UK’s Tier 1 Life and Pension providers.•Delivery of 3500 man day multi million pound Corporate WRAP project in a challenging 5 calendar month window, ensuring zero slippage in the project execution.•Significant client, stakeholder and vendor management focusing on client relationship in a very results oriented organisation.•Accurate production of key stakeholder communications and steering management information ensuring a clear, accurate and transparent view. I deliver weekly stakeholder and steering MI to an audience from UK IT Director to Peer Programme Managers.•I manage a multi-disciplined and cross functional team across 3 continents balancing delivery with a very resourced constrained team.•During the concept and initiation phase I have produced the comprehensive business case supporting the revenue generation, resourcing and project payback with supporting tracking and monitoring to ensure revenue protection and risk management processes.•Paying a key role in requirement elicitation workshops not only in requirement definition but also with real time impacts to the overall deliveries providing viable options to ensure deliveries can be accommodated and delivered, in a controlled and measured approach. I Focused on the businesses case and project initiation documents to negotiate de-scope where the amount of time and resources could accommodate

Oxford

Within SunGard Adaptiv Professional Services I am accountable for three of our clients migrating/augmenting their Adaptiv Credit solutions. These programmes encompass three of our applications Adaptiv Credit Risk, Analytics and Derivative Collateral solution projects. •Client Migrations $5M+ Budget, 50+ resources) – My deliveries include multiple client on-boarding and system migration projects. From decommissioning legacy applications and migration to a new Adaptiv suite of services and introduction of functionality not taken to date, by a given client. I have run work streams to broaden various clients’ use of our service adding up to 50% of volume/trade coverage and including the introduction of our Analytics service, for Monte Carlo based risk simulations. My programme teams ranges from 5 to 50+ internal resources across all disciplines of SunGard’s specialist groups. As we operate a matrix management organisation I am able to plan, control and drawdown the resources effectively from each group as the work tasks are due for delivery.•Infrastructure Deliveries – My role encompasses all aspects of a client’s ASP service with SunGard. My engagements include successful delivery of the provisioning of new infrastructure (production, test/s, and disaster recovery), environment refreshes, planned incremental capacity growth, network provision/changes, load balancing (local and global) and hardware capacity planning engagements to ensure SunGard meets the agreed SLA’s with our client’s and sales incentives for service stability, throughput and up time are maintained. Managing capital expenditures against the agreed client budgets/SunGard budget (including change control) focusing on infrastructure spend versus revenue and the on our services are viable.•Pre-sales and Proof of Concept’s – As a client facing Project Director I have successfully delivered multiple pre-sales, proof of concept and pre-project planning sessions.

Toronto, Canada Area

My projects focused on the Interest Rates and Credit Derivative applications and all peripheral solutions integral to the workflow of the Front Office trading life cycle. As such my responsibilities encompassed the delivery and management of enhancement projects to existing and new applications, integrating new technologies, hardware enhancements, new product coverage and assisting the application owners in their strategic deliveries for their platforms, increasing efficiencies and income generation.• Web Security Systems - As Programme Manager I successfully managed the programme to live deployment in August 2009. My core team consisted of 3 Project Managers and 5 Technical Systems Analysts. This programme delivered a complete hardware installation for all global web based applications. Encompassed in this 60 separate and incremental servers and peripheral infrastructure.Delivering all trading client migrations for the global users from our legacy systems. •SunGard’s Infinity & IntelliMatch Programme – implementing various projects on the Interest Rates trading platform as well as refreshing the global production environment. These projects included implementing software version upgrades, hardware refreshes, implementation of version patches (from third parties), functional enhancements, business model changes and integration of business critical incremental third party applications, like MarkitWire, TriOptima, BrokerTec and Orc.MarketWire Programme – I had successfully deployed all of RBC CM functional and derivative instrument go lives, for this large programme. These include integration and trade capture for IRS trades, FRA Trades, Single Sided Broker functions, full and partial trade novations, TriOptima unwinds, risk flattening/net down client rolls, trade allocations functions, FRA Reset functions. In my role faced Front, Middle and Back offices, Finance and Risk managing expectations, negotiating and budgeting, presenting business cases.

Bourneouth/London

I was responsible to ensure the smooth delivery of Client and Technology implementations and client on-boarding projects. Included were the requirement gathering workshops, the project plan and building solid business cases to support the clients bespoke requirements. Each implementation ensured the complete integration and migration of the clients’ positions to our service. During my project deliveries I conducted gap analysis and impact studies, ran in collaboration with all parties and stakeholders ensuring that requirements and changes were fully understood, documented and controlled.My projects included a vendor selection RFP project (Murex, Calypso, Adaptiv, Summit, Latent Zero, Eclipse). I implemented a reconciliation tool (Smart Stream Reconciliation). My final project at JPMC was the full implementation of phase 1 that on boarded two new major client’s to a new independent derivative pricing and fund accounting service, which has subsequently become a new stand-a-lone business unit and profit centre.I was responsible for client facing and on-boarding projects, active tracking client issues with action plans and mitigating or escalating to build a successful client deliveries.Daily management of my timeline with articulation to all stakeholders, as agreed in the communications plan assisted in operating a no surprises approach to the project delivery, monitoring against scope creep or revised time estimates from any work manager.Setting up the testing environment, producing test scripts, test scenarios and defect tracking. Ensuring Subject Matter Experts and testers had a full brief before entry to test and that our exit points were understood and signed off.

Bourenouth

I worked within LTSB Group Finance representing, defining and delivering all Financial Projects and Business Requirements from the Group Finance workstream. These included systems implementations, Business Process Re-engineering, office relocation, new product launches and cross selling initiatives. •I owned the project work stream and ensured successful delivery and integration between the resource and technology solutions.•Project tracking with agreed and base lined project plans, resource tracking, status updates and budgeting tasks were completed to support each activity on time and accurately.•Identifying stakeholders and critical business users ensuring their buy-in was in place allowing my requirement documents, smooth project delivery, change requests and testing completed on time, as agreed.LTSB Commercial finance offered a broad range of products, including:Leasing, HP, Commercial Lending, Factoring, Discounting and an integrated offering with LTSB Business Banking.

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