Head Of Emea It
Heading up the IT operation for CLSA throughout Europe, The Middle East and Africa sitting on the Global IT Management Team as well as performing the Role of Global Market Data Manager. Summary of Achievements• Project managed a new fixed income business line into London. Working directly with the business stake holders in HK and China to extend the existing business activity from China into Europe. Worked directly with Bloomberg setting up and testing the Bloomberg TOMS environment and managed the development teams to ensure all up and downstream processes were developed, tested and in production well ahead of time for business go live.• Project managed a new M & A business line into London including the build out of dedicated office space. Liaised directly with the existing teams in Asia ensuring the business unit was ready to hit the ground running.• Acted as Global Market Data manager for CLSA Managing the $15m market data budget and saving 20% on three occasions with a self-initiated cost reduction exercise. Reduced the overall run rate by 10% and migrated the existing service towards a managed service using Screen Info match.• Managed teams both locally and overseas to deliver a program of projects and services under tight budgetary constraints and reduced time lines. In particular I managed the Global migration of the telephony services from IPC and Nortel to Cisco CM and BT Netrix using an outsourced utility model with BT.• Member of the Global IT Management team, Crisis Management Team both locally and globally and the local finance and operations management committee. As part of these committees contributed Globally to business initiative and locally in reducing operational costs.