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Croatia And Hong Kong

Provided Production and UAT support for BASE24-eps and Classic systems, including solution design consultancy and new project risk analysis. Conducted successful client migrations from NonStop Integrity to NS Blades servers, and from Goldengate data replication to DRNet. I also provided governance for the client on major system changes, including migration.

Bangkok, Thailand

Primarily responsible for technical support of ACI's Payments Manager product. Also provided support for BASE24-classic CSM's and configuration/tuning of BASE24-eps system.

Bangkok, Thailand

Responsible for managing a team at Krung Thai Computer Services (KCS) to implement an inter-bank switch for counter-based transactions between Thai banks. The system went live mid-2009. During this time I also assumed project management responsibility for the next phase of the project - replacement of the existing KCS ATM front-end system with BASE24-eps..

Bangkok, Thailand

• Contracted by SVOA to implement various major projects for Government Savings Bank (GSB), a major Thai bank with over 20 million accounts, including:
• Re-engineering and performance tuning of the bank's highly customised BASE24 Teller system to allow it to support 24 hour ATM operations.
• Upgrade of ATM system to BASE24 Release 6.
• Migration of both ATM and Teller systems from HP NSK K-series to S-series platform.
• Implementation of VISA PLUS acquirer service.
• Implementation of disaster recovery capability at a remote second site using GoldenGate data replication software.

Shanghai City, China

Technical Team Manager and Architect in a study project to define business and technical requirements for the Shanghai Stock Exchange Next Generation Trading System (NGTS).The study was used by SSE as the basis for an RFP to invite proposals for the implementation phase of NGTS. In October 2003 I completed a lengthy pre-sales assignment to assist HP in.

Hong Kong

Held a senior technical position in the AMS/3 project at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx). This project involved a complete replacement of the existing host Tandem system trading ‘engine’, and major changes to the external communications interfaces to support new trading channels.My role in this project was to manage a team of up to 14.

Various

Contracted by ACI ASTech to supply on-site technical product consultancy and implementation services for various international clients. These assignments included:- - Qatar Central Bank (QCB) - a 9 month assignment to implement the Qatar national ATM and POS switch (NAPS). This role involved the integration and certification of 12 national banks with the.

Hong Kong

Contracted by Twinsoft for a major systems integration project with the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (HKEx). The scope of this project (called AMS/2) was to enhance the existing trading floor-based Automated Matching System to provide concurrent off-floor trading capability in the members’ offices. This involved a substantial redesign of the system front.

London, United Kingdom

Involved in a variety of pre- and post-sales consultancy assignments, both short and long term, and almost exclusively focused on the Finance and Banking sectors. These assignments ranged from operations, systems design and performance reviews (typically 2-3 week exercises) to full-scale systems integration projects up to a year in duration.The following.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for a number of analyst/programmer teams (10 - 30 staff) developing various back-office functions including: - External interfaces to Stock Exchange TALISMAN, Checking and INS systems and internal interfaces between the FICS Tandem and IBM systems. These had to be implemented within a tight schedule in time for the Stock Market deregulation in.

London, United Kingdom

Various roles - latterly, I was project leader for a small team of analysts involved in technically oriented projects on both ICL and Tandem hardware. This role entailed evaluation of new software products and considerable liaison with suppliers and user departments concerning project implementation issues. This team was responsible for production of a.

Stevenage, United Kingdom

After an initial period as a computer operator providing operations support for an in-house CAD/CAM system I took a self-study course in programming (ICL 1900 PLAN) and subsequently transferred into a programming department where I was part of a team providing software support for an automated design (CAD) system.