Neil Reardon Email & Phone Number

Orihuela, Es

Spain

Director at The Leader. Responsible for overseeing Group Operations. These include:The Leader Newspaper (launched in 2004, free weekly newspaper with a circulation of 25.000 units distributed throughout coastal Spain). Over 1.500 commercial clients serviced to date.The Leader Home Improvements (launched in 2006, general construction and home improvements for private and commercial clients).The Leader Insurance Services (launched in 2010, home and motor insurance for… Show more Director at The Leader. Responsible for overseeing Group Operations. These include:The Leader Newspaper (launched in 2004, free weekly newspaper with a circulation of 25.000 units distributed throughout coastal Spain). Over 1.500 commercial clients serviced to date.The Leader Home Improvements (launched in 2006, general construction and home improvements for private and commercial clients).The Leader Insurance Services (launched in 2010, home and motor insurance for private clients). More than 2.000 clients services to date.The Leader Real Estate (launched in 2011, marketing and sales of Spanish property). Show less

Munich Area, Germany

• planning and redesign of market and credit/counterparty risk architecture (which integrates Murex, Dealex, Summit, and Atlas Front Office systems) to enhance system/application performance and availability• definition of system workflow• support of global rollout

London, United Kingdom

• planning and support with high-profile migration of global Risk Vision implementation, including upstream feeds (Kondor+, Summit, etc.), downstream access, workflow configuration, and performance enhancements• planning for upgrade of Risk Vision implementation (2.4 to 2.7)• enhancement of ECS/Control M (BMC Software) automation and scheduling

Frankfurt Area, Germany

Integration of commercial Risk Management systems (Summit, Kondor+, Murex, Global One, and Wallstreet Global Credit) into one Global Enterprise Risk/Limit Management system (Global Manager/Risk Vision [GMRV] from Midas Kapiti International [MiSys]) for the purpose of improved reporting, measurement of global portfolio risk, and pre-deal limit checking. Key roles included:TECHNICAL ARCHITECT• UNIX (Solaris 2.6) and Sybase (v11.5.1/11.9.2/12.0) administration and support for… Show more Integration of commercial Risk Management systems (Summit, Kondor+, Murex, Global One, and Wallstreet Global Credit) into one Global Enterprise Risk/Limit Management system (Global Manager/Risk Vision [GMRV] from Midas Kapiti International [MiSys]) for the purpose of improved reporting, measurement of global portfolio risk, and pre-deal limit checking. Key roles included:TECHNICAL ARCHITECT• UNIX (Solaris 2.6) and Sybase (v11.5.1/11.9.2/12.0) administration and support for around 30 developers, testers, and business analysts, and development of production procedures (based on internal standards)• the conceptualisation and configuration of MQSeries (IBM) for Summit, Kondor+, Global One, and Murex interfaces/adapters to Global Manager• client application installation, configuration and rollout• GM/RV API troubleshootingPRODUCTION SUPPORT• ensuring 24/6 system availability for 800+ Global users (including Tokyo, Singapore, London, New York)• the configuration of Oracle (8i) database instances, replication, backup procedures• the conceptualisation/implementation of production procedures, including disaster recover strategy development, and the development of shell (KSH/SH) scripts to automate administrative functions (interfaces, end-of-day, system maintenance, data archiving, reporting of process statuses)• performance tuning of Sybase v11.5.1/11.9.2/12.0 production DBs ([parallel] query and sorting optimisation, hardware optimisation [memory, CPU, disk i/o], table re-indexing and partitioning) coupled with ObjectStore v5.0/5.1 and (Algorithmics) RiskWatch• application upgrade conceptualisation and planning• capacity planning Show less

Frankfurt Area, Germany

Key roles included:• the integration and administration of development and production machines (ranging from SS20s to E4500s)• the administration of Treasury (Asset Liability Management [ALM++]) and Credit Spread (Merlin) systems in production and development environments (London and Frankfurt)• the administration of the Frankfurt TIB/ETX development node (TIB/Rendevous and TIB/HAWK)Skills used include Veritas (File System, Volume Manager, and Database Edition for… Show more Key roles included:• the integration and administration of development and production machines (ranging from SS20s to E4500s)• the administration of Treasury (Asset Liability Management [ALM++]) and Credit Spread (Merlin) systems in production and development environments (London and Frankfurt)• the administration of the Frankfurt TIB/ETX development node (TIB/Rendevous and TIB/HAWK)Skills used include Veritas (File System, Volume Manager, and Database Edition for Sybase), HP Openview, Jumpstart, EMC² Storage Units, ADSM, and Sybase ASE (11.5.1/11.9.2). Additional functions include the development and maintenance of the group WWW pages (including the administration of an Apache Web server), the development of a package administration tool for simpler administration of software installation, and the creation of system documentation. Show less

Slough, United Kingdom

Focusing on technical, legal, and aviation documentation customers, primary role has been the design, development/customisation, integration, and deployment of enterprise wide document, knowledge, and workflow management systems. Key roles include:• technical/team lead of large team of employees during a change management initiative (project design and management) for a main German client (including configuration consultancy for Sun Enterprise 450 running Solaris… Show more Focusing on technical, legal, and aviation documentation customers, primary role has been the design, development/customisation, integration, and deployment of enterprise wide document, knowledge, and workflow management systems. Key roles include:• technical/team lead of large team of employees during a change management initiative (project design and management) for a main German client (including configuration consultancy for Sun Enterprise 450 running Solaris 2.6)• reconfiguration/application integration consultancy (Sun Enterprise 450/3500 running Solaris 2.6) for Swedish and Danish directory publishers• key player in the customisation and deployment of an integrated document and workflow management, and automated publishing system for a major British airlineFirst-line telephone and on-site support to European customer base. Provision of UNIX (Solaris 2.6) training to end users and administrators. Third-party application training. New installation and/or upgrade planning and implementation. Pre-sales application development. Exhibition work. Administration of in-house systems and TCP/IP networks. Configuration and management of sendmail (version 8.8), NIS+, and Netscape proxy server. Configuration of ISDN routing devices and modems in-house and on customer site for remote diagnostics and application development. Oracle Server (version 7.3.4) DBA. Show less

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

MBA

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), German, Computer Science

German / Computer Science

German And Computer Science, Exchange Year

German / Computer Science

Education record

General