As I move towards full retirement, I am open to advisory, mentoring or Board contributing roles. I am interested in part-time or short-term situations. I have an Irish passport and I am available for short term work in Europe.

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Independent consultant providing private confidential guidance, consulting, mentoring and advisor services to technology and financial services firms. Providing C-level, senior managers or executive leaders with discreet consulting and advisor services.

Vice President in the Fidelity Brokerage Technology division.Vice President in the Fidelity Brokerage Technology division. Leading an organization of over 130+ people and managing an annual budget of approximately $19 million. 2019 to current, Chapter Area Leader responsible for Money Movement, Customer Account Data Management and Transfer of Assets systems. From 2009 to 2019 responsible for Firm wide Security Master Product Reference Data platform, Firm wide Pricing Data platform for end of day prices, International Settlement platform (ShadowSuite), Operations Reconciliation platform (Fiserv Frontier) and Analyst Work Bench platform for BigData analysis (Hadoop).Manage disparate technology teams in New Jersey, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Bangalore India and Chennai India. 2015 Presidents Circle AwardFINRA Series 99 Registration

Director in the Financial Services Solutions practice. Focus on providing clients in the Financial Services sector with high quality technology solutions. Responsible for the acquisition and execution of a major project for servicing Home Loans with a large customer.

January 2007 to June 2008. Manager of the GMIST Strategic Program Planning team providing planning and management of various major strategic initiatives. Program Manager for a firm wide initiative to address global availability of data and applications for business users in the Pac Rim.July 2004 to January 2007. GMIST Innovation & Creative Excellence team providing Strategic Planning, Architecture, Program Management, Business Process Modeling and Analysis for Global Markets Technology.September 2002 to July 2004. Manager of the Product Master Environment (PME) group. PME is the firm wide global repository for securities product indicative data. PME acts as a centralized provider of product data with standard delivery service for the distributing product data to Merrill Lynch applications globally.

Chief Technology Officer for Lexit Capital, LLC. Lexit Capital was a small Broker with offices in Hoboken NJ and London. Lexit provided European institutional customers with access to US equity executions. Lexit was acquired by NeoNet in 2003. Major accomplishment at Lexit was the development and implementation of a FIX (Financial Information eXchange) Order Server application. This application provided Lexit with the ability to communicate with customers via FIX and route order to execution destinations for US and PAN European equity trades. This application communicates with customer Order Management Systems and execution destinations (such as Archipelago, ISI, Island, Redi Book, Instinet or European Broker partners).

Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for TLX Trading Network Inc, the developer of the TradingLinx universal trade confirmation platform. TradingLinx was an Application Service Provider (ASP) offering inter-institutional electronic trade confirmation application. TradingLinx offered a secure, customizable order messaging, post-execution and pre-settlement workflow solution to all parties involved in domestic and cross border transactions for all asset classes. Customers accessed the TradingLinx solution with either a standard web-browser or system-to-system through the use of standard message protocols (FIX, SWIFT or ISO 15022). TradingLinx had offices in New York, London and Paris.TradingLinx was a “startup” firm during the “dot.com” boom. TradingLinx lost funding from the venture capital backers and folded in July 2001.

Manager of the Electronic Connectivity Systems group from March 1996 to November 2000. Responsible for development and production support for the firm's SWIFT messaging platform using SWIFT Alliance. Responsible for development and production support for the firm's Thomson Global Oasys messaging (MT511) platform. Responsible for development and production support for the firm's Telex messaging platform. Responsible for development and production support for the firm's FAX confirmation messaging platform. Manager of the Tandem Systems Programming Group from July 1994 to March 1996.

Manager of the Tandem Systems Programming Group.

Onsite customer product support consultant for the ACInet Base24 BankSwitch software package for Automated Teller Machine (ATM) and Point of Sale (POS) banking system.

Manager of the Technical Services group supporting the DCA 375 X25 network and Tandem Computers processing platforms for providing near time market data and analytics.

Served in the New Jersey Army National Guard. 3/113 (M) INF, HHC - Scout PlatoonMOS = 19-Delta

Systems Analyst for the Tandem Computers used for the firm’s mortgage backed securities trading system.

Starting as a Computer Operator and then becoming a Systems programmer supporting the bank’s Fed Wire, Home Banking and Automated Teller Machine systems.