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United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Overseeing the delivery of the bank’s global margining platform to ensure compliance with the Uncleared Swap Margining regulations (BCBS Margin Programme).

London, United Kingdom

• Overseeing the delivery of the bank’s global margining platform to ensure compliance with the Uncleared Swap Margining regulations. Leading a global IT project team of 15 using agile techniques.
• Managing full development life cycle including analysis, development, testing and deployment for the build out of new functionality.
• Stakeholder management and project reporting to collateral operations and front office.
• Coordinate build out and architecture design with dependent systems including analytics, upstream trade feeds, downstream reporting & settlement.

Greater New York City Area

• Responsible for the delivery of front-to-back IT for all businesses operating in the Latin America Emerging Markets region: Debt, Equities and Transaction Banking. Ran a group of > 40 staff across the region consisting.
• Restructured the technology organisation: created specialised teams for application support, project implementation and application development. At the same time built the team significantly to meet demand from the.
• Implemented a structured SDLC framework for all projects where none previously existed and project discipline in the branches was weak. This increased professionalism and timeliness of project delivery.
• Rolled out Deutsche Bank’s market leading e-Commerce platform, for the Brazil onshore FX market. Strict local regulations and a complex legacy back office platform created unique challenges in order to add this.
• Represented Latin America at regional regulatory forums with the region’s senior executives. Led regulatory deliveries for the region. These included deliveries to branches to comply with local country regulations as.
• Instigated a current state analysis for the Brazil office, a particular problem branch where legacy systems were complex and highly tactical. Existing flows, application architecture, manual bottlenecks and areas of.

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the technology platform for Equity Emerging Markets, a global business with trading desks in London and New York, as well as offices in Europe, South America, Africa and the Middle East. Managed a.
• On inheriting a set of disparate teams, built a coordinated, global team with new centralised project management and business analyst functions located in London and New York. Appointed key hires and retained high.
• Implemented an IT strategy to enable the business to scale: identified the need to consolidate systems, reduce complexity and decrease dependency on local software vendors. Secured business buy-in, additional funding.
• Partnered closely with Fidessa to deploy their cash trading platform to trading desks in Russia, South Africa, Turkey, Israel and Saudi Arabia: replaced standalone, local trading platforms with a single Fidessa.
• Worked closely with the Istanbul Stock Exchange to become the first international investment bank to market make warrants in Turkey. This resulted in yearly revenues of 15million EUR.

London, United Kingdom

• Manager of a team developing central component data services for the Global Equity Derivatives trading and risk management systems. Led a team of three permanent and six offshore staff developing in Java, Oracle, XML.
• Re-engineered exotic trade capture from multiple systems to a single booking system. This allowed trade support to increase processing capacity as the volumes in certain exotic products grew.
• Enhanced results data service to allow efficient, configurable data purging to save disk space costs and significantly reduce manual overhead to remove old data.
• As part of the bank’s cost reduction initiative to increase use of outsourcing vendors, successfully managed handover of critical data services to offshore teams.

Hong Kong

• Manager of a global team to implement Imagine (3rd party real-time risk, P&L and trade lifecycle system) across all locations into a single centrally managed global platform. Worked on site in Hong Kong (8 months).
• Business practices were different from location to location so worked with business heads to streamline and implement global standards for system use and booking procedures.
• Managed the porting of all legacy system feeds to a single, global code base that could be easily maintained. These included real-time exchange feeds, website reporting, feeds to downstream settlement and reporting.
• Implemented batch infrastructure that allowed for 24 x 6 use of the platform and supported a separate close of business for each region. Scheduled tasks included market price capture, end of day valuations and.
• Partnered with Controlling to reengineer their legacy P&L generation process from one which was manually intensive and prone to error, to a scalable and easily supportable solution.
• Hardware setup: coordinated Sun hardware specification, purchases, installation and configuration. Designed hardware setup for maximum resilience and business contingency in Singapore and New York.

London, United Kingdom

• Managed the software development and production platform of Imagine for 300 users in London and Frankfurt. Led a regional team of three developers developing in Perl, Java, Sybase, Korn shell scripting.
• Managed the upgrade of Imagine for the European Equity Derivatives business from version 3.8 to version 5, a considerable architectural and functional change, making Deutsche Bank the first of Imagine’s clients to.

London, United Kingdom

Development and support for the rollout of Imagine to the Equity Derivatives business in London and Frankfurt.

London, United Kingdom

Front office IT support for an in house Fixed Income trading and risk management system.

Phd, Chemistry

Bsc, Chemistry