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London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Help the organisation to use Scrum and Agile effectively, develop a pathway to full adoptionSat on the PMI UK Agile committee with the aim of assisting members to transition to agile organisations and techniques, actives, guidance materials and presentationsAssisting PMO in adoption a Programme Governance that will work with Agile and other iterative and waterfall methods.Implementation of a programme of Training and Coaching for Business Analysts, Developers, Testers, Project Managers in the use of Scrum. Assist the organisation in scaling the Scrum approach across the enterprise.Mentoring of staff in SCRUM and assisting Scrum Masters with less experience.

London, England, United Kingdom

Assist the Head of Development in day to day running of the team.Provide cover for a vacancy whilst a new Development Manager was recruited. Agile developers who were deployed in Scrum Teams

London, England, United Kingdom

Scrum Master role in Energy project working with the team to help delivery of solutions with 2 week sprints, assist the team to capture stories and manage the backlog and prioritisationDelivery of a major project as Scrum Master to provide a dashboard to monitor and control regulatory reporting for EMIR for EDFT and all affliliates

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for a workstream within the MIFID preparation Programresolve and prioritise the content of the work required as it emerged through announcementsDelivery via a Scrum Team.

London, England, United Kingdom

Delivery of projects for Energy Trading, Middle Office and Back Office.Delivery of an EMIR project to Reconcile and Compress Portfolios of trades.Completion of a project with in house developers for power trading and the full trade cycle to cope with15 and 30 minute deliveries, this is a big enabler to target wider markets and to facilitate changes to existing markets. Regulatory changes for the Exchange Traded Derivatives ETRM platform to correct EMIR reporting.Took the ETD ETRM package in house dEngaged a 3rd party development team to commence an agile build to replace the ETD ETRM system with an up to date supportable product. Large scale project spanning complex functionality. Phases 1 and 2 completed on time and under budgetManaged upgrade to the Credit Risk CUBE system whilst also resolving major performance issues

London, England, United Kingdom

Delivery of Commodities Trading solutions to support customer requirements for Investment Banks and major European Utilities. Tracking of software development (.Net, C#, C##, WPF, Silverlight ) using Agile methodology Replace the Trading Front End for the Trading Gateway aggregated commodities screenMobile phone apps on Apple, Android and Blackberry server upgrades to the Trayport Trading Gateway, Broker and Exchange Systems Project Management methodology with the Project Office encompassing best practice to suit Trayports needs and to complement the chosen Agile methodology whilst retaining the structure and controls typical of a Prince 2 based method. roject Management training and awareness to staff of all disciplines Run the projects function including all planning and financials, control the project external 3rd party spend. Delivery of new Hosted STP Clearing links ( via Fix and APIs ) from the client Broker systems to Clearing Houses. Full cycle responsibility for all aspects of projects ensuring that the project reaches a successful conclusion including software development plus coordination of product management, legal, commercial, marketing, client management, and client rollout aspects.Built a Project Management capability within Trayport and help to migrate to a Project based, delivery orientated culture whilst retaining an Agile, iterative approach to development.

London, England, United Kingdom

Management of the European portfolio for banking Instutions across Europe. Delivery of projects for some major clients, All work used Agile mehodologies.Manage programme of work for all Misys Midas Funded Development European clients using 35 to 40 staff located over 8 sites including low cost offshore locations. With 4 Project Managers as direct reports. Projects are Fixed Price ( with stringent scope and change control ) or Time and Materials.Support the client sales process and manage all estimating and bids for future work. Significant client contact involved and liaison with Professional Services and Sales teams internally. Assist clients ( global and local banks ) by advising on their UAT and Implementation projects.Rollout of continual improvements to processes. Manage all staff utilisation and profit margins required for Funded assigned staff.Full commercial responsibility and all financial management of projects, the team, forecasting, accruals, pipeline planning for future resource demand.Continue to directly manage specific significant projects. Projects include regulatory, Swift, cash pooling, operational risk, lending and client required customisations.

London, England, United Kingdom

Fidessa application projects across front and middle office. Responsible for all aspects of the project including technical and client liasonDelivery of Mifid for Equities to include best execution from multiple liquidity pools and interfaces to Markit BOAT for Quoting and Trade Reporting. Upgrade of BOAT v1.1 and installation of BOAT BCA via Webstart.Act as primary interface to Operations and Middle office team for small changes and new projects. Implementation of Futures trading system and interface to Fidessa. Managed a number of Global rollouts for Fidessa FTW and other desktop applications.Middleware solution providing downstream connectivity from Fidessa front/middle office to back office Global Oasys for the Middle office allowing ABN AMRO to significantly improve in client ratings. Management of onshore and offshore resources on a matrix basis to meet delivery within cost targets. Management of vendor resources and suppliers to achieve project delivery.Attachment and upgrade of Equity exchanges, addition of broker connections to extend market coverage.Installation of an automated Market Matching System from Fidessa to the Oasys service for matching Broker trades. Significant contact with software vendors, market data suppliers, connectivity solution providers and clients. Good knowledge of all aspects of the Cash Equities business allowing for dual Analysis/Project Management role to be completed as part of projects. Completion of a number of mandatory upgrades Fidessa and downsteam systems including Swift . High level of contact with Compliance department and many projects have a compliance related component.

London Area, United Kingdom

Project Delivery for the Equities based clients against business requirements on Fidessa and Fix Connectivity to meet typical Investment Banking demands. Full life cycle project management to recognised industry standards including client liaison, progress reporting, risk and issue management and financial responsibility.Management of relationship with Fidessa Users, Front Office sponsors and senior business representatives.Delivery of a new system to support high turnover, low margin retail Equities flow ( DMA and Algorithmic trading ), allowing the business to expand into this area and increasing revenue.Development of a limit minder within Fidessa for orders to automate trader activities. Staff management of 30 Equities project staff (Project Managers, Business/Fix Analysts, Testers and Developers) on a day-to-day basis to achieve agreed targets.

London, England, United Kingdom

Development and installation of class leading solution for connectivity of clients and brokers over the Fix protocol to Fidessa for Orders, Executions, Allocations, Indications of Interest and Advertised Trades, including full implementation responsibility and hardware. Provides DMA capability to clients via Fidessa order execution.Strategy development with business representatives for the client connectivity product offering.Over 250 clients attached via Fix contributing to increased brokerage fees and retention of existing clients.Hands on delivery of network connectivity via vendors and point to point. Good understanding of network routing, vpn, hub and spoke solutions. Hands on connectivity and testing with new clients and vendors prior to their implementation.Installation of internet-facing gateways to allow client connectivity over the public internet via secure tunnels. Management of external vendors to ensure provision of best possible service at the best price.Responsible for the package selection process for core components used in the connectivity solution.Installation of the Bookbuilder system to support ABN AMRO Rothschild for contribution to IPOs.

Ensure all projects within the program are understood monitored and reported to the Year 2000 Fixed Income Board, take actions as required to ensure compliance to Board need. Build Program Monitoring tools.Responsible for set up and running of the programme office of the ABN AMRO Fixed Income year 2000 programme.Introduction of an effective programme management to provide an overall set of standards, process and control mechanisms for Fixed Income projects.Provision of an on-going programme monitoring service for the Fixed Income board members.Tackle any projects requiring intervention to get back on track.Continued responsibility for all resource management matters as per prior role.

London, England, United Kingdom

Day-to-day control of all resourcing related matters for multi-disciplined IT department. Introduction and design of a Management Development Programme.Provide mentoring and consultancy to Line Managers.Management of the Graduate Development Programme.Introduction of resourcing controls to ensure best value for the business resulting in control of headcount and a significant reduction in contractor agency fees. Responsible for all liaison with recruitment agencies and Human Resources relating to recruitment, retention, staff development, and training.

Witham, England, United Kingdom

Line Manage 65 staff within the IT department, BAs, Developers, TestersDeploy staff to projects so all staff were busy but still have available staff for new projectsIntroduce British Computer Career Management System to allow staff full view of roles relative seniority and expected skills/tasks for these rolesRan a multi media recruitment campaign to recruit staff