Colin Simpson Email & Phone Number

Stamford, Ct, Us

Stamford, Ct

Managing a program to replace the Payments and DDA system.

Fort Worth, Texas

Established an offshore vendor management program to enable the technology arm of Think Finance, a Texas based Financial Services Company, to keep pace with it's rapidly growing business expansion. Grew the IT organization by adding 130 offshore resources to focus on stabilizing the mostly .NET technology stack, building new products, redesigning the web apps and moving to a mobile platform.

Greater New York City Area

Oversaw all client facing technology initiatives, systems and processes for Financial Markets, Treasury, Global Liquidity, Corporate Trust and Depository Receipts businesses. Managed a technology division of 170 in-house and offshore staff in New York, Pittsburgh, Boston and Chennai.Managed the integration of the Bank of New York and Mellon Bank Treasury/Cash Management systems following the merger of the two BanksManaged the migration of separate Treasury/Cash Management, Global Liquidity, Depositary Receipts and Corporate Trust web sites into a single strategic enterprise shared services portal, providing a more client driven model for institutions and corporate customers. Managed the technology support of the client migrationsManaged the refresh of the client web portals for the Treasury/Cash Management, Global Liquidity and Corporate Trust businessesLaunched the first mobile applications at BNY Mellon with the introduction of an iPad application for Treasury and iPad/iPhone applications for Global LiquidityManaged delivery of strategic client facing technology projects for all supported businesses

Greater New York City Area

Led a 60-member Enterprise Messaging Application Development and Support group, managing all external facing messaging systems including interfaces to the Federal Reserve for Cash and Securities, Chips and all Swift Systems.Led numerous critical initiatives, including migrating the external messaging systems for Fedwire, Chips, Swift and Telex to a new strategic platform based on the Intranet MTS product. Developed a centralized message transformation hub for proprietary and industry standard formats based on the Mercator/Websphere Message Broker technologiesLed the technology effort at BNY to support the GSTPA initiative to improve STP of cross border tradesManaged the overall program for the migration of Swift message standards from fixed format 7775 messages to tag based 15022 message formats. The migration was completed and implemented on the industry go live date in November 2001.Led the technology efforts to streamline the FTP client on-boarding process at BNY, which reduced the backlog of requestsIntroduced a publish/subscribe based application monitoring system that provided monitoring and alerting for BNY messaging applications

White Plains And New York, Ny

Developed specific solutions addressing Securities Processing STP requirements for Financial Institutions primarily using message broker and workflow automation products. Leveraged the IBM product divisions, IBM research and collaborated with industry partnersPerformed STP readiness assessments, identified business process improvements and target technology architectures

New York, Ny

Greater New York City Area

London And New York