Stuart Bower Email & Phone Number

An enthusiastic & dedicated IT Project Manager, who combines a strong background in change & integration management with a high level of business understanding. Proficient in the full project lifecycle, Prince2 qualified to Practitioner level. A natural leader, who enjoys being part of, as well as supporting, a successful and productive team. Quick to grasp new ideas and able to develop creative and / or pragmatic solutions to complex business and technical issues. Decisive, able to work on own initiative and to demonstrate the highest levels of motivation and organisation required to achieve time constrained objectives. Project Manager, London, UK, Oct-Dec 2010Joined to provide to build out of a new Prime Services business, across multiple project streams (securities borrowing / lending, client portal / reporting and custody and clearing streams, also lead owner of Margin and Collateral Management stream.Programme Manager, London / Johannesburg, UK / South Africa, Jan-Sep 2010Joined to define and lead the integration programme onto strategic platforms, for the Prime Services business, of the South African affiliate.Senior Project Manager, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2009Joined the strategic Portfolio Reporting programme, responsible for UK Power and European Fuel (Gas/Coal) reporting.Project Manager, New York, USA, 2006 - 2008Invited to deliver the strategic, multi-product, portfolio and capital / partner accounting programme for the US Prime Services business unit. Responsible for implementation of a vendor application (Advent’s Geneva), integrated with proprietary strategic client reporting platform. Project Manager, London, United Kingdom, 2004 - 2006Appointed to lead strategic programme, to implement a new global hedge fund client facing website (supporting online data mining, portfolio analytics and corporate actions notification and online electing), client reporting and data delivery (e.g. email PDF, CSV, HTML) platform for Global Prime Services.Specialties: - Full project lifecycle.- Systems integrations.- Stakeholder, vendor and budget management.- Project risk / issue management.- Proprietary and custody market settlement, inc corporate events & securities lending.- Equity Financing.- Complex systems implementations, integrations and global development team management.- Data migration management.- Multiple location management.

Listed skills include Equities, Integration, Prime Brokerage, Sdlc, and 4 others.

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