* Director of Software Engineering for the Engineering and Execution division at CME Group, with a significant focus on Over-the-Counter (OTC) and front-end trading systems* Technical Owner for a portfolio of applications and services: CME STP, CME ConfirmHub, EOS Trader - responsible for end-to-end service delivery and IT capability of these applications* Responsible for end-to-end delivery of multiple applications, services and project deliverables - including the applications for which I am technical owner, and portions of CME Direct* Maintaining roadmaps and strategies for all applications for which I am responsible* Responsible for leading and implementing IT efficiency projects - decommissioning services and environments, simplifying applications, improving quality and reducing associated costs* Management and mentoring of a number of agile development teams* Collaborating with the business owners and customers to efficiently plan and forecast; ensuring correct prioritization of business requirements and providing the capability for IT to deliver the needed service changes* Facilitating collaboration and effectiveness across multiple teams. Liaising with support and infrastructure teams to ensure smooth rollouts of significant hardware and software upgrades in production environments* Change management - part of Belfast local Change Advisory Board (CAB) and provide input to Global CAB* Involved in Problem management and any support escalation processes for critical/urgent incidents or outages* General management: recruiting, people management, mentoring, building teams

Development Manager for Market Access Gateway (MAG), Risk Management Gateway (RMG), and Common Customer Gateway (CCG) products.

SpeechStorm specialise in providing speech-enabled Voice Response solutions to customers, in a secure, shared, multi-tenanted hosting environment using the Software as a Service (SaaS) model.Primary role was as owner of SaaS platform, management of servers in Data Centre and Telecoms.

Currently providing technical consultancy in the following areas:* Meridio EDRM (Electronic Documents and Records Management) * Microsoft SharePoint and Windows SharePoint Services * K2.NET Workflow * Kofax Ascent Capture ScanningAssisting in a large-scale, highly complex implementation comprising commercial-off-the-shelf products, throughout the complete project lifecycle - requirements gathering, prototyping, high and low level designs, implementation, testing, rollout and support.

Solution Architect specifically providing consultancy around Meridio EDRM

The role involved business analysis, requirements gathering, architecting, design, roll-out and support of a number of large scale development projects in the Financial, Telecoms and private sectors.Primary responsibilities included overall design of systems and maintaining the conceptual integrity of those systems (from a technical and business point-of-view) throughout development and deployment, together with assisting pre-sales with multi-million pound proposals.