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London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Cutting edge Technology Hardware and Software implementation. Liaise with and co-ordinate numerous teams within the LSE to facilitate completion of projects. Structure and manage project plans.• Infrastructure Project Manager (hardware and software) for Oslo Børs migration project. Objective of this project was to move OB from the TradElect and Infolect platforms to the equivalent Millennium solution.• Currently managing hardware and software implementation for Group Ticker Plant project. an initiative to consolidate all real-time market data services from the current technologies to a single, multi-asset class, low latency market data solution.• hardware and software management for trade echo. Trade reporting solution in collaboration with Cinnober in readiness for MiFID II. • Test plan creation and management for all major trading systems

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Represented the Analyst and Associate Front office Investment Bank staff in all technology matters, driving efficiencies. Senior technology liaison for MD’s to ascertain their technology needs and concerns both in London and New York. • Project Manager for EMEA Office 2007 rollout, Thinkcell, Bond pricing system, banker efficiency RAD tools .• Vendor relationship manager (market data) – Reuters, Bloomberg, Factset.• Pitchbook automation initiative - calculations and presentation - saving 1.5 FTE's per annum.• Gather and assimilation of banker feedback and requirements for IB applications to feedback to IT teams.• Ad-hoc training, website development.

Finsbury Square

• Project Managed roll-out of Bloomberg Server API and Data License to over thirty Investment Banks and Hedge Funds. Assisted in technical issues, infrastructure queries and data mapping.• Managed relationships with Bloomberg server api client base in numerous locations in Europe and the states• Helped develop and document new Bloomberg technology and assisted with presenting this to clients globally.

Canary Wharf

Project/programme based work • Assisted in establishing and managing new Project Management Office set up in Derivatives IT area • Managed relationship with various market data vendors including Bloomberg• Scoped and worked with a developer to create a database for the group capturing project and programme information to standardise and keep data in one place. Helped maintain and collect information in the database for risks and issues, project milestones and other project related information and succinctly presented this information to senior management.• Group project planning, development, maintenance and review.• Group Audit Co-ordinator. (SOX)Financial based Work• Involved in financial analysis for the group – Impact analysis, financials for business cases, ROI.• Co-managed the $150M budget process for the group in 2007 and subsequent forecasts. Involved in 2008 & 2009 budget planning process.• Provide financial Metrics for the group. Analysis and presentation of actuals to the business. Headcount, direct cost and Hardware/Software reporting, projected vs actuals

San Jose, California, United States

• Co-created and presented the original business case to the stakeholders of the project• Devised deployment plans for all areas of the Business (Sales, Marketing, IT, Human Resources) for EMEA, APAC and USA• Created and maintained Project Plan for deployment team for all proposed countries. Monitored and report on Staffing issues, scheduling slippage, missed milestones, Risks and issues• Management of project metrics and presentation of benefits of technology to sales people in the UK and the USA.