London, England, United Kingdom
As Senior Manager Software Development, my main responsibility is to provide the front and back office with the right trading platform to execute trading strategies and manage positions. To achieve this, my team and I work closely together across departments and with external parties (exchanges, clearing houses, data vendors, ISVs …) to continuously evaluate how opportunities in the market place can be translated into an operational or strategic advantage for All Options.
As manager of the Trading Tools team within Software Development it was my main responsibility to provide the front and back office with analysis and simulation tools, most of them used on a daily basis as integral part of the workflow. One of the major achievements during this time was the design and implementation of a service-oriented backend architecture to connect various data sources in a simple and efficient manner, drastically reducing the time to delivery for analysis tools. As team manager it was my responsibility to reorganize the Trading Tools team to balance resource allocation between projects and application maintenance, as part of which I introduced Scrum (an Agile SW development framework) within the team. The Trading Tools team consisted of software developers, QPA engineers and user interface specialists in Amsterdam as well as teams in Chennai, India and Chengdu, China.
Technical Project Manager for Davis Polk's strategic Portal initiative, a comprehensive solution designed to provide attorneys and support staff with personalized information regarding all aspects of their daily work. Responsibilities / Skills: - Leading a team of four developers from design to deployment - Translating user requirements into specifications - Developing work packages - Tracking and controlling project progress - Introducing productivity tools in the team - Mentoring team members - Designing the system architecture - Implementing key elements of the project in C# on ASP.NET for Sharepoint 2007
Project Manager and lead developer for Hyperwave's Professional Services Organization. Successfully managed ECM projects within time and budget. Clients included multinational advertising agencies, law firms, NGOs, and government agencies. Managed strategic product development projects for Hyperwave. Projects ranged in size from 50 to 900 person days. Responsibilities / Skills: - Managing geographically distributed project teams - Managing and negotiating project engagements - Managing client expectations, client communication - Managing team workload and time lines - Conducting user requirements analysis and writing test plans - Analyzing business processes at the client - Analyzing of and integrating with existing IT infrastructure - Systems architecture design - Programming in ServerSide JavaScript and Java - Programming web applications using Ajax techniques