London, England, United Kingdom
Technology leader specialising in enterprise-wide transformation. Currently Head of the EMEA and North America Cross-ISG Programs group within the Technology division; bringing deep business and technology subject matter expertise, technical program management and cross-firm collaboration to deliver critical, large-scale, global transformation programs.
(2021 - date) As Head of EMEA and North America Cross-ISG Programs I lead a team of project managers, business analysts and PMOs to deliver on a broad portfolio of small, medium and large-scale cross-departmental and cross-divisional transformation programs for Technology and the Firm. We manage all aspects of program delivery from initial analysis and impact assessment, through planning, build, testing, deployment and go-live. Additionally, we manage all aspects of program governance from the lowest level working groups up to the highest level Firmwide steering and risk committees. The current portfolio includes: - EU Lending, deposit taking and compliance with Article 21c of the European Capital Requirements Directive (CRDVI) - SEC US Treasury Mandatory Clearing - Fundamental Review of the Trading Book - BCBS239 data lineage and controls - Institutional Securities Technology modernisation and hygiene. - Trader Mandate controls enhancements - Commodities business migration - 3rd Party Surveillance - MiFID III Previous completed programs include: - JFSA, EMIR, MAS and ASIC Transaction Reporting (2021 - 2024) - Accelerated Settlement for the US, Canada, Argentina, Mexico, Peru and Jamaica (2021 - 2024) - ECB Desk Mapping Review program (2022 - 2024) - The team also inherited the tail of the program to migrate from IBOR to Alternate Reference Rates (2023) I also serve on the ISG Sub Divisional Risk Committee and the Firm's Institutional and Corporate Architecture Governance Committee. Previous responsibilities (2013 to 2021): - Technology change delivery for the CSDR program. (2020 - 2021) - Head of Technology Change Delivery for the Brexit program supporting Sales & Trading, Banking, Research and corporate functions (2017 - 2021) - Senior Program Manager of the Firm's Data Architecture program for the Institutional Securities business and Corporate functions. (2013 - 2017) - Trade Capture Data Governance and Front-To-Back (F2B) Programs
Between 2006 and 2013, I led a number of initiatives within the equity derivatives technology department including: - Corporate Actions processing - Dodd Frank SDR reporting - New product on-boarding - Expiry processing - Affirmation and Confirmation - User Interface design and initial system build In my previous roles I was a development lead for numerous projects in Equity Trading and Private Wealth Management that included: - Program Trading - Listed Derivatives trading - Indications of Interest - Order Management
C, C++, Java, CORBA and SQL developer for a number of systems in the cash equity business including confirmations, order management, FIX and online trading.