Chief Technology Officer

• Sep 2021 - Present

Head of EMEA Application Development and Infrastructure

• Sep 2018 - Aug 2020

Delivering the product • Led the team of 35 developers in 3 countries to build calculations and reports that enable Financial Institutions to comply with Capital, Liquidity, FinReg, Share ownership, Tax, Trade & Transaction reporting obligations (CRD IV, ALM, LCR, MiFID, SFTR, PRA 110, IFRS 9, etc.) • Collaborated with Sales, Product owners, testers to ensure successful delivery to 40 Financial Institutions across 13 EMEA countries Running the Development team • Responsible for annual budgets circa £3M. Interviewed 120+ candidates to grow the team by 30% • Created team structure, set objectives, conducted performance reviews Project and programme management • Adept at Agile team working, use elements of Scrum and Kanban for day-to-day work. Experienced with Waterfall methodology as well • Ran a programme to roll out major platform upgrade to EMEA Financial Institutions that enables SaaS • Coordinated a number of internal initiatives across teams and regions Risk and Information Security function • With Cyber Security team, assessed information technology risk and certified the AWS cloud offering of AxiomSL platform to ISO 27001 security standard Managing infrastructure • As part of running the SysAdmin team, oversaw major infrastructure improvements in London. Drove hardware upgrade to build dedicated environments for product teams which resulted in 40% productivity increase. Moved servers to external data centre for improved resilience in a BCP situation Driving improvements • Identified gaps in teams, functions and processes and proposed efficiencies. Introduced quality improvements and automation, e.g. regression and performance testing, standardisation of internal JIRA tickets, release process • Improved working relationships between management across regions Show less

Technology Coordinator for Continental Europe Finance

• Oct 2013 - Aug 2018

Expanded responsibilities to oversee Technology work to support Finance in Continental European offices• Acted as main Technology contact point for Finance users in Paris, Zurich, Frankfurt and Moscow offices• Recognised subject matter expert, instrumental in helping the European offices satisfy reporting requirements and resolve day-to-day issues• Brought strong sense of teamwork, always looked to do the right thing by the firm and partnered with both technology and finance stakeholders• Introduced 3rd-party regulatory and financial reporting software to the firm and oversaw the work to implement vendor solutions• Managed relationships with vendors Finance used in Europe (AxiomSL in the UK, Germany, Switzerland; Sopra in France; Diasoft in Russia)• Integrated vendor solutions into GS frameworks (e.g., software development life cycle)• Set direction, led work to move internally-hosted vendor packages to Software as a Service model • Administered software, coordinated and performs upgrades Show less

EMEA Information Security Risk Management Officer

• Jun 2013 - Aug 2018

Measured and managed technical risk across the GS European offices• Performed internal and external control assessments (e.g., PWC provisioning performance audit, entitlements reviews, control effectiveness certification, etc.)• Proactively chased for status and closed down open issues, with discipline and diligence• Maintained plans and coordinated Function handover testing to confirm out-of-region handover strategy• Coordinated and ran annual Business Continuity Planning (BCP) application failover tests• Coordinated firm-wide programs such as Data privacy, migration to new data centres, hardware / software EOL uplift, virtualisation Show less

Head of Moscow Finance Engineering Technology team

• Sep 2005 - Aug 2018

Led the technology team that supports Finance, Operations, Compliance and Legal users• Covered all aspects of developing and maintaining applications and services, from high-level business prioritisation and resourcing discussions through to the detail of requirements, architecture design, execution and on-going support using in-house or vendor systems• Supported systems including local books & records, accounting and regulatory reporting software, critical payment system to Central Bank and 15 3rd-party applications to maintain electronic data flows with banks and exchanges, compliance reporting, etc.• Participated in external and internal audits, worked with regulators• Interviewed, hired and trained junior members of the team• Responsible for budgets • Managed software vendor relationships, contracts, statements of work • Led initiatives to implement product lines to expand local business, influenced across teams. Examples of completed projects included:o Technology implementation and support of GS Moscow broker/dealer (2006) and Bank (2009)o Integration of local Diasoft vendor software packages with corporate systems and flowso Business Initiatives: Equity and FI trading on exchange, Term Repos, Commodity derivatives, Listed derivatives, X-ccy swaps, IR swaps, FX spots, FX forwards, NDFs, FX Optionso Algorithmic tradingo Regulatory requirements: Continued stream of changes for accounting and reporting to Central Bank; Local data retention regulation, etc.• Introduced automated regression vendor product and built a suite of tests• Developed 90+ data processors to consume upstream data from corporate systems, applied required business logic and format for consumption by 3rd-party vendor softwareTechnologies used: UNIX/Linux, shell, Perl and Python, Sybase and Oracle stored procedures; Database performance tuning• Managed infrastructure work, software upgrades, retired legacy systems, moved to virtualisation Show less

Senior Analyst / SofDeveloper, Firmwide and Asset Management divisions

• Nov 1997 - Sep 2005

• Developed new technology systems and websites, enhanced existing systems. Technologies used: Sybase, Oracle, UDB, Perl, Python, Java/XSL, JSP, ASP, XML, DHTML, JavaScript• Supervised and trained junior members of the group• Provided support of the systems, interacted with business users

Associate Developer

• Mar 1997 - Nov 1997

Computer Programmer

• Mar 1995 - Feb 1997