Simon Lucas

Experience

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  Advantica

  Sept 2000 - Aug 2001

  Industrial Placement, Network Support Analyst

  - Core and desktop network administration at the British Gas Research and Technology facility in Loughborough.

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  Deutsche Bank

  Sept 2002 - Jan 2006

  Analyst / Associate, Global Technology & Operations UNIX / Windows Technical Specialist

  - Completed 18-month graduate training programme.- Incident management/production support for trading floor PCs and critical sales and trading systems.

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  HSBC

  Jan 2006 - Apr 2007

  Associate, Trading Infrastructure Rapid Deployments Senior Technical Specialist

  - Project lead for Linux infrastructure projects, including: rapid deployments with short time-to-market; technology recovery plans; technology audits.- Data centre migration planning, execution and post-execution support.- Incident management/production support and on-call outside local office hours.

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  Dresdner Kleinwort

  Apr 2007 - Dec 2009

  Associate, Global Markets Trading Technology Senior UNIX Admin/DBA

  - Tokyo office wind-down planning and execution (1-year project)- Designed and implemented Start-of-Business and Close-of-Business process for Linux and Solaris systems.- Incident management: First level service desk to third level OS and hardware troubleshooting with vendors.- Production support and on-call support outside local office hours.- Experienced working independently and with team out of hours, including public holidays, weekends and evenings.

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  Merrill Lynch

  Dec 2009 - Apr 2014

  End-to-end migration of legacy Japan Bond trading system to strategic platform built on Python (Quartz). Business value focussed on volume scalability, rapid time-to-market for new products and enhanced risk and audit capabilities.- Personally responsible for all project and operational management, reporting to the Director of Asia Quartz development and matrix reporting to the MD of Asia FICC Technology.- Co-ordinated and supervised technology migrations for Asia Rates and Currencies products, specialist on legacy vs target reconciliation tracking and issue reporting.- Implemented Scrum-like team workload management for a development team of nine in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia. Pioneered Jira Agile for project tracking and forecasting.- Ran senior business stakeholder meetings in person and remotely for attendees globally, representing FICC Tech Asia and handling all cross-functional responsibilities.- Microsoft SharePoint 2007/2010 admin for 30+ Asia technology teams. Show less - Inherited four junior developers, coached and developed them into a first-class team implementing Asia initiatives with multiple global stakeholders: unified credit trading activity monitor (T-RADAR/Python); migration of spreadsheet-based tools to strategic platform (Quartz/Python); regional components for global mortgage-backed securities trading system.- Incident Management and Problem Management. Clients included Credit Trading, Sales and FICC Asia COO.- Tohoku earthquake, March 2011: remained in Tokyo throughout crisis supporting the business and team mates in Japan office.- Founding member of Employee Engagement and Corporate Social Responsibility committees. Show less - Business management responsibilities encompassed annual budget, resource allocations, regional initiative spending and tracking to a global parent programme and all associated reporting for the Asia team.- Coached 20 credit technology specialists in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia with matrix leadership in New York and Asia. Performance management, conflict resolution, hiring, training and personal development.- Regarded by peers and senior managers as the “go-to guy” for cross-functional technology co-ordination in Asia. Show less

  • Vice President, FICC Technology Asia Flagship Project Manager

    Jun 2012 - Apr 2014

  • Assistant Vice President / Vice President, Japan Credit Technology Team Leader

    Jan 2011 - Jun 2012

  • Assistant Vice President, Asia Credit Technology Business Manager/Regional Team Coach

    Dec 2009 - Jun 2012
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  Nomura

  Aug 2014 - now

  BCBS 239 Finance Reference Data Consumer Alignment: global regulatory project to align Risk, Finance and Global Markets reference data usage by producers and consumers.- Hybrid ITPM/BA role, reporting to the global head of Reference Data Technology.- Responsible for representing Finance requirements across a fragmented and siloed project team.- Creation of process tools and training to capture, enrich, classify and track Finance requirements to implementation.- Time split evenly between Finance IT technical requirements and Finance department business requirements.- Co-ordination and project management of resources in, UK, US, India, Hong Kong and Japan. Show less GFA Environment Management: tools / processes for post go-live strategic Finance initiative.- PM and Business Analyst, migration of global budget system from SAP to Oracle for Nomura Group Finance.- Development and deployment of a custom Linux pre-processor for rapid permission changes on data cubes.- Responsible for integration of monitoring tools across a diverse application estate.- Balanced mix of hands-on technical work (UNIX scripts, SQL, Excel 2010, SAP Business Objects, Oracle OBIEE) and project management, comprising vendor liaison, scope definition, project execution, co-ordination and reporting.- Regular meetings with senior stakeholders (MD, ED level) for feedback on iterative development process.[Completed Feb 2015] Windows 7 migration: Migrated 200 applications, 450 people, 800 PCs and 1,000+ end-user tools in seven months.- 250% of starting scope delivered one month ahead of target deadline.- Personally accountable for delivering project strategy, UAT sign-off, package mapping, desktop and client survey, rollout planning, stakeholder communications, post-migration troubleshooting, issue tracking, knowledgebase, and management reporting.- Overcame complex constraints: implemented in parallel with multi-year strategic Finance projects (COB and GFA). Environment fragmentation and tooling gaps demanded a meticulous, detail-oriented approach.- Rapid knowledge assimilation and relationship building necessary to influence or lead stakeholders to goals.- Hands-on tool building required from start. Hardware database, software database, person-to-PC mapping, data verification and change tracking, issue tracking and reporting (Jira)- Versatility and problem solving skills were key requirements for successful and on-time delivery.- Remaining month on contract utilized to analyse, troubleshoot and finally resolve a PeopleSoft network and web server issue that affected all users for six months prior. Show less

  • Senior Consultant, Finance Reference Data Consumer Alignment Manager

    Nov 2015 - now

  • Senior Consultant, Finance Technology Group Project Manager for Global Head/MD

    Aug 2014 - Nov 2015