Simon Lea

Experience

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  Two Way TV

  Nov 1996 - Nov 1997

  • Operations Team Member

    Feb 1997 - Nov 1997

  • Information Technology Supervisor

    Nov 1996 - Feb 1997
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  Lloyd's

  Nov 1997 - Sept 1998

  Running overnight batches, fixing batch issues, testing batch changes.

  • Unix Consultant

    May 1998 - Sept 1998

  • Operations Team Member

    Nov 1997 - May 1998
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  Standard Bank

  Nov 1998 - Feb 2002

  Providing support and technical / functional solution for both front and back office business functions. Working with FI, FX, Equity and derivatives trader to enable them to perform their tasks more efficiently. Built and managed the Stor/qm Data Warehousing solution including an in-house monitoring and reporting application allowing proactive fault alerting and management for business users. Running overnight batches. Producing daily reporting, troubleshooting batch issues.

  • Information Technology Support Specialist

    Dec 1999 - Feb 2002

  • Operations Team Member

    Nov 1998 - Nov 1999
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  Credit Suisse First Boston

  Apr 2002 - Jan 2003

  Information Technology Support Analyst

  Managing FX connectivity software interfacing with European exchange solutions. Working with GLNet and other in-house solutions to ensure zero delay of market transactions for the front office traders. Providing manual message tracking and history in order to identify and resolve issues. Communicate with exchanges around Europe to pull trades and manage exposure during critical times and issues with exchange automatic communication.

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  City of London Corporation

  Jan 2004 - Jul 2004

  Information Technology Support Analyst

  Responsible for the testing, packaging and conflict resolution of the Oracle client software on users desktop machines throughout the Corporation of London's core London (Guildhall) and satellite sites (various private schools and forestry service offices).

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  UBS

  Aug 2004 - Aug 2024

  Responsible for Designing, implementing and managing a new R&D function in APAC, both physical and cloud (Azure) based, for evaluating new vendor solutions and providing multiple segregated environments for tailored in-house developments working with products not yet on-boarded to UBS. Working on collaborations with UBS teams to assist in successful project completions.Established the new R&D function in Singapore achieving strictly confidential data hosting approval, a first outside of Switzerland, withing 6 months. Demonstrated multidomain technology proficiency creating both cloud and on premises secure segregated environments as well as associated processes around user self-service, environment management and governance. Facilitated and collaborated with both external vendors, in-house business and IT teams in utilising the R&D offerings whilst offering workable solutions where capabilities were not available due to organisational controls.Collaborated on a new Cyber Security Forensics lab, demoing solutions for user management, controlled and audited access to the environments facilities and the internet whilst also providing coding for secure segregated data transfer and curated one touch VM deployment. Removed the requirement for a major security risk (SAS tokens). 80% of recommendations were on-boarded.Provisioned and managed a critical big data project in Azure saving US$500,000 in projected new equipment costs within 1 month.Built up a user base with business and IT stakeholders by championing the R&D facilities globally and collaborating with key teams resulting in 10 projects onboarded within the first year of operation.Closed a major risk item by integrating a legacy global solution to new UBS technology standards. Utilised my coding experience to apply required Perl and shell scripting changes required. Executed the Oracle database integration and Solaris to Redhat migration closing the long running risk item within 6 months. Show less Responsible for leading technical support teams, covering the 1 Wealth Management HK/SG multiapplication instances. Providing a stable, risk aware environment with practiced resiliency and stakeholder reporting. A number of key organisational changes occurred during this time resulting in new opportunities.Teams Managed• Production Release team (2014 – 2018) – 6 membersResponsible for the end-to-end deployment of UAT and Production releases, confirming tollgates, and manage issues during releases.• Mainframe Technical App Team (2016 - 2019) – 8 members.Responsible for application specific backend functionality on mainframe systems.• Distributed (Solaris / Linux) Technical App Team (2016 - 2018) – 15 members.Responsible for application specific backend functionality on Linux systems.• Monitoring and Escalation Team (2018 - 2019) – 11 members.Responsible for system monitoring, batches runs and system reported incidents, actioning known solutions and escalating if required.Promoted for this role.Executed creation of two new level 2 technical teams by hiring skilled candidates, leveraging cross training from Swiss SMEs and actioned skills assessments. Achieved a strong team able to support the go-live of the 1WMP program within 6 months. Drove automation projects enabling the significant reduction in manual tasks and FTE requirements resulting in the disbanding of a 9 FTE team. Led team in strong collaboration drive with IT functional, infrastructure and cross border peers. Fostered a 'one team' resulting in faster resolutions, deeper incident root cause analysis and higher team morale.Additional roles;• Obtained the additional Release Manager Role for Wealth Management Singapore (2015 – 2018). Chaired the Change advisory board responsible to managing toll gates before production change approvals. Fostered a collaborate focus on achieving project team targets by offering solutions to blockers whilst maintaining integrity of policy. Show less Responsible for running projects to discover, investigate and leverage various tools and technologies within UBS. Executed closure of identified risk items.Executed the standardisation of WM Production support (AU) around standard operating procedures, access controls, production deployments and segregation of duties. Executed a regional audit of WM production access controls and remediation. Remediated over 8,000 accounts within 3 months ensured closure by Group Audit within 3 weeks of submission. Participated in the UBS 48 hour hackathon (2014) with a client actioned targeted product offering. Achieved team recognition with 2 awards (Most original idea and best team dynamic). Managed the WM proof of concept for Splunk. Evaluated results and provided recommendations. Splunk was internalised shortly after. Show less

  • Technical Architect

    May 2020 - Aug 2024

  • Project Manager

    Oct 2019 - Apr 2020

  • Production Support Manager

    Oct 2014 - Oct 2019

  • Project Manager

    Aug 2013 - Oct 2014

  • Information Technology Support Analyst

    Jan 2007 - Jul 2013

  • Information Technology Support Analyst

    Aug 2004 - Dec 2006