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zerokelvin labsConsultant CTO
Dec. 2019GlobalConsultancy providing digital strategy and innovation for startups and tenured companies. Key Projects listed in projects section.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.Executive Director
Apr. 2017 - May. 2019Hong KongResponsible for driving Global Technology strategy and innovation across all lines of business, as well as establishing the strategic and emerging technology relationships for the Asia Pacific markets. Designed regional FinTech strategy to engage the wider technology ecosystem to accelerate strategic business initiatives, as well as shaping business strategy through ideation sessions and acting as advisor on technology trends. Led regional teams in developing events, communications, and programmes to foster innovative thinking and collaboration amongst teams, whilst coordinating firm wide innovation programmes to recognise thought leaders and inventors. Delivered thought leadership speaker series across key technology strategy and trends for internal and external clients, including articulating firm wide technology strategy to regional regulatory bodies and government-sponsor business development initiatives and programmes.
zerokelvin labsConsultant CTO
May. 2016 - Apr. 2017GlobalConsultancy providing digital strategy and innovation for startups and tenured companies. Key Projects: Chillax Flash Packers , Boracay - Social Media Strategy; Planet Ally - Technology Strategy & Application Build; Canopy - Technology & Product Strategy; Island Girl (Mainland) - Technology & Product Strategy; Asia Interactive - Technology Strategy & Team Development
Prudential Corporation AsiaHead of Technology - Digital
Aug. 2015 - Feb. 2016Hong KongAs the first member of the newly created Digital technology division wrote the two year strategy for digital foundation for the regional organisation and set the five year vision across four sub-divisional areas of focus. Designed resource plan to sustain the required significant growth and ambition of senior management. Set the hiring standards and guidelines to achieve a “startup within corporate” culture of accountability, with consistent delivery. Delivered version one of a new electronic point of sale in Thailand in three months, amid significant local organisational change: acted in roles from programme director to developer advisor. Delivered three data science projects across the region; waste, abuse, & fraud (WAF), next best offer, and revenue protection (churn prevention) providing insights to local business units that could be used to tune their operational models.
YouGovSenior Director, Technology
Jan. 2014 - Jul. 2015Hong KongHead Asia-Pacific technology and lead execution and development of global collaboration projects, building best in class End User software services. Led the integration of infrastructure and application services into the new organisation as YouGov acquired Decision Fuel, reviewing the overall technology stack and identifying opportunities and challenges.
YouGovChief Technology Officer
Mar. 2012 - Jan. 2014Hong KongSet strategic and architectural vision for all aspects of product and technology development to deliver the Decision Fuel research platform to market, eventually leading to the successful acquisition of the company by YouGov in January 2014. This innovative product regularly engaged over a million respondents across Asia Pacific turning data into insights for clients within 24 hours. All respondent and client interactions were managed through a single, highly scalable, white-labelled platform for all parts of the research lifecycle.
YouGovAdvisory Board Member - Technology Strategy
Sep. 2010 - Mar. 2012Hong KongAdvisor for technology strategy from early stages of product design and development through to soft launch of product. Guidance on: roadmap, implementation and infrastructure decisions, budget planning, due diligence.
Deutsche BankVice President
May. 2010 - Sep. 2011Hong KongLed service delivery of all equity asset classes across Asia Pacific including driving stability programmes, high availability, and core response levels for incident and problem management. Defined regional improvement strategy, process re-engineering and complexity reduction. Devised and implemented a light touch, high impact communications platform, which drastically improved the level and consistency of information provided to business units during incidents. Managed regional budget and cost reduction initiatives. Additional responsibilities; Audit and Regulatory Single Point of Contact, Business Continuity Management, Offshore Vendor Management, Country Head of Production Management for Hong Kong, China and Korea, Chairman of Hong Kong Social Committee, Co-Chair of Regional Diversity Committee
Morgan StanleyVice President
Sep. 2007 - May. 2010Hong KongLed the the build-out, restructuring and development of Equity DSP, Risk & GCM teams. Building strong relationships with key business heads to adequately respond to and service their needs. Quickly developed proactive team, coaching new and existing junior resources in best-practice methodologies, and effectively building on the various levels of expertise to create a strong and supportive multi-location organisation. Considerable re-engineering of existing processes to better manage the environment, people and systems. Additional responsibilities; Stability Management, Business Continuity Management, Chairman of Regional IT Social Committee, Member of Charity Committee, Member of Diversity Committee
Barclays CapitalAssociate Director
Mar. 2006 - Aug. 2007Hong KongLed the build out of cross-country Asia-Pacific Credit Trading and Credit Derivative Technology teams to better respond to regional business requirements. Transition of organisation from reactive to proactive management of requests and issue tracking. Initiation of prioritisation forum for key stakeholders to give overall visibility for regional Credit technology. Design and architecture of tactical platform for exotic bespoke trades in the Asian markets due to increased volumes of complex structured trades. Execution and direction of development team’s effort. Additional responsibilities; Graduate Recruitment Programme, Business Continuity Management
TD SecuritiesConsultant, Credit Derivative Trading & Risk Management Platforms
Aug. 2004 - Oct. 2005London, United KingdomResponsible for the development and maintenance of all Front, Middle and Back Office systems. Facing off to the Traders, Risk and Product Control teams on a daily basis to maintain and enhance all current systems. Architected and implemented a complete systems infrastructure overhaul to reduce daily support to an absolute minimum utilising distributed computing technology. Liaised with Toronto-based technology staff to define future strategies to align technology development.
Royal Bank of ScotlandConsultant, Credit Derivative Trading Platform
Jun. 2003 - Aug. 2004London, United KingdomAnalysis, design and development of Front Office workflow and tracking system for Credit management as part of the new Credit Default Swap system. Carrying out analysis with traders of current working patterns to streamline workflows ensuring all trades are properly hedged in the event of defaults. Development of Front Office Credit Marketing Analysis tool for Credit Grades, Bond Pricing and Risky Curves, running against Xenomorph, to allow traders to value, track and monitor data on-the-fly. Linked to Bloomberg and internal bank systems to extract pricing data and calculated using internal analytics. Design and development of Portfolio Analysis tool for traders to price complex portfolio baskets for clients integrating with Bloomberg and internal Analytic APIs to retrieve pricing. Conducting discussion forums with traders to refine current working practices to improve the portfolio pricing strategies.
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