Professional Summary

Global Information Technology Professional with extensive experience as a hands-on project and staff manager. Initiatives managed include System Security, Internet trading, Intranet systems, Communications platforms (eg SMS), wide area network design and implementation, Voice over Internet Protocol among others with full SDLC experience and Project Management. Previous experience has included application and system design, with recent skills gained in the telecomm and financial services industries, providing for experience dealing with various levels of financial services employees, including Directors, bankers, traders, salespeople and IT professionals. Experience with evaluating and implementing new technologies to improve and expand business practices. Possesses excellent communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.

Professional Experience

Legion Interactive Australia / Legion Wireless Media (IT&T)

Sydney Australia

5/00- 6/01

Director of Technology

Legion Interactive is a content and solution provider. Recently, under my guidance, Legion has repositioned itself as a major player in the WAP and SMS arena, providing both total and partial solutions to major Telcos and others. The systems and methods put in place will be rolled out to other Legion offices worldwide to offer further services.

Ø Prime responsibility to evaluate new and emerging technologies in the IT&T industry and to develop applications and services utilizing these technologies.

Ø Design and develop ‘Platforms’ such as SMS gateway’s and systems for easy integration into other products and services.

Ø Develop applications utilizing Speech Recognition and TTS for services such as Intelematics CarCom devices.

Ø Develop applications utilizing GIS to support location based services via all media for both internal and external applications

Ø Redesign and implement changes to internal systems and applications to allow for future needs and growth in an easy and reliable manner, including systems upgrades such as new Database Cluster Servers, Web Servers utilizing Cisco load balancing technologies and database gateways for information flow and reporting.

Ø Developing global security policies and standards for all business practices including data storage and retention methods to meet with authorities standards on these matters.

Ø Perform security penetration tests both internally and externally to evaluate any exposure and to ensure data integrity and safety after installing Firewall Solution and redesigning network configuration to segregate network segments.

Ø Design and develop other projects including m-commerce projects using technologies such as WAP, SMS, Inter/Intra-net with secure client and staff access.

Ø Directly responsible for both Application Development Team and Operations Team to ensure day to day running of the business as well as implementing new global applications.

Ø Responsible for introducing new technologies and implementing long term goals resulting in the company changing name to reflect this new vision to Legion Interactive.

Cresvale International and Princeton Economics (Banking & Finance)

Tokyo, Japan

1/99- 2/00

Global IT Manager

Until recently, Princeton Economics was known for its market forecasting with Cresvale International the global trading arm. Due to unresolved circumstances beyond the companies control, the group was placed in liquidation and sold off as individual entities while various court cases are awaiting hearing in the USA. At the beginning of this year, I managed the technical wind-down of the group including asset sales and the return/removal of all equipment and services we had built up over the previous 12 months.

Ø Prime responsibility was to evaluate the groups needs and to develop secure applications across the group to assist and encourage growth.

Ø Redesigned local area networks and implemented a wide area network project to assist in communications, both data and voice in a safe and secure manner.

Ø Developed and implemented global security policies and standards for all business practices including data storage and retention methods.

Ø Performed security penetration tests both internally and externally to evaluate any exposure and to ensure data integrity and safety.

Ø Designed and developed other projects included e-commerce projects such as on-line trading system, on-line research and Internet customer support.

Ø In charge of a global team of support personnel and developers to meet all IT requirements including management of external suppliers, vendors and contractors.

Dresdner Kleinwort Benson (Banking & Finance)

Tokyo, Japan

3/98-1/99

Special Project Manager

Left to join Cresvale as Global IT manager after an offer from NatWest’s previous CFO. Dresdner was currently on its fourth local IT Director and third Global Head of IT at the time of my leaving, which was proving to be unproductive.

Ø Initially responsible for developing application to produce Daily P&L and management reports from Istar daily data feeds and interfacing to other trading systems such as Imagine, Fox and proprietary systems. After completion, progressed to assist all areas of the company resolve various technical issues and to develop and implement better practices and methodologies through technology.

Ø Assisted in regional and local infrastructure and market data projects such as migration of all users to Windows NT 4, Exchange server and developing standards for hardware definition and package profiles.

Ø Designed and developed an asset management system (Barcode scanning etc), an online Helpdesk application and other utilities. Involved in all purchasing and outsourcing.

Ø Projects include asset management, consolidated trade tracking and reporting, help desk ticket system, Intranet reporting and development to name a few.

NatWest Markets (Banking & Finance)

Tokyo, Japan

6/97-3/98

Manager, Finance IT Application Development

NatWest Markets Equity division was sold on a global basis to DMG.

Ø Responsible for developing applications to produce both on-shore and off-shore Daily P&L’s, Capital Adequacy, Risk Management, Stock Positions, Liquidity, Volatility, Options, and Commission and funding reports from Istar daily data feeds.

Ø Developed systems to Reconcile Istar settlement system to Imagine trading system, Imagine to Riskbook trading system, Imagine to GES (Natwest’s Global Equity System) and Imagine to GDS (Global Derivative System).

Ø Consolidated information from independent pricing sources, such as Reuters, Fame and Bloomberg into a centralized database for historical pricing and reporting.

Ø Developed automated systems to present information for audits and price reviews in requested report formats.

Ø Developed department Intranet to facilitate daily reporting process. Software used includes Perl ver 5, Sybase 11, MS Access (2,7,8), MS Excel, VB (4,5), Hummingbird basic (Exceed), Reuters DDE, Bloomberg DDE, NT (3.51,4).

Regus Management Ltd.,

London, England

8/96-5/97

Senior Programmer

Ø Reporting directly to the Finance Director, responsible for a small development team developing a Management Information System to create a common front end for financial applications rolled out globally.

Ø The purpose was to consolidate daily records, producing a P&L report on demand from over 100 offices and numerous other sources.

Ø Designed and developed Management Information Systems and financial consolidation on Windows NT platforms and Windows 95 clients to be used globally (134 offices, 30 countries).

Ø Provided system administration and maintenance for NT and Novell networks and administration for MS-Mail system. Designed and implemented global standards for hardware purchased and software configurations.

Prudential Management Fund (PMFS) (Finance)

New Jersey, USA

4/96-7/96

Senior Developer (Contract)

Ø Responsible for a project team, developing a common front end system to consolidate records and information from legacy systems, allowing users to view a whole portfolio quickly and simply.

Ø Designed and implemented a VB front end for PMFS systems on Windows NT platform, linking together all legacy systems with one common front end using Sybase SQL server. This project was to prove the methods and technologies for a development to take place based on our results.

Crossecom Retail Automation

Singapore and Malaysia

7/95-3/96

POS Support Project Leader (Contract)

Ø Implemented a Point of Sale system for British Petroleum in Singapore and Malaysia.

Ø Duties included design and assembly of custom controller boards, hardware/software site allocation, hardware/software installation and maintenance, problem solving and trouble shooting, client training and support, liaison and mediation between companies.

Assistant Electronic Designer

Parris Electronic Design

Perth, Australia

8/94-7/95

Ø Duties included microprocessor and computer programming, electronic circuit board design, assembly and repair, electronic equipment installation and repair, and stock sourcing and purchasing.

Entity Software - Personal Business

Perth, Australia

7/93-3/96

Computer Programmer and Systems Designer

Ø Responsible for custom software design and specification and the supply of customized hardware/software packages.

Ø Provided installation and user support, hardware troubleshooting/maintenance. (All services provided by Anthony Godin and small team of casual support staff for small business and home users)

Altronic Distributors

Perth, Australia

3/90-7/94

Production Manager

Ø Responsible for electronic kit assembly, custom hardware design, stock control, staff management, electronic design and custom software programming.

Ø Management of staff, budgets, procurement and all other functionality.

Cut-Price Computer Warehouse

1/89-12/89

Perth, Australia

Programmer/Computer Technician

Ø Responsible for client specific computer programming, service and repair, configuring and installing new machines and conducting client training.

Technical Skills ( Example only of range)

Operating Systems

Ø DOS/Windows 3.11-ME

Ø Windows NT 3.51-2000, including Enterprise/Clusters services

Ø Unix/Linux

IVR Equipment

Ø SNT

Ø Hi-Call

Ø Phillips Speech Recognition

Ø TTS & STT

Databases

Ø Microsoft Access/ MSDE

Ø Microsoft SQL server up to 2k & Clustered

Ø Sybase SQL Server 11

Ø Sybase Adaptive server

Ø Oracle up to 8I/Financials

Ø DBArtisan

Languages

Ø Visual Basic (all versions) / Kylix

Ø HTML/ DHTML

Ø XML / WML

Ø Visual Interdev/ ASP/ VB Script

Ø Java / Java Script/J2EE/J2ME

Ø Windows SDK’s

Ø Perl / Corba

Software packages

Ø Microsoft Office up to 2000 Developer

Ø Microsoft Exchange/Proxy/IIS etc

Ø Lotus Notes

Ø Visio

Hardware/Others

Ø Cisco routers/hubs/etc

Ø Firewall’s – Checkpoint/E-Sec - etc

Ø Hubs/Routers/Switches for WAN/LAN etc

Ø HP-Openview Management

Ø Mobile development including WAP/SMS

Finance Specific

Ø Reuters

Ø Fame / TimeIQ

Ø Istar (NRI)

Ø Imagine

Ø Open Bloomberg

Security Specific

Ø E-Eye/Satan/Saint/Ret-Scan

Other

Ø ESRI GIS Software