About

I am a highly motivated individual and an experienced IT department head with over 11 years of experience in project management and team leadership. I am dedicated to ensuring that my stakeholders have the right tools to be successful. I am passionate about building teams and a positive culture - developing staff and creating an environment in which people want to collaborate and help each other excel. I'm a technology and FOSS enthusiast and enjoy staying abreast of new developments. I'm married with children, most of whom are taller than me, and keep a well-fed menagerie of rescue animals.

Skills

• Leadership and team management: Successfully leading large teams, remote and in person, and fostering an environment where everyone is invested in high-quality releases. Coaching team members, including those with neurodiversity, to develop their skills outside their comfort zones.
• Project management: Managing multiple projects simultaneously, defining and managing risks, and delivering on time, within budget, while maintaining quality.
• Organisational management: Preparing annual budgets, defining and monitoring KPIs, procuring hardware/software/external services, defining and documenting business continuity plans.
• Problem-solving: Developing innovative solutions to complex problems, resulting in cost savings and increased efficiency.
• Communication: Effectively communicating project goals and progress to stakeholders at all levels.
• Time management and Adaptability: Balancing the needs of different stakeholders, tight deadlines in the face of increasing regulation and compliance.
• Vendor relations: Negotiating contracts, reducing expenditure, and keeping vendors engaged to improve services.
• Technical:
• Cloud: Amazon AWS - EC2 & Lambda, Azure - Active Directory, DNS, Exchange routing, Office 365, Intune
• Databases: Sybase ASE, MS SQL Server, OneTick, BusinessObjects, ELK Stack
• Languages: Java, Python, C++, Delphi, ANSI SQL, T-SQL, HTML
• Middleware: ActiveMQ, Kafka, HazelCast, Coherence, GridGain
• OS: Windows 10, Windows 11, RHEL 7, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Arch Linux, NixOS, TrueNAS
• Vitualisation: Docker, LXD, Kubernetes, Proxmox 8, KVM, SR-IOV, PCI passthrough
• Workflow: Git, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Wordpress, Hugo, TeamCity, ServiceNow, BitWarden, Cisco Jabber
• I can get up-to-speed on new technologies quickly.

Work Experience

Tudor Capital Europe LLP

TCE is the European arm of Tudor Investment Corporation, a world-renowned hedge fund with a rich 4-decade history, trading most asset classes globally with discretionary macro, model-driven and systematic investment approaches.

• Head of Systems Front Office ITAug 2013 - Oct 2020
• Chief Software ArchitectJun 2012 - Oct 2020
• Interim Head of SoftwareJun 2012 - Jan 2013
• Head of Transaction ProcessingJun 2010 - Jun 2012
• Vice PresidentDec 2009 - Oct 2020
• Software Engineering ManagerOct 2008 - Jun 2010
• Software EngineerMar 2003 - Oct 2008

Education

• Management Training - Morgan Clarke 2008
• Managing Personality Types with Myer Briggs - Tudor Capital UK LP 2006
• Managing Risk and Quality - University of Oxford 2001
• MSc in High Performance Parallel Computing and Computation - University of Warwick 1997 - 1998
• BSc Hons Applied Mathematics with Computing - University of Warwick 1994 - 1997