Project Manager Quality Assurance

Richard Robinson

Email: *********@********.***

Address: *** *********** ****

City: Ridgefield

State: CT

Zip: 06877

Country: USA

Phone: 203-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $80,000

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Job History / Details:

Richard Robinson

150 Branchville Road

Ridgefield,

CT 06877

Tel. (H) 203-***-****

(C) 203-***-****

e-mail: *********@********.***

UBS Career - 1973 - 2011

LONDON OFFICE:

1973 - 1975 - Internal Audit Dept:

- Reconciling UBS accounts with payment correspondents, i.e. other banks;

- Reconciling Cashier/Teller balances with cash inventory/account balances;

- Monitoring inactive accounts, i.e. accounts with little or no activity for a given period of time

1975 - 1978 - Commercial Credit Dept

- Processing Import/Export documents - Bills of Lading etc-

- Ensuring all documents are consistent and complete;

- Managing payments to/from importers and exporters based in the UK and abroad.

1978 - 1983 - London Information Technology Dept

- 1978 - 1982 - Business Analyst assigned to the Payments & Foreign Exchange IT system development projects. Technologies included CICS, COBOL, MVS, IDMS

NEW YORK OFFICE:

1983-1985 - New York Information Technology Dept

- IT Systems Analyst based in New York assisting with the development of the "TICS" - Trade Information Control System, a joint venture between the New York and London IT development teams. Technologies included CICS, COBOL, MVS, IMS

- Over time the business products (applications) supported "Settled" by TICS included the following:

- Loans & Deposits

- Foreign Exchange

- Interest Rate Swaps

- Cash Positions, short term and long term

1985 - 1990 - London Project Manager for the ongoing development and implementation of the above TICS applications.

NB. Two versions of the TICS application were built - one for UBS New York and the other for UBS London. The reason for this was that these two offices preferred different database management systems - New York preferred to employ IBM's IMS database system whereas London preferred to use ICL's IDMS database management system.

In spite of the fact that the two versions of TICS were to be kept in synch with one another (notwithstanding the use of different DBMSs) the two versions of TICS soon began to diverge as the business priorities of the UBS London office and UBS New York office began to deviate.

LONDON OFFICE:

1990 - 1993 - Development and Production Support Manager for all IT systems supporting the Treasury Cash and Derivatives business

- Technologies included CICS, COBOL, MVS, IDMS, C, C++, UNIX, SYBASE

HONG KONG OFFICE:

1993- 1994 - Systems Architect based in Hong Kong with responsibility for the development of a plan to renew and/or replace the existing settlement applications employed by the Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore offices

The plans I developed were well received, however, this particular initiative was subsequently abandoned primarily due to local concerns related to the time difference between London (where the technical knowledge resided) and the "User" offices in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore.

LONDON OFFICE:

1994 - 1995 - Development and Production Support Manager for all back office"Settlement" systems supporting UBS Warburg globally

1996 - 1997 - Systems "Architect" role charged with defining a new application architecture for UBS Warburg settlement/back-office systems globally. Unfortunately this initiative failed to progress due to competing views related to feasibility, ownership and cost/benefit concerns.

By this point in my UBS career I had relocated to Stamford, CT (from London) to assist with the above project. Fortunately another project management opportunity arose which was assigned to me, namely the "Global General Ledger" - the GGL.

STAMFORD OFFICE

Looking back the GGL project was perhaps my biggest success. Many people did not believe such an undertaking could be accomplished but we persevered and we were successful in delivering a truly global general ledger for UBS Investment Bank.

1997 - 2001 - IT Project Manager for the development & implementation of the "Global General Ledger" (GGL). As the name implies, another global solution. It was based on SAP technology supplemented with an in-house data warehouse & reporting system developed internally with manpower assistance from Price Waterhouse.

2001- 2004 - IT Regional Management Office

- Data Center Planning

- Resilience/Redundancy mandated by the New York Fed Reserve following the 911 attacks on New York City. This project required UBS to provide sufficient resilience within its data centers to ensure market sensitive applications (in this case Foreign Exchange) were capable of withstanding a loss of data, trade settlement capability etc.

- Non Perm compensation policy

- Developed a system to ensure non-permanent members of the Stamford IT dept (i.e. contractors/consultants were compensated fairly, i.e. their compensation was commensurate with salaries paid to permanent members of the Stamford IT staff performing similar roles.

- I worked on this with a staffing agency who in turn asked for permission to adopt the same model with other clients.

- Integration of the ENRON oil and gas trading operation into UBS (IT).

I spent time in Houston at the ENRON offices assisting with the incorporation of some of ENRON's back office applications supporting and related to the sale of the Oil and Gas trading businesses to UBS.

2005-2011 - TICS Global Development Mgr.

- Assigned to the task of decommissioning the TICS application 22 years after participating in its development. At this point UBS's FX settlement activity was growing rapidly. Trade volumes were at record highs and predicted to increase further.

- Management began to look for a new application (package) to meet the expected growth. A "Request For Proposal" was sent to a number of third parties - software vendors - inviting them to respond.

- I asked for and was given the opportunity to respond on behalf of the TICS application. The target set for the future UBS FX back-office settlement application was to create the ability to process up to 1m FX trades per day which compared to the current daily average of 300,000 trades per day at the time.

- The most trades processed through TICS in a single business day was just shy of 900,000 trades. Not quite the 1m target but by now, 2007, the FX markets became less buoyant significantly reducing UBS's FX daily volumes.

- As revenues declined and trading volumes reduced IT objectives focused even more keenly on reducing costs through consolidation of IT teams globally.

In addition to the above I have participated in the integration of several mergers and acquisitions including:

- SG Warburg

- Savory Milne

- O'Connor

- UBS/SBC

- Enron (Trading)

- Paine Weber

Education:

George Green Grammar School, Poplar London E14

"O" Level Certificates in English, Mathematics, and Geography

Six Sigma Green Belt - Villanova University

London Securities Industry Certificate

Cobol Programming Training Course

Object Oriented Programming Training Course - Kennedy Western University

Quality Assurance Course

Leadership Skills Course

International Management Course (UBS)

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