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United States
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April 09, 2015

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PETER BELINA

** ******** **, *** *, Boston MA 02114, 917-***-****, *****@*************.***

PROFILE

Driven IT manager with 25 years experience leading successful assignments at global financial firms. Unique breadth of expertise spans

operating system and applications development, test and release automation, middleware engineering, architecture, governance and IT

security solutions. Clear and engaging communication style, proven people skills and relentless focus on business value.

EDUCATION

Princeton University M.S.E. in Computer Science, 1988

University of Delaware B.Sc. Magna cum Laude in Computer Science, 1986

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

JPMorgan Chase, April 2012 - present Managing Director

Chief Development Officer

Role established to modernize software engineering practices and improve team productivity, application quality and time to

market across a population of ~5,000 developers serving diverse business areas.

Implemented automated application quality & security dashboard to track a composite set of code quality and risk metrics, and to

enable objective prioritization across a portfolio of ~2,000 systems.

Drove cross-business agreement on a standard SDLC toolset, application frameworks and practices to improve code quality and

developer efficiency. Secured team commitments for standards adoption.

Delivered guidelines, training and dedicated coaching to transform teams to a repeatable agile software engineering model.

Sampling confirmed time to market and TCO improvements in several cases.

Established a software tools analysis and lifecycle management function and created online resources to simplify tool selection

and introduction.

Partnered with QA function to optimize test automation and virtualization tools, enable consistent defect trending, and reduce

manual test cycles through “shift left” of automatable test activities.

Piloted SDLC-integrated code scanning mechanisms to seamlessly integrate early and automated quality and security testing into

application build cycle.

Deployed a shared code build service to facilitate continuous integration and automated quality tollgates.

Evaluated and implemented a business process mapping solution to consistently capture controls and enable analysis of process

re-engineering opportunities.

Fidelity Investments, Aug 2009 – Apr 2012 Senior Vice President

Head of Application Infrastructure Services

Created a cohesive firmwide service from a collection of middleware products, application frameworks, development tools and

IT asset inventory solutions. Applied automation and agile delivery practices to raise service consumption and user satisfaction

while reducing annual budget of ~$30mm by 20% over 2 years.

Implemented automated IT asset discovery for 1,000,000+ infrastructure assets and 60%+ of 4,000 applications, reducing

inventory management costs and avoiding $6mm+ in unnecessary IT purchases.

Established shared services for project management, defect tracking and test automation as firmwide standards, with 5x adoption

growth over 12 months. Raised environment stability and feature velocity.

Deployed an automated code quality validation service (Sonar), application component management service (Nexus) and other

innovative functionality in response to user demand.

Achieved 30%+ reduction in unit middleware costs across 7,000 container/queue instances (supporting 1,300 applications)

through automation of support activities and consolidation of software into shared environments.

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Morgan Stanley, 2007 – 2009 Executive Director

Head of the Morgan Stanley Development & Test Environment

Responsible for an integrated SDLC toolset and application performance testing services. Client base of 4000 developers across

300+ projects.

Increased firmwide developer productivity through: (1) usability/stability enhancements to firmwide change management, issue

tracking and version control systems; (2) successful implementation of automated build/test engine (Electric Cloud); (3) rationalized

online content & training program.

Realigned global team to deliver better value while reducing function cost by $2-3MM annually through the following: (1)

eliminated low-value manual QA and program management services; (2) integrated disparate test labs and consolidated support

function in single offshore site; (2) reduced team headcount by 30% without negative quality impact.

Achieved rapid closure of longstanding audit issues through prioritization, agreements with compliance & audit counterparts and

consistent incremental remediation. Developed strategic roadmap to address compliance goals while reducing bureaucracy and

maintaining developer productivity.

Successfully responded to changing market conditions by refocusing team on new business priorities.

Co-led the innovative implementation of an automated continuous integration & testing environment, aimed at reducing

complexity and risk while enabling rapid application delivery.

JPMorgan Chase, 2003 – 2007 Managing Director

Global head of Application Security services

Initial focus on Application Security and Governance, with 50+ global staff. Subsequent remit covered Threat Analysis, Incident

Response and firmwide Data Protection initiatives.

Established global Application Security function providing ad-hoc security solutions, comprehensive risk assessments (featuring

“ethical hacking”), and security training. Streamlined headcount and cost by 25%.

Engineered and operated three mission-critical services consumed firmwide: Application Entitlements, Transaction Signing

(PKI), and Website Certificate Management.

Reduced application risk and raised privacy compliance for key regulations (GLBA, FFIEC Authentication Guidance, Japan

PIPA) through assessments, engineered solutions and remediation projects.

Created and led a firmwide IT Risk governance board, globally engaging all lines of business. Key vehicle for driving IT security

policies and standards, solutions, and cross-business IT risk initiatives.

Senior infrastructure architect and firmwide governance lead (2003 – 2004)

Ran a firmwide infrastructure governance process (Engineering Board); launched a roadmap mechanism and a context-driven

information utility; designed a comprehensive Infrastructure Permit to Operate process.

Co-sponsored the design and deployment of a firmwide shared MQ messaging service, and in the development of a robust Web

Services messaging standard.

Lehman Brothers, 1993 – 2003 Senior Vice President

Global Head of Middleware and SDLC Tools

Responsible for realtime messaging, enterprise application integration, reporting and development tools. Portfolio included

TIBCO suite, Orbix, Crystal Enterprise and WebLogic; used by 300+ applications.

Engineered and operated mission-critical shared services: STP for trade booking/reporting, TIB routing services, WebLogic and

JMS farms, external ECN/reporting gateways, Crystal Enterprise Report Service.

Completed a firmwide overhaul of realtime messaging middleware. Drove requirements and vendor selection, structured a

$10mm enterprise contract with Reuters/TIBCO, and deployed a seamless, global data transport framework. Launched specialized

core services and established effective support constructs. Led the migration of 50+ key systems to the new platform and onboarded

100+ new applications.

Delivered various enabling middleware and data propagation solutions for business applications.

Led the implementation of a global IT Asset Database to manage Infrastructure ROI and risk of IT projects.

Led a firmwide architecture taskforce on tool standardization and architectural oversight. Formalized a central Development

Tools function and streamlined decisioning for global tool standards.

Completed optimization of shared real-time communication libraries.

Created a shared IT Training function and facilities in response to cross-business needs.

Bottom line impact: reduced application time to market, lowered aggregate cost, enhanced application performance and

reliability, increased capability for handling higher transaction volumes.

Bond Trading Applications Manager and IT Strategy Lead, Lehman Europe (April 1997 – March 2000)

On a 3-year European Technology assignment, responsible for several front office applications.

Extended scalability and reliability of global bond trading system by introducing a 3-tier CORBA architecture. Completed

global deal and fostered firmwide adoption of Orbix as SOA standard.

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Eliminated downtime and performance issues of main bond trading system and related applications by addressing chronic

middleware problems.

Delivered a set of innovative trading solutions for European Governments, Money Markets and Corporates desks, including an

integrated ECN module for electronic bond trading and pricing (EuroMTS).

Bottom line impact: more efficient and robust trading applications, liquidity-enabling access to electronic Euro Governments

market, shorter solution delivery time to business, lower cost of development, enhanced team productivity and lower staff turnover.

Salomon Brothers, 1990 – 1993 Manager

Application Security solutions engineering lead

Implemented secure connectivity blueprints and conducted risk reviews of numerous complex projects.

Developed and operated specialized application security services: public-key authentication/encryption API, (later adopted in the

FIX electronic trading system); secure dial-up server cluster.

Built and supported solutions for electronic connectivity: Equity trading gateway system connecting buy-side clients to NYSE

SuperDOT; Middleware API connecting UNIX applications with mainframe IMS/CICS systems; Traffic monitoring system for firm-

wide TCP/IP network usage billing.

Lead role in building firm’s original Internet gateway and secure communications infrastructure

AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1986 – 1990 Member of Technical Staff

UNIX Operating System developer – focus on Multi Level Security (MLS) features

Developed and implemented new security features in Unix System V Releases 3.2 and 4.1 ES: authentication and authorization

commands; kernel-level and user-level auditing mechanisms.

Part of a team implementing “Orange Book” Secure Unix version featuring Multi-Level Security.

Performed a complete port of the Unix SVR4 kernel to the 3B2/1000.



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