Computer Operator Independent Consultant

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Paul Judge

Morrisville North Carolina

Email: ****.*******@*****.*** Mobile: +1-973-***-**** LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/pauljudge/ Summary

Paul is an experienced technology executive with strong background in Financial Services. He has experience in a wide range of information technology roles in the financial services industry. Hel has held various technology leadership positions at financial services firms such as Fidelity Investments (FMR), Merrill Lynch, State Street Bank, TradingLinx, Lexit Capital and Paragon Solutions. He was the Chief Technology Officer with Lexit Capital LLC, an introducing and executing broker servicing European institutional customers. He was the Chief Technology Officer with TradingLinx Inc., a startup firm that attempted to provide universal electronic trade confirmation services over the internet.

He hosts a YouTube Channel that provides educational videos on "Intro to the Financial Services Industry" at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD3K4j78ciCyRr6xJxCja9Q He holds a FINRA Series 99 (Operations Generalist) registration. He is a US and Irish citizen and has valid passports from both countries. Areas of Expertise

Financial Services Securities Industry Reference Data Vendor Management Leadership Program Management Staff Development Mentoring Agile IT Strategy Strategic Planning Transaction Processing Integration Funds Transfer Settlement Enterprise Architecture Market Data SWIFT Innovation FinTech

Experience

Self Employed, Morrisville NC - October 2021 to the Present Independent Consultant

Independent consultant providing private confidential guidance, consulting, mentoring and advisor services to technology and financial services firms. Providing C-level, senior managers or executive leaders with discreet consulting and advisor services.

Fidelity Investments, Durham NC - March 2009 to September 2021 Vice President

Vice President in the Fidelity Brokerage Technology division. Leading an organization of over 130+ people and managing an annual budget of approximately $19 million. 2019-2021 Chapter Area Leader responsible for Money Movement, Customer Account Data Management and Transfer of Assets systems. 2009-2019 responsible for firm wide Security Master Product Reference Data platform, firm wide Pricing Data platform for end of day prices, International Settlement platform (ShadowSuite), Operations Reconciliation platform (Fiserv Frontier) and Analyst Work Bench platform for Big Data analysis. Paragon Solutions Inc, Cranford NJ - June 2008 to March 2009 Director

Director in the Financial Services Solutions practice. Focus on providing clients in the Financial Services sector with high quality technology solutions. Responsible for the acquisition and execution of a major project for servicing Home Loans with a large customer. Paul Judge - page 2

Merrill Lynch, Jersey City NJ - August 2002 to June 2008 Director

January 2007 to June 2008. Manager of the Strategic Program Planning team providing planning and management of various major strategic initiatives. Program Manager for a firm wide initiative to address global availability of data and applications for business users in the Pac Rim. July 2004 to January 2007. GMIST Innovation & Creative Excellence team providing Strategic Planning, Architecture, Program Management, Business Process Modeling and Analysis for Global Markets Technology. September 2002 to July 2004. Manager of the Product Master Environment (PME) group. PME is the firm wide global repository for securities product indicative data. PME acts as a centralized provider of product data with standard delivery service for the distributing product data to Merrill Lynch applications globally. Lexit Capital LLC, Hoboken NJ - August 2001 to August 2002 CTO

Chief Technology Officer for Lexit Capital, LLC. Lexit Capital was a small Broker with offices in Hoboken NJ and London. Lexit provided European institutional customers with access to US equity executions. Lexit was acquired by NeoNet in 2003.

Major accomplishment at Lexit was the development and implementation of a FIX (Financial Information eXchange) Order Server application. This application provided Lexit with the ability to communicate with customers via FIX and route order to execution destinations for US and PAN European equity trades. This application communicates with customer Order Management Systems and execution destinations (such as Archipelago, ISI, Island, Redi Book, Instinet or European Broker partners). TLX Trading Network, New York NY - November 2000 to July 2001 CTO

Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for TLX Trading Network Inc, the developer of the TradingLinx universal trade confirmation platform. TradingLinx was an Application Service Provider (ASP) offering inter- institutional electronic trade confirmation application. TradingLinx offered a secure, customizable order messaging, post-execution and pre-settlement workflow solution to all parties involved in domestic and cross border transactions for all asset classes. TradingLinx had offices in New York, London and Paris. TradingLinx was a startup firm during the “dot.com” boom. TradingLinx lost funding from the venture capital backers and ceased operations in July 2001.

Merrill Lynch, Jersey City NJ - July 1994 to November 2000 Vice President

Manager of the Electronic Connectivity Systems group from March 1996 to November 2000. Responsible for development and production support for the firm's SWIFT messaging platform using SWIFT Alliance. Responsible for development and production support for the firm's Thomson Global Oasys messaging

(MT511) platform. Responsible for development and production support for the firm's Telex messaging platform. Responsible for development and production support for the firm's FAX confirmation messaging platform. Manager of the Tandem Systems Programming Group from July 1994 to March 1996. State Street Bank, North Quincy MA - July 1990 to July 1994 Senior Systems Officer

Manager of the Tandem Systems Programming Group.

Applied Communications Incorporated, Omaha NE - May 1989 to July 1990 ASTech Consultant

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Onsite customer product support consultant for the ACInet Base24 BankSwitch software package for Automated Teller Machine (ATM) and Point of Sale (POS) banking system. Wang Financial Information Services, NYC NY - January 1986 to May 1989 Manager of Technical Services

Manager of the Technical Services group supporting the DCA 375 X25 network and Tandem Computers processing platforms for providing near time market data and analytics. Merrill Lynch, NYC NY - July 1983 to September 1985 Tandem Systems Analyst

Systems Analyst for the Tandem Computers used for the firm’s mortgage-backed securities trading system. Chemical Bank (ChemNetwork), Somerset NJ - September 1981 to July 1983 Tandem Systems Programmer

Starting as a Computer Operator and then becoming a Systems programmer supporting the bank’s Fed Wire, Home Banking and Automated Teller Machine systems. Education

Seton Hall University

BA, Political Science

September 1977 to May 1981

Harvard University, Extension School

Extension School - Non-degree studies

C and UNIX Programming

1993 to 1994

Licenses & Certifications

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)

FINRA Series 99 Registration (Operations Generalist) since 04/30/2012

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