Project Manager Management

Paul Dominic Howard

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Professional Profile

IT Project Manager with over 10 years experience of delivering business value to the financial sector.

Professional Skills

• Excellent people skills that are employed to maximise a projects effectiveness by ensuring a high degree of collaboration amongst both colleagues, stakeholders and other areas of the business

• Excellent Team management and leadership skills with a pragmatic, positive personality and the ability to win trust and deliver

• Excellent Communication skills with an emphasis on development and delivery of software solutions

• Active management of stakeholders and project teams to achieve specific objectives

• Experience of managing a number of diverse projects through the full Project Lifecycle

• Business acumen, excellent problem analysis and solving skills with an attention to detail

• A successful track record delivering high-value software solutions to both front office and back office business areas including wealth management, fund administration, retail and Institutional fund management and Funds of Hedge Funds..

• Diverse Investment Management knowledge covering all areas of both front and back office.

Employment Experience

February 2008 - Present IT Project Manager - Aberdeen Asset Management

Responsible for the successful implementation of FX, OTC Derivatives and Money Market portfolio modelling and trading through Charles River OMS and the successful migration of both RBS and Credit Suisse businesses onto the Aberdeen Asset Management Charles River platform. Currently project managing the implementation of a Central Dealing function and Aberdeen’s Fixed Income portfolio modelling solution.

Key responsibilities:

• Establish project delivery requirements, develop effective delivery plans and successfully execute deliverables to meet front office and back office objectives and fit within IT global operating model.

• Enhance Aberdeen project management standards and practices with consistent successful application to appropriate technology solutions for different business areas.

• Responsible for analysing the business needs, identifying business problems and proposing technology and change management initiatives.

• Define and document requirements in collaboration with business leads - reviewing business models, process and data flows and ensuring these requests are compatible with IT technical direction.

• Determine delivery timelines, resources and budgets, which are all closely-tracked to ensure activities are completed on time and within budget

• Lead the execution of industry project management-related standards and practices to support effective project delivery.

• Lead project steering committee meetings, effectively communicating project status to the Group Project Committee and/or Aberdeen board.

• Manage project teams of technical and business resources

• Support of Charles River OMS, including team management of first and second line support function

• Responsible for Vendor selection and arrangement of system “beauty parades” to ensure business requirements achieved.

February 2007 – February 2008 AVP Business Analyst - Merrill Lynch – FOHF Platform

Responsible for the successful implementation of a Funds of Hedge Funds system (Nexfi) and data warehouse solution (Netik), in which to promote the Merrill Lynch Hedge Fund platform offering.

Key Responsibilities:

• Client Relationship responsibilities between the FOHF platform and Merrill Lynch’s different businesses.

• IT Support Team Manager (Merrill Lynch India Technology) improving the Support procedures and efficiency of the team and systems.

• Advanced project management skills gained through the running a number of projects including determining the strategic global strategic operating model. Responsible for choosing and implementing a Hedge Funds of Funds management system in both London and France. Also responsible for the inclusion of a Fixed Income Prime Brokerage system onto the platform to allow the introduction of more exotic Fixed Income instruments.

• Business Analyst responsible for bringing a number of products on to the Platform. These included Commodity Futures, Foreign Exchange and Corporate, Convertible and Government Bonds. Responsible for replacing daily spreadsheets into a workflow system, including the design of a new data model.

• Ensuring daily product support, such as assistance resolving queries relating to positions, transactions, security master, classifications, reconciliations and P&L discrepancies.

• Responsible for a new helpdesk website, daily reporting, and improvement of data to and from Administrator, Prime Broker and Trading Advisors.

• Responsible for Senior Management Reporting in both US and UK using both Microsoft Project Management and Management Reporting Templates.

• UAT Testing and Release Coordinator. Responsible for liaising with the business testers in both the UK and US, training the business on changes management and determining if release schedules.

• Focal point of team which combined all the client facing groups including sales, accounting, legal and compliance.

• Gained further knowledge of the Securities Industry as well as the client relationship function and exposure to the dynamic world of Hedge Funds.

April 2001 – February 2007 Senior Front Office Implementation Consultant - DST Global Solutions

Responsible for large scale implementations of software solutions to global asset managers. Successful implementation of HiInvest, HiPerformance and DST Global Solutions web based reporting systems across the UK, US and Asia Pacific regions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Performance analysis and system Implementations, including construction of performance modelling and benchmarking data, HiPortfolio Interfaces, Closed Market Processes, Risk & Attribution.

• Senior Consultant on Web Based Performance, Risk & Attribution System for UBS London

• Project planning & scoping, preparation of Project Definition Documentation

• Responsible for the analysis and management of projects through the full project lifecycle

• Sales support including demonstrations and presentations of DST Global Solutions products to prospective clients

• Proof of Concept preparation to prospective Clients

• Onsite Technical & Business Training in the HiInvest suite of products

• Successful Implementation of Front Office and Trading System (STP) using FIX Trade processing (Lead Implementation for DSTi) for major US fund manager/custodian

• Strong analytical skills and the ability to troubleshoot unique problems and investigate issues using other than standard sources and/or procedures.

• Excellent communication skills, meticulously detail oriented, team player, self motivated, willing and able to follow directions.

Major Clients:

UBS Wealth Management (London), T.Rowe Price (Baltimore, US), Anthos Asset Management (Amsterdam), CNP Assurances (Paris), Temasek (Singapore), KeyBank (Cleveland), State Street (Boston, US), UBS Brinson (New York, US), Fidelity (Boston, US), Fayez Sarofim (Houston, US)

Education and Software Skills

• 2:1 Undergraduate degree with honours in Management with Banking and Finance

University of Wales, Bangor

• Charles River IMS 8.2, DST Global Suite of products (HiInvest, HiPerformance, HiPortfolio and ADW), Nexfi and Webfolio (Hedge Funds of Funds IMS), Cadis, Netik Data Warehouse, Sybase SQL Server

UK and US References on Request

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