BRIAN MELTON
PROJECT MANAGER
London
Summary
An experienced Programme/Project Manager with over twenty years’ experience working within the finance industry across asset classes in Futures, Options, Equities, Fixed Income Currency and Commodities. Driving technology and business change in organizations. Proven to deliver programs of work which deliver business and technological benefits. I collaborate closely with Product, Development teams to understand needs and plan deliveries from inception to design, delivery, and support. Experienced in managing teams across geographical areas. I am comfortable discussing technology delving into issues as needed, and assessing the next steps. I have extensive experience with trading, connection, market data, exchanges, system integrations, hosting, infrastructure having worked with many trading venues around the world.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
Work History
DATA ANALYTICS PROJECT MANAGER
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE GROUP
London, England
01.2021 - Current
- Responsible for managing the migration of the EMEA client portfolio from the legacy Real time managed distribution service (RTMDS) over to the new RTMDS platform.
- The migration involved upgrading clients to the new connectivity covering vpn, xconnect, circuit and cloud solutions.
- Liaising with clients and internal delivery units, and sales groups.
- Supporting the uniformity of onboarding, client management and vendor management.
- A point of escalation EMEA PMs, onboarding tracking and status reporting to the Programme board.
- Providing training and support to EMEA PMs when required.
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMME MANAGER
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE
03.2017 - 12.2020
- Responsible for overseeing the Business Development and Technology programme covering connectivity and hosting business lines.
- Responsibilities included working closely with Product managers in identifying and delivering improvements new technology products that align with LSEG's Strategy, improvements to the current technology stack, managing clients and vendors.
- Onboarding new clients to the group products and services.
- Responsible for the London clearing house (LCH) & LCH SA client and partner migrations from BT Radianz to LSEG’s Customer managed platform.
- Responsible for carrying out regulatory changes affecting the department and the larger group. (MFID II).
- Responsible for Customer managed connectivity (CMC) hub buildouts in EMEA, covering budgets, resources and vendor management.
- Responsible for managing the hosting network cabling improvement project.
- Responsible for managing the selection and implementation of a network monitoring solution for CMC and Hosting service.
- Responsible for regulatory and mandatory business continuity for the CMC service.
PROJECT MANAGER
INGEUS
01.2016 - 09.2016
- Responsible for infrastructure and business change projects across the Ingeus organisation.
- Responsible for the global software asset management workstream, collaborating with third-party partners, Microsoft and SAM auditors. The project saved the company more than £3 million.
- Responsible for the implementation of the MPLS network to over 60 sites throughout Europe, collaborating with third-party vendor Interoute to ensure service delivery.
- Managed VMware installation, decommissioned old databases, and migrated to new infrastructure.
- WIFI Project – responsible for planning, design and implementation of EMEA WIFI project across all Ingeus offices in Europe.
PROJECT MANAGER
LME & HONG KONG EXCHANGE
01.2014 - 10.2015
- Responsible for projects across the LME and Hong Kong Exchanges covering infrastructure, Information security programme, business intelligence, market data and management of vendors.
- Project managed the new SharePoint and intranet implementation across the LME working with Hong Kong Exchange.
- Project managed mandatory LMELive upgrade.
- Responsible for the LME Secure desktop migration and application packaging project.
- Responsible Microsoft Dynamic CRM upgrade project, vendor selection process and Sitecore changes.
- Managed various Information Security improvement workstreams including ArcSight deployment, IPA implementation and security patching.
- Led the LME Secure desktop migration and application packaging project.
- Led the development of software procurement and deployment process at the LME.
- Change management process improvement.
PROJECT MANAGER
BARCLAYS
06.2011 - 11.2013
- Responsible for projects on the production Futures E-trading trade plant, covering trading, infrastructure, and mandatory exchange related changes.
- ServiceNow rollout for the Equities and Futures technology department in EMEA.
- Responsible for user acceptance review team for ServiceNow for the Equities & Futures tech group at Barclays Capital.
- The team reviewed ServiceNow functionality, reported bugs and submitted enhancement requests during testing and pilot phases to the project team.
- ServiceNow products reviewed and deployed included Incident management, problem management, change management and configuration management database.
- Led critical infrastructure upgrades to Win2008 for the futures trading plant, which involved managing infrastructure teams and release planning.
- Managed the Futures/Equities/Middle office migration from Oracle 10g to 11g which included testing and sign-off for UAT and production release.
- Coordinated the annual mandatory exchange upgrades on the futures trade plant examples include Eurex and EDX.
- Planned and managed the Windows and UNIX patching cycles each quarter across 500 servers in EMEA.
- Managed the migration of over 300 business critical Autosys jobs from 4.5 new R11 instances successfully.
- Project managed the setup of new FIX gateway offering for external clients based on Solace messaging with over 200 fix clients connections to be migrated.
- Led a compliance project to improve the backup and retention periods of all Futures etrading servers globally.
E-TRADING PROJECT MANAGER/CONSULTANT
DEUTSCHE BANK
07.2010 - 03.2011
- Provided consulting services to the Listed derivatives electronic trading group.
- Services included IT systems assessment, requirement definition, selection and implementation and vendor management.
- Trading applications packaging and deployment.
FUTURES TECHNOLOGY PROJECT MANAGER
CITIGROUP
03.2005 - 07.2010
- Responsible for delivering programmes for Futures and options business.
- Managed onboarding of new trading venues, including IT contracts, technical infrastructure, certifications, and financial planning.
- Managed vendor relationships with Exchange and connection vendors.
- Point of escalation for production support teams for Futures technology production issues.
- Managed vendor upgrades, mandatory exchange upgrades and hardware end of life programme.
- Application owner for Futures Technology application and hardware stack.
SENIOR TRADER/MARKET DATA ANALYST
GOLDENBERG, HEHMEYER & CO.
03.2002 - 03.2005
- Responsible for support and maintenance to Futures front and back office functions, market data and trading execution platforms exchange connectivity, Wintel, Unix and firewalls.
COMPUTARCENTER
BNP PARIBAS
12.1999 - 03.2002
ICL SITE SYSTEMS MANAGER/INTERNET SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
MOD
05.1998 - 12.1999
LEAD SUPPORT ANALYST
DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CO. LTD.
LEAD PC SUPPORT ENGINEER
BANK OF MONTREAL
04.1998 - 05.1998
LEAD PC SUPPORT ENGINEER
PWC
11.1997 - 04.1998
Education
Bachelor of Science - BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS
UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH
LONDON 01.1995 - 01.1997
Skills
Technical & Team Leadership
Program & Project Management
Managing Complex IT Deliverables
Full Life-Cycle Delivery
Tech & NonTech System Design
Communication & People Skills
Business & System Transformation: Design, Planning & Migration
Troubleshooting & Problem Solving
undefinedTimeline
DATA ANALYTICS PROJECT MANAGER
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE GROUP
01.2021 - Current
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMME MANAGER
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE
03.2017 - 12.2020
PROJECT MANAGER
INGEUS
01.2016 - 09.2016
PROJECT MANAGER
LME & HONG KONG EXCHANGE
01.2014 - 10.2015
PROJECT MANAGER
BARCLAYS
06.2011 - 11.2013
E-TRADING PROJECT MANAGER/CONSULTANT
DEUTSCHE BANK
07.2010 - 03.2011
FUTURES TECHNOLOGY PROJECT MANAGER
CITIGROUP
03.2005 - 07.2010
SENIOR TRADER/MARKET DATA ANALYST
GOLDENBERG, HEHMEYER & CO.
03.2002 - 03.2005
COMPUTARCENTER
BNP PARIBAS
12.1999 - 03.2002
ICL SITE SYSTEMS MANAGER/INTERNET SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
MOD
05.1998 - 12.1999
LEAD PC SUPPORT ENGINEER
BANK OF MONTREAL
04.1998 - 05.1998
LEAD PC SUPPORT ENGINEER
PWC
11.1997 - 04.1998
Bachelor of Science - BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS
UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH
01.1995 - 01.1997
LEAD SUPPORT ANALYST
DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CO. LTD.
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