Simon Foley

In this role I have been acting as Global Collections /
Venue Specialist to assist in the Design, Planning and
Agile Project management of a fundamental Market
Data and Value Add re-platform project. The core
technology is based on AWS, Cilium Software Defined
Networking (SDN) and Kubernetes. This involves key
modeling of Exchange venue configuration artifacts of
line handlers in machine readable formats for system
integration. In addition non functional performance
evaluations of C++ software threading models and low
latency network performance designs for integration. In total this covered over 350 Exchange / Venues and their Feed Handlers integrated into new Data Center deployments in APAC, AMRS and EMEA.
CUDA/CELL/FPGA
The role involved designing requirements for functional
Good
and non functional testing in a variety of scripting
languages and frameworks.
Architect
In addition there are key AI Evaluation initiatives to aid
Excellent
system integration and environment simplification.

This role was to design artifacts required to assist global
customer migration from legacy co hosting RTMDS
platforms (formerly TREP) to the next generation v3 platform. RTMDS platform being the hosted version of
the Refiitiv Elektron Market Data Platform and managed infrastructure for client compute. Roles involved;
• Assessing customer co-location market data, historical data and compute requirements.
• Assessing clients integration constraints, security,
DNS & Networking and designing solutions.
• Assessing client Java, C++, Python API migration requirements and web services integration using the
LSEG API Suites.
• Assessing DACS services behind load balancers.
• Implementing Certification, Network, Firewall, Load Balancer design's to meets requirements.
• Implementing Platform design changes to
horizontally scale.
• Data Center migrations and consolidation.
• Direct Feed migration from RDFD, to EDF/RTRD.
• Exchange Mandatory Upgrades
• Exchange co-location
• Implementing agile practices
• Interdisciplinary team coordination and consultation
• Implementation of Security standards
• Cloud compute framework integrations Amazon
EC2 / AWS

This contract was taken with the primary aim to build out a market data team in a previously vendor managed site. Growing business and regulatory data demands required the engineering of a Market Data team from the ground up to better meet the banks needs. As a result a complete rebuild of all market data systems (TREP/Bloomberg) and time series systems (OneTick) was initiated. All services were migrated off vendor legacy hardware onto bank supported Linux platforms. Green field teams needed to be hired and trained from scratch in Copenhagen, Arhus and Vilnius (Lithuania) with no prior market data knowledge. Simon's strong technical background and depth of experience was seen as a key asset to achieve these objectives.

• Replacement of legacy unstable TREP and Bloomberg infrastructure.
• Hiring and training from the ground up of a team of 30 Market Data Engineers, Business Analysts, Developers and Operations staff.
• Building and training of a multi language Market Data Developer Team.
• Architecting a Market Data Abstraction API for the bank.
• Building out and training a Market Data Operations team.
• Designing a new TREP and Bloomberg distribution platform.
• Assisting in the development of Enterprise class Reference Data service.
• Building out of a Time Series Historical service for the Quants with a normalized data model.
• Building out of a global low latency Co Located trading Network (STNW).
• Building out and training an IT Market Risk Abuse (MAR) Team (NICE Actimize / Tradinghub MAST)
• Supporting Market Data requirements for Anti Money Laundering Platforms (Quantexa)
• Coding an ETL (Extract Transform Load) Platform for Regulatory Market and Reference Data applications.
• Designing and implementing a Symbology Mapper service.

Originally hired to manage the Engineering team (8 engineers globally) role changed focus towards running the evaluation, selection and implementation of the next generation low latency market data platform for the bank. This involves all levels of technology from software to hardware to meet the desired objectives. Hardware
technologies range from FPGA/GPU Solutions to next generation network infrastructure (10 GigE/ Infini Band). Software solutions range from the traditional vendors next generation platforms to the more boutique low latency platforms. The role has been recently impacted by the off shoring of developer and L1 Market Data support to India. As a result a lot of time is now spent managing and training the staff of 3rd party outsourcing companies.

• Team lead for the next generation low latency Market Data Project.
• Team lead for an Open DACS Proxy implementation.
• 3rd Level escalated RMDS Engineering support.
• Next generation Low Latency Market Data monitoring initiative.
• Reuters Elektron migration project (RWF/OMM, QOS)
• Market Data Abstraction API project.
• Reuters RFA/UPA/EMA Developer migration support/consultancy (Java / .Net / C / C++)
• Next generation LINUX Red hat 6 build platform / Low Latency OS.
• Next generation Electronic Trading Network design.
• Next generation 10GbE Firewall project.
• PTP and general time resolution and synchronization initiatives.
• Design and implementation of the Investment Banks low latency/Big Data lab.
• Team Lead for the integration and deployment of Market Data Components into the banks build and integration platform (Artifactory/Jira/Fisheye/Confluence).
• Managing the impact on Market Data of MiFIDI \ MiFIDII legislation.
• Consultancy for Market Data compliance & audit e.g.

i). The internal redistribution of market data controls.

ii). Evaluation of virtualization and container technologies for the market data platform.

The role is focused around support of low latency trading and algo engines that source their pricing from the Wombat Feed and Superbook Infrastructure. The role leverage's my exchange knowledge to better understand the often subjective nature of exchange latency on platforms such as LSE, Chi-X, Euronext, LIFFE, CEF, Milan and OMX.

• Responsible for the Wombat Low Latency Platform in EMEA
• Support of Algo Trading Platforms that use the Low Latency Plant.
• Monitoring and analysis of exchange latencies.
• Team Leading a small team of 3 low latency specialists.
• Evaluation of the Bloomberg Appliance.
• Perl scripting and basic Market Data API Support.

The team Simon primarily co-ordinate consists of 8 people supporting all MDS Systems front and back end systems. Simon was also deputy to the Market Data Services Manager with responsibility for two other additional teams, the TIB/RMDS Infrastructure Tea and the Reuters Software Engineering Teams. In total Simon was responsible for 17 Staff acting as the global hub for all market data activity. Responsibilities included coordinating new technical Market Data requirements from business areas that includes Futures, Equities, Derivatives, Fixed Income, FX, Venture Capital, Asset Management, Corporate Banking & Corporate Finance. The role was very hands on taking the main technical lead in project implementations and troubleshooting. This involved working closely with the TIB Infrastructure team of with RMDS/TIB/Rendezvous being the main Market Data Distribution & Market Making Platform for the Reuters RT, Kobra & Marketsheet Applications. The job function was to analyze and plan the implementation of these systems and to delegate and recruit where necessary. With Simon's
strong technical bias I was able to deliver a high quality of advice to the business in all their exchange and trading environments and ensure technical standards within the team. The applications the team supported numbered ~ 100 with the main focus being on Exchange / Trading systems e.g. GL, Fidessa, ION and the Reuters & Bloomberg, product range. The GL Trading system suite supported comprised of ~ 150 servers distributed across 4 Sites and 5 countries. The London office grew to be the global hub for Market Data Services and took the lead in in all Global Projects.

• 3rd Level Technical support of front and back end Market Data Systems.
• Implementation and 3rd level support of Exchange connectivity CBOT, LIFFE, Eurex (+Repo, EEX, US), Xetra (Dublin, Vienna), Virt-X, SWX (+Quote Source), Xentric Order & Quote Source, Swapstream, CCP, Xontro, LSE, MTS, Bank Auction Systems (Spain, Greece, Italy, Germany), Euronext, SIA (IDEM , PTC, GAM, MMF, E-Mid), IPE & SAXESS.
• Implementation and 3rd level support of exchange related Trading Systems GL Trade / GL Net, RTS, ORC.
• Exchange Connectivity support for Fidessa (LMIL Platform), Marketview (ION) & NYFIX.
• Implementation and 3rd Level support of ECN’s & IDB’s.
• Vendor Management and support of Reuters 3000 Dealing & EBS Dealing systems.
• Global 3rd Level Open Bloomberg and Bloomberg Trading System Technical Support.
• Global support of Bloomberg Trade Gateways, Trade Feeds, Retail Feeds and Position Feeds.
• Development of Global Bloomberg Management Systems (PHP, MYSQL, Apache).
• Network / Firewall troubleshooting / Multicast Monitoring of Market Data Applications.
• Packaging and project management of MDS Software rollouts including a Global Win XP Migration.
• Support of MDS Application Servers on Solaris and NT Platforms.
• 3rd Level support of in-house contributions systems based on Adfin/Excel.

Exchange Trading

GL Trade & (Eurex Access)
GL Trade & (GL Net Access)

GL Trade & (SETS)
GL Trade & (Xetra Access)
GL Trade & (Euronext Access)

GL Trade & (SWX Access)

GL Trade & (Virtx Access)
GL Trade & (Milan Access)
GL Trade & (Euronext LIFFE Access)

EUREX MISS Exchange Gateways

EUREX US MISS Exchange Gateway

EUREX EEX MISS Exchange Gateways

EUREX Repo Exchange Gateways

XETRA MISS Exchange Gateways

XETRA DUBLIN Exchange Gateways

XETRA Vienna Exchange Gateways

CCP Exchange Gateways

Xontro Exchange Infrastructure

Xentric Quote Source

Xentric Order Exchange Infrastructure

Euronext MAP Exchange Gateways

Virtex TS Exchange Gateways

SWX TS Exchange Gateways

SWX Quote Source Exchange Gateways

Fidessa LMIL Exchange LSE Gateways

SAXESS Scandi Exchange Gateways

LIFFE CBOT Exchange Gateways

SIA MTS Exchange Gateways

SIA IDEM Exchange Gateways

SIA NET Exchange Infrastructure

SIA GAM Exchange Gateways

SIA MMF Exchange Gateways

SIA E-MID Exchange Gateways

IPE Exchange Infrastructure

LSE Exchange Infrastructure

Euronext LIFFE Exchange Gateways

Bank of Spain Auction System

Bank of Italy Auction System

Bank of Greece Auction System (HDAT)

Bundes Bank Auction

ORC Trade & Futures LIFFE Access

ORC Trade & Futures EUREX Access

ORC Trade & Structured Derivs EUREX Access

MarketView EUREX ION Gateways

MarketView XETRA ION Gateways

TIQS / EUWAX Exchange Infrastructure

OM Trade Futures Eurex Access

Vendor Systems / Pricing

4Cast

Adfin Flex LM License Server

AT FOX

Bloomberg (Open) Professional

Bloomberg ARMIS\PTSA

Bloomberg Pricelink

Bloomberg Trading Systems

Bloomberg TSAPI

Bloomberg Trade Gateway Trade Feeds

Bloomberg Trade Gateway Position Feeds

Bloomberg Trade Gateway Trade Reports

Bloomberg Harco Monitoring System

Bloomberg Server API

Bloomberg Data License

Bloomberg FIX Connectivity Deal station

Bloomberg Commitment Upload Protocol

Bloomberg Trade Book

Bloomberg Global Web Database

Bridge/Moneylline Channel

Bridge/Moneyline State Street Global

Bridge/Reuters Triad

CATS-OS Citibank

CQG Net

Datastream

Dunn&Bradstreet

DealTracker

Dowgate

EBS Dealing system

Garban ETC Trading system

Garban Inter Capital \ Gilts

Horizon

Reuters Dealing 3000

Reuters Dealing Link

Reuters Market Monitor

Reuters Radianz Infrastructure

SIX Trader

Topic Trader Workstation

Tullets & Tokyo Marker Suite of Application Lite (WWW)

Wall Board Ticker

ITRS Market Data Monitoring System

ECN Application

ATFOX (SIANET NG)

Axiom

BrokerTec

Cantors E-Speed

Credit EX

CreditTrade

Fund On-Line

GFI Credit Match

GFInet

ICAP ETC (Garban ETC)

ICAP WCLK Gilts

Instinet Advanced

Instinet FIX for GCFC

Instinet Newport

Market XS FISS

MarketAxess

Paris Bourse

Prebon Energy

Prebon.NET

PrebonTullet Credit

REDIPLUS

Smarthouse (GEDD)

State Street Global

Swapstream

Telekurs

Unik Trend

Web ICE-IPE

This role was predominantly client management, consultancy, technical planning, installation & troubleshooting. This required building long-term relationships with major city accounts and developing a technical understanding of
their Bloomberg implementations.

• Installation / Project Manager of Bloomberg Terminals for several major city clients.
• Relocation Project Management of Bloomberg services (Open, classic & Trading systems ) for several major client relocations / mergers.
• Assessment & installation co-ordination of the Bloomberg Frame Relay (Newbridge) & Bay ARN/ASN router (TCP/IP) networks at client sites.
• Technical trouble shooting client LAN/WAN related install problems, eg routing (RIP, OSPF, static’s, etc) variable subnet masking, protocol stacks, routing etC.
• Technical trouble shooting firewall related problems eg application proxies (MS Proxy , SOCKS….etc), packet filters, translation tables, session handling, port allocation etc vi).
• Client hardware assessment & troubleshooting eg Ethernet (10/100BaseT/2), hubs, NIC,s, modems, repeaters, bridges, Vlan’s, Token ring, cabling(x21/v35/cat5/coax/structured) & Balons (eg Paragon, CCC).
• Troubleshooting Bloomberg Client related software issues, eg registry management, DDE & API servers, Excel Add-in’s, NT profile lockdown's, BBCOMM servers.
• Telecomm’s ordering (Bloomberg services) and co-ordination at client sites.
• Coordinating various Operations teams (Field Service, Service, Tech Support, Router Group, Networks etc) for general Bloomberg installation.

The contract was taken with the objective of building a specification for a replacement of the Dermatology Department's incumbent clinical admin system (Abies). Additionally the role was to take charge of the Directorates IT systems/network and to implement the plans of the clinical director. This involved deploying secure internet access for the department (pop3 & http) using MS Exchange Server & MS Proxy Server. Other projects included building various databases and voice dictation pilots, secure RAS all of which was to be integrated within the MS Back Office solution and the Abies replacement system.

• MS Access database/application design, development and implementation using Visual Basic for Applications.
• MS Office 95/97 Professional user support & training.
• MS Mail 3.5 installation & administration.
• Win 95, Win 3.11and NT 4.0 Workstation construction, installation, administration & user support.
• Windows NT 4.0/3.51 Viglen XX Servers installation administration & Network Management running TCP/IP, Netbeui, Netbios, IPX/SPX & OSLAN.
• Network management of a 50 PC Network segment of the larger Hospital LAN running 3Com 10BaseT 10/100Mb Hubs, (Cat 5 Cabling), HP Jet Direct Printers, and small isolated Netbeui palm hub networks.
• Web/FTP/DNS server intranet installation & construction using IIS 3.0, MS Front Page & IE3.02 (with NTLM).
• Internet router & firewall construction using MS Proxy server (application gateway) and 3Com Access Builder ISDN Bridge\Routers (packet filter).
• Installation of PC emulation software to connect to ICL VME & SCO Unix Servers, eg Dynaterm and Conductor (3270 emulation).
• Basic system administration of a Unix/Sculptor Clinical Admin System, Abies (running on an 8 serial port intelligent network adapter).
• Assessment, specification & procurement of a replacement system for Abies.
• Budget assessment, statistical reporting.
• Maintenance contract & hardware purchasing.

The role required constant alertness to market trends and the ability to exploit opportunities in a dynamic and competitive market place in IT specialist sourcing. In addition success required excellent personnel communication skills and being able to negotiate with all levels of management to the board level

• Assessment of client contractual requirements including blue chip companies
• Interpretation of market trends and liaison with clients and contractors to procure realistic funding.
• Analyzing and vetting of the database portfolio for suitable candidates.
• Interviewing and assessment of contractors suitable for the client.
• Arranging Contracts.

Assessment of client contractual requirements for blue chip companies.

• Interpretation of market trends and liaison with clients and contractors to procure realistic funding.
• Analysis and vetting of the database portfolio for suitable candidates.
• Interviewing and assessment of contractors suitable for the client.
• Arranging Contracts.

This role involved system testing and database analysis. The results produced were used for international conferences and the introduction of Government free market reforms and pricing mechanisms in the trust.

• General system administration of the UNIX server and P.C. Troubleshooting.
• Computerization of medical loans stock using the Midas Database program.
• Computerization and analysis of dermatological medical records using the Abies Software database and national P.A.S X25 network.
• Implementation of an experimental dermatological classification system for the adoption nation-wide by the B.M.A.

The role was primarily dealing with IT and statistical related support of new HR products used to interface with legacy NHS Systems. The systems were based on Ethernet WFWG Network running the Prism system over TCP/IP LAN 3270 Emulation. The vast majority of the Statistical processing was based in Excel 5 & 7 and MS Access v2 & 95 using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and custom KPMG developed Tools.

• Ms Access database / application design, development and implementation.
• IT and general Windows for Work Groups support for the Manpower Information and Human resources
  department.
• Implementation & analysis of new salary modelling software, KPMG'S Medequate Salary Modeler.
• Support of IT issues relating to the implementation of Medequate's Job Evaluation project.
• Data analysis, statistical processing and quality assurance of the AT&T Istel's Prism Database.
• Production, analysis and presentation of data for the National Unit Labour Cost Project , Private Finance
  Initiative and several other statistical reports for the Trusts Executive board.