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Friday, November 30, 2007 6:52:05 PM
Great point!
Take a look at his resume from LinkedIn:
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John Unwin Independant Consultant
United Kingdom
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Current Interim Director IT Europe at Van der moolen
Past Consultant (UK & USA) at Various mid-sized companies
CTO at Future Dynamics Ltd
Techincal Director at Easyscreen Plc
Head of Architecture at Easyscreen Plc
Consultant at Leeds Holbeck Building Society
Consultant at Alcatel
Consultant at SD&C Ltd
Senior Analyst at BACG
Senior Analyst at BACG
Software Engineer at Materna
Senior Analyst at ASDA Plc
Manager at British Rail
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Education The University of Sheffield
Connections 115 connections Industry Capital Markets
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John Unwin’s Summary
Senior manager/board member that has delivered technically innovative products into new market spaces, improved bottom line, able to present to investors, customers and media.
Previously a consultant (12 years) with proven ability to deliver in the finance, retail banking, retail, telcom and public sectors.
John Unwin’s Specialties:
* Business experience and management skills to deliver large scale or technically complex systems.
* Trading systems for equities, futures and options across the trade cycle. In-depth knowledge of FIX (Financial Information eXchange) protocol
* Board experience - listed companies, fund raising, investor relations, handling tenders, RFIs and RFPs and the strategic growth process ability to communicate to customers, senior management and investors.
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John Unwin’s Experience
Interim Director IT Europe
Van der moolen
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; VDM; Capital Markets industry)
August 2006 — Present (1 year 4 months)
• Performed a scan of all the VDM Groups IT (Europe & USA) to identify duplication, lack of control and agreed with the board a roadmap to resolve problems.
• Fixed people and technology issues in products delivered form the UK datacenter that had resulted in an unreliable service delivery.
• Established a new IT Organisation based on people form merged entities.
• Completed the work required for SOX compliance.
• Managed budgets.
Consultant (UK & USA)
Various mid-sized companies
(Capital Markets industry)
July 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 1 month)
• Strategic planning and product management for an ISV (Easyscreen) in terms of products that deliver significant cost savings or open new markets.
• Key leadership role developing an Excel Trading platform and OMS for buy side hedge funds that can route orders of different asset classes to a range of brokers using FIX.
• Specified the architecture and performed vendor selection for a new multi asset class trading system for Blue Systems – this will start testing Q3 2005.
• Diagnosed problems (management and technical) and planned remedial actions for a software house specializing in B2B and eProcurement) for the parent compamy.
• Member and active Role in the The FIX Protocol Organization.
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CTO
Future Dynamics Ltd
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2003 — July 2004 (10 months)
• Played a key in preparing FDL for acquisition and due diligance, in the end the company was sold to Ffastfill plc.
• Direct management of 22 people and tech repsonsiblity for another 15, developing workflow, real time trading systems on the Microsoft Platform (C++, C#, VB, Java, HTML, XML, SQL 2000).
• Close involement with clients to win new business and improve delivery of existing products and services, involved in the formulation and technical realisation of the business's strategy.
• Played a key role in wining contracts from the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) and Chicago Mercantile exchange (CME).
• Introduced People, Process and Technology (PPT is a reduced form of Six Sigma) scheme to improve productivity and quality.
* Participated in the successful sale of the company to FfastFill Plc
Techincal Director
Easyscreen Plc
(Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2003 (3 years)
Alongside board responsibilities, my role was to: increase revenue by technical sales and product innovation, control costs, budgeting, manage risk, motivate the team and maintain high standards of service delivery.
Managed a team of 45 and increased Easyscreens revenue (60%) reduced costs (35%) by focusing the company onto higher revenue activities, cutting out activities with a poor return,
Delivered a new trading platform that has enabled Easyscreen to sell (£2m) solutions to large institutions and allows people trade over the Internet from our data centre. See http://www.refco.com/ps/ps.refcopro.asp
Set up a datacentre to enable Easyscreen customers to trade over the internet and to host exchange connectivity for large institutional clients( see http://www.easyscreen.com/)
Head of Architecture
Easyscreen Plc
(Computer Software industry)
November 1998 — November 2000 (2 years 1 month)
Defined and specified a cost effective systems architecture that met the needs of the business and end users.
Managed a team of 10 that delivered a three-tier order routing platform based on the Microsoft DNA (VB, C++, MSMQ, SQL 7, XML, DHTML/VBScript, ASP, IIS, MTS)
Doubled the product range by writing connectivity to FIX and Eurex exchanges in C++
Engineered the architecture to enable outsourcing firms to add components saving 30-40% of the effort and increasing throughput using a message based OO framework using MSMQ and C++
Consultant
Leeds Holbeck Building Society
(Computer Software industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year)
Worked on the overall system and UI design and development on a system to renew the branch teller systems using UML with Rational Rose for design and VB ActiveX , COM Business objects(MTS) and Oracle.
The branch teller system is now operational in all 59 branches my part successfully coordinates information form different existing systems.
Mentoring permanent staff to accelerate the transition from traditional technology to objected oriented techniques.
Consultant
Alcatel
(Computer Software industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year)
Consultant
SD&C Ltd
(Computer Software industry)
1994 — 1996 (2 years)
Senior Analyst
BACG
(Computer Software industry)
1992 — 1994 (2 years)
Senior Analyst
BACG
(Computer Software industry)
1992 — 1994 (2 years)
Software Engineer
Materna
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1989 — June 1992 (2 years 9 months)
Senior Analyst
ASDA Plc
(Computer Software industry)
1987 — 1989 (2 years)
Manager
British Rail
(Computer Software industry)
1980 — 1986 (6 years)
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John Unwin’s Education
The University of Sheffield
B.Eng, Electrical Engineering, 1977 — 1981
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John Unwin’s Groups:
FIX Protocol Organization member
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