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Thanks, Endub

Great point!

Take a look at his resume from LinkedIn:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnunwin

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 Easyscreen’s 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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