Curriculum Vitae - Dr Mark Papiani      

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Age:                       39            Date of Birth:        29/09/65                 Nationality:           English                  

Email:                      papiani@computer.org      

 

Profile

·         1999 to present: UBS Investment Bank (Director in Equities/Derivatives IT) - Project Manager (client-facing) for a Portfolio of Global Projects (budget of several million USD, approx 15 staff permanent, contract & outsource), front office Trading (Managing Director sponsors in OTC&ETD Derivatives & Convertible Bonds).  Stakeholder relationship management.

·         Track record of leading technical teams to successfully deliver projects with complex technology content and business change on time and within budget. Proven ability for innovation/problem solving in several different types of industries. Strong communicator/decision maker/influencer.

·         Responsible for new development, scheduling maintenance and enhancements, and ensuring on-going production support. Turn-around of failing projects. Delivering projects that required culture change for users (from manual processes). Some off-shore QA and Support team members.

·         Staff: selection, hiring, mentoring, appraising, motivating, allocating work and tracking.

·         Management of External Vendors (e.g. Mace and Tamesis)

·         Publications in refereed journals (ACM, IEE, etc) and International conferences. Papers I have written are available on websites of, or cited in papers of, IBM, NASA, and the ACM.

·         Chartered Engineer with over 15 years IT experience. Started in IT in 1984 on Barclays Bank graduate training programme (directly from A-levels - subsequently to obtain BEng, PhD degrees).

·         5 years in Computer Science Research at the University of Southampton. Prototype software development for multi-tier Web/database connectivity. Considerable expertise in providing Java/Servlets/JDBC/PERL/CGI/HTML/XML Web interfaces to object-relational databases (Oracle/IBM DB2), on both consultancy and research projects. Lectured Java and prepared a number of research project proposals for submission to UK and European funding bodies.

 

Employment Summary

·         10/99-present    Project Manager (Rank: Director)                - UBS Investment Bank

·         05/94-08/99        Research Assistant                                    - University of Southampton

·         09/90-01/94        Principal Hardware Design Engineer         - Siemens Plessey Controls

·         10/84-10/86        Computer Programmer                              - Barclays Bank PLC

 

Academic Qualifications Summary

[At the time, Southampton had one of the best Engineering Faculties in the Country, rated 3rd in the World for number of cited papers (behind 2 US universities), 5 out of 5 for research, 24 out of 24 for teaching.]

·         Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Southampton, 2000. (Part-time whilst employed.)

·         B.Eng. Electrical Engineering - First Class (Hons), University of Southampton, 1990.

·         MBA – Warwick Business School - Modular/Distance Learning, commenced January 2003.

 

Skills Summary

·         Project Management/Business Analysis: Portfolio of projects/control of staff/budget/scope/MS Project, technical direction/innovation, client facing, stakeholder/business relationship management. Off-shore QA and support team members & onsite outsource.

·         IT Vendor Relationship Management

·         Software/Architecture: Java, Servlets, JSP, SWING, JDBC, Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Excel VBA, IBM Visual Age for Java, JavaScript, XML, webservices, HTML, DreamWeaver, CGI, C, COBOL, SQL, PL/SQL, PERL, UNIX (AIX, Solaris, LINUX), Exceed, Windows 98/NT/XP, Message Oriented Middleware (MOM), webMethods Enterprise, JMS, pub/sub, point-2-point, CORBA, Java IDL, Rational Rose, Rational ClearCase S/W Configuration Management, Rational ClearQuest, Mercury TestDirector Defect Tracking, Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/ IBM DB2 Database (NT, UNIX, including Parallel version)/Sybase /mSQL, DB Artisan, TAMESIS Java app server for trading systems.

·         Lecturing/Presentation Skills: technical teaching - lectured Java, presented on multi-tier Web/database connectivity to conference audiences of several hundred people.

·         Preparing academic research funding proposals

 

 

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

 

q       Oct 1999-Present. UBS Investment Bank, 100 Liverpool Street, London EC2M 2RH.

  • Director, IT Equities – Derivatives and Equity Linked IT

 

·         Project Manager (client-facing) for a Portfolio of Global Projects (budget of several million USD, 15 staff approx). High profile projects within front-office Equity Derivatives Trading and Sales (Managing Director sponsors in Derivatives/Convertible Bonds).  Member of the Derivatives and Equity Linked (D&EL) Programme Committee (meeting weekly).  I was asked to try to improve Project Management ‘best practice’ across UBS Derivatives IT this year.

 

·         Responsible for feasibility/initial estimates/cost-benefit/ risk analysis (prepare Project Initiation Forms for Derivatives Operating Committee), strategically linking projects within Derivatives/CB IT, user-requirements gathering, contribute to system architecture, functional spec, coordinate development/ QA/UAT/deployment/scheduling maintenance/enhancements and ensuring on-going production support, as well as on going project planning/control/monitoring/dependency tracking/risk analysis, staffing (interviewing, hiring, mentoring, appraising) and budgets. Business Analysis, Relationship Management, Business Change Management, Managing expectation of Traders. Daily interaction with business sponsors/users/other stakeholders.

 

Projects:

·         2004 April – ongoing: New Derivatives Trading System - (MD Sponsors). ‘Pre-Trade Solution’ – New front-office desktop application for OTC/ETD Price negotiation/workflow between client, sales and trading to include back-office Straight Through Processing (STP) to risk/confs/settlement and new MIS around client behavior, missed trades etc.  Automate many manual back-office OTC processes. This project required CRM skills and the ability to work on culture change with a skeptical user-base who did not want to change from manual processes. Technology: Java applet, workflow for sales/trader interaction, messaging to risk system. Inherited phase 1 after approx 1 year. I was bought in to turn-around of this very high-profile project that was late and failing. Project manager responsible for successfully completing/deploying phase 1 in May 04 and phase 2 in Nov 04.  Phase 3 to be delivered in May 2005. Approx. 11 staff (mixed permanent/contract/outsource).

 

·         2004 (Jan to May): – Trading System for Yield Enhanced Products in Derivatives (Sponsors are Managing Directors for Risk Managed Products in Asia and Switzerland/ Germany). Project Manager for major enhancements to this live trading system. I was bought in to turn-around new business enhancement that was late and failing. Successfully delivered into production May 2004. 4 staff (now complete).

 

·         2003-ongoing: Greenfield Front-office project to deliver a CB analytics/decision support tool (Java Client on desktop) to CB Sales (Managing Director Sponsors in UK and US including head of CB Trading). Data mining for liquidity, recent long volatility trades and orders, neutralised prices (dollar, delta/rho, etc), provide access to analytics model for CB theoretical value/implied volatility and Greeks. Several times cheaper than alternative 3rd party product. Technologies: J2EE, Java, Swing, Oracle 9i, XML, Solaris. Phase 1 - Delivered to production on time and within budget in November 2003. On-going. 4 staff (now 3).

 

·         2002-ongoing Project Managed the IT team that produced the award-winning External UBS Client Portal Website for Convertible Bond Research/Analytics (Sponsor was Global Head of CB Research). Also responsible for the technical architecture: This included the mechanism/protocol for data feeds from an external company (Mace), through to the delivery and display mechanism in the front-office web-based application. The application presents time-series data for convertible-bonds. Technologies: Developed temporal models for relational data (UML), J2EE, Java, Swing, Servlets, PL/SQL, Oracle 9i, XML, Web Services, Pub/Sub MOM, Apache, Tomcat, JRUN, Solaris, Linux, NT, XP. Phase 1 - Delivered to production on time and within budget in October 2002. 2 staff (now 1).

 

·         Euromoney.com 2002/2003 ‘Best Investment Bank on the Internet Award’ for UBS: PM for the Convertible Bond Website that contributed to this award. Also Best CB site March 2005.

·         Vendor Relationship Management for 3rd Party Convertible Bond Data Vendor (Mace).

·         2000/2001 - Worked on a Global Collateral Trading System implemented using TAMESIS (an e-enabled, distributed Java application server, for enterprise-wide trading systems) along with J2EE technologies (CORBA, XML, JAAS, JSDK, JDBC)/ webMethods/ActiveWorks pub/sub, and Sybase. 

o        Java development on the project and a lead role managing the Vendor relationship with TAMESIS – a central, 3rd party, technology vital to the success of the project.  Defect tracking, specifying enhancements, scheduling releases, managing on-site vendor consultants.

o        Worked on Integration/regression test environments for project as a whole and for Tamesis.

·        Also worked in the Architecture Department where I was responsible for producing a comprehensive technical document on E-commerce Web Development Standards and Guidelines, for global distribution to all new IT employees, as well as to existing employees via the Intranet.

 

 

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

 

q       May 1994-Aug 1999. University of Southampton, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Southampton SO17 1BJ.

 

·         Research Assistant, Concurrent Computation Group: Employed as a research assistant to Prof Tony Hey whilst he was head of department - writing funding proposals, organising events, producing talks, lecturing, part-time PhD research (Web/Java/database) and consultancy.

 

Consultancy:

·         History of Art Digital Library -1998: Designed and implemented a Web-based database of digitised art images as part of the European funded Viseum project, to develop Internet applications for museums.

·         National client database for leading UK Independent Financial Advisor -1998: Liaised with over 20 different insurance companies to obtain electronic copies of the IFA’s several hundred thousand client records. Designed a unified schema and standardised and cleaned the data (DB2 and PERL).

 

Research Projects:

·         An Architecture for Management of Large, Distributed, Scientific Data -1999: PhD research - Web-based architecture to reduce bandwidth requirements for fast storage, searching and retrieval of large, distributed files resulting from scientific simulations. Web interface with a novel method of browsing an underlying distributed object-relational database. XML used to specify user-interface functionality and to specify interfaces to loosely couple heterogeneous, autonomous data post-processing services.  Java, JDBC, Servlets, DB2 UDB, SQL:1999 Management of External Data (SQL/MED), XML.

·         Parallel database performance - 1996: Developed C code and embedded SQL for the TPC-D Decision Support Benchmark. Used early beta of IBM’s DB2 Parallel Edition on an IBM SP2 parallel supercomputer. Bugs in DB2 PE were identified and discussed with IBM Hursley and Toronto.

·         Graphical Benchmark Information Service (GBIS) - 1995: Developed an early example of interactive, graphical web pages for displaying graphs of parallel computer benchmarks (CGI, Perl).

 

Lecturing / Funding Proposals:

·         Lecturing: Java Programming Course  - Designed/wrote/lectured/examined a Java course for 120 students. Introduced the key OO concepts of encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism

·         Writing Funding Proposals: To both EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) in the UK and the Commission of the European Communities. Liaison with UK and European academic/industrial collaborators to obtain input for joint funding proposals; writing the case for support; specifying resources and costs; specifying the workplan with milestones and deliverables. E.g.:

  • EPSRC Proposal GR/M17259  – Problem Solving Environments for Large-Scale Simulations: Duration 3 years, commencing October 1998 (University of Southampton 175K, Cardiff 178K).

·         EU Proposal 2111 - HPC-Standards: Funded for 18 months, June 96, 200KECU.

·         Presentations and Tutorials at International Conferences:

·         Tutorial at the Euro-Par 98 International Conference – Jointly developed and presented ‘Java, the Web and Databases’ - Web/database connectivity, HTTP, CGI, Java and JDBC, and CORBA.

·         Presentations at RAPS International workshop/ British National Conference on DBs/ BCS seminar.

 

 

q       Sept 1990-Jan 1994. Siemens Plessey Controls Ltd, Sopers Lane, Poole, Dorset, BH17 7ER:

 

·         Principal Hardware Design Engineer: Responsible for a road traffic control system that has been sold worldwide in multi-million pound contracts. This is a data transmission system for monitoring/controlling/optimising road traffic signals city-wide.

 

·         Initially on Graduate Training Programme. Trained in formal, structured design, documentation and quality assurance techniques.

·         Rose to level of Principal Hardware Engineer on a project to design a traffic controller monitoring unit for the Traffic Control Systems Unit (TCSU), London.

·         Carried out work on tender, including estimate of hardware items, development time, and costs.

·         Made dramatic cost reductions by suggesting ‘buy not build’ for key components  (modems, transformers, PSUs) whilst complying with Siemens philosophy that every component or system should have an alternative source to maintain vendor independence.

·         Solely responsible for the complete design and testing of several multi-layer surface mount PCBs.

·          Accomplished on time and within budget.  Several of my PCBs went straight through from drawing to production without requiring any rework.

 

 

q       Oct 1984-Oct 1986. Barclays Bank PLC, Barclays House, 1 Wimborne Rd, Poole, Dorset:

·         Computer Programmer:  Joined Graduate Training Programme for software developers straight from A-levels. 7-week off-site training programme, including structured design methodologies and COBOL programming. Subsequently responsible for design specifications, COBOL programming, test plans, testing. Produced client/server software for an OLTP system used for foreign currency dealing. A TANDEM computer architecture was used for fault tolerance.

 

EDUCATION (BEng, PhD, MBA (on-going))

 

¨       MBA, Warwick Business School.  Modular/Distance learning commenced January 2003.

¨       Ph.D. Computer Science, May 1994-Sept. 2000.  University of Southampton (Part-time).

·        ‘An Architecture for Management of Large, Distributed, Scientific Data’, supervisors: Prof Anthony J.G. Hey, Dr Denis A. Nicole. (Involved several years of Web-based development using Java Servlets, HTML, XML and Object-Relational Databases.)

¨       Post Graduate Open University Units, 1991-1993. Self-study whilst employed at Siemens.

·         PMT602         Real Time Monitoring Systems (Sept 91-May 92)                          - Distinction

·         PMT604         Real Time Control (May 92-Oct 92)                                   - Distinction

·        T820               Switching for Digital Telecommunications (Oct 92-May 93)        - Merit

¨       B.Eng. (Hons) Electrical Engineering - First Class Hons, Sept. 1987-June 1990. University of Southampton.

·         Bill Bright Memorial Prize, 1990 – awarded, each year, to a final year student by the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.

¨      Institute of Bankers Stage One Course (Banking, Economics, Accounts, and Law), 1985-1986. Bournemouth College of FE. Day release, whilst employed by Barclays Bank.

¨       1979-1984. Bournemouth Grammar School.

·         3 ‘A’ Levels: Maths/Physics/Economics (1984), 9 ‘O’ Levels (1982)

 

 

PROFESSIONAL AFILLIATIONS (Eur Ing, CEng, MBCS, CITP, MIEE, FIAP)

·         Engineering Council Registration – Chartered Engineer (CEng)

·         FEANI (European Federation of National Engineering Associations) Registration (Eur Ing)

·         Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS) / Chartered IT Professional (CITP)

·         Fellow of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers (FIAP)

·         Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (MIEE)

·         Member of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and IEEE Computer Society

 

 

SELECTED TRAINING COURSES / CONFERENCES ATTENDED

·         MBA Warwick Business School, commenced Jan 2003-ongoing.

·         Managing within UK Law, Simmons & Simmons, London, 9 July 2003.

·         Excel 2000 VBA Programming, QA Training course ref. WNXLPG5, London, 17-21 Jan 2003.

·         Performance Management: Objective Setting/ Feedback, UBS Warburg, 14&17 Jan, 2003.

·         Microsoft Project 2000, Self-study: Microsoft Approved Step-By-Step Tutorial Book and Media, Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-0920-9, 424 Pages, July, 2002.

·         Microsoft .NET Developer Training, Microsoft, London, 19-20 Feb, 2002.

·         Oracle 8i, Application Development and Tuning, Learning Tree ref. 492, London, 19-23 Nov 2001.

·         XML for B2B E-Commerce Solutions, Learning Tree ref. 544, London, 26-29 June 2001.

·         Java Servlet/JSP Web Development with IBM VisualAge, QA Training, 01-04 May 2001.

·         Introduction to Rational Rose, QA Training, London, 9 Apr 2001.

·         Collateral Trading (Securities Finance) Business Course, Fin Tuition Ltd., 12-13 Dec, 2000.

·         Enterprise Java Beans with IBM VisualAge and WebSphere, QA Training, 20-22 Nov 2000.

·         High Tech Procurement: Acquisition/Negotiation Process and Vendor Relationship Management, International Computer Negotiations, Inc., 17-18 Oct, 2000.

·         UML: OO Analysis and Design Using Unified Modelling Language, QA Training, 3-7 April, 2000.

·         Java Programming (Java 2), Sun Microsystems ref. UK-SL-275, London, 15-19 Nov, 1999.

·         22nd International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Bombay, India, 3-6 Sept, 1996.

·         DB2 Parallel Edition for AIX/6000, IBM Ref. CF07/CF08, Southampton, 8-12 July, 1996.

·         Structured Programming Workshop, BIS Applied Systems ref. SPW 603, 17-21 March, 1986. 

·         TANDEM Concepts and Facilities (Architecture, COBOL, SCOBOL), 1 week, Jan, 1985.

·         COBOL/Assembler/Structured Programming/Banking, Barclays Bank PLC, 7 weeks, 1984.

 

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

¨       Refereed Journal Papers

·         Papiani, M., Wason, J., L., Dunlop, A., N. and Nicole, D., A. A Distributed Scientific Data Archive Using the Web, XML and SQL/MED. ACM SIGMOD Record, Vol. 28(3), Sept, 1999.

·         Papiani, M., Hey, A., J., G. and Hockney, R., W. The Graphical Benchmark Information Service. Scientific Programming, Vol. 4(4), 1995, 219-227. ISSN 1058-9244.

¨       Refereed Conference Proceedings

·         Papiani, M., Wason, J., L. and Nicole, D., A. An Architecture for Management of Large, Distributed, Scientific Data Using SQL/MED and XML. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Konstanz, Germany, March, 2000.

(Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1777, Springer-Verlag, 2000. ISBN 3-540-67227-3)

 

 

HOBBIES/INTERESTS

·         Sport: Gym/Rowing/Kayaking/Sunday League Football/Basketball

·         Adventure Holidays (e.g. Sea-Kayaking in Vancouver, Inca Trail in Peru)

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