Management Project

SYED H. RAZVI **** NW **th Court ( Parkland,

Florida 33076

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(Cell) 305-***-****

Dynamic international executive with history transforming startup,

existing, and disjointed technology organizations into strategic business

partners and centers of operational and technological excellence.

. Unite global technology and business groups on common mission and goals,

spearheading strategic analysis, planning, and alignment.

. Advance and support new opportunities, tactically leveraging new and

existing technologies.

. Maximize bottom-line and budget utilization, revamping and continually

improving processes.

. Build, motivate, and lead high-performance multinational teams, inspiring

creativity and ingenuity.

Strategic Analysis & Planning ( Global Project & Team Management ( Business

& IT Transformations

Change Management ( Startups ( Operations ( Systems Planning ( Best

Practices ( Problem Solving

Process Reengineering ( Relationship & Partnership Building ( Team Building

( Talent Retention

CREDIT SUISSE, Singapore ( 2008 - 2010

+$9B Swiss-based publicly-held international financial services

corporation.

Head of Technology (COO & GC IT) - Asia Pacific

Oversee all aspects of technology throughout Asia Pacific for business

lines including Legal and Compliance. Direct cross-functional technology

groups in Singapore, India, Zurich, New York, and Raleigh; includes

Business Analysis, Software Development, QM/QA, and Infrastructure. Define

interaction, operating, and pricing models. Provide technology related best

practices and tools.

Major Contributions:

. Repaired strained relationship between Business and Technology,

realigning technology strategy with regional business growth strategy,

and establishing "equal partner" based relationship.

. Strengthened focus, specialization, and concentration of global on-site

staff's core competencies, establishing competency centers in North

America, India, and Zurich, and relocating job functions.

. Improved Operations and Technology Group's efficiency and predictability,

restructuring client facing functions, and redesigning entire

organization based on industry benchmarks.

. Reengineered global internal application development and testing units

into managed service model.

Results:

. Reduced number of redundant applications, enhancing functionality of

others, and decreasing annual operating budget 20%, synchronizing

Business and Technology strategies.

. Boosted morale, motivation, and productivity, transforming Technology

Group from micromanaged individual-rewarded environment into cohesive,

empowered, collaborative team culture.

. Established and achieved 10% cost reduction in 1st year of implementation

of offshore competency centers; on track to meet forecasted 30-50% cost

savings in next 2 years.

STANFORD GROUP COMPANY, Miami, Florida ( 2004 - 2008

Privately-held global financial services company serving institutions and

emerging growth companies.

Executive Director & CIO - North America

Planned, established, and managed all aspects of Technology, Brokerage,

Operations, Facilities Management, and Administration within North America.

Managed concurrent projects in diverse areas. Served as Strategic

Technology Advisor to numerous bank portfolio companies.

Major Contributions:

. Forged trust-based relationship between Business and Technology, and

synchronized strategies.

. Played major role in stabilizing business infrastructure and enabling

realization of growth objectives, establishing multiple technology

governance measures.

. Created delivery-focused culture and improved cost efficiency,

instituting robust technology processes, procedures, and policies.

. Supported rapid business growth, expanding technology organization,

infrastructure, and development from 25-person team to +200

geographically dispersed people in 3 years.

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(Executive Director & CIO, STANFORD GROUP COMPANY, cont.)

Key Projects:

. Implemented project steering committee, performance metrics, technology

development infrastructure, operations, software development, and project

management office (PMO).

. Lowered initial cost estimates across technology up to 15% in 1 year,

implementing technology budgeting and monitoring processes.

. Enhanced number of quality and new hire candidates, designing companywide

employee referral reward schemes.

. Minimized redundancies in Operations and Technology (O&T), partnering

with key business unit leaders to identify synergies between cross-

functional businesses.

. Optimized efficiency of O&T, establishing pragmatic processes and close

alignment of O&T budgets and strategic plans with business maintenance

and growth plans.

. Implemented Business Continuity Planning and Execution strategy.

Additional Projects:

. Orchestrated clearing and custody conversion from Bear Sterns to Pershing

(B&Y).

. Directed implementation of new trading platform for Institutional Trading

and Sales, Royal Blue.

. Led implementation of Proprietary Fixed Income trading platform, Odyssey,

and Portfolio Management & Reporting System, Advent, for Private Wealth

Management.

. Coordinated implementation of proprietary lending platform for

International Private Bank, compliance related monitoring system,

Actimize, and Oracle Financials for Corporate Finance and HR.

. Launched portal Oracle and SharePoint websites for Corporate Group, and

Digital Imaging & Workflow system, DST-AWD, for Private Wealth Management

and Legal.

CHOICE POINT, INC., (Public Records Group), Boca Raton, Florida ( 2002 -

2004

Premier provider of financial data and business solutions for credit

bureaus, insurance and non-profit organizations.

Vice President of Technology

Led technology organizations in 3 US states: Florida, California, and

Georgia. Defined technical architecture strategy. Aligned technology to

strategic business direction. Oversaw software, data warehouse, and

database development and deployment. Managed production environments and

data centers, network, Operations, Security, and technical infrastructure.

Established and supervised PMO.

Major Contributions:

. Maximized predictability, repeatability, and cost-effective delivery,

reorganizing and refocusing technology groups, and introducing project

management and software development methodologies.

. Introduced multiple new technology initiatives, revamping technology

strategy; included 1 of largest data warehouse projects in US.

. Cut operations budget 15%, eliminating redundant and retiring disjointed

legacy systems

. Decreased capex budget 10% by prioritizing Technology projects in

partnership with business heads.

. Fostered organizational maturity of technology teams, and ensured on-time

within budget project delivery, implementing multiple metrics programs.

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BARCLAYS CAPITAL, Miami, Florida ( 2001 - 2002

Leading global investment bank with +$2.6T in assets.

Head of Information Technology - Latin America

Directed and led all aspects of IT for Latin America Regional Office

including software development, and data center operations. Oversaw

technical infrastructure in Miami office.

Major Contributions:

. Co-defined technology resizing and relocation strategy to move all

technology systems from Latin America to Europe as key component of

downsizing initiative; completed on-time and within budget.

. Coordinated seamless migration of trading, commercial, and private

banking systems to New York and London for Foreign Exchange trading,

Money Market trading, Loan Processing & Servicing, Letters of Credit,

Check Clearing & Processing, and Funds Transfer.

. Retained all key employees through to program end, introducing

compensation retention schemes.

CELLSTAR CORPORATION, Miami, Florida ( 2000 - 2001

Global telecommunications firm.

CIO - US & Latin America

Administered all aspects of IT including software development

organizations, data centers, and project management groups in Miami,

Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Peru, and Venezuela.

Major Contributions:

. Strengthened global business partnerships, establishing formal lines of

communication and project management portfolio reporting.

. Increased client-focus, and enhanced relationship between Business and

Technology, restructuring management team; maintained staff morale,

relocating displaced personnel to non-client-facing roles.

. Decreased overall budget 10%, prioritizing ERP related initiatives.

. Transitioned focus from individual favoritism to collaborative team

delivery.

. Lowered staff turnover 75% in 1st year.

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

EMIRATES BANK GROUP, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) ( 1999 - 2000

Senior Manager - Information Technology

. Established 1st formal communication channels and status reporting

between Business and Technology in company history, and strategically led

country heads in UK and China.

. Consolidated various aggressive disparate bank-wide technology

initiatives into cohesive, planned, state-of-the-art "One Bank;"

technology used was publicized throughout Middle East.

. Cultivated predictable delivery-focused team culture, realigning

technology groups.

. Reduced staff turnover 50%, designing change and compensation incentive

programs.

. Added numerous new cost efficiencies, establishing technology outsourced

programs; reduced capex and operational budgets 15%.

CITIBANK INTERNATIONAL, Fort Lauderdale, Florida ( 1993 - 1999

Vice President of Technology

. Headed global design, development, and deployment of credit card,

merchant, and POS systems, and all production related systems.

. Instituted local country technical infrastructure, IT related policies

and procedures, and SLAs.

. Implemented and managed offshore software development programs in India;

included contractual agreements, IT infrastructure setup, and development

interaction models and methodologies.

. Ensured 100% compliance of project management, requirements management,

software QA, configurations management, and subcontractors with corporate

standards and SEI-CMM processes.

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Kidder Peabody & Co. Inc., New York, NY ( 1989 - 1993

Regional Software Development Manager

. Managed and planned project lifecycles in the US, UK, Italy and Japan

for the customization and implementation of a global trading system

for common stock, fixed income, options, and government bonds.

. Managed technology groups including project leaders, systems

analysts, developers and testing staff as well as cross border

development and production support teams in the United Kingdom.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Computation

University of Manchester Institute of Technology (UMIST), Manchester,

United Kingdom

Bachelor of Arts in Political Economy: Macro & Micro Economics (Honors)

Greenwich University, London, United Kingdom

CITIZENSHIP

US Citizen

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