Meet the Bankers

Modernizing Core Banking: A Guide for Financial Services Executives

Meet the Bankers

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Executive Overview

Meet the former "bankers" to get insights, learn from past projects, and determine which expert can benefit you today. Three steps to maximize your experience: 1. View “bankers” past projects. 2. Jump to a specific “banker”. 3. Request a brainstorming session.

Meet the bankers

We asked for a project they were proud of. Here's what they had to say...

Richard Harmon

I established a nationwide network with the top 50 banks to more accurately forecast short term mortgage refinance activity.

Cynthia Devaraj

My first implementation of Artifactory allowed me to partner with developers and deliver a product that impacted over 2 million artifacts.

Hector Arias

Creating the open API banking business for a global financial institution. It was a new concept and created tremendous opportunities.

Aric Rosenbaum

Created fractional shares which opened up stock trading to a wider audience by enabling consumers to better diversify their portfolio with real-time dollar-based investing.

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We asked for a project they were proud of. Here's what they had to say...

Mark Dlugokencky

Renovation of a data driven front office application suite focused around enhancing customer experience while mitigating risk.

Eric Marts

Taking transactional FX to the next level for the bank's retail and corporate customers. It directly impacted the bank's top line growth.

David Lee

The onboarding of IT automation was fun because it solved every day challenges that people run into, and it allowed individuals to write code and automation to solve problems.

Mahen Singh

We did an RPA product implementation within 2 months from start to finish and automated processes allowing employees to focus on innovation.

Joon Paik

We implemented IT automation which changed operations, and built in security and recovery measures. Manual processes by teams could now be automated.

Developing and tuning systems to receive and process huge amounts of transactions with low latency requirements has been fascinating, as well as truly beneficial to the customers and firms I have worked with.

Monica Sasso

With a regulatory deadline looming I delivered MiFID II at a wealth management firm, bringing together the reg and digital transformation efforts. It required true collaboration, organisational change and putting the client at the heart of the project.

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We asked for a project they were proud of. Here's what they had to say...

Vincent Caldeira

We didn’t have any digital tools for customers to easily use. The CEO gave us one year to release a digital investment portfolio tool. We created an agile team and built a digital delivery capability leveraging cloud technologies and DevOps in a matter of weeks.

Daniel Callot

The development of an internal and external facing portal for customers. Not only was the technical delivery unique, but we had a high functioning team with unique skills contributing. It was truly a case of optimal collaboration by talented people.

Kelly Switt

I led a business model transformation that created collaboration between the business and IT through the creation of purpose driven teams that delivered a measurable difference to the customers and the bottomline for the bank.

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Armin Warda

Contributed to the introduction to a new core banking system that became one of the first large banks running a core banking system on Linux. That led me to focus on future innovation.

Luiz Guimarães

I made a framework that allowed teams to easily code business logic and greatly improved time to market. That approach made the customer's experience better too.

Jim Bennett

Reengineered the operational model and the control risk functions, while managing operations for a major global firm. It took a lot of collaboration, drive and internal selling to get success.

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Ramon Villarreal

Led the modernization of the platform for payments acquiring organizations achieving heighten customer experience, the ability to release new products faster and maximize growth.

Jamil Mina

Led the implementation of the DevSecOps pipeline. My proudest moment was helping people transform to the new working approach and helping accelerate their digital delivery.

Peter Magnaye

A cloud migration project that required collaboration across technology and risk teams. The end product was better than we envisioned due to the collaborative work environment.

Russ Popeil

I managed the revision of the core banking interface to money transfer systems. We brought in real-time market feeds to do foreign exchange trade revaluation.

Stephane Matis

I developed a grid computing environment to efficiently run critical market regulatory compliance workloads, a similar design approach to modern container based distributed AI/ML.

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We asked for a project they were proud of. Here's what they had to say...

Brad Cupp

I supported the implementation of OpenShift which greatly decreased application development time to market.

Thomas McGinnis

I developed a system so teams could order Linux servers through a database and build everything automatically. It saved a ton of time by eliminating physical paperwork and manpower to build.

Kaleem Azhar

We developed an API framework that allowed banks and their customers to access their check images and information. This was a major step in customer service and it’s still used today.

Phil Avery

We were the largest SMS user and took it to a new level globally. We’d develop all day then hand off to the next timezone. It allowed us to deploy apps at an unheard of rate.

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Andreas Spanner

Developed the architectural foundation for hypergrowth t decouple business entities, prepare for acquisitions, and establish reference bank implementations.

Tim Hunt

I supported the internal implementation of SourceForge - the first Linux deployment there. It provided a standardized developer tool and created a shared collaboration space.

Atiq Adamjee

Upgraded a major firms’ network infrastructure and server infrastructure which improved processes from hours to minutes, all while the company was physically moving office locations.

Sergiu Bodiu

Many branches were closing and we had to get the digital channels available to keep the market presence. We built the program from scratch and were able to provide customers with easy access.

Meet the bankers

We asked for a project they were proud of. Here's what they had to say...

Meet Vincent Caldeira