Russell Illsley

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Experiences

Executive Director reporting to Owner.
Service Delivery for all channels Digital and Retail including 2500 retail outlets across Europe.
Product vision and management of Retail and Digital channels.
Product Development for Retail and Digital channels
InfoSec
Acquisition and retention of Gaming Licenses
Head of eGaming building on-line operations including UX, CRM, eComms, Fraud, CS, Domain Management.

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Riplife Gaming Technologies (Bodog)

July 2008 to September 2010

Full-time

Malaga

Spain

Founding Riplife - location, brand, culture, legal, build (office and IT infrastructure), acquisition, development and retention of talent and process.
Hyper growth 0-170 FTEs in 2 years.
Day to day management of HR, finance, administration, purchasing, recruitment.
OPEX USD15M
Functions included Product Management, Business Analysis, Project Management, Architecture, Development, QA, Art UX, Analytics, Service Delivery, Build and Deploy, InfoSec, DBA, Incident and Problem Management, Networks, Storage, Server and Desktop Admin, System Monitoring.
In Spring 2010 Riplife opened a second office in Barcelona

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Riptown Media (Bodog)

September 2007 to July 2008

Full-time

Vancouver

Canada - British Columbia

Identify location (country, city, site) for new European Product Development centre.
Product Management and Development for Bodog´s Europe facing brand.
IT Operations for Europe (London, Dublin, Spain, Alderney)
Integration of Orbis OpenBet in to Bodog platform.
Founding Riplife Gaming Technologies based in Malaga.
Migrating Product development for all channels from Vancouver/Toronto to RIplife Gaming Technologies.
Migrating components of IT Operations from Kahnawake and Vancouver to Malaga.
Implementing ITIL framework and Service Delivery culture.

Transition of all aspects of Gamebookers into PartyGaming Operations (Operations, Technology, People, Process, Customer Service etc).
Integration of Gamebookers with PG Platform.
Delivery of PartyBets (Product and Operation)
Day to day management of Gamebookers operation in Sofia during transition period.
On-going Product Management and Delivery of sports channel.
Build of Multi-lingual CS in Bulgaria
Governance of product development across PartyGaming tech centers.
Lead programme management across all channels.
Special projects.

Product management and delivery of all Victor Chandler brands and channels.
Rebuilt product management and product delivery functions.
Implemented Service Delivery framework / culture.
Built new brand vcbet888.com.
Levered previous investment bank quantitative experience to build auto-trading systems for Asian markets.

Principal Consultant (Projects, Technology, Process) specialising in capital markets and energy trading.
Architect and Project Principal to clients including Reuters, London Stock Exchange, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Orange, BP, Zurich Financial Services, Dresdner Klienwort Benson, Tullett and Tokyo, Barclays Capital, Financial Services Authority, Singer Friedlanger.
Development Manger for BP NEXTGen Programme USD22M delivering global end to end (from extraction to delivery at pump) oil scheduling system across BP (B2C and B2B).
Project Manager and Architect Reuters SETS trading system.
Project Principal for London Stock Exchange secure trade settlement system.
Project Principal for Zurich Financial Services self service group pension system.
Project Lead for Orange mobile communications fraud detection system.
Architect and Project Lead for numerous Reuters projects including Remote FIX Integration Certification Tools, Derivative Pricing Tools, Position Management tools, Intranet Product Management Systems, various feed, display and valuation systems for equity, bond, commodities and energy, options, swaps markets/instruments
Design of encryption algorithms and associated transport systems for the Financial Services Authority.
Development Lead for Barclays de Zoete Wedd (Barclays Capital) Global Market Risk group developing pricing and risk management tools (equity, bond, convertible bond).

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AVP responsible for delivering strategic platform for pricing, trade execution and reporting across BT business units.

Object Orientated Technology Leader.
Lead team working with Eiffel language designer Bertrand Meyer developing Eiffel language libraries and tools.
Lead team working on ESPRIT project 5531 ¨Business Class¨ that promoted the acceptance and adoption of Object Orientated Technologies by the business community.
Architect and project lead on Dixons Group Complaint Management System - one of the first commercial projects that used the Eiffel programming language and Object Orientation Technology foundations as described in Meyers seminal book Object Orientation Software Construction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-Oriented_Software_Construction)

Skills

Internet and Gambling Technology Leader