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Russell Illsley

Internet and Gambling Technology Leader

Malaga Spain
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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.
Detailed Description
  • Grew IT team from 25 to 50+ in 12 months.
  • Built User Experience (UX) and on-line marketing teams.
  • Built a project and programme management team.
  • Built a business analysis team to ensure the business got what they needed, first time.
  • Acquired betting platform and associated IPR.
  • Extended betting platform to support trading and operating needs of Stanleybet and partners.
  • Integrated betting platform into legacy systems.
  • Acquired Danish on-line and off-line gaming licenses.
  • Acquired Belgium off-line gaming license.
  • Acquired Polish on-line gaming license.
  • Acquired Malta on-line betting and casino licenses.
  • Built end to end on-line operation including eComms, Fraud, CRM, Marketing, CS functions ready for Polish B2B launch with STS.pl.
  • Introduced Information Security policies. This and other change described enabled StanleyBet IT pass their first external audit (PwC) in 8 years.
  • Implemented Marksense across retail outlets.
  • Implemented BetGenius freeing up approximately 45 FTEs.
  • Introduced basic ITIL principles, culture and tools such as Incident and Problem Management, Configuration/Change and Release Management, Monitoring and Reporting of Service Levels. Stabilised production and increased uptime.
  • Initiated Architecture programme to replace 15 year old VB code and to provide real time risk reporting and other key BI.
  • Initiated programs to deliver electronic offer to retail outlets.
  • Initiated programs to introduce new products such as Self Service Betting Terminals.
  • Initiated Virtualisation, Network and Server consolidation programmes.
  • Initiated staff development and training.
  • Introduced the concept of Build Management and initiated a move to a continuous integration process.
  • Defined and implement the end to end product development process.
  • Consolidated a leaky OPEX and CAPEX expenditure.
  • Built a Purchasing function and then moved this to the Finance team.
  • Divested IT from the legacy management of the HR function.
  • Build out of new Romanian B2B Call Centre and Gibraltar office.
  • Support the migration of trading support services to Malta.
Company website
http://www.stanleybetcorporate.com/
  • Product Management for all Bodog Brands / Channels
  • Programme Management for all Bodog Brands / Channels
  • Product Development for all Bodog Brands / Channels
  • IT Operations (Europe)
  • IT Service Delivery (Europe)
  • Art and UX
  • Architecture for Bodog Platform
  • 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
Company website
http://www.riplife.es/
  • 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).
Detailed Description
  • BP, Development Manager, Next Gen.

    Implementation of the Global Oil Core Scheduling Tool (CST) and its interfaces to legacy back office systems. A massively Agile project, spread across three sites, London, Canterra and Singapore. Based on a web service architecture using Glue to expose SOAP interfaces to rich DHTML client applications. The business tier was implemented using BEA's Weblogic implementation of J2EE with a custom layer to persist objects to an Oracle 8i database. CST used TIBCO RV
    hosted XML messaging between systems including a deal entry system and downstream legacy back-office systems for settlement and MIS reporting systems.

    This project was winner of BP´s Helios award.
  • Ansbacher Bank.

    Managing the outsource of existing projects and development of new products to BJSS including Trading, Loans & Mortgage, Workflow and Billing systems.
  • Reuters. LSE Extranet SETS Service.

    Migration of Reuters Equity Trading System to support LSE Extranet SETS Service.
  • London Stock Exchange, Secure Trade Settlement Billing System.

    Development of on-line billing system for LSE´s Secure Trade System System interface to CrestCo.
  • London Stock Exchange, Secure Trade Settlement System.

    Development of LSEs interface into CrestCo´s settlement system and associated PKI infrastructure.
  • Zurich Financial Services (+Allied Dumbar and Eagle Star), Development Manager.

    Responsible for the complete delivery of the group´s first online product, the self-service group pension plan system.
  • Orange PLC, Architect, Fraud Detection System.

    Architecture and design of real-time mobile telecoms fraud detection system.
  • Liberty (Reuters). Achitect and Project Lead, FIX Self Certification Services.

    Development to provide remote self-certification facilities interfacing into Reuters Inter-Trade Direct (RITD) FIX 4 Order Routing System.
  • Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Architect and Project Lead, CADs

    Development of global corporate actions (Reuters, Bloomberg, Vaorinform, Telekurs) platform providing real-time corporate action notification across DrKB group.
  • Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Architect and Project Lead, BestWINS trading platform.

    Development of Retail Service Provider (RSP) equity trading system supporting the Winterflood and DKB Best markets.
  • Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Architect and Project Lead, Corporate Actions Service.

    Development of a real time feed system of Corporate Actions into back office trade reporting systems.
  • Reuters, Interest Rate Option Pricing.

    Development of a realtime Interest Rate Option pricing engine.
  • Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Architect and Project Lead, Dividend Services.

    Development of a dividend notification service (Bloomberg and Telekurs) providing real-time events to front and back office systems across the DrKB group via Tibco ETX, web services and CORBA ORB services.
  • Tullett and Tokyo, Consultant, Review of PAT2 Trading System.

    Detailed architectural review of internal FX trading system for suitability for additional markets, capacity, performance, scalability and B2B services.
  • Reuters, Architect and Project Lead, Global Smelting Database and feed services.

    Development of system providing global smelting capacity across Reuters Commodities and Energy Products.
  • Reuters, Architect and Project Lead, Options and Position Monitor.

    Development of real-time Option pricing and position monitoring product.
  • London Underground, Architect, ¨Project Handover¨ Intranet.

    Architecture and Design of a system that managed all stock and associated work-flow management across the London Underground infrastructure.
  • Reuters, Architect and Project Lead, Financial Modelling Applications.

    Lead a team of Analysts and Engineering Teams to develop a suite of real-time pricing and modelling products including API statistics, spread and arbitrage, energy swaps and options.
  • Reuters, Project Manager, Y2K Testing of SETS Trading System.

    Lead the Y2K testing of Reuter´s FTSE 100/250 Equity Trading Interface (to LSE SETS).
  • Reuters, Architect and Project Lead, ¨Triach Online¨

    Delivery of one of Reuter´s first Intranet system,¨ Triach Online¨, a knowledge based for all Triach products across all business units including sales, site engineers, product development, service delivery and operations groups.
  • Reuters, Architect and Project Lead, SETS Head End

    Replacement of the RoyalBlue SETS feed system.
  • Reuters, Project Lead, London Exchange Viewer

    Delivery of LXV, Reuter´s SETS client..
  • Reuters, Project Lead, ViewBuilder.

    Delivery of Reuters SETS Feed for FTSE equity markets.
  • Barclays de Zoete Wedd (Barclays Capital), Consultant, Synthetic SWAP Based Derivative.

    Project Lead on the development of a new financial product and associated trade capture and back office tools.
  • Barclays de Zoete Wedd (Barclays Capital), Architect and Project Lead, NOSTRO Management System.

    Delivery of NOSTRO (Intra Bank Lending) Management System
  • Boldon James, Developer, X.500 Integrated Directory User Agent within X.400 User Agent.

    Project to provide X.500 directory service user agents using the DAP protocol.
  • Singer Freidlanger, Consultant, Capital Adequacy Reporting.

    Consultancy on the design of a Capital Adequacy Risk Management System.
  • Security And Futures Authority (Financial Services Authority), Architect, Encryption (and Compression) Algorithms .

    Delivery of a system to secure trade reporting between client organisations to the SFA.
  • Barclays de Zoete Wedd (Barclays Capital) - Global Market Risk Management, Architect, BRAHMS, Global Risk Reporting System

    Development of global risk management platform.
  • Security And Futures Authority (Financial Services Authority), Architect and Developer, Trade Reporting System

    Delivery of a system to facilitate electronic trade reporting between the SFA and financial organisations. Prior to this trade reports were delivered by courier.
  • Barclays de Zoete Wedd (Barclays Capital) - Global Market Risk Management, Designer and Developer, Risk Management Tools.

    Delivery of a number of risk management systems for Global Risk and Equity Derivative trading group..
Company Description
Specialising in the capital markets, energy trading and retail banking sectors. BJSS is an established IT consultancy of over 380 technologists delivering IT architecture, project management, business analysis, software design, development and testing services to an international client base. Founded in 1993 with offices in Leeds, London, New York, Manchester and Derby.
Company website
http://www.bjss.com/
  • 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)

Developer

FFC Software and Systems
September 1989 to January 1991
Full-time
Hadleigh
United Kingdom
  • Development of vertical market products in C and Objective C.
  • Early adopter of NeXTStep technologies and product development thereon.
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