Andrew Lister

Current

VP Technology at Thomson Reuters
Head of Labs Development at Reuters

Past

Innovation Technologist at Reuters - America (New York)
Lead Developer / Architect at Reuters
Consultant - Developer at Reuters

Developer at Symbian
Developer at OpenTrade Technologies

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Education

Queen Mary, U. of London

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Andrew Lister’s Experience

VP Technology

Thomson Reuters

(Public Company; TRI; Information Services industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

This roles sees me continuing with the Media division and joining the newly formed New Ventures team. The mandate of the New Ventures team is to deliver new products and businesses for Thomson Reuters.

In my role as part of the New Ventures team I continue to innovate around new products through the use of technology and user research. My day to day role consists of leading the Technology Strategy for a given product and leading the technology team and their efforts required to architect, build and deliver a product into production.

Current Project (purposely vague for commercial reasons) :
- Investment focused community product.

Recent:
- Thomson Reuters iPhone application
- Help define the Media API Strategy.
Head of Labs Development

Reuters

(Public Company; RTR.L; Financial Services industry)

September 2005 — Present (4 years 3 months)

Reuters Labs is a sandbox for showcasing new media initiatives for feedback and analysis. We focus on innovating around content aggregation, delivery and publishing across the web, mobile, IPTV and B2B delivery platforms.

The role of Head of Labs Development and Senior Technologist involves investigating and prototyping new product ideas through the use of technology.

Other achievement while working for the Media team have been:
- Successfully set up an offshore development team in China.
- Devise the content strategy for the Media group.
- Innovate new product developments through ideas, to prototypes and into production service.

Technologies: Open Source technologies, Internet Architecture, Java, Struts, PHP, Ruby on Rails, C#, Linux, Apache, Tomcat, Windows, Mac OS X, Digital Video Encoding Formats and delivery, Mobile, IPTV, iPhone, REST APIs etc

Context: Consumer Media, Internet News Agency, Scalable Internet Architecture, Agile Methodologies, Team Leadership.
Innovation Technologist

Reuters - America (New York)

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RTR; Financial Services industry)

January 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 9 months)

Working as part of the Reuters Innovative Program to investigate and deliver new innovative concepts and technologies into the Reuters core business segments.

The position held consisted of researching and identifying new technology concepts and trends. The work consisted of engaging various products and capability teams using prototypes and workshops based around scenarios, personas and brainstorms to encourage ideas and involvement.

Audio – User centered researched on how people use audio as a passive medium - including usage, demographics and delivery mechanisms. The results identified we could reach consumers through digital media devices and mobile phones at times we previously had no presence - prototyped the first Reuters podcasts.

Content Based Routing – Researched emerging technologies based around routing XML content intelligently. Built a number of prototypes to demonstrate the technologies and wrote papers of recommendation for the architecture and content groups.
Lead Developer / Architect

Reuters

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RTR; Financial Services industry)

December 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 2 months)

Working as part of the Development group in the Fundamental and Reference Data arm of Reuters.

The role of Lead Developer / Architect on the Search Capability project consisted of designing and developing a Search Capability for Reuters fundamental and reference data. Working with the Reuters architecture and development group both in the UK and US, as well as the Norwegian based search company, FAST.

Technologies: Architecture, .Net Framework, C#, Windows, Web Services, SOAP, XML, Internet Architectures, Search Technologies.

Context: Fundamental and Reference Data, Search Paradigms, High Level Technical Architecture and Design practices, Development Lifecycle and Technical Leadership.
Consultant - Developer

Reuters

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RTR; Financial Services industry)

December 1999 — December 2002 (3 years 1 month)

Reuters supplies financial markets and news media with information products and transactional solutions, including market data, research and analytics, trading platforms, investment data and analytics plus news in text, video, graphics and photos.

I joined the Reuters Consulting arm of Reuters and worked as part of the Field Development team as a Consultant Developer. My work consisted of consulting, designing and developing financial systems for clients as part of project based teams.

NASDAQ – Worked as part of team developing the NASDAQ Europe Super Montage Exchange. Primary task was Lead Developer in designing and developing the Trading GUI application. Worked client based as part of a multinational team located in London and Palo Alto US – I worked in both locations.

Technologies: Java, Swing, Servlets, Oracle, C++, UNIX, Windows, Apache, Tomcat, STL, ASP, XML, MQSeries, Tib RV, SQL

Context: Market Data, Equity Markets, Consulting, Reuters and Tibco Technologies
Developer

Symbian

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

July 1999 — December 1999 (6 months)

Symbian, the software licensing company, are the supplier of the advanced, open standard mobile operating system - Symbian OS. Worked as a Software Developer as part of the Messaging Team. As part of the Messaging team I helped develope the email, SMS, FAX and MMS messaging capabilities for the Symbian OS.

Technologies: C++, EPOC (Symbian OS)

Context: Mobile and Pocket PC Industry, Mobile Technologies, Mobile Development.
Developer

OpenTrade Technologies

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)

August 1997 — July 1999 (2 years )

OpenTrade Technologies are a company that provides complete Trading solutions to their customers; data feeds, platform and desktop suites. Starting as a graduate, as part of the OpenTrade graduate scheme, to became an established and respected member of the Desktop Development team.

- Added new and enhanced existing functionality on the desktop applications.

- Developed various stand alone application, including, an Instrument Limit Minder, a News Contributor and a Template Generator.

Technologies: C++, STL, UNIX, Windows, MFC, COM/DCOM, Win32 API

Context: Trading, Market Data, Software Development Lifecycles