Mark Oakden

Current

Director at UBS

Past

Support Manager / consultant at iTS Trading Systems
Senior Research Assistant at University of Liverpool

Education

University of Durham
University of Durham

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Mark Oakden’s Summary

Role: IT architecture, engineering and service delivery for the European Wealth Management section.

In 1998, I joined Perot Systems on the SBC Warburg account, where I have since worked in an evolving role across the Investment Banking and Wealth Management divisions of the bank, transitioning to an internal UBS position as a Director in January 2007.

Some highlights include:-

• Management of a small service delivery team of specialists in a wide range of disciplines (Monitoring, Job-Scheduling, Unix, Secure Authentication), including the development and driving of a cross-skilling programme
• Planned and executed (including on-the-day Command and Control responsibility) a physical move between datacentres of production backup infrastructure for both open systems and iSeries
• Storage technical lead and unix participant in a major datacentre move (London-> Frankfurt) combined with almost complete technology refresh (EMC-> HDS, SUN-> Fujitsu-Siemens)
• Designed platform hosting for a number of applications in the Wealth Management space (working with internal clients and external vendors to fit applications into UBS WMI hosting, availability, security architecture and DR standards)
• Redesigned VCS clustering and storage layouts for redeployment of e-services datacentres to host UBS onshore Wealth Management businesses in Europe and implemented all storage changes to a tight deadline
• Executed storage parts of FSA certification for UBS e-services (a proposed online “commodity” private banking project)
• Engineered the global standard for UBS Investment Bank networked Backup/Restore

As well as numerous programming/scripting mini-projects to analyse a number of aspects of UBS technology/application performance (e.g. performance profiling of web applications for country-local IT teams; SAN disk utilisation reporting; red/amber/green utilisation and performance reporting in UBS NAS environment; Tape utilisation graphing for capacity mgmt etc.)

Mark Oakden’s Specialties:

Technical Infrastructure Architecture, SAN, Backup/Restore, Open Systems Platform Design, Requirements gathering and clarification, Data analysis, scripting

Mark Oakden’s Experience

Director

UBS

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UBS; Banking industry)

June 1998 — Present (11 years 2 months)
Support Manager / consultant

iTS Trading Systems

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

December 1996 — June 1998 (1 year 7 months)

I headed the technical support dept. of a small interest rate derivatives software house. I also provided consultancy to clients in the investment banking sector across Europe.
Senior Research Assistant

University of Liverpool

(Research industry)

1994 — 1996 (2 years)

Member of a team working on analysis of data from the H1 detector at the HERA experiment based at the DESY facility in Hamburg.

Mark Oakden’s Education

University of Durham

Ph.D. , Theoretical Physics , 1990 — 1994

Thesis: “Amplitude analysis of data on anti-p p to \pi\pi at low-energy and its implications”, Supervisor: Dr. M.R. Pennington
Publications
• M.N. Oakden & M.R. Pennington, “Uncovering resonances coupling strongly to anti-N N,” DTP-94-98, Talk given at 3rd Biennial Conference on Low-Energy Antiproton Physics (LEAP 94), Bled, Slovenia, 12-17 Sep 1994
• M.N. Oakden & M.R. Pennington, “Amplitude analysis of PS-172 data on anti-p p to \pi\pi reveals resonances coupling strongly to anti-N N,” DTP-94-44, Contributed to 3rd Biennial Conference on Low-Energy Antiproton Physics (LEAP 94), Bled, Slovenia, 12-17 Sep 1994
• M.N. Oakden & M. R. Pennington, “Resonance structures in PS-172 results on anti-p p to \pi\pi,” Phys. Atom. Nucl. 57, 1578 (1994)
• M.N. Oakden & M.R. Pennington, “Amplitude analysis of data on anti-p p to \pi\pi at low-energy,” Nucl. Phys. A 574, 731 (1994)
• R.J. Barlow et al., “Report of the heavy flavours working group,” J. Phys. G 17, 1605 (1991).

Activities and Societies:

Kendo (Captain, Armourer and Treasurer in successive years), Iaido (Founder and President), Chess
University of Durham

B.Sc (Hons) , Joint Honours Mathematics and Physics , 1987 — 1990

Graduated with First Class Honours, as top of year. Received the Physics departments "J.A. Chalmers prize in physics" as a result.