Information Technology and Services Professional
Falkirk, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Founder at Phi company
- Past
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- Assistant Vice President at State Street Global Link, Tokyo, Japan
- IT Manager at State Street Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
- Senior Network Engineer at Fusion Systems Japan, Tokyo, Japan
- IT Support Engineer at The Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Software Developer at The Royal Bank of Scotland
- Software Developer at The Royal Bank of Scotland (Royal Scottish Assurance), Edinburgh, Scotland
- PC and Network Support Engineer at BP Chemicals LTD, Grangemouth, Scotland
- Education
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- Napier University
- Alva Academy
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Simon Kindlen’s Summary
Simon is a highly experienced, and motivated, technology professional. Comprehensive career within banking and consultancy industries, in Scotland and abroad. Is now looking for employment.
In the last year or so he has been busy setting up a internet start up, registered in Singapore. Producing a a site to easy the process of searching for boats over many sites. Site launched in August 2008, www.asia-boat.com.
Skill titles such as IT engineer, manager, support analyses, and developer. Experience in LAN and WAN technologies, network security, PBX manager and administrator, PC and server support and development. Manning help desk , first, second and third level support. Software development of STP solutions for the banks.
All through his career he has been customer focused in providing technological solutions for the business side. A clear ability to articulate both requirements and solutions in terms that are understood equally well by none technical and by technologists. Wishes to continue his career in technology using his inter-personal skills.
Simon Kindlen’s Specialties:
Client account management. Managing multicultural environment. Web solutions development. IT department manager. DR and BC management. Front and back office experience of investment banking. Localizations of website. PC and Network administration (Linux/Wins). Voice and data management. Helpdesk manager. Website designer and producer. Solutions architect and developer. Project management.
Simon Kindlen’s Experience
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Founder
Phi company
(Internet industry)
October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Co-founder of Internet startup registered in Singapore.
Produced asia-boat.com website that consolidates boats for sale in Asia on broker sites.
Created infrastructure for developing and hosting the site. System administrator.
Designed, developed and managed the back end and the front end of the site. Scripts index content of broker sites, and inserts raw data into database. The raw data is then groomed by database stored procedures, functions, and PHP scripts, into a uniform format. Modified CMS Joomla! to render the groomed data. Customised Joomla! module LQM, php scripts and custom CSS rules.
Internet marketing of the site. Analysed website traffic and the website to improve SEO.
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Assistant Vice President
State Street Global Link, Tokyo, Japan
(Public Company; STT; Financial Services industry)
October 2000 — March 2006 (5 years 6 months)
Client account manager, technical sales and developer for Global Link. Global Link, State Street’s e-finance multi-asset/multi-bank network. Main product multi-bank FX trading network, and research web site in English and Japanese, post trade matching and confirmation system.
Provided technology support for marketing department. Enabled GL to capture the greatest market share of electronic FX execution.
Client account manager: Provided technical support for clients (citibank, SMAM, BOA, Nomura, Dai-ichi, Daiwa, UBS) and marketing. Gained experience in technical marketing. Gained experience in marketing. Presented the technologies of GL, managed client site installation of GL infrastructure, product development, liaise with client IT departments. Monitored and administrated Unix servers. Managed help desk providing 1st to 3rd level support.
Developed Visual Basic Application STP solutions. Integrated client trading systems with GL FX trading system. Analysed needs and requirements to deliver STP solutions. Managed the full software life cycle, analysis, develop, test and roll out. Liaised with head office developers on core product development. Provided support and leadership for regional STP developers and offices.
Managed DR and BC for SSGM: Planning, testing, reporting. Gained a knowledge of other businesses areas.
Localised English website to Japanese. Managed translation process of the site from English to Japanese. Modified site for Japan. -
IT Manager
State Street Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
(Public Company; STT; Financial Services industry)
October 1998 — October 2000 (2 years 1 month)
IT Manager for State Street Bank branch office in Tokyo, Japan. Trading desk of 8 FX Traders, and back office of 30 staff.
Set-up IT Department. Managed and developed the technology infrastructure. Liaised with head office on technology and operational development. Managed market data, servers, PC, network, voice and data. Project management of local and global infrastructure. Y2K site manager. Contingency Planning.
Managed Tokyo branch relocation to parent company offices. Projected manged the technology infrastructure installation for the move. Replacement PC and server for front and back office, new trader PBX and turrets, voice and data network. -
Senior Network Engineer
Fusion Systems Japan, Tokyo, Japan
(Banking industry)
November 1996 — October 1998 (2 years )
Technology consultant to multinational companies in Tokyo.
Managed help desk, and Second line support. Voice and Data manager. PBX administrator. PC, MS server, network engineer. Help desk analysis
Summary of the main IT consultancy projects managed.
Society Generale: 6 month relocation project. Consolidating two sites. Roll out of NT workstation and server environment. Roll out of Notes 4.5 Server. Support for the dealing floor of 500 traders.
ING Barrings: Manage process of analysing order execution and IT systems. TIBCO and propriety soft.
AgrEvo Japan K.K: Analysis and audit the IT infrastructure, follow up report on recommendations. Standardised Novell servers to corporate standard and replace all workstations with one standard install.
Rohm and Haas Japan K.K.: Develop and deploy desktop standard build for MS Windows
Paribas: Assisted in the project management of migration from cc: Mail to Lotus Notes.
Philip Morris K.K: PBX and CTI proposal, an evaluation and audit.
Cartier Japan: Internet security. Checkpoint Firewall 1 configure and install. IT advisor. -
IT Support Engineer
The Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RBS; Banking industry)
July 1993 — October 1996 (3 years 4 months)
LAN, WAN, data and voice manager. PC and server engineer. Manage infrastructure for head office, regional offices and financial consultants. 400 laptop users in the field, +80 head office and +30 regional office staff . Manage voice and data. PBX administrator.
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Software Developer
The Royal Bank of Scotland
(Banking industry)
1993 — 1996 (3 years )
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Software Developer
The Royal Bank of Scotland (Royal Scottish Assurance), Edinburgh, Scotland
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RBS; Banking industry)
January 1993 — July 1993 (7 months)
Analysis and developed a Windows prototype replacement for legacy Fame POS DOS application.
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PC and Network Support Engineer
BP Chemicals LTD, Grangemouth, Scotland
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BP; Chemicals industry)
January 1990 — January 1991 (1 year 1 month)
Help Desk. PC support engineer.
Simon Kindlen’s Education
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Napier University
BSc Computer Science , Programming, System Design, Database, Management , 1988 — 1992
4 year course
- Activities and Societies:
- Photographic society.
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Alva Academy
1981 — 1988
