Christopher William Young

Current

Project Director (contract role) at nabCapital
Principal Consultant at White Water Consulting

Past

Development Manager (contract role) at Zurich Financial Services Australia
Head of Equities IT (Australia) at UBS Investment Bank
Manager, Systems Development at Ord Minnett

Quantitative Analyst at Bank of America NT&SA
Quantitative Analyst at First National Bank of Chicago
Quantitative Analyst at First National Bank of Chicago
Systems Consultant at Protek
Technical Analyst at State Bank Victoria
Senior Software Engineer at BKX Australia

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Education

Australian Graduate School of Management

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Christopher William Young’s Summary

Highly experienced senior consultant specialising in assisting businesses to add value by creating practical business aligned IT strategies.

Areas of focus include:
• Delivering business-aligned IT strategy
• Project and program management
• Developing high-performance teams
• Implementing best practices in project management and software development process

Chris has previously held senior IT management positions within the Australian investment banking industry and he has worked for a number of leading financial organizations within Australia and the UK including UBS, Ord Minnett, Bank of America NT&SA, First National Bank of Chicago and State Bank Victoria.

Previous to this his roles have covered a variety of technical and consulting positions within the finance industry that have included IT project management, software architecture, software development, systems support and over three years as a quantitative analyst specialising in developing, trading and risk-managing exotic fixed-income derivatives.

Most recently, he has assisted his clients achieve business advantage through:

• Development of corporate technology strategy and architecture
• Assisting with the integration of IT and business strategy
• Project management training and mentoring
• Selection and management of third-party organizations for outsourced development
• Evaluation and selection of third party software
• Contract negotiation and vendor management
• Development and implementation of e-Commerce strategies
• Improvement in timeliness, cost effectiveness and predictability of the software development processes
• Undertaking technical due-diligence

Chris has Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Science and is currently undertaking an Executive MBA at the Australian Graduate School of Management.

He is a member of the Australian Computer Society, the Australian Institute of Management and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Christopher William Young’s Specialties:

information technology strategy, information technology architecture, change management, navigating change, Six Sigma, project management, mentoring, contract negotiation, vendor management, software evaluation, software selection, software development processes, technical due-diligence, trading systems, risk-management systems, Basel II

Christopher William Young’s Experience

Project Director (contract role)

nabCapital

(Financial Services industry)

June 2008 — Present (4 months)

Helping with the management of the delivery of a software application and related process changes for a trading and settlement system.
Principal Consultant

White Water Consulting

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

November 2003 — Present (4 years 11 months)
Development Manager (contract role)

Zurich Financial Services Australia

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

April 2007 — September 2007 (6 months)

Change Consultancy role assisting with the continuous improvement of software engineering capability and the development of a technical leadership capability.
Head of Equities IT (Australia)

UBS Investment Bank

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

September 1998 — October 2003 (5 years 2 months)
Manager, Systems Development

Ord Minnett

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Capital Markets industry)

January 1997 — September 1998 (1 year 9 months)
Quantitative Analyst

Bank of America NT&SA

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Capital Markets industry)

February 1994 — July 1996 (2 years 6 months)
Quantitative Analyst

First National Bank of Chicago

(Capital Markets industry)

June 1993 — January 1994 (8 months)
Quantitative Analyst

First National Bank of Chicago

(Capital Markets industry)

June 1993 — January 1994 (8 months)
Systems Consultant

Protek

(Computer Software industry)

October 1991 — June 1993 (1 year 9 months)
Technical Analyst

State Bank Victoria

(Banking industry)

December 1986 — January 1991 (4 years 2 months)
Senior Software Engineer

BKX Australia

(Computer Software industry)

1991 — 1991 (less than a year)