Christopher William Young

Current

Project Director (consulting 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

Christopher Young is a visionary leader and an inspirational writer and presenter.

Chris’ passion is in delivering business value by empowering individuals and teams to achieve their peak performance. He achieves extraordinary results through a combination of personal coaching and by the judicious application of industry best practice to deliver business-aligned information technology solutions.

As a senior executive with a broad knowledge and experience in financial services, he successfully leads projects and change management initiatives, designs information technology strategies and develops highly successful leaders through individual performance development. He is the founder and a principal consultant at White Water Consulting, one of Australia’s leading project management consultancies.

Chris has held a variety of senior management and consulting positions for a number of leading financial organizations within Australia and the UK including UBS, Macquarie Bank, Westpac Bank, NAB, CommInsure, Zurich Financial Services, Ord Minnett, Bank of America NT&SA, First National Bank of Chicago and State Bank Victoria.

Chris holds a Masters in Business Administration, a Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Science and is a certified NLP Trainer and Master Practitioner.

Some of Chris’ significant achievements include:
• Successfully delivered (on time, on budget, to specification) numerous business critical projects using both traditional project management (Prince2 and PMBOK) and Agile methods.
• Implemented best practices in process improvement, project management and software development process to achieve improvement in timeliness, cost effectiveness and predictability.
• Developed high-performance teams in the field of rapid software development for mission-critical real-time systems.
• Designed, architected and developed an innovative derivatives trading and risk management system for a leading international investment bank.

Christopher William Young’s Specialties:

project management, mentoring, coaching, program management, information technology strategy, information technology architecture, change management, navigating change, Six Sigma, 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 (consulting role)

nabCapital

(Financial Services industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Managing the successful delivery of the Calypso software application and related process changes for a front-to-back Interest Rate Derivatives trading and settlement system.

Implementing improvements to project management practices and team structure to ensure delivery and maximise value.
Principal Consultant

White Water Consulting

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

November 2003 — Present (5 years 9 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)