Graham Colborne served in several senior IT management roles over a period of over 17 years for the International Securities Market Association Ltd. in London, UK. During this time he mangaged the Operations, Systems & Networks, Software Development, QA and Business Continuity departments before finally taking on the role of Senior IT Projects Manager. During this period many significant projects took place. Here are a few examples:
COREDEAL Financial Exchange
This service had to comply with the Financial Services Authority's (UK Government Regulator) strict guidelines in order to be granted a licence to operate. this included close scrutiny of the system design, operating procedures and business continuity plans. COREDEAL went live on time and on budget.
Secure Document Server
A secure document storage facility for board members who were spread all over the world.
Secure Transaction System
ISMA ran a large private network with over 800 individual private links to other financial institutions. This initiative enabled secure transactions to take place over the Internet removing the need for the private circuits.
Corporate website
A sophisticated content management providing facilitiesfor multiple writers to update the site in a controlled manner. This solution was implemented as a dual-redundant solution across two sites delivered successfully in a very ambitious timescale and to budget.
Year 2000 Compliance
As a financial institution providing services to 900+ members and with a large number of suppliers and over a million lines of code to examine this was a very large project for the organisation. All ISMA's systems continued through the millenium completely unaffected.
GenRad Ltd.
Graham Colborne providded services to this major player in in the Electronics Test market for over 5 years. As European Systems Manager was responsible for all IT infrastructure and services within Europe.
Woodside
EPICentre SharePoint System
Rio Tinto
Operations Centre, Train Control Duplication programme.
Barrick Gold & Silver Chain
Many IT projects managed for these organisations within the overall PMO portfolio of projects.
Testimonials
When I joined the International Securities Market Association Ltd as IT Director, Graham was performing the role of Computer Systems & Networks Manager. At this time ISMA Ltd was about to embark on a flagship project 'COREDEAL' to set up a "Recognised Investment Exchange" for trading fixed income financial instruments. Given Graham's track record of succesful projects I offered him the wider role of "Senior IT Projects Manager." Graham managed the project very succesfully delivering it on time and within budget. Graham has a very wide experience in IT from both a technical and mangerial perspective. Graham is able to mak a significant contribution to an IT department in a purely management capacity or one that involves understanding technical issues. Graham is an extremely reliable and honest individual and will be a valuable asset to future organisations.- David Lawler, IT Director at International Securities Market Association Ltd.
I have worked with Graham at ISMA for 10 of the last 15 years.
Graham has a wealth of experience in the IT industry.
One of his great strengths is his ability to distil information and highlight those aspects relevant to the business.
Graham maintains great integrity throughout all his work and is one of the most honest and trustworthy individuals that I have worked with. - Richard Woodward, Head of Software Development at ISMA Ltd.
I was working with Graham while he was a project Manager at ISMA Ltd. The project was to add access Security to one of the Online-applications. His requirements were stated clearly and his evaluation of our product was thorough and professional. Having selected our product he managed the implementation very effectively. I would be very happy to work with him again in the future. - Dieter Orlowski, Executive Vice President - Sales at comForte Inc.
Graham has the capacity to comprehend the essential details of a project, simplify concepts for senior stakeholders as well delve deeper into subjects as required when working through technical requirements. His attention to detail and common sense approach make him a valuable resource. - Mike Schuman, Principal Infrastructure & Communications Strategy at Rio Tinto Iron Ore
Graham was a Director of the Telecommunications Users Association (TUA) who undertook his directorship with skill and understanding of the small organisation, albeit with an influence over the UK regulatorty bodies of the time. Graham aided my role as membership manager by helping encourage and steer my personal development. We worked for five years together organising events, arranging high level regulatory review meetings and consultations. In this time Graham was one of the most dependable and commited directors TUA had on board. - Steve Thorpe, Membership Manager at Telecommunications Users Association
