Graham Colborne served in several senior 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.
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 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 and I worked together specifying and implementing a secure communication system for banking/corporate high level transactions. I enjoyed working with him, he was professional, detailed and whilst representing his company interest to the highest degree also very personable and a pleasure to deal with. - Peter Holland, Account Manager at Protek
