Brice Beard

Electronic Trading Technology Executive with strong Leadership and Agile experience, wide Investment Banking knowledge, and deep software development and infrastructure experience. In-depth expertise in Agile Planning and Delivery gained over more than 20 years of global experience in Equities ( Cash, Finance, Prime Brokerage, Equity Derivatives, Program Trading, Portfolio Trading, Algorithmic Trading, and Listed Derivatives ) and Fixed Income (FX, Swaps, Bonds, eCommerce). DevOps champion and Automation Testing expert who fosters productivity and engagement through continuous improvement and innovation. Expert in designing and implementing mission-critical, realtime distributed systems in Electronic Trading, pricing, and risk across Forex, Fixed Income and Equity domains. Lead team to develop or re-engineer complex, latency sensitive applications to empower business, with a focus on performance, scalability, resiliency and time to market. Leadership in developing innovative systems from proof of concept to production using Agile methods ( certified Scrum Master and LeSS practitioner). Excel at architecture, design, performance tuning, low latency, concurrency, messaging, design patterns and continuous delivery. Define department-wide infrastructure and systems interaction. Implement, communicate and lead the adoption of technologies, processes, tools, standards and services.