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Robert.Russell@GMail.com 
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I'm a strong leader of people, with a decade of experience as a builder of high-performance teams that get things done in IT for companies in the financial industry, and 5 years of prior experience architecting and delivering products to market for disruptive startups.

I'm best at running, optimizing and innovating with IT service delivery and production management, as well as technology risk management and business continuity. I'm known for turning ambiguity to vision, keeping changing priorities aligned with strategy, and building process improvements in to everything we do.

I've been successful because I'm driven to get things done, passionate about continuous process improvement, and I'm motivated by the successes of my teams. I work best in companies that are fiercely competitive with their external competitors, and collaborative with their internal structure.

My most recent success at Macquarie as their Vice-President of IT Operations and Risk Management was integrating the systems of Blackmont Capital that we bought from CI Investments and rebranded as Macquarie Private Wealth.  I also brought those applications up to standard for our auditors and regulators, as well as packaged up service delivery for the sale of our Mortgage servicing business to Paradigm Financial.  These major initiatives completed at the end of 2011.