Russell Illsley

Internet and Gambing Technology Leader My online resume

www.russell-illsley.com

Experience
Group CTO
Stanley International Betting Ltd - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Permanent contract - March 2011, August 2012

Contact me
Email rsillsley@hotmail.com Cell +34 618310059 Skype russellillsley MSN rsillsley@hotmail.com

Executive Director reporting to Owner. Service Delivery for all channels Digital and Retail including 2500 retail outlets across Europe. Product Management Product Development for Retail and Digital Channels InfoSec Acquistion and retention of Gaming Licenses Head of eGaming building online operations including UX, CRM, eComms, Fraud, CS, Domain Management.

Director of Product Development

Riplife Gaming Technologies (Bodog) - Malaga, Spain - Permanent contract - July 2008, September 2010

Product Management for all Bodog Brands / Channels Programme Management for all Bodog Brands / Channels Product Development for all Bodog Brands / Channels IT Operations (Europe) IT Service Delivery (Europe) Art and UX Architecture for Bodog Platform

Managing Director
Riplife Gaming Technologies - Malaga, Spain - Permanent contract - February 2008, September 2010

Founding Riplife - location, brand, culture, legal, build (office and IT infrastructure), acquisition, development and retention of talent and process. Hyper growth 0-170 FTEs in 2 years. Day to day management of HR, finance, administration, purchasing, recruitment. OPEX USD15M Functions included Product Management, Business Analysis, Project Management, Architecture, Development, QA, Art UX, Analytics, Service Delivery, Build and Deploy, InfoSec, DBA, Incident and Problem Management, Networks, Storage, Server and Desktop Admin, System Monitoring. In Spring 2010 Riplife opened a second office in Barcelona

Director of Product Development (Europe)

Riptown Media (Bodog) - Vancouver, BC, Canada - Permanent contract - September 2007, July 2008

Identify location (country, city, site) for new European Product Development centre. Product Management and Development for Bodogs Europe facing brand. IT Operations for Europe. Integration of Orbis OpenBet in to Bodog platform. Creating Riplife Gaming Technologies based in Malaga. Migrating Product development from Vancouver/Toronto to Malaga. Migrating components of IT Operations from Kahnawake and Vancouver to Malaga. Implementing ITIL framework and Service Delivery culture.

XO
Party Gaming - Gibraltar, Gibraltar - Permanent contract - September 2005, September 2007

Transition of all aspects of Gamebookers into PartyGaming Operations (Operations, Technology, People, Process, Customer Service etc). Integration of Gamebookers with PG Platform. Delivery of PartyBets (Product and Operation) Day to day management of Gamebookers operation in Sofia during transition period. On-going Product Management and Delivery of sports channel. Build of Multi-lingual CS in Bulgaria

Governance of product development across PartyGaming tech centers. Lead programme management across all channels. Special projects.

Head of Product Development

Victor Chandler - Gibraltar, Gibraltar - Permanent contract - September 2003, September 2005

Product management and delivery of all Victor Chandler brand and channels. Rebuilt product management and product delivery functions. Implemented Service Delivery framework / culture. Built new brand vcbet888.com.

Principal Consultant
BJSS - Leeds, United Kingdom - Permanent contract - February 1994, April 2003

Principal Consultant (Projects, Technology, Process) specialising in front office projects for investment banks and stock exchanges. Architect and Project Principal to clients including Reuters, London Stock Exchange, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Orange, BP, Zurich Financial Services, Dresdner Klienwort Benson, Tullett and Tokyo, Barclays Capital, Financial Services Authority, Singer Friedlanger. Development Manger for BP NEXTGen Programme USD22M delivering global end to end (from extraction to delivery at pump) oil scheduling system across BP (B2C and B2B). Project Manager and Architect Reuters SETS trading system. Project Principal for London Stock Exchange secure trade settlement system. Project Principal for Zurich Financial Services self service group pension system. Project Lead for Orange mobile communications fraud detection system. Architect and Project Lead for numerous Reuters projects including Remote FIX Integration Certification Tools, Derivative Pricing Tools, Position Management tools, Intranet Product Management Systems, various feed, display and valuation systems for equity, bond, commodities and energy, options, swaps markets/instruments Design of encryption algorithms and associated transport systems for the Financial Services Authority. Development Lead for Barclays de Zoete Wedd (Barclays Capital) Global Market Risk group developing pricing and risk management tools (equity, bond, convertible bond).

Assistant VP (Global IT)

Bankers Trust - London, United Kingdom - Permanent contract - August 1993, January 1994

AVP responsible for delivering strategic platform for pricing, trade execution and reporting across BT business units.

Development Manager
Applied Logic Research - London, United Kingdom - Permanent contract - January 1991, August 1993

Object Orientated Technology Leader. Lead team working with Language designer Bertand Meyer developing Eiffel language libraries and tools. Lead team working on ESPRIT project 5531 Business Class that promoted the acceptance and adoption of Object Orientated Technologies by the business commnuity. Architect and project lead on Dixons Group Complaint Management System - one of the first commercial projects that used the Eiffel programming language and Object Orientation Technology foundations as described in Meyers seminal book Object Orientation Software Construction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-Oriented_Software_Construction)

Developer
FFC Software and Systems - Hadleigh, United Kingdom - Permanent contract - September 1989, January 1991

Development of vertical market products in C and Objective C. Early adopter of NeXTStep technologies and product development thereon.

Skills
My skills include:Software Development Online Gaming Poker Casino Betting Sports Live Betting Mobile Product Small Screen

E-commerce PSP Web Development CTO CEO CDO Infrastructure Start-ups Team Leadership Consultancy Agile Leadership Strategy Product Delivery Test Driven Development Continuous Integration Management Gaming Industry Licensing InfoSec Software Quality Assurance Product Management Programme Management Project Management Service Delivery IT Strategy Executive Director User Experience Online Marketing CRM System Architecture Technical Testing Capacity Transition Management Software Design Process Change Scrum Strategic Partnerships Martketing