1. TROND SIKKERBØL
Kroksundveien 1286 1870 Ørje Trondsikkerbol@gmail.com Mobil46 94 52 69
www.linkedin.com/pub/trond-sikkerbol/27/2b/ab4/
Senior Vice President of IT Senior Project Manager
SUMMARY
I am a highly rated senior IT manager with more than 20 years total working experience within
Investment Banking and IT industries in NAM, EMEA and ASPAC. Extensive experience in Corporate
Actions, Asset Servicing, Settlement and Tax. I have managed several multicultural IT development
teams in numerous locations worldwide in order to deliver large scale projects for our business partners.
I am an excellent communicator and comfortable with all levels of Senior IT and Business management.
My experience includes large banks/securities firms in the US where I have been part of several
re-engineering efforts, system conversions and large scale project work.
Profound skills in personal communication and passion to learn, efficiently share knowledge
and handle dynamically changing situations. Inspire co-workers and customers.
- Extended multicultural experience across NAM, EMEA and ASPAC
- Excellent communicator and presenter
- Business development and networking
- Leading IT security technologies
- Center of Excellence Expertise
- Corporate Actions/Asset Servicing Specialist
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
JP MORGAN CHASE, New York, NY 2014 - 2015
Vice President/Senior Project Manager
Restructured the firm’s Asset Servicing IT group in New Jersey, New York and the Philippines. Lead a
team of 40 IT professionals in an agile project lifecycle environment. Responsible for budgeting, large
project deliverables and people management.
● Successfully restructured the Asset Servicing IT group in order to increase productivity and
decrease project cost
● Worked closely with business partners in New York and London to deliver major upgrades and
enhancements to the Asset Serving and Corporate Actions application platforms
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CITI, Jersey City, NJ/Buffalo NY 2004 - 2014
Senior Vice President/Senior Project Manager
Plan, budget, track and direct Citi’s Corporate Actions, Asset Servicing and Tax systems in the firm’s
global financial department. Manage large on/off-shore Project Manager/Analyst/Developer teams. Work
closely with business partners’ worldwide on requirements to develop streamlined technology delivery
solutions.
● Saved Citi over $1M in 2014 by relocating Corporate Actions/Asset Servicing/Tax Tech teams from
high cost locations (NJ/NYC) to Buffalo, NY and Chennai, India
● Coordinated a major analysis project to provide estimates for expansion of quantity and amount
limitations within the systems
● Responsible for interacting with Tata Consulting for on/off-shore consulting staff
● Saved $432,000 yearly and eliminated need for 2 FTEs by automating dividend fee charges
● Reduced manual intervention by 90% and increased data accuracy 50% by automating Salomon
year-end IRS tax filing process, also reducing the firm’s risk and exposure
● Achieved savings of $216,000 per year by automating manual Smith Barney dividend distributions
process for foreign securities
● Participated in the re-engineering of Mainframe Stock Record & Settlement systems
PRUDENTIAL / WACHOVIA SECURITIES, New York, NY 1998 - 2004
Vice President/Project Leader
Managed the OTC In-House Trading application and supervised a staff of 12. Planned and led large-
scale projects through complete lifecycles, including estimation, budgeting, forecasting, and
requirements.
● Facilitated 40% increase in stock quote flow volumes by implementing large-scale re-engineering
project that improved trade execution process and reduced exposure
● Streamlined application batch processing times 50% through implementation of new batch process
enhancements, saving $80,000 per year
● Led installation of system enhancements to comply with NASDAQ requirements
● Served as Project Lead on conversion from CICS Mainframe to GUI front end environment as well as
Mainframe transaction flows to distributed platforms
PAINE WEBBER, Weehawken, NJ 1997 - 1998
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Provided technical support for Internet-based client account information system (EDGE) group and carried
out development and project leadership.
● Developed and implemented EDGE system, including CICS/DB2 mainframe modules
● Assisted with analysis, design, coding, and testing of new client billing system
● Developed and supported several specialized business/transaction systems
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ANDERSEN CONSULTING/ACCENTURE, New York, NY 1994 – 1997
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Assigned to Salomon Brothers ETPL application as a senior analyst/programmer
● Participated as a lead analyst for the Y2K initiative
BANKERS TRUST, New York, NY 1993 – 1994
Programmer/Analyst
TECHNICAL SKILLS
MS Office, MS Project, Share Point, VISIO, UNIX, OS/MVS, Plan View, Mystic/SDLC, COBOL, COBOL II,
JCL, SQL, Java, DB2, VSAM, IMS, IBM Visual Age, OS/MVS utilities & tools, QMF, Endeavor, FTP,
Changeman, CICS, MQ-Series, IBM Web Sphere