Jack Gurrad

About Jack Gurrad

Technology leader with a demonstrated history of driving process improvement and successful delivery utilizing agile principles. Adept at managing both onshore and offshore distributed teams, and international experience includes an expatriate assignment in Ireland. Strong financial acumen developed via an extensive work history concentrated in finance and capital markets environments and an MBA with a focus on International Business. Passionate about continuous improvement, both personally and at the team/organizational level.

Experience

1. Quantitative Model Solutions Sr Manager

   Wells Fargo

   Jan 2021 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US

   Responsible for driving enhancements to the enterprise AI platform and collaborating with data science teams to bring innovative solutions to production. Engaged across multiple workstreams including:• Product Owner for in-house platform capabilities, driving MLOps improvements to shorten deployment cycles, enhance integration for downstream systems, and support new ML frameworks. Responsibilities include managing the product backlog, participating in scrum ceremonies, gathering team feedback, and facilitating training on new features.• Leading cloud migration and adoption initiatives, focusing on defining functionality to support both predictive and generative AI. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to align cloud infrastructure with AI capabilities and strategic goals. Helped establish scalable onboarding procedures to streamline platform adoption across the organization and identified control gaps that require process changes and/or platform enhancements to ensure compliance and security.• Partnering with data science and tech teams early in project lifecycles to co-develop and document solution designs, feeding identified platform gaps into the product backlog.• Managing a team of data engineers who collaborate with data scientists to handle data-intensive tasks such as ingestion, curation, and feature engineering.

Education

• University of South Carolina

  Bachelor's Degree, Computer Information Systems

• University of South Carolina

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), International Business

  2014 — 2016

• Udacity

  AI Product Manager Nanodegree

Skills

• Fx Options
• Business Analysis
• Sdlc
• Business Process Improvement
• Foreign Exchange (Fx) Options
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Trading Systems
• Financial Services
• Capital Markets
• Derivatives
• Java
• Banking
• Risk Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Process Improvement
• Fixed Income
• Requirements Gathering
• Sql
• Requirements Analysis
• Investment Banking