Larry Zarou

About Larry Zarou

Enterprise Systems | Software Development | Service & Operations ManagementExecutive leader with software and financial services sector expertise in all facets of infrastructure and information technology development and management. Defines and leads the enterprise IT direction within high-profile global corporations. Consistent career achievement of top performance. Skilled in collaborating with all members of the organization to achieve business and financial objectives. Instrumental in streamlining and improving processes, enhancing productivity, operations, cost containment and implementing global technology solutions.Software Development Lifecycle Management (SDLM), Strategic Planning & Analysis, Enterprise Systems Management, Infrastructure Management, Testing Services, Service & Ops Management, Budget Management >$10M, Process Optimization, Technical Leadership, Coaching & Development, Risk Management

Experience

1. VP, Payments Platform Owner - Engineering & Operations Platinum Clients

   德意志银行

   Jul 2012 — Present

   Own end-to-end delivery of a platinum-client payments testing platform, spanning architecture, build, automation, operations, uptime, and production reliability- Design and operate a secure client sandbox enabling parallel testing of client code and bank code changes, reducing release risk and accelerating time-to-market- Lead platform automation across CI/CD, environment provisioning, regression testing, and deployment, materially lowering manual effort and operational risk- Accountable for availability, resilience, and incident management, with proactive monitoring, SLOs, and root-cause remediation for a mission-critical payments platform- Partner with engineering, product, and platinum clients to prioritize features, manage change, and safely roll out platform and protocol enhancements.

Education

• Adelphi University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Business & Communications with a specialization in Computer Science

Skills

• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Electronic Trading
• Middle Office
• Market Data
• Management
• Vendor Management
• Sdlc
• Back Office
• Leadership
• Solaris
• Fixed Income
• Strategy
• Sybase
• Trading Systems
• Prime Brokerage
• Disaster Recovery
• Business Analysis
• Unix Shell Scripting
• IT Management
• IT Operations
• Equity Derivatives
• Risk Management
• IT Strategy
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Investment Banking
• Credit Derivatives
• Itil
• Unix
• Infrastructure