Marlon Drummond

About Marlon Drummond

Senior Executive with 20+ years of extensive technical and managerial experience in the Financial and Securities Industry. Successful manager with strong leadership skills and full knowledge spectrum of technology, including operations, business development and strategic planning. Strong hands-on technical, organizational and interpersonal skills. Motivated team builder with demonstrated ability to communicate effectively both at senior and staff levels. Demonstrated ability to align technology strategies with business objectives, deliver sustainable results, and effectively manage costs. Industry knowledge includes, Enterprise Architecture, Systems Integration, Engineering, Project Management, Data resource management, System development with supporting methodologies, Market Data, Voice/Data Networking, IT Security, Compute, Cloud and Storage.Key Achievements:• Built and fostered a transformation as a way of life culture within the organization to embrace innovation as the guiding principle throughout our technology journey• Implemented a measured and monitored efficiency governance program to reduce cost across all of our operational service towers• Organizational transformation using the ITIL frame work, to better align our target operating model to improve service efficiency to our business partners• Setting up the organization for success through talent upskilling and targeted recruitment as part of the natural attrition process as we pivot to SRE and DevOps as a way of life • Architect of the global Capital Market network low latency trading strategy. Working with the trading business (Global Equities) to improved order flow fill rates by as much as 50% through the use of optimized order routing using proprietary Algo’s• Part of the global data center council responsible for RBC’s 132 global DC and collocations • Drove the engineering and deployment of the enterprise SD-WAN technology to transform the RBC retail, WM, CM and Treasury branch networks across the globe• Part of the team responsible for developing the digital transformation strategy of the bank for technologies including mobile, branch, data center, security and cloud

Experience

1. Global Engineering and Network Integration, Sr Director

   RBC

   Aug 2016 — Present · US

   Driving the RBC multi-cloud SaaS & IaaS strategy through strategically partnering with Equinix and direct peering with the Internet Exchange to provide global and seamless multi-cloud access 32 countries.Partnering with Global Security to help define a global Zero trust (SASE / CASB) model for our 80k user base.Driving the digital transformation and network automation strategy for our P & CB, Capital Markets, Wealth Management, Investment Banking and Insurance business lines through reinvestment of technology currency debt.Creating the frame work (business culture and organizational shift) for RBC’s adoption of the Site Resiliency Engineering (SRE) discipline in the Telecommunications Services group.Driving the network as code framework using Ansible, Git, Python, Jenkins etc, CI / CD framework for code and compliance efficacy.Modernization of the retail bank branch through the use of SD-WAN, internet off load, Nextgen Wifi, adaptive signage, centralizing compute (thin branch) saving the bank over $30MM in hardware refresh cost.New global collaboration and remote access strategy in response to COVID-19 to enable 60k RBC employees to work remotely using Webex, Zoom, Vbrick etc.Partnering with Equinix in building a world class global low latency trading network platform for the equities, prop trading and currency business in the US (NY4/5), UK (LD4/6), Canada (TR2 / Q9), Asia (SG1 / HK2). Drove the engineering and execution to a single DWDM platform converting from Cisco 454 to Ciena 6500 across the US, CA and UK.Data Center and Shared Service transformation to modernize all the components of the technology.

Education

• Queens College

  BA, Accounting

Skills

• Sdlc
• Market Data
• Network Design
• Business Analysis
• Disaster Recovery
• Eigrp
• Management
• Cisco Routers
• Ip
• Vendor Management
• Cisco Technologies
• Strategy
• Networking
• IT Strategy
• Qos
• System Administration
• Bgp
• Equity Trading
• Switches
• Low Latency
• System Deployment
• Servers
• Unix
• Hardware
• Trading Systems
• Data Center
• Cloud Computing
• Infrastructure
• Electronic Trading
• Fixed Income
• Enterprise Software
• Cisco Ios
• Routing