Project Management & Tier 1 Consultancy

Our skill sets come from the Blue Chip arena which is why a large part of our business is professional services to corporate entities. We have managed projects from £10K to £10,000,000 across all areas of technology.

Our consultants all have decorated CV's in the industry and accreditation including ITIL and Prince 2. We are happy to manage business as usual projects even on a part time basis or complete full life cycle global programmes with a finite delivery date and budget. Our major projects have all been completed on budget, on time with a 100% strike rate. Please see below some projects executed by our team:

Global BCP (Disaster Recovery) Project

Our consultants have designed and rolled out a global BCP project for a high end global asset manager including:

• 97% Pass rate of applications and system failover
• Full test exercise model
• Configuration database and system dependency model
• BCP Procedures and application owners TRAP (Technology Recovery Action Plans)
• Impact analysis and crisis management

Data Centre Design & Build

3GI have experience of design and building Tier 1 Data Centres please see below for information around our last DC build:

• 3000 Square feet
• Greenfield new build site
• 60 Cabinets
• Dark Optical Fibre installation
• Heating and Power cooling rationalisation study
• System migration and population
• Product / BCP DR management

Equities IT Rationalisation project

Our experience within the financial space not only covers the actual IT components, our consultant have experience of delivering projects within the business space blending IT knowledge with over 20 years in the Equities business:

• E- Solutions execution and clearing feeds
• Client confirmations and allocation management
• Outsourced confirmation systems
• Outsourced settlement agent migration

Equity confirmations design and global roll out

Our consultants have experience in designing and rolling out Equity confirmation systems to over 200 Banks / Brokers / Asset managers all over the world. This project managed by 3GI consultants involved a 125 man team in over 27 countries covering all continents. Project included:

• Design and build of application
• Testing and deployment strategy
• Resource allocation and budget management
• Application support mechanism
• Documentation and Project management
• Issue management and resolution

Hedge Fund build and support

3GI consultants have experience in design and building Hedge Funds from the ground up. Understanding the needs of the client and best practices 3GI was able to deliver the client:

• Full high availability instant server failover
• ISV management and trading portfolio system management
• Market Data implementation and failover
• BCP Strategy
• Trading Workstation Design / Build / Deployment

Equities Research Market Analyser

With our knowledge not only within the technology space but also within the actual business and markets we are able to work with traders and analysts to build technical systems to automate and enhance trading and research models. We have experience across the board within execution and portfolio management systems but please see below for a recent accomplishment from our team:

• Analysis and BRD documentation of research analysis practise.
• Proof of concept build for automation
• Build and testing of research app to save 60 hours per week of analysis time
• Error detection and stale data alerts
• Outputs and reporting function to PDF and Excel.

All carried out within a strict Agile software delivery life cycle (SDLC), our team of Business Analysts and Developers can automate and enhance just about any trading practise.