Benjamin Bennett

Profile

Experience

• Delivered key enterprise solutions for Buy-Side and Sell-Side clients across Fixed Income, Equity, FX and Structured Products by partnering with business and engineering leaders.
• Led multi-year redesign of EMSX resulting in Buy-Side’s most used execution management system and 2019 Waters Ranking: Best Execution Management System.
• Exceeded sales and usage targets by delivering an innovative Sales Trader Workflow solution to help clients meet their MiFID II regulatory requirements.
• Enhanced Sales Trader Workflow to further increase usage 21% in the past year alone.
• Fueled evolution of Chinese fixed income market by enhancing TOMS Advanced Market Making solution for onshore dealers through in-person contextual inquiry, prototype development, usability assessment, and sales team partnership.
• Managed team of ten in-house and contract Interaction Designers providing strategic direction, performance assessments, career development, and design oversight.
• Advanced the platform by instituting design standards and infrastructure enhancements.
• Designer for several industry leading, 2019 Waters Rankings award winning solutions:
• Best Sell-Side Front-Office Platform: Bloomberg (TOMS & MARS)
• Best Sell-Side OMS Provider: Bloomberg (TOMS)
• Best Buy-Side Compliance, Regulatory Reporting: Bloomberg (RHUB & STW)
• Best Execution Management System: Bloomberg (EMSX)

• Managed portfolio of user experience (UX) design projects, overseeing contract resources and vendor teams, ensuring quality user experiences.
• Developed and implemented strategies to improve Pfizer’s internal communication and collaboration platform, the world’s 3rd largest SharePoint implementation.
• Saved $8 million through design and implementation of enterprise communication platform consisting of reusable components shared across 34 intranet portals.
• Increased traffic by 60%+ to corporate communications portal through redesign, enabling content aggregation across 18 disparate SharePoint site collections.
• Championed user research including site analytics, surveys, polls, card sorting, one-on-one interviews, focus groups and usability testing to inform decisions and strategies.
• Designed enterprise-wide social networking platform to connect colleagues, dissolve departmental silos and enable knowledge sharing across 120,000 global colleagues.
• Created iPhone, iPad and Blackberry friendly mobile versions of several transactional, communication and collaboration sites.

Benjamin Bennett

Marsh & McLennan Companies, New York, NY

• Collaborated with senior management teams across all MMC operating companies on new, high-profile cross-company compliance and risk mitigation system.

• Performed strategic assessment of existing web-based offerings though interviews with senior executives, external customers and internal stakeholders.
• Devised 3-year, multi-million dollar roadmap to sustain long-term growth by evolving client’s web assets into flexible and fully integrated service delivery platform.

• Managed and led teams of UX designers and developers, including dedicated off-shore resources, to successfully deliver user interface designs and functioning HTML prototypes for several complex, global business applications.
• Helped to further develop the firm’s UI standards and worked to better integrate user-centric design into the firm’s evolving, RUP-based software development process.

• Provided user experience strategy and design for clients including New York Life, Housing Authority of Baltimore City, Manheim Auctions and March of Dimes.
• Developed information architecture including site maps and wireframes based on content analysis and user group segmentation / personas.
• Effectively transitioned Windows-based application to web-based by redesigning Tracker, America’s #1 Selling Dealer Management System.

• Designed user experiences for global clients including U.S. Bancorp, Goldman Sachs, Omnicom Group, Sprint and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
• Led team of 5 information architects to design integrated project-based work
  environment / specialized intranet for use by all employees across Omnicom Group.
• Developed site maps, schematics and page templates to implement unified, customer-centric architecture for U.S. Bancorp site’s 1600+ unique pages.

• Managed all activities related to production of existing web site including establishing procedures and workflows and managing team of designers and developers.
• Designed new Vignette StoryServer based site, developing information architecture including site maps, page layouts, navigation and search methodologies.

Accenture, fka Andersen Consulting, New York, NY, and Frankfurt, Germany
Consultant - UI Designer / Developer

• Designed and developed user experiences for global clients including Deutsche Boerse AG, Celanese AG and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
• Programmed solutions in HTML, Java (JHTML), C/C++, Lotus Notes, Sybase and Oracle.

Education

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Multidisciplinary Design Minor, Magna Cum Laude