John Canning
Director at UBS
Marlboro Township, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Canning is a seasoned director and program manager with nearly three decades of experience delivering large-scale technology solutions for financial services, currently leading trading systems integration and digital strategy at UBS. He has a proven track record migrating and integrating complex wealth management platforms—most notably orchestrating the seamless transfer of over one million managed accounts into Morgan Stanley’s platform—while balancing scope, client goals, and cross-functional vendor delivery. Skilled at translating investment-management domain knowledge into reliable technical programs, he blends agile-minded problem solving with strong stakeholder communication and portfolio-level reporting. A former developer who rose through roles at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, he uniquely combines hands-on systems understanding with strategic product ownership. Outside of work he’s committed to mentorship and community—coaching youth basketball to a national tournament and volunteering with a camp for seriously ill children—underscoring a leadership style that develops people as well as programs.
9 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Finance General, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Finance General at NYU Stern School of BusinessBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Communications, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Communications at Fordham University
Github Skills (28)
tkinter10
docker-compose9
docker8
data-structures8
python8
visualization8
docker-image8
jquery-plugin7
programming-language7
golang7
transcrypt7
orchestration6
jquery6
pearson6
grid5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BlaiseRitchie/tomas
Oct 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:100 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
JMCanning78/datastructures-visualization
Jan 2020 - Jun 2022
Visualization of data structures and algorithms using Python and Tkinter
Contributions:34 reviews, 200 commits, 229 PRs in 2 years 6 months
pythontkinteralgorithms-and-data-structuresdata-structuresvisualization
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