Gerard Bonar
Gerard Bonar is a Principal - Development Operations in Trading Technology at Milliman’s Financial Risk Management practice in Chicago. He works closely with teams from Software Development, Portfolio Management, Defined Outcome, and Capital Markets, ensuring effective collaboration and stable production processes.
Gerard is responsible for building and maintaining production environments and managing release processes to ensure smooth and controlled deployments. His day-to-day work involves identifying and addressing risks to production, helping to maintain system reliability.
He also oversees the trading environments for Milliman’s trading floors in Chicago, London, and Sydney, ensuring that each location’s systems run efficiently and without disruption. Through his role, Gerard supports the global trading operations, helping to maintain the integrity of Milliman’s financial systems.
Experience
Gerard has more than 20 years of work experience in technology, starting out as a Developer and moving into various Quality Assurance lead roles and onto Development Operations. He has worked for companies such as Ericsson Expertise Ireland, Parlano, and UBS.
- Master of Business Administration, Open University Business School, United Kingdom
- HDipIT, NUI Maynooth, Ireland
- Bachelor of Business Studies, Glamorgan University, Wales, United Kingdom
- Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)