Alan Mclean Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, United States

New York, United States

Software Engineer within Morgan Stanley's Listed Sales and Trading department - Primary engineer on a new event-sourced trading application built using Java- Increasing system observability using OpenTelemetry to help reduce the challenges of production support issues within distributed systems- System design analysis on existing trading systems and how to re-architect them to achieve better flexbility, scalability, and 100% uptime

New York

I currently work in Production Management ensuring the availability and stability of Morgan Stanley's Electronic Trading plant. I have a strong knowledge of the FIX protocol, and a large part of my time involves tracing orders at the FIX level through our UNIX plant. Other aspects of the role include incident and problem management, and liaising with the business to identify gaps in our trading applications. I also strive to reduce the manual effort required by myself and my team by writing scripts to automate as many of our common supports tasks as possible.

Manhattan, New York

An intense, technical graduate scheme covering a broad range of technologies and assessed by means of examinations, coursework, and a project sponsored by the business. Technologies covered ranged from infrastructure to development and included:OO Development using C/C++, Java & C#Programming using both Perl and PythonUnix Administration, with Shell scriptingStorage, High Availability and VirtualisationBasic Networking & Network ServicesLDAP servicesDatabase technologies using SQL, Sybase and DB2

Bristol, United Kingdom

Providing bar and table service to customers in private funcrtions of all sizes, including corporate events.

London, United Kingdom

Skills mainly used: C#/WPF (using MVVM), PowerShell, SQL ServerDuring my time there, I developed numerous applications that helped infrastructure colleagues in there day-to-day activities one of which, was a central power management console used for for automating the powering up and down of machines on a large scale. I also had a large involvement in a configuration management product used to set up machines at both build time and on a day to day basis. This involved many code changes/additions, research on alternative architectures, and documentation of any of my additions to the product.