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Glasgow, Gb

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Build and deploy new Library (customer) data-feeds in Java. Role involves integration of new code with core java code to facilitate data loads from customers Integrated Library systems into CollectionHQ software. Core technologies used are: Java, Eclipse, Oracle, Postgres, Linux, Github.CollectionHQ is a Java user interface/portal developed, maintained and hosted by Bridgeall Libraries which is tailored to individual customer needs to enable proper ordering, weeding and transfer of stock (books, CD's, DVD's, players, audiobooks etc.)

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Application Support Team Lead supporting Energy Trading applications in Scottish Power.Support of Energy Trading applications and Traders 24/7 365 days a year with operational issues as well as performing DR tests and integration\release of new functionality.Technologies: Endur Energy Trading platform, Tibco messaging services, and the associated Oracle database data using SQL and PL\SQL and C#. NET user interfaces

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Server support Analyst in Electronic service technology Integration team.Role involved configuraton, deployment and testing of daily changes to Trading applications according to market conditions. The applications were all Java based running on a Java Messaging service backbone on multiple Unix server farms.

Senior Application Support Analyst at Barclays WealthApplication support on a workflow and payments system in Barclays Wealth. This comprised a Java front end, load balanced over four Tomcat servers running on four Unix servers running Solaris. Oracle was used as the back end database.Duties involved incident management and work with developers on implementation/upgrades to Production and UAT environments. 40% implementation Unix servers and 60% management of incidents.The role required a lot of Unix and database configuration work and a lot of time was spent constructing and running queries against the Oracle database to diagnose data issues.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Batch analyst in Batch services at Tesco Bank. This involved development and support of Autosys batches and perl scripts which were controlled by them. Autosys is an enterprise scheduling tool which is used to manage the scheduling of file transfers, database loads, ETL jobs and reporting in Tesco bank.Autosys was used in conjunction with perlscripts on Windows, Unix and Linux servers. The role comprised of development of new perl scripts and autosys JIL (batches) and support of existing batches.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Application support analyst with Bravura solutions on one of their client sites, Citigroup formerly Scottish Friendly. This role involved first line application support of Bravura WRAP applications called Talisman and eTalis (the thin client version of Talisman). The Talisman front end is written in Powerbuilder and eTalis is written in JAVA. Both of these applications persist data back to a Sybase database.I was the first port of call for any issues the client experienced with these applications and my objective was to communicate the details back to Bravura developers and Business analysts in a more effective manner to allow them to work towards a resolution. Issues were reported in Citipgroup using a JIRA system which I had access to. I then liaised with the affected users to gain greater detail such as impact analysis and criticality as well as gathering any input and output to the process, steps the user had followed to create the error and any error messages displayed. I then logged these details back to Bravura via a Bravura JIRA system for analysis and resolution.I had access to test and the production Sybase databases as well as test application installations to enable me to try replicate issues.

Glasgow

Application support analyst supporting Transfer agency TA applications in the World-wide security services arm of JPMChase. This involved day to day support of unix shell scripts and Java processes for in-house TA applications down-stream from the externally hosted TA platform (RUFUS) hosted by Bravura solutions. Data was loaded daily from RUFUS into a data store, a DB2 database (SOR) for use by various applications for maintenance and enrichment prior to being sent onto other external print and payment vendors. In-house straight through processing STP systems, which interfaced with Bravura were used daily by Brokers. We had access to a production read only copy of the Bravura on-line SQL server database which was refreshed daily at the end of the business day, EOD. This was used for the datafeeds into the SOR occurring daily at EOD which were controlled by the autosys scheduling tool.There were many other systems which used the data in the SOR for use each day, including settling systems for outstanding payments on deals processed via the STP systems, systems for paying fees to agents/Brokers involved in STP and manual dealing and retrocession payment systems.Prior to involvement in TA application support I supported Congos 8 and Reportnet framework models and reports which were used by the internal Sales and Marketing team and other internal and external business partners. I also supported the Investment management public facing websites which were hosted and managed using Vignette application Portal and a Vignette Content management system.

Kilmarnock, United Kingdom

Supported and enhanced two Uniface applications. One was used primarily for reporting Sales and account data to British sales executives and managers, the other was a parcel tracking application used by the whole Irish subsidiary of DHL Express. Both applications were front ends to Informix Relational databases residing on Unix servers running Solaris. All Informix data loads and Batch processes were carried out using ESQL\C programs which were run on the Unix servers.I also supported and maintained a small VBA application written in Excel which was used by the British Sales Team.

Croydon, United Kingdom

Maintained and developed a Data Repository, comprised of an Oracle Database embellished daily with Data from an on-line Sybase database. This was to be used for migration of on-line systems from (Sybase Database-Uniface front end) to an (Oracle Database- .net front end).The Data Repository work mainly involved back end bulk processing, taking data from other systems via an Oracle Gateway, using Sybase Views, Oracle Views, Snapshots and Stored Procedures to load Oracle Schema. This data was then extracted into other on-line systems from the repository by means of Oracle Views, Snapshots and Stored Procedures. Feeds to and from the repository were controlled by Stored-procedures scheduled from Oracle Enterprise manager. SQL Navigator was used for Oracle application Development.Developed and supported a VB6 application for use by the marketing department. The application was the front end to an Oracle database utilising ADO as its method of connection. It was used by Marketing for management of renewal of existing warranty and assistance policies.I was a member of a team that developed and supported the main customer relationship management application in Mondial-Assistance. The application comprised a Uniface front end to a Sybase database, residing on a Unix server. It was the backbone of Mondial’s business and was used by upwards of 400 users for customer relationship management.The front end called SQR reports, which were run on the user’s client on Windows NT or, on HP Unix depending upon the complexity and the scale of the data in question. I gained a good understanding of basic shell scripting working on back–end Unix batch processes.Developed Module in VB6 used with external software for dispatching assistance jobs to roadside recovery agents and dealerships. This used VB6 to select roadside assistances from a Sybase Database, find the nearest and most suitable agent or dealer and dispatch the information to their workstation via AIMS software.

Reading, United Kingdom

Developed and supported a materials management application used to estimate bulk material quantities for the construction of chemical and process plants in Foster Wheeler Energy. This comprised a Matrix Front-end to an Oracle database, coupled with Visual Basic forms (VB4) for data entry and reporting. The application interfaced with other systems running on Oracle and AS400 via F.T.P. of text files. The Matrix database was loaded from text files output from CAD systems.Member of team developing and supporting a document management system used by all departments in the company which comprised an Oracle database with a Uniface front end. The database was on a Unix server running Solaris.Gained exposure to shell scripting and Entity-Relationship Modelling.

Pgdit, It

Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Chemical Engineering

BEng in Chemical Engineering.