Impendium are a company that provides software and reporting services for 3rd party clients wanting to demonstrate Investment Banking Risk and Compliance. I was engaged as a contractor to lead development of relevant updates and enhancements to the core Impendium Elements platform in order to provide additional features and expand the range of services available with a view to expanding the company's customer base.The Impendium Elements platform is a ASP.NET MVC 3/Entity Framework 4… Show more Impendium are a company that provides software and reporting services for 3rd party clients wanting to demonstrate Investment Banking Risk and Compliance. I was engaged as a contractor to lead development of relevant updates and enhancements to the core Impendium Elements platform in order to provide additional features and expand the range of services available with a view to expanding the company's customer base.The Impendium Elements platform is a ASP.NET MVC 3/Entity Framework 4 application, with all development work carried out using C# and applying interface/design patterns. This is carried out within a Test Driven environment using TFS, continuous integration and an automatic build processes.• Successfully developed a new send process based on standard templates, creating reusable code which ensured reports could be simply configured for all clients, eradicating the necessity for new code to be created for each client. This reduced reporting effort by 100s of man hours.• Enabled clients to meet current and future legal obligations whilst accommodating trade, positional and financial data in a single environment through the development of system enhancements produced in line with changes to regulations.• Successfully implemented the GUI tool Altova MapForce which allowed the business to handle data in all relevant formats including information provided to businesses via various exchanges, which resulted in the ability to offer services to a wider range of clients.• Provided a facility to 3rd party Financial / Banking sector clients to report all relevant trades and positions in line with EMIR regulations through the development of enhancements to the core Impendium applications. Show less

Starrate are a software consultancy that provide custom software solutions for 3rd party clients, including high profile multinationals. I was engaged by the company as a contractor to lead the development of a new Hardship and Cost of Living calculation system. This was designed to ensure that employees of the business operating abroad were being paid wages that corresponded to the local market rate.• Led development and implementation of new functionality for the Cost of Living system… Show more Starrate are a software consultancy that provide custom software solutions for 3rd party clients, including high profile multinationals. I was engaged by the company as a contractor to lead the development of a new Hardship and Cost of Living calculation system. This was designed to ensure that employees of the business operating abroad were being paid wages that corresponded to the local market rate.• Led development and implementation of new functionality for the Cost of Living system that significantly enhanced BAU.• Delivered a greenfield solution for calculating Hardship which used memory caching and batch inserts for created database records. The deployment of the system saw a successful reduction in calculation times from 2 days to simply a matter of minutes, whilst also revealing that calculation errors had been made within the legacy system, thus allowing key business data to be corrected. Show less

I was engaged by the FA following something of a rigorous recruitment process, and tasked with leading development on their white label County website. This was an online facility which operated on a consistent back end platform but with each county using different skins. The enhancements were designed to improve the search functions to improve the usability of the sites and also to allow each FA County to own and manage their own content more easily.• Performed development using a… Show more I was engaged by the FA following something of a rigorous recruitment process, and tasked with leading development on their white label County website. This was an online facility which operated on a consistent back end platform but with each county using different skins. The enhancements were designed to improve the search functions to improve the usability of the sites and also to allow each FA County to own and manage their own content more easily.• Performed development using a range of tools including Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Suite with Microsoft Content Management System, SQL Server 2005 and using .NET 3.5 libraries, LINQ, and AJAX. • Delivered full lifecycle development of the County Website which provided much faster searches and the ability to search for a greater level of information, resulting in major overall improvements to the user experience.• Successfully reduced the required data loads on FA servers through provision of improved search facility which led to a quicker service for external users and FA resources. Show less

• 02 2007 to 07 2008: Tesco Property Market Ltd: Software Developer (contract)• 10 2006 to 02 2007: Software Solutions Partners Ltd: Software Developer (contract)• 02 2005 to 10 2006: Starrate Ltd: Programmer (contract)• 08 2004 to 02 2005: Highcraft Services Ltd: Development Consultant (contract)• 06 2003 to 06 2004: Fiserv (ASPAC) Pte Ltd: Analyst / Programmer (contract)• 10 2000 to 06 2003: Abbey National: Development Consultant (contract)• 09 1999 to 10 2000: Abbey… Show more • 02 2007 to 07 2008: Tesco Property Market Ltd: Software Developer (contract)• 10 2006 to 02 2007: Software Solutions Partners Ltd: Software Developer (contract)• 02 2005 to 10 2006: Starrate Ltd: Programmer (contract)• 08 2004 to 02 2005: Highcraft Services Ltd: Development Consultant (contract)• 06 2003 to 06 2004: Fiserv (ASPAC) Pte Ltd: Analyst / Programmer (contract)• 10 2000 to 06 2003: Abbey National: Development Consultant (contract)• 09 1999 to 10 2000: Abbey National: Middleware Developer• 06 1997 to 06 1999: Fiserv International Ltd: Analyst / Programmer (contract)• 11 1995 to 06 1997: Ringwood Software Ltd: Software Engineer• 10 1990 to 11 1995: Abbey National: Analyst Programmer Show less