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London, England, United Kingdom

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London, United Kingdom

• Validis Datashare is the global best-in-breed data utility for extraction and standardisation of financial data, straight from an SME’s accounting package to financial services firms. The Analytics and reports.
• Implement the DataShare SAAS platform across Financial Services clients, Lending and Audit in UK, US, and CA
• Lead technical integrations for key strategic global partnerships
• Provide client developer support across all major programming languages
• Support product development with industry insights and customer journey analysis
• Develop and author the API documentation using markdown, and modern web tools including webpack and npm.

London, United Kingdom

• Within the Insurance and Asset Management Technology Enablement team, focused on responding to client needs in the Insurance and Pensions industry. Secondary responsibilities include leading and supporting thought.
• Project managed and business analysis within a GDPR Programme at a General Insurance Company. This role rapidly evolved with the client in response to audit findings, and focused on delivering GDPR requirements for the.
• Developed an RPA solution which automated the creation of annual management accounts using excel and VBA at a Life Insurance Company, reducing the associated FTE requirement.
• Refined process design maps at a General Insurance Company, providing a stronger knowledge base for the chosen software integrator partner. These were delivered as part of a sprint to support the refinement of a.
• Project managed a Solvency II workstream at a Life Insurance Company. This project focused on creating reporting system that allowed the client to calculate their premiums and claims liabilities, in an accurate, and.

London, United Kingdom

• Business Performance Improvement team delivered practical solutions for sustainable growth and performance improvement using the team’s core management information offering for clients. These clients range from FTSE.
• Delivered cost reductions through process improvements and process automation with continuous value gains built-in.
• Provided significant time savings via process automation, lessening the opportunity cost associated with a particular operation.
• Facilitated the ability for senior management to gain further insights into their data through the creation of analytics and reporting tools.
• Effective identification of a client’s weaknesses, inefficiencies, gaps and risks using a structured analysis of business process and data extraction.
• Obtained more in-depth business requirements by building rapport with stakeholders within different level and or areas within the business.

London, United Kingdom

• CGI is providing Shell with a fuel payment card system (Budget £5 million)
• Successfully delivered Shell Cards Online(commercial fleet platform) and its’ related modules across 12 different countries through controlled initiation, delivery and closure phases while adhering to change.
• Effectively addressed the challenges experienced working with offshore support and development teams; made certain that language barriers did not impact the interpretation of requirements and tracked the progress of.
• Drove issues through to resolution, managing conflict where necessary; providing visibility to the client at all times.
• Managed all change on behalf of the client, providing clear timelines and visibility for all activities; ensured expectation of all stakeholders were successfully managed.
• The preferred point of contact for technical queries regarding the product; providing the client with information which they communicated to their key business stakeholders.

Leatherhead

Developed code enhancements and modules, for an existing public case and witness management system, using the.Net development suite, Oracle SQL, and Team Foundation Server. This project utilised Test-driven development, an agile software development practice.

London, United Kingdom

• Junior project manager for the business critical IPC dealerboard migration (Budget $2.5 million), successfully leading a team of 8 technical resources; 4 IPC and 4 Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
• Implemented a support structure to manage issues during the migration; ensured effectual issue management and resolution at all times.
• Creator and executor of an implementation strategy which enabled better visibility, prioritisation and distribution of resources on the project.

London, United Kingdom

• Project support for the Merrill Lynch Transition, a portfolio of 37 business critical projects required for integrating the Merrill Lynch infrastructure into Bank of America.
• Reviewed and improved processes including but not limited to creating the structure for tracking progress, issues, risks and watch items of projects within the portfolio. This involved establishing a formal process.

London, United Kingdom

• Provided software support for GWIM, Middle Office and Back Office.
• Helped to manage the team work order queue in the IT Service Management system Remedy by assisting users to resolve their issues through PC. re-builds, software installations and bank approved configuration changes
• Built a successful SharePoint site based on the team’s requirements that is still used today as a knowledge base and communication tool.
• Undertook desk surveys for the T-Band migration project.
• Engage in high severity business impacting production incidents and problem tickets to work through to resolution.
• Engage engineering teams for process and application improvement opportunities.

London, United Kingdom

• Managed and monitored 40 market data servers consisting of non-low latency market feeds and vendor applications.
• Represented Bank of America Merrill Lynch while working with 3 vendors; Mighter, Amulet and BGC
• Acted as third line support for vendor applications; Reuters 3000(Kobra) and Reuters PowerPlus Pro
• Organised the development and deployment of the latest eSpeed package with the vendor BGC.
• Created a CONTEX web tool with the purpose of generating work orders for the Market Data team
• Dealt with CONTEX Queries that came from users, then diagnosed and found a solution to resolve price publishing issues

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, Upper Second-Class Honours With Professional Placement

Activities and Societies: Game Design, Gaming, Photography, Windows Phone Camp- Creator and President of the Game Design Society..

A Levels - Computing, Mathematics, And Business Studies.

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