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London, England, United Kingdom

Netcompany is one of the fastest growing and most successful IT services companies in Europe. We are true leaders in digitalisation and are proud to build, implement and support innovative IT solutions for some of the most exciting and prestigious organisations in the world. Our vision is to be the leading digital challenger in Europe, pioneering the next generation of IT consulting, with a strong focus on providing customers true value and delivery certainty. We are experts in the management of complex change and build robust scalable IT solutions utilising agile delivery methods, thereby improving our client’s speed to market and allowing them to rapidly adapt to evolving business requirements. We have deep expertise across a wide range of sectors and our services range from application development and cloud migration through to programme delivery and service operations. Our team consists of true thought leaders who drive business transformation through innovative use of technologies such as predictive data analytics and cognitive computing.With more than 2,500 highly skilled and motivated technologists across 6 countries of operation, we are involved in the delivery of some of the most secure, complex and nationally important technology programmes in both the public and private sector.

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 generated enable smarter quicker credit decisions, streamlined workflow processes, and reduced operational costs.DataShare provides a wide depth and breadth of financial data from a wide range of accounting packages (circa 77% of UK SMEs) and can be used to support data collection and use in both deal origination and in streamlining covenant monitoring.• 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.• Lead business contributor to enhancements and changes to the REST API

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 leadership addressing industry concerns like digital and the pension crisis; bids, proposals, and research. • 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 organization’s central service; 130+ teams. Responsibilities included creating and coordinating GDPR evidence, providing GDPR guidance to affected teams, and contributing to audit, risk, and board papers. • 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 backlog.• 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 controlled manner, before submission to the PRA. The scope involved a significant data migration effort, which included 10 months of transactional information; approximately 9000 files containing an estimated 170 million records. There was £1.2 million of budgetary impact, and the resources (10 min, 20 peak) included KPMG, and a pool of the client’s technical resources, and provided SMEs. This role involved multiple elements of project management including a Kanban board, daily stand-ups, steerco packs, RAID logs, resource planning, budgetary maintenance, cross workstream dependencies and project plan surgeries.

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 100 companies to smaller OMBs, and not for profit and public sector. • 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. • Utilised gap analysis and strong client relationships to look for opportunities to obtain further work, and reduce the cost of sales.

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 procedures. These implementations were delivered within budget while maintaining a strong relationship with the client on site. • 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 their deliverables. 2 of which directly reported into me. • 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 with the Project Management Office, and coordinating and gathering information from project managers across 37 projects.

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.• Review system documentation for accuracy and updates as necessary.• Software and system fault diagnosis, analysis and fix.• Ownership of all user problems through to completion.• Pro-actively keeps customer updated with problem status at all times.• Liaised with other technology partners or vendors including Reuters and Bloomberg.

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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