Collin Willis Email & Phone Number

Dartford, Gb

London, United Kingdom

I've joined LINX as a Platform Reliability Engineer with a remit to leverage their Microsoft Cloud / O365 tenant and provide support for all things Microsoft. This is effectively a greenfield appointment in which I will be designing operational procedures and systems to enable staff and improve production efficiencies.

40 Bank Street, Canary Wharf, London, E14

Working as a Wintel Systems Administrator for a top 4 international broking house. Managing Exchange, Email Archiving, Active Directory (planning and executing merger/aquisition migrations), File Server & DFS management, Blackberry integration and many other aspects of Infrastructure implimentation and maintenance.

Responsibility is to oversee all aspects of releases from start to finishing the implementation of projects. This includes, managing the application releases to ensure a stable and consistent build environment. Also, Identifying project objectives, key success factors, scope, approach, risks and issues, coordinating the approvals of Change Requests using Maximo. Managing incidents with Nexus, particularly within the change management process. Work with the HP Quality Centre, Test Manager and Project Managers to define the requirements for Change Requests, setting process and constantly striving to improve these processes wherever possible. Ensuring compliance and signoff's for all releases to the production site.

Responsibilities include building workstations, application testing and deployment via SMS, project involvement, training, systems development and administration, and personal career management. As a member of a team of six responding to incident escalations. Primarily on Win XP clients and MS Server 2000/2003 Server. Covering the full suite of Trading enabling technologies, GFX, front and middle office trading application experience includes:- Open Bloomberg, Reuters XDE suite, BrokerTec, Cantor Fitzgerald’s eSpeed, the Derivatech suite, Garban ETC, GFI Fennics, in-house spreadsheet models & analytics, risk engines and Gloss middleware to mention the main ones. The market data experience includes TIBCO Rendezvous 7.3 messaging, Reuters and RMDS.

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