I spent a large part of my career here at this buy side global sovereign wealth institution. Over this time period my achievements were numerous and covered all aspects of investment fund management.I successfully managed both bespoke and packaged software acting in various positions from project manager, business analyst and quality management. The main investment systems utilised here are Charles River IMS,FIX, Simcorp Dimension, eFront Frontinvest, Salerio. I have individually managed the implementation for all of these systems covering the all aspects of trade processing, compliance (pre and post), back office processing and accounting for differing types of investment instruments.

Working on secondment from London where I was responsible for the development, configuration and implementation of fund management software for investment processing and accounting in the KIA located in Kuwait City . This was managed over a number of years on a phased approach.Key elements were;Management informationConsolidated financial accounting and reportingTreasury processingReal estate and private equity processingExternal fund manager transaction processingAutomated corporate action notification and transaction processing Cash bank reconciliations

Small software house developing securities software for City based clients

Responsible for the development and implementation of equity and gilts trading systems. This was a truly exciting time with Merrill Lynch's entry into the U.K. Stock Exchange. Implemented uk and foreign equity trading and middle office systems. This was followed up with the implementation of Gilts market making system interfacing Bloomberg into middle office trading system. Interfacing developed in conjunction with New York colleagues.Worked extensively with various trade matching systems - U.K. Stock exchange, euroclear/cedel and also in those days Telex for settlement instructions.

Responsible for the coding and testing of front office dealing system for U.K. and foreign securities. Interesting work which gave invaluable insight into front end trade processing and dealing desk environments . The technology may have changed today but the processes remain the same although regulation has become much tougher!

Worked my way up from trainee to senior computer programmer working on ICL mainframe learning cobol and fortran programming skills.

Started my career in the city working in clearing department in a clerical position.