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Swindon, United Kingdom

Corporate change team business analyst, working with third party supplier FNZ to deliver a Trust pension product for Zurich’s Corporate wrap platform. Also leading business analysis workstream delivering 2015 Pension tax bill regulatory changes to deliver Flexi Access Drawdown and UFPLS changes for the same platform for corporate customers. Delivery of non functional requirements for both projects focusing on the business challenges bought about by a significant increase in platform membership.

Kingswood Surrey

Responsible for functional and non-functional requirements gathering for the Workplace Savings phase of RDR programme, this also required the specification of requirements for a new Universal Charging system to support the Adviser and Consultancy Charging models for the Annuities, Retail and Workplace savings parts of the organisation. Also worked on a series of Auto enrolment Scalability projects, tasked with reducing IT infrastructure costs, whilst ensuring projected increases in book size could be catered for. Benefits were realised from initial phase of the project by minimising application failures and identification of change to the application critical path and the tuning of most used and/or resource hungry business transactions.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Responsible for Commission/Agency and Non functional requirements for a Transformation programme migrating multiple Policy admin systems to a single platform. lead high level design for the commission and agency requirements for the platform. Infrastructure - Technical Architect responsible for providing the technical infrastructure configuration required to support the development/test life cycle of the programme. Included software licensing and configuration required to support an onshore/offshore development model. Was also responsible for ensuring that the configuration will scale to support the projected production policy volume.

Ongoing Technical consultancy for the FPF application to aid the transition of FPF Development and Support team to Tata Consultancy Services.Part of migration team HP-UX Abinitio applications to a LINUX platform. Duties included: -• Design and build of Abinitio migration tools.• UNIX shell scripting to automate the migration and comparison of data across multiple platforms. • Analysis, design and build of Abinito post migration code.

• Build, maintenance and tuning of all development and system test environments• Debugging of online and batch coding issues, and provision of subsequent fixes• Performance of SQL review of all SQL developed by the development team• Batch Architecture and Scheduling• Technical support for development/ Data and application support teams. • Estimation for system changes• Technical design documents and coding batch and on-line programs.

Performance modelling and tuning recommendations for the FPF application.• Consultation on database structure/design • Online and Batch Application code and SQL analysis• CICS and Database performance monitoring and tuning.• Application critical path analysis; and performance modelling.• Stress Testing online application using playback tools.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Initially a Consultant to US CRS team provided independent input by way of a study into whether outsourcing was viable. Also Implemented new development lifecycle

The Hague Area, Netherlands

Working via CITL DB2 performance consultancy as a database consultant, liased closely with the IBM consulting group to port 27 Sperry systems application data to an IBM Parallel Sysplex.

Northampton, United Kingdom

Working with Anderson consulting to develop and test the TRIUMPH credit card system, duties included the building of test environments and performance testing.

Brighton, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

MVS/Network Systems Programmer

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom