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Technical leader for leading global insurance analytics software provider. Managing development teams in UK and Korea, providing a suite of software solutions ranging from desktop applications, web applications and cloud solutions.Designed and built a cloud enabled model workflow enterprise solution capable of scaling up to 1000s of compute cores, with rich dashboard rendering capabilities now deployed at 20+ major insurance companies worldwide as a core solution for their cashflow and IFRS17 operations.

Providing statistical modeling software to the insurance industryDesign, implement and bring to market a SaaS cloud-based insurance modeling solution using python and azure batchImplement auto-scaling calculation platform on Azure using Kubernetes, DockerIntegrate advanced IFRS17 solutions at global insurance providers

Seoul, Kr

Design and implement statistical distribution fitting and forecasting Java enterprise solution for Solvency 2 in the Korean insurance industry.Implement IFRS17 Risk Adjustment shock calibration and analytics system for major Korean life insurance company Hanwha.Design and implement prototype job execution and distribution engine using Java and multi-node Hazelcast cluster.Role includes client-facing requirements gathering and consultancy and application architecture design.

London, Gb

Technical team lead client facing role at bank payments system vendor. Responsibilities include high level and technical designs for new product features, liaising with client management and technical teams and internal development teams, product upgrade delivery, defect analysis and critical issue production support for distributed multi-server installations. Relevant technologies include J2EE, EJB, SQL

Wayne, Pa, Us

Technical client facing consultancy work with portfolio risk management software products. Work involved portfolio construction and integration, working with analytics across multi-asset class portfolios.Designed and developed a risk analytics reporting application (Volatility, VaR, Scenario Analysis) using C#, WPF, EF 6, SQL Server, LINQ, COM components. The solution has since become a key selling product.Designed and implemented a multi-user risk analytics reporting system for ABN Amro using Java, J2EE and XML, now in production with 550 users.Implemented an APT Bloomberg adapter, which downloads instrument terms and conditions and historical data from Bloomberg and converts to APT asset format, given a security ID.Developed a Jersey REST API for legacy product underpinned with JPA framework, and bespoke risk data reporting development.Developed and installed a custom Dashboard onsite at a Malaysian customer, which displayed Risk and Performance data to clients. Technologies used included JSP, Java, JQuery and SQL.Developed a web-based risk model configuration tool using AJAX, Jquery, JAXB and JPA.

Enterprise application design, architecture and on-site implementation, product expert, client facing pre-sales, project management and team leader at financial software services company.Work includes Anti-Money Laundering and Compliance applications and FX trading platforms, manager for Mantas product applications. Responsibilities include managing application deliveries to Mantas.Travelled to Seoul and implemented an automated Regulatory Reporting system at Korean bank KEB, which monitors and delivers suspicious transaction reports detected by Anti-Money Laundering software Mantas to the Korean governmental Financial Intelligence unit KoFIU. Work involved communicating in Korean directly with bank staff. Technologies used include Java, J2EE, JDBC, Oracle, XML, XSLT, SOAP.Worked on FX aggregation and benchmarking application at HSBC, which interfaces with FXall. Technologies used include Java, J2EE, JMS, IBM MQ, Websphere, Oracle, Hibernate, XML, JiBX.Implemented and installed Compliance Dashboard software and Order/Trade Query tool for Mantas installation at ABN Amro. Technologies used include Java, PL-SQL, Oracle, XML.Worked on Mantas Network Visualisation tool, which graphically displays relationships between customers, institutions and accounts on a spider graph.Developed a Position Monitor application for Citizens Bank in the US, application monitors positions on mortgage-backed securities. Technologies used include C#, .NET, nHibernate, SPRING framework.Developed and project managed "The Wall" application for Photon Consulting, which provides solar energy sector market data to worldwide customers. Technologies used include J2EE, Java, SQL Server.Travelled to Seoul to train a solutions team in use of in-house software development tool AltioLive and assist in porting the platform to Korean.Implemented a chemical inventory tracking system on-site for Stanford University, California. Used by Stanford and other US universities.

involved extensive client facing pre-sales, J2EE development and implementation work for software solutions company.Work included development and delivery of CRM application to KB Star bank, the largest in Korea, presentations and training courses in Korean language and communication with customers in Korean.Wrote insurance broker Jael Securities call centre application, for use by call centre tellers to broker insurance to customers; involved interfacing to mainframe system using CICS interface.Wrote Korean Airways website, required multilingual support (Korean and English). Technologies included JSP, javascript, Websphere, Oracle.

Responsibilities included client and product support, problem analysis, deployment and development for J2EE design and deployment tool, AltioLive.Tasks included first and second line support of product implementations on various operating systems, web servers, back-end systems and browsers; Java, JDBC, Servlet, JSP, XML, XSLT and database development, Responsibilities also included product release packaging and sign-off.Ensured deployment capabilities on a wide range of Web Application Servers, including secure installations.

Oulu, Oulu, Fi

Worked for a software company developing J2EE enterprise software solutions for telecom operators. Main focus was Java development, including telecom traffic monitoring application; other technologies used included PL/SQL, JDBC and Oracle.Wrote client and server side Java for new project. Browser based Java applets communicated with a Java server that interfaced via JDBC to an Oracle database. Java Server Page reporting.Converted UNIX shell scripts into Perl scripts for multi-platform functionality. Developed PL/SQL stored procedures on an Oracle database.Implemented various upgrades to billing data record formats and added facilities to record deformatters.

Ru

Worked on mediation engine products for British Telecom and Cable & Wireless, wrote telecom switch simulators, data generators and decoders.Responsibilities included bug fixing, new feature implementation and product packaging. Technologies used were C, C with embedded SQL, Informix, and 4GL form language.Work on converting a mediation engine to use a Java/Corba middle-tier with an improved GUI. Java on back-end UNIX machine interfaced with Corba middleware platform.

Bsc (Hons), Computer Science

Korean Language