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• Responsible for GlobalFx, the multi-region technology platform serving the bank's Cash FX trading businesses, with technology teams split across London, India, Singapore & New York.
• Translate complex business requirements into robust technical products and solutions by actively engaging at all levels.
• Ensure delivery remains on track and aligned to agreed outcomes across numerous project streams, while managing competing priorities and budgetary challenges.
• Strong focus on production stability and governance, ensuring demonstrable compliance with company and regulatory standards through internal and external audits.
• Effectively manage technology risks, self-raising where appropriate, and ensuring planning in place to remediate and evidence closure in a timely manner.
• Define and lead a culture of continuous improvement, with a focus on DevOps.

• Reporting to Head of Currencies IT, managing the delivery pipeline for the Global FX application stack.
• Led clear prioritisation across multiple business areas, ensuring team effort remains aligned to agreed priorities and stakeholders are kept informed through clear, targeted & effective communication such as working.
• Ensured continuous discipline and improvement in the SDLC through improved tooling & automation (DevOps, CI/CD), minimum standards of documentation, and traceability of requirements through delivery.
• Led a large-scale decommissioning & migration project for a legacy UI involving ~1000 users across many front, middle & back office teams.

• Workstream Lead within the Front to Back Collateral & Margin programme, to enable regulatory compliance with new BCBS/IOSCO rules on margining of non-centrally cleared derivatives (MRUD).
• Leading the Collateral Processing stream on the implementation of Calypso v14, a vendor product, as the strategic Collateral Management platform, while simplifying the architecture by replacing legacy systems.
• Responsible for a global team of approximately 30 technology staff, spanning development, business analysis, QA & technical specialist disciplines.
• Involved in many aspects of the programme, from detailed development code reviews & design discussions through vendor delivery management and contract negotiation.

• Development Manager responsible for transforming an end-of-day Equities position management system into a near real-time enterprise wide Inventory Aggregator & Collateral Optimisation Engine spanning all entities &.
• Built a high performing team of up to 10 developers & 3 QA. Ran the hiring process, setting coding and database tests, administering interviews and making hiring decisions.
• Successfully delivered eight phases of the Inventory Aggregator over three years, through a hands-on, pragmatic approach, building out real-time connectivity to the majority of the Bank’s front office trading systems.
• Forged strong relationships with multiple global Front Office businesses and senior business sponsors.
• Expanded the use of Mobius to solve business problems in Futures, Treasury and Collateral Trading, such as intraday Liquidity Risk reporting and Balance Sheet Optimisation.
• Migrated the team to Visual Studio 2015 and the platform to.net 4.5

• Developer on Mobius, the Bank’s global Inventory & Position Management system within the Equities front office. Application runs 24x5 on trading desks in 3 regions (US, UK, Asia), built using.net 3.5 & C# 3.0, with a.
• Project managed the scale-up and scale-out of the Mobius hardware estate, migrating from legacy 32-bit servers sitting on the ABN network to newer, 64-bit HP DL380 G7 and DL580 G7 kit within RBS.
• Migrated Mobius from a 32 bit to a 64 bit application, and from Visual Studio 2008 to 2010.
• Designed & implemented a highly scalable enterprise messaging service to replace a problematic legacy component. Using a pluggable architecture, Messaging handles all inbound & outbound communication for Mobius across.

New York, New York, US

• Working on Prime Finance Swaps (PFS), a Portfolio Swaps trading & management application with scores of business users. Solution consists of a complex Windows SmartClient GUI & set of highly multithreaded, highly.
• Created stress testing environment, scenarios & tools for PFS as part of wider project to maximise capacity.
• Made various performance enhancements to PFS, including profiling the Calculation Engine and identifying substantial performance gains in critical code. CPU time of key bottleneck function reduced by 57%.
• Redesigned the EOD Autosys batch (200+ jobs) to improve resiliency & efficiency.

• Designed & developed server side and UI components to add new features to the HBOS & Sainsbury’s internet banking platforms & retail contact centre servicing applications. Solutions modelled in Enterprise Architect.
• Designed & implemented WCF services to act as an interface layer to an underlying banking platform.
• Independently conceptualised & developed in WPF an internal developer tool to aid debugging & testing.
• Agile development approach with continuous integration and test driven development.

US

Analysis, design and development consulting within the New York Analytics and Global Position Management teams

Newry, Co. Down, GB

Consulting for Lehman Brothers, via First Derivatives PLC, on client site in New York.

Provided.Net 2.0 software architecture and development services and consulting.Frequently delivered training and mentoring on C# 2.0, ASP.net 2.0, SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005.Provided help in managing and training outsourced teams in India, and helped with recruitment on-site in Chennai, India.

Provided software engineering contracting services with regard to Lagan Technology's eCRM product, Frontline, using J2EE, Oracle 9i, XML & XSL

Responsible for specifying, designing, implementing and integrating a Video Archive And Broadcast Streaming solution, as part of the Classroom 2000 project.

Belfast, Antrim, GB

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Placement student at IBM UK Labs

Beng Hons, Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering