Larry Egar Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

As a Technical Analyst at Criterion, I work with a small team to drive out technical requirements from clients, set technical direction, and produce cross-industry standards.As the UK’s Standards and Governance body in the financial services industry, we leverage over 30 years of experience. Criterion collaborates with the financial services industry to provide seamless integration and innovation. We serve various financial sectors, including pensions, investments, wealth management, and equity release.Clients often grapple with legacy systems and manual processes. They strive to reduce costs, enhance efficiency, drive innovation, and improve customer outcomes. However, risks such as human errors, high overhead costs, and non-compliance with regulations persist.𝐌𝐏𝐒 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬Provides consistent Management Information (MI) data.Data Standards for edit model, pre and post model rebalance and retrieve model processes. Streamlines processes, reducing manual re-keying.Lowers operational risk and costs.𝐋𝐨𝐀 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬Automates information gathering for existing client policies. Enhances efficiency, reduces errors, and frees advisers’ time.𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑Demonstrates commitment to timely transfers and better consumer outcomes. Influences best practices in transfers and re-registrations. Highlights good performance and reduces administrative costs.𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬Facilitates collaboration among market peers, simplifying market functions. Extends reach, enhances innovation, and lowers costs for customers.

Edinburgh City, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Java developer for the main standardlife.co.uk site. Dealt with a large backlog of changes to the complex pension retirement journey.• Supported the production service with rapid investigations and fixes.• Delivered full Knowledge Transfer to new colleagues taking over, including comprehensive wiki documentation, recorded tutorials and feedback. Achieved a smooth transition.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Worked on the flagship Workplace Benefits Platform.• Re-designed and built a core part of the platform – Total Reward Statement. Led a 2-person specialist team which grew to a full Agile team. This became the main selling feature of the platform and saved many weeks of business time per client implementation.• Worked in a small team of 2/3 devs and a tester to reduce substantial Fortify Critical & High security issues to zero in one year.• Led a similar team to address Fortify security issues in a sister app.• Led the complex migration of one of the applications from Ant to Maven.• Technical expert for environmental issues, pipelines, deploys etc.• Java batch expert – Joiners/Leavers, mainframe integration.• Built & maintained a valuable wiki for developers.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Various projects including• Online retirement planner tools and microsites.• Online payments UI. Wire frames and design. JSP & Struts. Selenium for testing.• Specialist accounting & assembler consultancy for new Oracle accounting re-write.• Worked with Origo data flows for the Transaction History application. Java, MQ, XML.• Lead environmental sustainability champion for IT, following years of leading Green Groups.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Software development and technical support for a large start-up project building a new Healthcare platform.• Development and ownership of build & deployment pipelines and JVM infrastructure.• Trouble-shooting environmental issues. Was the lead expert for pipelines, mainframe job suites and java business services.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Became the company expert in this technology.• Lead expert for our HPS Outgoing Payments system.• Regularly liaised with the HPS product vendors for upgrades & issues etc.• Organised and lead complex overnight implementations.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Worked on many different systems including complex actuarial quotes systems, money in (Suspense), Outstanding Claims, assembler re-writes etc.• Expert in accounting and outward payment systems. Led the requirements-gathering and road-maps.• Rep for many of our toolsets e.g. Solve, PVCS, Strobe, Endevor.• Core member of the mainframe improvement forum.• Instrumental in pushing for modern mainframe development environment using Compuware Workbench and IBM RDZ.