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Singapore

Singapore

Singapore/London

• Provides vision and direction to the Agile implementation team and stakeholders throughout the project; creates requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria • Ensures that the team always prepare ‘Stories’ to work on that meet our definition of ‘ready’, for the current and next two sprints• Plans and prioritises the product feature backlog and configuration of the product• Works closely with the customer to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI

London, United Kingdom

Xceptor is a global FinTech firm that specialises in intelligence automation. As part of the implementation team, some of the key functions include: • Gathering customer requirements as part of workshops, liaising with business teams to define product specifications and implementation plans, scoping out deliverables, estimates, and processes.• Defining configuration documentation, feeding back into core teams and liaising with key stakeholders to agree on implementation deliverables and spec.• Configuring vendor software to requirement specifications, managing tasks, and leading small teams to handle complex implementations• Managing projects as a Business Analyst, defining solutions and requirements, and overseeing implementation by managing day to day tasks and deliverables• Liaising with key-stakeholders, managing timelines and supporting clients from project inception to project ‘go live’

London, United Kingdom

iMeta Technologies – Lead Consultant (Development)• Worked as part of a core focus team, aiding a small boutique software vendor in defining processes and structures with a Business Analyst as part of a vendor partnership• Sat between the business and development arms of the business to bridge the gap between the technical and business knowledge• Led a junior developer as part of the initiative to up-skill and undertake development workXceptor – Implementation Consultant• Gathering customer requirements liaising with business teams to define product specifications and implementation plans• Configuring vendor software to requirement specifications, managing full system lifecycle• Liaising with key-stakeholders, managing timelines and supporting clients from project inception to project ‘go live’Credit Suisse – Data Analyst • Worked to provide analysis and visualisations to aid strategic change bank-wide based on internal data.• Acted as a point of contact to reach out to key stakeholders to retrieve data from multiple departments.• Developed visualisations using BI tool Tableau integrating multiple datasets and sources.• Produced analysis bank-wide and on a department level to be fed back to key members of the bank and UK board to provide insight.StoneRock Advisors – Developer/ New Business Development• Worked in a small team on a new business development from a recently acquired product.• Took part in client demos and discussions for PoC implementations with potential stakeholders.• Worked alongside a lead developer to resurrect the system from the source code.• Performed analysis and development in Java identifying key challenges regarding performance and execution.StoneRock Advisors – Developer/ Quantitative Analysis• Developed a database driven automated pricing platform including data delivery in C# using the Reuters API• Handled daily operations of legacy system whilst the new system was in development.

London

As part of the FinTech arm of the business, provided support to an array of Financial Services firms and Investment Banks who are running high level analytical, technical and quantitive projects. IHS Markit – Index Administration (Fixed Income)• Worked as part of the index team administrating the project as an ‘index expert’. • Communicated directly to client to ensure smooth daily processes were carried out during calculations.• ‘Owned’ multiple index families and was the go-to regarding issues which arose with these indices.• Worked alongside QA team to provide key documentation regarding lifecycle tests to client.• Provided handover of indices to development team to restructure and calculate indices due to phasing out of legacy system.IHS Markit – Quantitative Developer (Fixed Income)• Worked alongside developers on a new python based framework as an ‘data-expert’. • Debugged and rewrote scripts in Visual Basic for Applications. • Translated existing scripts in VBA to Python.• Wrote effective Unit tests to test individual scripts.• Managed a GIT repository, set up new users and taught them how to interact with the system.• Worked on all aspects of the software development life cycle including Quality Assurance. IHS Markit – Data Analyst (Fixed Income)• Created Workflow breakdowns and specifications indicating key roles and tasks throughout the project.• Worked with Index Calculations within a bespoke platform alongside a development team.• Specialised in data handling and reconciliation, taking the role of the technical specialist within the data team.• Aided calculation team with technical aspects including debugging, code analysis and data delivery.• Worked with Thompson Reuters DataStream for data extraction and analysis.• Developed bespoke tools for handling reconciliation and data input in Visual Basic for Applications and Java.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computer Science, First Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Participating in many Computing Society (CompSocks) events, Helping to shape the new Esports Society at our.

A Level, Computing, Mathematics, Psychology, Graphics

A-Level Studies in Computing, Mathematics and Psychology with AS Graphics

7 Gcse'S A* - C Including Mathematics And English, Including Cida In Ict And Level 2 Higher Diploma In Engineering

Education record

Intensive training capital markets, financial products, trading and analytics, credit and equity derivatives, legal documentation.