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London

The London Metal Exchange is the world centre for the trading of industrial metals – the majority of all non-ferrous metal futures business is transacted on our platforms.In 2021, 145 million lots were traded at the LME equating to $15.6 trillion and 3.3 billion tonnes notional, with a market open interest (MOI) high of 2.1 million lots.A member of HKEX Group, the LME brings together participants from the physical industry and the financial community to create a robust and regulated market where there is always a buyer and a seller, where there is always a price and where there is always the opportunity to transfer or take on risk – 24 hours a day.My role is to..Ensure systems meet all performance-related metricsIdentify potential performance issues, goals and requirementsRun diagnostic and performance tests, ensuring metrics are metRoot cause analysisProvide recommendations

Ec2M

Providing NFT consultancy to financial organisations.Assignments:A new trading platform for a leading commodities brokerAnnual MiFIDII Compliance Reporting for a leading commodities brokerImplementation of Nasdaq Smarts Surveilance Reporting for a leading commodities brokerA new pricing system for a leading commodities brokerMajor Update to a Trading Platform for a leading commodities broker

P2 is an independent consultancy with a 100% focus on one thing: excellence in transformation delivery.Assignments:NFT Consultant for a leading inter-broker dealer

London

Certeco is a UK based business technology change company specialising in IT Planning, Programme Management, Quality Management and Testing. We do this by offering a unique set of flexible and cost effective services that work across the lifecycle, helping bring IT and business teams together, ultimately ensuring businesses get what they asked for. The services enable companies to plan, analyse, manage, test and deliver enterprise change programmes, ensuring the systems are fit for purpose before implementation in a live business environment.Assignments:NFT Lead for a leading interbroker dealerEnvironments Manager for a large charityNFT Lead for creation of a clearing house

Norwich, United Kingdom

StarBase is the UK’s leading expert performance testing consultancy, trusted by major enterprises to mitigate IT systems risk since 1992. Services span Performance Testing, Automated Functional Testing, Enterprise Integration Testing and Software Tool sales.Ensuring the consistent performance of clients’ key systems; specialists with an unrivaled depth of experience, knowledge and insight, creating smart and value-added solutions for complex situations.Led a team of ten testers providing performance testing services for the programme of IT change.We provided performance test assurance for change to high profile, complex systems handling a turnover of £31 billion, accessed by a large international user base. Scoped requirements, generated strategy and plan documents, managed test schedule, supporting team in execution and produced test updates and reports. Delivered results to release board prior to go-live decisions and produced weekly summaries that were provided to the board of Directors. Implemented VTS framework which allowed fully automated test execution and extended available test execution window by 25 percent. Assignments:Test Team Lead for Aviva's Application Performance Team.

Bury St Edmunds

STL Technologies designs, develops, and markets case, custody, and administration software for police forces, courts, and immigration tribunals. The company’s products include Libra, an infrastructure and Case Management system for the ministry of justice; Equis, a magistrate’s case management solution; COII, which is a criminal operations solution for Scottish courts; and ARIA, an asylum immigration tribunal solution. Its products also comprises AXIOM that provides Isle of Man courts to electronically record, manage, and support key business processes; Police Custody Solution to detect person’s relevant statutes; Filebuild, which prepares the pre-trials issue files from information created by the Custody software; PCRS, a case registration system; and a software solution for police force drink/drive procedures. In addition, the company provides real time locating systems for criminal justice and manufacturing environments. Further, it offers customer relationship management, ICT consultancy, business analysis, solution design and development, testing, data migration, training, support, and maintenance services. The company was founded in 1964 and is based in Bury St. Edmunds, United Kingdom. As of March 22, 2013, STL Technologies Limited operates as a subsidiary of Capita plc.Assignments:Non-Functional Test Lead for STLNon-Functional Test Lead for the MCOBS project

Bury St Edmunds

The Technologies Group designs, develops, and markets case, custody, and administration software for police forces, courts, and immigration tribunals.Assignments:Performance Tester for Logica CMG under DISCPerformance Tester for Accenture under DISCPerformance Test Lead for the Libra project

Bury St Edmunds

Lead programmer for the Equis system

Mildenhall

Sound Techniques Limited designed, developed and maintained a case, custody and administration system for the ministry of Justice; Equis; a case management and accounting package, leveraging the Metropolis database on Alpha mainframe.Assignments:DBA for the Equis system

Ipswich, United Kingdom

TXU Energy is an energy generator and retailer.Assignments:Network AdministratorProvided second line support, network administrator for an enterprise environment supporting more than 30,000 users.

Ipswich, United Kingdom

Eastern Electricity plc was an electricity supply and distribution utility serving eastern England, including East Anglia and part of Greater LondonAssignments:IT support Technician

Ipswich

The Eastern Counties Newspapers Group Ltd operates a publishing company. The company publishes local newspapers including the East Anglian and the Evening Star.Assignments:Pre-Press Technician for EADT (Archant); Responsible for photo editing (PhotoShop) and page makeup (Quark).

Ipswich, United Kingdom