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London, England, Gb

London, Gb

London, London, Gb

This project has focused on the implementation of a new strategic reconciliation system based on the Autorek 4.3 platform. Core to this platform has been the development of instrument specific reconciliations for Cash, Futures, Options, FX and Equities including CFDs, ETFs and Bonds.Trade volumes average around 100,000 per day and positions 30,000 per day with KPIs set at a 99% automatic match rate.SSIS has been utilised extensively for both broker and internal system data loading, due to the large variance in quality and richness from each source. To help standardise this ETL and improve the rapidity of development, custom components were developed to support key processes such as account to fund mapping, instrument static lookup & validation, duplicate data filtering & validation and date standardisation.Reporting consists of three main areas; Exceptions reports used by the business to sign off their daily reconciliations, Operational reports used for monitoring the loading of data and Total Equity reporting to highlight any unexplained discrepancies between the broker and Mans opinion. This last set of reports saved approximately 2.5 person days per week in effort required to manually investigate these issues.Key Tasks- Technical team lead of team of up to 5 developers.- Developed key SISS dataflow components.- Extended core Autorek functionality o to support ranked matching. o with metadata driven manual match validation. o with file watcher service to allow low latency loading of data.- Built data mart to support key strategic and operational reporting needs.- Fully adopted TDD implementation utilising Fitnesse & Hudson for continuous integration.

London, London, Gb

Technical lead on company wide data warehousing project, comprised of a five person team. Directly responsible for the design and development of data warehouse relational structure, ETL processes using Integration Services as well as mentoring in areas of Analysis Services design.

Toronto, On, Ca

Reuters Search UsageReports usage statistics gathered from an in-house search capability embedded in Reuters financial services products. Usage stats delivered back to both, high level management and the search capability itself to aid with search indexing optimisation processes.Tasks-Sole responsibility for system architecture.-Developed robust SSIS packages which leveraged C# assemblies to retrieve log files from remote servers via http.-Developed ETL from staging to data warehouse.-Developed data mart with classic star schema design to represent each reporting subject area required to fulfil reporting needs.-Developed cube in SSAS to allow for comprehensive analysis of usage metrics.-Developed reports in SSRS to deliver KPI’s and low level analysis of search usage to management via a custom ASP .Net 2.0 web app.-Developed custom security extension for SSRS to allow domain users to authenticate using windows credentials via LDAP in a distributed environment.

London, London, Gb

Fastcrop Ltd (part of the Daily Mail Group) develops and manages primelocation, a market leading web portal for advertising premium real estate.plMISA reporting system intended for use by real estate agents to follow users activity with regards to properties advertised on the Primelocation website. Developed as a stand alone resource that can then also be utilised for internal reporting also. Based on cutting edge technologies including SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Integration Services 2005 and SQL Server Analysis Services 2005, this system has to deal with very large sets of data with almost 1 billion facts being generated every year.OLTP RedesignRedesign and development of core operational database systems to facilitate continued growth and scalability within the company.

A reusable platform designed to support the market research process. Developed as an n-tired web application that leverages Analysis Services as well as SQL Server 2000. The database is modelled using an OO approach (super typing) making it highly flexible and extensible.

Developed several systems to support market research projects within the company...Ford Customer Data Management SystemSystem to manage all Ford motor vehicle sales throughout Europe and the UK for the purposes of market research.Sampling SystemThe sampling system was developed to track the sampling status of individual customers and the whereabouts of respondent questionnaires as well as to validate sample before mailing.Predictive Quota Management SystemSystem to predict required volumes of sample needed to satisfy quota’s stipulated in syndicated research.Verbatim Coding DatabaseSystem to enable the typing of verbatim responses to open ended questions irrespective of what questionnaire they were for. Clean Management ProgrammeInitially employed by NOP Research Group to document, rationalise and assess the Y2K compatibility database systems within the automotive research department.

Various contracts developing systems in SQL Server 6.5 and MS Access