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Application architect responsible for the port of a payment application from Verifone to Ingenico payment terminals including implementation of DUKPUT encryption and application and host changes required through move to format preserving encryption.Produced customer facing application design guides, integration guides and extensive test plan documentation. Implemented complex customer facing reports on large (2B+ row) datasets using Oracle SQL on Exadata.Responsible for payment… Show more Application architect responsible for the port of a payment application from Verifone to Ingenico payment terminals including implementation of DUKPUT encryption and application and host changes required through move to format preserving encryption.Produced customer facing application design guides, integration guides and extensive test plan documentation. Implemented complex customer facing reports on large (2B+ row) datasets using Oracle SQL on Exadata.Responsible for payment application P2PE/PA-DSS accreditation including preparation of submission and defect resolution, acted as the Qualified Security Assessor liaison and technical point of contact. Performed application vulnerability code scanning using Veracode including defect resolution and tracking. Became a domain knowledge specialist in EMV payment processing, providing extensive skills transfer and mentoring to both internal and client staff.Designed application architecture porting highly threaded Java Point Of Sale application to single threaded C++ application on a UNIX based embedded device retaining backwards compatibility. Developed application on Verifone engage series devices using the Verifone Development Environment, SDK/ADK and code signing tools.Integration specialist for numerous customer deployments with roles ranging from pre-sales and technical presentations through requirements gathering, application gap analysis, customer test strategy, application deployment, customer technical liaison, defect investigation/tracking and third line support for payment applications processing over 3M card transactions a day for some of the best known names on the high street. Show less

Developed enhancements to Oracle Pro*C/UNIX billing systems for a large FinTech multinational.Design to delivery of a payment terminal management system managing the configuration and updates of approximately 30k heterogeneous card payment devices for a number of large retailers. Implementation required rapidly acquiring knowledge of Verifone and Ingenico terminal development for embedded devices and managing the delivery of software by offshore developers.Provided EMV payment… Show more Developed enhancements to Oracle Pro*C/UNIX billing systems for a large FinTech multinational.Design to delivery of a payment terminal management system managing the configuration and updates of approximately 30k heterogeneous card payment devices for a number of large retailers. Implementation required rapidly acquiring knowledge of Verifone and Ingenico terminal development for embedded devices and managing the delivery of software by offshore developers.Provided EMV payment accreditation services for multiple blue chip retail clients working with multiple acquirers including embedding at client sites and working within PCI controlled environments. Directly liaised with client application providers and payment software providers including source code analysis and debugging at the application and EMV messaging layer using the Collis/UL software and hardware suite. Show less

Technical Team Lead and Senior Developer for data analysis product. Bespoke .NET product development, pre-sales, requirements analysis and client implementations. Embedding within client teams in a technical consulting role providing extensive skills transfer.

Bespoke .NET development, pre-sales, design, costing implementation and roll-out.. Data cleansing and ETL of merger and acquisition data, design and implementation of closed book pension system including data migration. Developed curriculum and delivered Oracle training. PL/SQL development in a technical consulting role.Performance tuning and query optimisation of Business Objects reporting layer. Creation and integration of time dimension to data warehouse.

Technical team lead with overall responsibility for delivering the transform and load stages of a Data Warehouse and Data Mart project for Siemens/National Savings under PFI. Mentored and embedded within an existing client team providing extensive skills transfer including Oracle SQL and PL/SQL.

UNIX/C/Oracle Pro*C development of a high availability distributed database and mainframe replication project. Requirements gathering, design and Smalltalk implementation of a distributed call centre application. Requirements gathering, design and implementation of Oracle SQL, PL/SQL and Oracle Forms billing system amendments.

Numerous projects for Barclays Bank Plc in a variety of languages including C, Tcl/Tk, PL/SQL, SQL, Oracle Forms, COBOL on Windows clients and UNIX/X environments. Helpdesk and 1st to nth line support and development of distributed workflow system which integrated UNIX desktop, FileNET imaging appliances, fax servers and AS400 screen scraping.

Cross platform development of regression and performance testing suite, written in C and implemented on VMS (VAX/Alpha) and several UNIX variants.