Simon Osbon Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, Gb

London, United Kingdom

Domain Knowledge: CryptoCurrency, FX, Equities, Options, Futures, Fixed Income, Commodities.Business Knowledge: MAR Surveillance, AML Surveillance, Best Ex, TCA, TRS Affirmation, Data Refinery/Lake, Schema Design (mutiple Asset Class for RFQ/Quotes/Executions/Orders/Market Data/Reference Data).Project Management and/or Business Analysis/SME knowledge of Surveillance/Data Refinery Implementation.

London, United Kingdom

Domain Knowledge: MAR Surveillance, AML Surveillance, Best Ex, TCA, FX, Equities Derivatives, Swaps, Total Return Swaps, CFDs, Financial trading, TRS Affirmation, Pricing Calculators, Big DataTechnical Skills: C# .Net(4.0), VS2005/2008/2010, WCF, LINQ, MVC 3, Winforms, Remoting, Java, JSP, JavaBeans, WSBCC, SQL, PL/SQL, XML, XSD, JS, JQuery, Subversion, Perforce, Control-M, Office (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Outlook), VBA, UML, NHibernate, Multithreading, KDB+Senior Consultant for FD

London, United Kingdom

• Analyst Developer for a Prime Finance System (CFDs/Swaps/TRS/Financing/PTHs); part of a 2 man team delivering TRS enhancements. Interface with business and other support teams to maintain high availability and reliability, provide 2nd level support, and currently engage with other areas of the bank to extend the system into other business areas. (C# 2/3, SQL)• Analysed TRS requirements for replacement of EQRMS system including trading front ends, PTHs and Affirmations.• Developed a legal affirmation system for payments (realtime and EOD) with realtime tracking of all TRS related operations, including all downstream feeds to Settlements, confirmations and credit.• Development of same day pricing for New York clients.• Multithreaded development in C# and for the database SQL.• Developed daily resetting Swaps for PFS client London Clearing House.• Development on trading front ends and reporting system. C#, CAB, .Net 2.0, Winforms.• Primary contact for Oasys interface and downstream feeds for enhancements, support and remodelling.• Primary contact for the EOD system for Prime Finance System, including adviser on the breakdown of region specific EOD systems

London, United Kingdom

• Analyst developer of trading system of 3 developers, delivered one internet trading system for 3rd party clients and one internal for the front office to trade equity CFD/TRS products (Java, Tibco, C# .Net 2.0, Sybase, SQL).• Internal trading platform (Phoenix) for CFD and Swaps trading based upon C# .Net 2.0 and SQL • Development of interfaces of the multithreaded, distributed components in core trading system.• Re-modelled current End of Day processing to increase performance and reliability and integrating new downstream feeds. • Developed systems for market data capture for various order types using Tibco Rendezvous as middleware for both trading platforms.• Developed automated affirmation system for TRS to replace manual system, increasing productivity 4 fold over the old affirmation system.• Release manager, organising affected teams to physical global releases including support.• Provided 24/7 on call support of End of Day processing and feeds, including day to day system support.• Management of the contingency systems to make sure the disaster recover implementations are effiecient and up to date.• Part time supporting of the traders in their day to day transactions on the Phoenix system, ranging from simple explanation on how to book CFDs and SWAPs to reviewing issues with the P&L figures that have been produced in reports to external clients, including fixing and implementation of changes to solve issues.• Creation of MiFID compliant changes which included liaising with Reuters, then processing the RIC changes to the business, including training the traders with the new MiFID complaint implementation.• External trading platform (eMA) is a web based trade entry and credit check application for CFD and SWAP trading. A DHTML front end is served by JSP/Servlets and EJBs running on a Websphere/Sybase platform. To facilitate sub-second access to market, the system uses a series of satellite RMI services/caches

London, United Kingdom

• Managed several projects from concept to live rollout using an offshore dev team, setting goals/deadlines, points of contact, reviewing procedures and utilising a chase the sun method to aid completion of the projects.• Produced window specs for a thin client browser front-end design. Adhering to UI standards, liaising with business and HK colleagues, analysing user requirements and existing OS2 fat client front end functional specs.• Worked as part of a development team, to build panels in XML, JSP and Java using IBM WSBCC. Acted as a contact point for window spec enquiries.• Planned and managed a team in a common errors exercise.• Designed and built utility code used worldwide in all new WAM developments, and maintained the accompanying technical documentation.• First point of contact for many developers enquires and regular contributor to the discussion database that aid staff external to the project for both technical and functional enquiries.• Supported system testing, both analysing and fixing error logs.• Concept tested new infrastructure releases and prepared documentation for the handover of work to our team in IDC.• As technical lead, represented the project front end in WSBCC Developer’s Forums and other technical meetings.• Attended prototype pilot projects for WAM as the programmer advisor.• Enhanced maintainability of code using refactoring techniques/design patterns.