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Harpenden, Gb

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for cross-team governance of technical architecture, coding quality, quality assurance & system support. • Working closely with the CTO to shape the product roadmap and drive product growth.• Reporting key team performance metrics to the CTO & CEO.• Responsible for Security Compliance and Data Privacy Policies.• Managing technical team lead’s Agile delivery of new features to agreed dates, by identifying and mitigating delivery risks and blockers.• Ensuring modern software development methodologies are in place for effective continuous delivery and integration.• Working remotely and on-location with our technical & data analyst teams in MUSO Cluj, Romania.• Responsible for Software Engineering team recruitment, promoting team diversity, fostering cross-team collaboration.• Specialist with many AWS Cloud services, architecting high availability, high scale cloud-based system architectures.• Strong hands-on experience with a wide range of software engineering programming languages, software stacks and data analysis.• Research & Development of new technologies and data sets, prototyping proof of concepts to accelerate product innovation.

London, United Kingdom

ShopIntegrator provides SMEs with secure, easy-to-use hosted shopping cart software. ShopIntegrator’s competitive pricing and straightforward set up allows merchants to turn their website into an online store within a matter of minutes. McAfee Secure and PCI compliant, ShopIntegrator’s shopping cart is compatible with most websites so there is no need to change web hosting companies.ShopIntegrator is a powerful e-commerce and m-commerce checkout to sell tangible goods, digital downloads and personalised products. There is no software to install and its uncomplicated, no cost set-up requires little technical knowledge and can be added into HTML website templates or DIY site builders such as Weebly, Moonfruit, Yola, 1&1 MyWebsite, Basekit, Webs, Webnode and Vistaprint. ShopIntegrator also has dedicated plug-ins to simplify adding ecommerce into popular Content Management Systems (CMS) such as WordPress, Drupal and DotNetNuke (DNN).

Securities Services and Custody Business department solutions architect and technical team lead developer for six people. Full project life-cycle experience, dealing with front office traders, middle & back office business users, executive director project sponsors, developers, infrastructure teams, auditors, and software vendors. • Technical lead, writing technical specifications, JIRA task assignment • Team quality assurance and adherence to standards • Business requirements gathering, project initiation, system testing, UAT, production releases • Vendor selection, evaluation and prototyping • Worked with auditors on SAS 70 and Sarbanes-Oxley software compliance • Trade Reporting Applications: Java/Web/Crystal Reports/JSP/Struts/Tomcat/Linux/Sybase/SQL/Shell Scripting/Perl • ION ANVIL Repo Trade Capture System: Linux/Perl/Shell Scripting/SQL/Sybase • ION Trading MarketView Platform: Linux/Shell Scripting/Java • Bloomberg Spreadsheet Utilities: Excel/VBA/Bloomberg Market Data API • Custody Fee Billing: Java/Web/Crystal Reports/Tomcat/Linux/SQL/Sybase • Reference Data Warehouse: Java/Web/JEE/JMS/Weblogic 8/Sybase/SQL • Corporate Actions Systems: (1) XSP: Windows Server/SQL/Microsoft SQL Server (2) Information Mosaic: Java/WebSphere 8/Linux/SQL/Oracle 11g • Compliance System: Thompson Reuters TransWatch: Windows Server/SQL/MSSQL Server

Associate analyst programmer for the Derivatives Trade Capture Group.• Developed ICT and OCT trade data cross platform business rule system for derivative SWAP trade capture using Java/J2EE/XML/Weblogic 6/Oracle 8i/WebServices/JMS• Developed back office trade reconciliation tool with Java/Tomcat/Sybase T-SQL

London, England, United Kingdom

(Company formerly known as Bond Technologies)IT Consultant providing on-site client project software development for the following clients:• May 2001 - Nov 2002: Deutsche Bank, London: Developed web based HR performance management tool using HTML/Java/JavaScript/JSP/EJB/JMS/LDAP/Weblogic 6/SQL/Oracle 8i• Aug 2000 - Apr 2001: IPC Media, London: Development resource for internal IT using Java/Oracle 8i/PL SQL/MySQL/XML/Perl/CGI/JavaScript/HTML/Windows/UNIX• May 2000 - Aug 2000: Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), London: Developed consumer mortgage web application in HTML/Java/J2EE (JSP, JavaMail)/Tomcat/XML.

London Area, United Kingdom

(Control Data bought by BT Syntegra) IT Consultant providing on-site client project software development for the following projects:• Aug 1999 - Apr 2000 : G.N. Comtext, London: Developed Multi-threaded Java billing application• Jan 1998 - Jul 1999 : Unilever UK, Netherlands, Germany: Technical support analyst for global LDAP messaging and directory services. Developing Perl/Shell Scripts on Unix• Sept 1997 - Dec 1997 : Training, Minneapolis USA

Undergraduate gap year as part of my Electronics and Electrical Engineering degree. I worked as the engineering assistant to the lead responsible engineer who worked on the Inmarsat 3 satellite build programme at Matra Marconi Space. Inmarsat's network provides communications services to a range of governments, aid agencies, media outlets and businesses with a need to communicate in remote regions or where there is no reliable terrestrial network.