Divisional Head of Engineering focused on culture and practice.

Independent consultant working on greenfield trade lifecycle management software for the rates exotics business.Deutsche-Bank required experienced agile developers to drive out large business transformation projects within the exotics area. Engaged on a contract basis to design, test, develop and support a new cross business trade capture and orchestration system. Provided analysis of requirements; development of solutions; production support; architectural design; and continued process improvements.Key skills: Doobie, Functional Programming, Git, JavaScript, Jetty, JSON, Mocking, Object-Oriented Design, Pair Programming, React, REST, SBT, Scala, ScalaJS, ScalaTest, Scalaz, TeamCity, WebDriver / Selenium

Scala training for Pluralsight.

Independent consultant working on middle office and sales software in equity derivatives.Engaged on a contract basis to design, test, develop and support an existing orchestration system and develop a new front office sales system, supporting the EMEA business. Provided analysis of requirements, development, production support, architectural design, code quality and process improvements. The products enjoy continued success.Key skills: Ant, Apache / Tomcat, DI, FreeMarker, Git, Hibernate, Java, JavaScript, JEE, Jetty, JMS, JSON, JUnit, Mocking, Object-Oriented Design, Oracle, Pair Programming, REST (ROA), Scala, Struts, Subversion, TeamCity, Thunderhead, WebDriver / Selenium

Independent Consultant facilitating delivery of an innovative financial solution within equity derivatives, growing a new team. Coaching and mentoring.Engaged on a contract basis to lead the design, development and delivery of a new platform to facilitate management of ETF products. Liaised with stakeholders, set technical direction and design and led six Developers and a single QA Engineer. Oversaw coding, testing and implementation of new platform using agile methodologies. Successfully delivered the system, facilitating significant new revenue streams and cost of capital savings.Key skills: Ant, Apache / Tomcat, BDD, Concordion, DDD, DI, Git, Hibernate, Java, JEE, Jetty, JMS, JSON, JUnit, Mocking, Object-Oriented Design, Oracle, Pair Programming, REST (ROA), Scala, Scala Lift, SOA, Subversion, Tapestry, TeamCity, Velocity / FreeMarker, WebDriver / Selenium, Wicket

Engaged to design and deliver on-site training and follow up consultation applying the ideas to the clients codebase.

Team Lead and Java Developer in a high performing dynamic team (telephone and broadband - Sky Network Services). Line management responsibilities.Key skills: Ant, BDD, Concordion, DDD, DI, Hudson, Java, JEE, Jetty, JMS, JSON, JUnit, Maven, Mocking, Object-Oriented Design, Oracle, Pair Programming, Spring / Hibernate, Subversion, Swing / AWT / SWT, Tapestry, TeamCity, Tomcat, Velocity / FreeMarker, WebDriver / Selenium, Wicket, XML

Java Developer in dynamic highly skilled Agile environment.Key skills: Ant, Apache / Tomcat, CruiseControl, FIT, Java, JEE, JINI, JUnit, Mocking, Object-Oriented Design, Pair Programming, Spring / Hibernate, SpringMVC, SQL Server (inc. ETL), Subversion, XML

Built on Agile experiences to again introduce an Agile way of working to a legacy migration project. Mostly working with SOA and web services in a Websphere environment.Key skills: Ant, BPEL, CVS, EIS, Java, JEE, JRules, JUnit, Mocking, SOA, SOAP, XSTL

Main achievements include introducing an Agile approach to new projects including unit testing and continuous integration. Lead the development group through the Sun Certified Java Programmer examination with a course syllabus, schedule, handouts etc. Working in Websphere based development environment.

Designed syllabus and delivered multiple courses for a National Open College Network Certification in Java Programming.

Working through the full life cycle of various localisation based tools in a structured corporate environment.