Oxford, England, United Kingdom
A senior IT professional with over 20 years of experience in financial services technology, possessing strong technical and architectural skills encompassing real-time development and complex cloud-based architectures. A strong proponent of Agile with experience of building scaled teams of 300+ and significantly improving delivery through a combination of empowerment, coaching and example.
Head of Architecture and test automation for the Information Services Division
My role encompasses: - Real time index service development including: - Equities, Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange - pricing rules, validation, analytics and service rules development - IT Architecture & System design - high availability service delivery - Project portfolio management and delivery - Business analysis - Caplin platform - Reuters and IDC market feeds - Sybase ASE development and migration to SQL Server - Tick data capture via analytic databases e.g. IQ, Vectorwise, Infobright - Due diligence - CRM - Cloud document management
- Design/Implementation of real-time market data and analytics architecture for fixed income, equities and foreign exchange. - Created the architecture team and design processes within FTSE. - Created the business analysis and requirements processes within FTSE. - Managed launch of Forex services. - Oversaw the launch of a new distribution service. - Ran the project management function.
Head of software development responsible for the development of index calculation software as well as new products and services.
Development in Notes, VB, C and Sybase T-SQL for EMEA financial data warehouse. Role included Sybase performance and tuning, VB gui development, C development on UNIX and some Lotus notes development.
Professional services developer specialising in bespoke product customisation and data migration.