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• Customer Data Management, 

  Oct, 2019 - Present

  The Customer Data Management platform provides a set of APIs to our customers to configure their products.

  • Team lead for a complex migration of data and messaging services from legacy SOAP request to cloud based REST Apis.

  • Design, development and release of Spring Boot / Batch / REST / OpenApi applications with full integration test coverage.

  • Automated integration and deployment pipelines using Jenkins, Docker and Ansible to Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

  • Large scale data migration and processing using Apache Nifi as a platform.

  • Release management and planning, interview and developer support.

• Commercial, 

  Aug, 2017 - Sep, 20192 years 1 month

  The Commercial payments group support Virtual Credit Cards allowing rules to be configured and validated in real-time to support B2B payments.

  • Team lead for the InControl real time Auth message processing system.

  • Design and development of features across API servers, authentication and frontend nodes.

  • Supported improvements to CI/CD practices and investigating how we can apply 'automate-everything' practices to database and cloud deployments.

  • Support the product and business owners to incrementally deliver business value in each iteration.

• Senior Technical Consultant, 

  Mar, 2015 - Jul, 20172 years 4 months

  I worked as a Senior Java developer focused on the delivery of the Infonova R6 platform to our clients.

  • Delivery of new features, support current production issues while attempting to improve processes of E2E testing and test environment support.

  • Involved with a proof-of-concept project to demonstrate how our solution could be deployed to the Azure Cloud, and use vagrant / docker for internal test deployments.

  • I have been asked as a mentor to junior members to the firm and team. I have been involved with the delivery of internal technical training courses.

• Senior Software Engineer, Contract, 

  Jul, 2012 - Dec, 20142 years 5 months

  Developer for a new batch platform that generates daily hedging files for multiple products. The system was implemented using Spring Batch to allow the actuarial team to manipulate data on the fly using rules defined via Spring Expression Language.

  • Extended the existing integration test framework to support reporting of code coverage metrics for all modules via Sonar on a nightly basis.

• Senior Software Engineer, Contract, 

  Jan, 2011 - Jun, 20121 year 6 months

  Java Contractor working on various Customer Experience Management components in the Touchpoint and Proaction products.

  • Implemented a generic entity framework to handle database operations in the core Touchpoint product.

• Senior Software Engineer, Contract, 

  Oct, 2009 - Oct, 20101 year

  Aegon provide UK and Dutch pensions.

  • Implemented a validation service that allowed for reuse of rule hierarchies across products and locales from a database configuration.

• Software Engineer, Contract, 

  Mar, 2008 - Sep, 20091 year 7 months

  Terranua's consultancy group focused on providing a risk control system to the Fidelity organization.

  • Risk Reporting: Responsible for a risk reporting system which queries risk details from a database and generates XML reports.

• Software Engineer, Contract, 

  Oct, 2007 - Feb, 20084 months

  Norkom's development group provided financial crime and compliance applications that can be deployed into various J2EE server and database environments.

  • Watch List Management Day to day work involved bug fixing and small pieces of new development on various branches of this sub-project.

• Software Engineer, 

  Sep, 2006 - Sep, 20071 year 1 month

  Curam provide a social enterprise management solution that can be customised for various social welfare organisations across the globe.

  • Worked on the Unemployment Insurance product within the workflow group which involved the full software development lifecycle on various J2EE platforms.

• Software Engineer, 

  Jan, 2003 - May, 20063 years 4 months

  International assignment as a software developer within the Foreign Exchange IT group in Zurich, Switzerland and London, England

  • Developer of real time settlement and reconciliation system for FX trading based on XML messaging over MQ.

• Software Engineer, 

  Oct, 2000 - Dec, 20022 years 2 months

  RANOS is an operations and management system for Ericsson’s 3G telecommunications radio network system.

  • Member of a framework group which provided generic server-side components.

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