Senior developer in the Enterprise Client Technologies team developing global solutions. Creating both Windows & web solutions in C# including SharePoint, streaming video and content management systems.

Working as a Senior Consultant/Developer for a Microsoft Gold Partner on a number of .NET projects. Using my technical talents and creativity to build products and solutions from the ground up; writing secure, robust, scalable and efficient code. In addition working closely with the business sponsors to define, analyse and prioritise features, often implementing innovative technical solutions. As part of a team we estimate development time and feature feasibility to meet deadlines and drive for results, including technical lead and management of on and off-shore resources.

Examples include an Internet site for a Housing Group using Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, an intranet ASP.NET site for securely collecting and reporting on yearly compensation details for all Fixed Income employees for an Investment Bank’ Human Resources department and improving a website-hits analysis tool by optimising the SQL design and later demonstrating moving it to SQL Server Analysis Services (OLAP). Building a client portfolio validation and reporting system for the Bonds, Interest Rate and Credit Derivatives teams at using ASP.NET/C#.

Also providing guidance on best practices for distributing .NET solutions for a London based company developing web applications for another financial services company. Most recently developing and extending a commodity tracking web based system with tendering/grading to exchanges and future valuation estimates.

Part of the Fixed Income IT team developing a pre- and post-trade tracking system in VB and . NET. Rich-client Visual Basic application with Excel reporting and Visual C# server-side batch application for integration with an external system via XML and a web service interface.

From Feb 2001 to Jan 2003 I was the lead developer and architect in a team of five developers and a graphic artist building the Equities Research website. The team was formed to propel BNP Paribas’ on-line stature back to a level competing with rival Investment banks.
The site provides a portal for all published research documents, with over 70 new articles from company briefs to full-sector reports published daily. We also provide full-text and advanced searching capabilities for internal employees and external clients, as well as on-line analysis tools.

The site has been very well received by everyone and is now the one-stop source for all Equity information inside the company. It was voted joint-second in the Euromoney 2002 “Best Equity website” survey, noted areas where ease of navigation and quality of the on-line tools and it was highly commended on the multi-lingual presentation of the entire site.

My initial responsibilities included prototyping the technical architecture and overall feasibility of the project. Much of the initial work was researching and analysing the scope of the task, and then later providing consultancy on moving to ASP. NET and how the system was produced to other groups within the bank who were undertaking similar systems at the time. As the main lead on the project I was responsible for the session-state , security and page framework .

The system consists of an Internet and Intranet website, using Microsoft architecture and technology on Windows 2000 servers; including IIS, SSL, ASP, COM, DCOM, COM+, VB and SQL Server. Disconnected ADO recordsets and XML datasets were used on the server-side to send the front-end of HTML, DHTML and javascript to the client browser.

We had to work within the groups security policies, including configuration of DCOM to work through our firewalls between DMZ server farms. The whole system was designed from the start to be resilient, including load-balancing IIS webfarms and fail-over clustering for the document storage and database servers.

Prior to this team, I worked in the Technical Consulting Group, initially as an analyst developer and then later managing a team of three heading up the tools division. The groups remit was to rapidly develop any requirements from the Equity or Fixed Income business line. We acted from the developer perspective as the central team when deciding upon the standards, such as e-mail, charting, UI components and technologies were then communicated via training and consulting with other teams.
For six months, before moving to my current position in the newly formed Equity website development team I managed a team of three developers working on providing a set of base web components.

During this time, we developed many intranet sites for the London territory and corporate and investment banking division to provide better information flow.

One major deliverable was a real-time communication system for use by the traders and sales force; it went live in June 1999 before instant messaging was well known.
I worked with two other developers to build the system which needed to allow different channels for communication with full audit and history tracing for legal and compliance commitments. The system is still in use today globally, with normal concurrent usage levels of 700 clients talking 24 x 7.

I developed the initial prototype proof of concept in VB using Winsock controls. We then engineered the backend, using object-orientated design techniques, as VC++ DLLs hosted in MTS and messages persisted in SQL Server 6.5. My responsibility was the front-end VB application that used another VC++ COM objects for messaging transport and events.

I was in charge of the Excel VBA front-end which used ActiveX wrappers around these libraries written in VC++ by other members of the team. Any inconsistencies had to be noted in the interface design and bugs or erratic behaviour reported. The system was deployed extensively to the trading floors and support was critical during any upgrades afterwards.

During this period I was introduced to corporate policies and how to support and assist clients. It was excellent seeing first-hand how project timescales and budgets affect deliverables at all stages and especially when deadlines were tight and lost-time might serious cost competitive advantage.

Working through the analysis, design and implementation of a Windows based monitoring package written in Visual Basic and Microsoft C++ 7.0.

The system communicated with external transmitters spread across large sites, and provided visual feedback of levels, temperatures, volumes and alarms on the oil storage tanks.

I gained real experience writing communications software to talk with external devices via PCs, using different protocols and decoding information at the byte-stream level in real-time.

It was expected that I worked to tight deadlines, be self-motivated and also be available to make site visits to assist engineers with installations.