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I am an experienced software professional - confident, articulate, with an
eye for detail and a constructive approach to problem solving. I work
well under pressure both as an individual and as part of a team. My
effectiveness as a software professional lies in an ability to marry
business needs with software technology through an in-depth understanding
the technology and problem domain. I have used a diverse range of
software technologies including Java, C++, C, Unix and J2EE.
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I have extensive knowledge and experience of Object Oriented
methods, software architecture, and development processes. I have held architectural, technical,
managerial and consulting roles, but have always maintained core hands-on
development skills. In recent
years I have worked in the finance sector but previously worked
extensively in the communications and telecom sectors for leading
vendors, service providers and services companies
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Experience
April 2007 – Current 
Contract Software Engineer, Nomura
International Plc
Joined ‘middle-office’ trading
systems IT group. This group is
responsible for the custom systems that support the trade processing flows
for the firm’s business and maintain a real-time view of its trading
position. The core system is a
distributed object oriented architecture based on a platform comprising
Solaris, C++, ObjectStore, Tibco
RV, Reuters Transaction Express, and Sybase. In addition, new developments are
implemented in Java and use XML over an IBM MQ messaging
infrastructure. Responsible for 2
green-field developments, one a GUI desk-top application for use by Repo traders built using the Eclipse UI and Spring JDBC
software frameworks, the other a server-side IBM-MQ Message Broker used to
route and manipulate messages at gateways into and out of the core
system. The Message Broker
provides a framework of message handling components that can be wired
together for different applications.
It has been used as the basis for several production services
including the principal trade processing service used by most of the banks
front-office systems. Also have
undertaken numerous enhancements using C++, Java, JavaScript, XSLT, Sybase,
C# and CORBA.
August 2004 – April 2007 
Contract Software Engineer, Prudential UK Ltd
Joined development group responsible for the Annuity pricing engines.
These custom systems provide a crucial role in winning new business,
especially in very large scale bulk annuity buy-outs. My most satisfying contribution over the
period was to significantly increase the system scalability and throughput
while also reducing the hardware resources used. This was achieved by re-developing the
data access layer using a combination of efficient cache design and number
of SQL optimizations. I was also
involved in the introduction of IBM MQ to facilitate horizontal
scalability. Together these changes
resulted in a leaner and more flexible architecture with dramatically
higher throughput that improved the businesses ability to price very large
scale bulk annuity buy-outs. I was also involved in a number of new
application feature developments. I
participated in an architectural council and a review of overall platform
performance that proposed and implemented various system level initiatives
to further enhance system scalability. I also wrote 2 technical reviews of
the system that proposed a strategy for modernizing the software and
associated development practices.
The system servers run on AIX and are written mostly in C++ with
some Java, Unix shell and Oracle PL/SQL.
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April
2001 – April 2004 
Senior Software Engineer, Nexagent Ltd
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Nexagent was a high technology start-up
aiming to bring a new solution to the design and delivery of global managed
network services. I joined as one of
the very first members of the software group and held an influential role
in the establishment of the Information, Application and Technical
Architectures. I wrote requirements
specifications and architecture documents and performed several technical
investigations. I also developed
software in Java, C++ and C, created system test data sets and conducted
end-user training. More…
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1999
– 2001 
Contract Technical Manager for Compaq Computer’s TeMIP
Engineering Group, Reading
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Provided a lead role in
the development of two IP networking related TeMIP
product developments, one a CISCO Router TeMIP
Access Module and the second a suite of TeMIP
Function Modules comprising an IP-VPN service provisioning system.
This role included technical project management, hands-on development and
liaison with the core Compaq engineering group in Nice. more...
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1998
– 1999 
Contract Senior Software Engineer at Nortel’s Harlow
Laboratories
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Member of a large
team developing an element management system in Java for a new component
of the Nortel next generation architecture. Initially part of the System
Engineering function writing a Requirements Specification and later as
part of the implementation team developed Java Swing client and
server-side components for the software management function. more...
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1993-96. Technical Director of Opal Communications Pty Ltd, a start-up
company that partnered with HP to develop application development tools for
the HP OpenView Communication platform. Lead
developer and manager of two product developments, a CASE tool like modelling system and a C++ application framework and
code-generator. Both tools were
highly specialised tools to aid the development
of OSS
management applications conformant to international TMN standards such as
CMIP and GDMO. more...
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Jan-Dec 1997. Contract lead developer to Open Telecommunications Pty
Ltd. who took over the maintenance on on-going development of the above
products after Opal closed for business.
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1997-1998. Independent trainer and consultant based in Europe
working mainly through HP delivering services to their customers in the
above products and other related OpenView
products. Delivered these services
in Europe, US and Asia. In addition to engagements with HP also
undertook project specific consulting assignments with AT&T in the US, CNET in France,
Comptel in Finland
and Vodaphone in the UK. more
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1987 – 1993 
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Technical lead and project management roles within the Australian Centre
for Unisys Software, a product engineering group based in Melbourne,
Sydney and Canberra. Main projects included ISDN,
Open System Security, and client/server tools for modernising
mainframe applications. Projects were developed mainly in C on Unix. more...
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1983 – 1987 
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Software Engineer based in London for 3
years then later transferred to Logica’s Melbourne office in Australia. Projects included the Australian Bank Interchange
Funds Transfer System (1 year), an ISDN research network (6 months), GUI
applications for high-end IBM PC graphics adapter (2 years), and the
Greater Manchester Police Criminal Records System (6 months). more...
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Bsc (Hons,
2:1) in Computing,
University of Loughborough 1982.
Post Graduate Diploma
in Digital Communications, Monash University of Melbourne 1990.
Excellent GCSE and A levels.
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Recent Training & Studies
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March 2009
- Attended QCon, the Enterprise
& Solution Architecture Confuerence,
in London
Sept’
2008
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Passed TOGAF 8
Certification exam
2006
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Attended EclipseCon,
the Eclipse developer conference, in San Fransicso
2004
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Model Driven Architecture using Executable
UML – 5 day course presented by Kennedy
Carter Ltd
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Advanced JBoss
Architecture – 4 day course presented by JBoss Inc,
later qualifying as a ‘Certified JBoss
Consultant’
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OMG Workshop on “Enterprise Application Modeling and
Integration”
Current Direction / Interest
I have recently studied The Open Group’s Architecture Framework
(TOGAF) and qualified as a ‘Certified TOGAF Practitioner’ in
support of returning to a more architectural role. At the system design level I am
interested in Model / Domain Driven Design and at the implementation
level interested in Eclipse based Java technologies.
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DIY / Sailing /
Movies / Travel
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