Highly skilled in my field, I am looking for the opportunity to develop my abilities. I am a hardworking, resourceful and responsible person, committed to gaining success in whatever project I undertake. As an excellent communicator, I work well in a team, but am versatile enough to be able to work efficiently as an individual. I enjoy using my own initiative and work well under pressure.

• Technical project management of large software implementations.
• Management of multiple critical projects concurrently.
• Excellent IT technical design and implementation skills.
• Team Leader & Team worker.
• Excellent communications skills (face to face, on phone and electronically).
• Troubleshooter and solutions provider.
• Effective in a fast moving, dynamic and pressurised environment.
• Co-ordination of work in line with Standard Operating Procedures.
• Effective in the co-ordination, training and reviewing of others.
• Effective Time Management skills.
  

• 5 Years Implementation experience with royalblue Fidessa products (EMMA, FTS, OMAR, CTAC, IMAR, LMIL, FTW, FEC, APAS, RSPQ, ETP, Express, OpenAccess, v5 Product Set).
• Commercial exposure to large, industry standard (Sybase), and in-house database systems.
• Experienced in multiple Stock Exchange platforms (Extranext, Euronext, Xetra, VirtX/SWX, HKEx).
• Buy side and sell side connectivity via FIX and proprietary API’s.
• Exposure to RSP and IOI networks.
• Back Office connectivity using flat file and self-describing interfaces.
• Operational exposure to Unix (Solaris). X-Windows. MS Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP & NT4. MS-DOS.
• Unix scripting, TCL, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Flash Action Script.
• Use of change control systems and architecture (Perforce).
• Experience (through degree) in programming in Visual Basic, Assembler (x86), C and C++.
• Operational knowledge of UNIX and PC hardware in a production environment.
• Experience of the network/security requirements of a complex, multi-site system.
• Office applications: MS Word, Outlook, Excel, Visio, Project and PowerPoint.
• Web/Graphics/Design application skills include Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Photoshop.

Oct 2001 - Present date. Royalblue Financial plc.

Position: European Trading Platform, Service Delivery Manager.

Duties:

• Primary role is to assure the technical delivery of Fidessa hosted solutions to the client. This includes the management of the installation of hardware, Fidessa software components, loading of appropriate static data, connectivity to market data sources, network infrastructure, third-party interfaces and the customer specific software requirements.
• Key to the role is excellent business knowledge of the end users underlying requirements as well as excellent technical knowledge of system components and constraints.
• Project management, planning and tracking is essential in this position.
• As required, I can draw on my implementation experience and provide hands-on assistance to the team in order to ensure successful completion of a project.
• Other responsibilities include the training of new staff, project costing and estimating, division-wide responsibility for various third-party interfaces and implementation streamlining.
• During a project I am responsible for the duties of a team of technical people and for any architectural decisions that are needed.
• After the system is in production I am responsible for managing the implementation of upgrades and assistance in the technical support of the products.
• As senior member of a larger team I am involved in the design and installation of infrastructure and procedures (both technical and operational).
• Recently I have managed the technical implementation of global projects (US, UK & Asian based hosted systems). This has involved overseas travel for extended periods to set up the infrastructure (technical and operational) of an entirely new ‘hosted Fidessa’ department in Hong Kong.
  

Sept 2000 - Oct 2001. Sabbatical.

• Traveling in Asia, Australasia and the Pacific. See www.smifterbifter.com for more information.

April 2001 - July 2001. Macquarie Bank, Sydney.

Position: 3 Month contract; Sybase DBA.

Duties:

• Responsibilities included technical support for the mortgages and securitisation division in the Sydney branch.
• Sybase database maintenance.
• Using the in-place operating procedures to manage and track system/data changes.

Nov 1997 - Sept 2000. Royalblue Financial plc.

Position: Senior Support Consultant.

Duties:

• Responsibilities included technical support for a wide range of software components and technologies.
• As a senior member of the support group, involvement in the infrastructure of a team was also a major responsibility. This included the leading of a multi-product support team, training of newer staff, as well as a wider responsibility to the entire support group.
• Technical responsibilities consisted of troubleshooting client issues, installation, configuration and testing of both hardware and software on the client site.
• Client on-site presence also necessitated project management of implementation and ongoing support of the systems.

1994-1997 - University of Salford - BSc. (Hons)
2:1 Achieved in "Video, Imaging and Communications Technology"

Subjects studied:

• Programming (C, C++, VB)
• Broadcasting and Communications
• Digital Signal Processing
• Virtual Reality and 3D Programming
• Project Management
• Written and Verbal Communications
• Analogue And Digital Electronics
• Digital Networks

1993-1994 - University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)
One year foundation course in Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Computing.

1991-1993 - Varndean Sixth Form College, Brighton - A-LEVELS: 4 qualifications achieved.

1986-1991 - Dorothy Stringer High School, Brighton - GCSEs: 9 qualifications achieved.

I like to travel and have done so both professionally and personally. I have also used my skills in web design to provide sites for friends and companies. Away from the computer, I enjoy a variety of social activities, walking/hiking, photography, reading and snowboarding.