Christopher "Billy" Abbott

Current

Young Professionals Group Executive Committee Secretary at British Computer Society
Lead Software Engineer at FactSet Research Systems

Past

Developer at Applied Psychology Research
Network Administrator and Systems Programmer at Corporation of London

Education

Imperial College London
Cranbrook School, Kent

Connections

156 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

My Website

Christopher "Billy" Abbott’s Summary

Software engineering generalist with experience of financial data and identification systems, and technical recruiting for graduate positions.

Christopher "Billy" Abbott’s Specialties:

C++, Perl, JavaScript, php, Java, VB, DCL.
VMS, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris.
XML, MySQL, MS SQL Server.
HTML, CSS, XML web formats, webservices.
Perforce, Subversion.

Management and mapping of financial identifiers, including Sedol, Cusip, ISIN, Valor and exchange tickers. Experience of working with stock exchanges and data vendors, including Morningstar, Toronto SE, Borsa Italiana, and the London Stock Exchange.

I am on CPAN as cowfish (http://search.cpan.org/~cowfish/).

Christopher "Billy" Abbott’s Experience

Young Professionals Group Executive Committee Secretary

British Computer Society

(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2009 — Present (4 months)

On top of normal secretarial duties for the group, I am also involved in the organisation and running of events, and am the committee's 'techie guy', helping to expand our online presence and coordinate our experiments with online video.
Lead Software Engineer

FactSet Research Systems

(Public Company; FDS; Financial Services industry)

July 2000 — Present (9 years 5 months)

Software engineer working with mutual fund and fixed income data, financial identification systems, general technology, professional development and graduate recruitment.
Developer

Applied Psychology Research

(Computer Software industry)

April 1999 — September 1999 (6 months)

Software developer for a small software startup during the 6 month sandwich break in my university course. I worked on a variety of web and offline systems to enhance user selection of products including poetry, films, wine and gifts. Worked on the Co-Op's Grape and Grain wine website, mytaxi.co.uk and razorcuts.com as well as internal applications to support those sites. I also worked on the development and prototyping of an intelligent program selecting EPG system for digital television and an automated text classification system.
Network Administrator and Systems Programmer

Corporation of London

(Government Agency; Legal Services industry)

January 1998 — April 1999 (1 year 4 months)

Part-time sysadmin and programmer for departmental applications in the Comptroller and City Solicitor's department. Worked on a variety of inhouse applications for time-keeping, inventorying and document management. Prototyped a system for automated transcription using speech recognition. Did PC support for the department including management of departmental servers and website.

Christopher "Billy" Abbott’s Education

Imperial College London

MEng , Computing , 1996 — 2000

Final year project: An investigation into concern separation techniques, comparing Java OO, Aspect/J and HyperJ.

Activities and Societies:

Imperial College Science Fiction, ICU Bars Steward
Cranbrook School, Kent

A-levels and GCSEs 1991 — 1996