Christopher "Billy" Abbott

Current

• Lead Software Engineer at FactSet Europe Ltd

Past

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

Education

• Imperial College London
• Cranbrook School, Kent

Connections

89 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website

Christopher "Billy" Abbott’s Summary

Software engineering generalist with experience of financial data and identification systems and a recent specialisation in 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. Knowledge and experience of working with stock exchanges and data vendors, including Toronto SE, Borsa Italiana, SIX, London Stock Exchange.

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

Christopher "Billy" Abbott’s Experience

• Lead Software Engineer

  FactSet Europe Ltd

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; FDS; Computer Software industry)

  July 2000 — Present (8 years 4 months)

  Software engineer, manager, team leader and head of London engineering 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

  Activities and Societies:

  Imperial College Science Fiction, ICU Bars Steward

• Cranbrook School, Kent

  A-levels and GCSEs 1991 — 1996

Additional Information

Christopher "Billy" Abbott’s Websites:

• My Website

Christopher "Billy" Abbott’s Interests:

Photography, Technology, Film, Literature

Christopher "Billy" Abbott’s Groups:

BCS, Imperial College Alumni

•    BCS Young Professionals Group
•    Perl Mongers
•    Tuttle
•    FactSet Research Systems

Christopher "Billy" Abbott’s Honors:

BCS Chartered IT Professional (CITP), 2008
Engineering Council Chartered Engineer (CEng), 2008

Christopher "Billy" Abbott’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch