Christopher "Billy" Abbott

Current

• Young Professionals Group Executive Committee Member 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

128 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 Member

  British Computer Society

  (Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

• Lead Software Engineer

  FactSet Research Systems

  (Public Company; FDS; Financial Services industry)

  July 2000 — Present (9 years 1 month)

  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

Additional Information

Christopher "Billy" Abbott’s Websites:

• My Website

Christopher "Billy" Abbott’s Interests:

Photography, Technology, Film, Literature

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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