Dave Amphlett

Current

Contract Software Engineer at RBS Global Banking & Markets
Director & Partner at Davelopware Ltd

Past

Contract Software Engineer at RBS Global Banking & Markets
Contract Software Engineer at RBS Global Banking & Markets
Contract Software Engineer at Barclays Capital

AVP at Credit Suisse First Boston
Contract Software Engineer at CSFB
Senior Developer at Lehman Brothers
Software Developer at Barra
Junior Developer at LEXLOGISTiX
Undergraduate Engineer at BAE Systems

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Education

Brunel University

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Industry

Investment Banking

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Dave Amphlett’s Summary

Specialising in C# development. 27 years of developing software, 15 years in the Investment Banking industry.

Enjoy working in small focused teams close to the business on fast moving developments.

Dave Amphlett’s Specialties:

Front-Office Trading Applications & Program Trading / Algorithmic Trading Systems.
Customised GUI implementations tailored to users constantly evolving requirements.

Dave Amphlett’s Experience

Contract Software Engineer

RBS Global Banking & Markets

(Public Company; Investment Banking industry)

April 2009 — Present (8 months)

Working within the Project Management Excellence team. Developing a C# Winforms application to maintain a 'Golden Source' of all headcount in RBS Global Markets.
Data feeds from a variety of source systems. GUI to enable an Administrator to validate and manage the data. Full audit trail of changes to over 23,000 individuals globally.
QlikView and Reporting Services to present MI data to the Senior Management Team.

1 contract renewal during this period.
Director & Partner

Davelopware Ltd

(Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)

Managing all software consultancy, software & website development.

Software Consultancy includes software appraisal, pre-investment due diligence, and proof-of-concept development.

Software Development is predominately add-in modules for the phenomenally popular DotNetNuke website Content Management System.

Website Development of a series of 'niche' retail websites and directories.
Contract Software Engineer

RBS Global Banking & Markets

(Public Company; Investment Banking industry)

February 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 11 months)

FXRates System GUI development for Royal Bank of Scotland. FX Spot and Forwards Trader Pricing and price management GUI development. Predominantly C#, WinForms (with some custom Rendering and Graphing code).

3 Contract renewals during this period.
Contract Software Engineer

RBS Global Banking & Markets

(Public Company; Investment Banking industry)

April 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 7 months)

FX Program Trading application development. Development of an FX Arbitrage system, and some Algorithmic Trading system development. Much of the work on the GUI (WinForms), and Market Connectivity code to EBS, Reuters and Currenex. Predominantly C# with some Java.

2 contract renewals during this period.
Contract Software Engineer

Barclays Capital

(Public Company; BARC; Investment Banking industry)

2004 — 2005 (1 year )

Interest Rate Derivative Trade Capture C# GUI development - Trade Capture Workflow (TCW).

1 contract renewal during this period.
AVP

Credit Suisse First Boston

(Public Company; CSR; Investment Banking industry)

2002 — 2004 (2 years )

Responsible for the team developing and supporting all 'non-spreadsheet' software within the Emerging Markets IT group, reporting to Global Head of Emerging Markets IT (Mark Hutchison).

Responsibilities included: Shaping IT Strategy; Project Management of new development project; day to day running of Business As Usual maintenance and support; Reporting status and progress.
Contract Software Engineer

CSFB

(Public Company; CSR; Investment Banking industry)

1999 — 2002 (3 years )

Emerging Markets IT group: Development of a new version of the Synthetic Rouble Obligation Application. C++ and C# Server Applications, intra-front-office System Feeds and System Reconcilliations. All backed onto Sybase and SQL Server databases

4 contact renewals during this period
Senior Developer

Lehman Brothers

(Public Company; LEH; Capital Markets industry)

1997 — 1999 (2 years )

Equity Program Trading IT. Market connectivity & workflow development. Sales GUI client for deal loading. Broker GUI client for deal loading. all C++ on Unix and Windows with Sybase database.
Software Developer

Barra

(Public Company; BARZ; Financial Services industry)

1993 — 1997 (4 years )

Shrink-wrapped software development. Risk Management applications primarily used by Fund Managers. Risk Analysis applications for Investment Banking Analysts. All C++ MFC. Also an Options Trading System GUI & Business Logic in C++ in Motif on VMS.
Junior Developer

LEXLOGISTiX

(Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

1992 — 1993 (1 year )

Realtime Warehouse Management & Production Management software. Development & Support. C on Unix, customised Informix database.
Undergraduate Engineer

BAE Systems

(Public Company; BA.L; Defense & Space industry)

1989 — 1993 (4 years )

3 periods of 6 months working full-time at British Aerospace on various Projects.

Battlefield Simulations system in Pascal on VMS for BAe Dynamics Ltd.

Testing of various specialist Simulation Languages available at the time for the board of BAe Military Aircraft Limited.

Within the Electronic & Optical Counter Measures group, designed, produced and tested a video system to combine different live video standards of visible and infra-red recordings of missile launches into a single live video stream.

Dave Amphlett’s Education

Brunel University

BEng (Hons) , Electronic & Electrical Engineering (Computer Systems) , 1989 — 1993

Graduated with the highest honors on my course in my year. Specialised in Computer Systems which was basically an emphasis on Electronics, Software and Artificial Intelligence.