Investment Banking Consultant (IT)
London, United Kingdom
Investment Banking Consultant (IT)
London, United Kingdom
Finance: - Interest Rates Derivatives: Swaps, Cap,, Floor, Swaptions
- Exotic Options, Equities
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Financial Services industry)
April 2008 — Present (4 months)
Client: JP Morgan Chase
- Worked in a regresion testing for Murex automation tool based on Eclipse RCP called SPARTA
- Writed Custom Ant Task that use Beanshells that calls jemmy to automate the testing of the GUI of Murex mx2000
- Developed VB Script for QTP to automate regression Testing in Murex ETradePad (Transaction Management) and MxMLExchange (Pre - Post trade rules)
- Automated regression testing for Murex Bonds, CDS, Equity Options, Repos, Simulation Screens, SSI, User Rights, Pre Trade rules...
- Enhanced SPARTA web reporting framework
Murex mx2000, MxML Exchange, Eclipse RCP, SWT, Swing, Apache Tomcat, JBOSS (JETTY), JSP, Spring MVC, Hibernate, Jemmy, Ant, Maven, Subversion, QTP, VBScript, Beanshell, Castor, XSLT, Argeo SLC, VBS, Web Services, Web (JSP, Servlets, Spring MVC, JSTL)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BNP; Investment Banking industry)
August 2007 — April 2008 (9 months)
+ Developer in the Credit Derivatives Team focused on CDO Pricings
Technical: Murex, MxG2000, Java, Hibernate, Spring (MVC & Webflows), JUnit, JMock, SQL Server, Websphere, CVS
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Investment Banking industry)
July 2007 — August 2007 (2 months)
• Full time training in Calypso by Team Trade Consultants, working with Calypso applications in production in Investec
Technical: Java, Calypso
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UBS; Investment Banking industry)
January 2007 — June 2007 (6 months)
+ Acting as Lead developer of project team responsible for building an Alerts & Messaging System based on Pool Availability & Movements, Trading activity (lend/recall), Settlement Instructions. The project integrates the existing pool lending system with new asset management firm for pool lending business.
+ Collaborating actively in building a SWIFT messaging framework (MT5xx).
+ Integrating of components, daemon processes inside the system is accomplished using Spring framework and Hibernate.
+ Installation of a Grid System (Datasynapse), testing of load and stress using services and tasklets. Performance test calculating Black-Scholes, Binomial, Montecarlo… from different sources (C++, C#, java)
Technical: Sybase, T-Sql, Clearcase, Perl, Java, Hibernate, Spring, Websphere MQ, Datasynapse, TestDirector
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; TSS; Financial Services industry)
December 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 2 months)
+ Worked for top American world wide card processor in New York and Madrid - NASDAQ:TSYS.
+ Responsible for making different tasks involving reports, internationalization, web front-end and back-end for different important banks in Europe (RBS/SCH/BOI), collaborating with teams in India.
+ Developed an automated parsing XML application for internationalization using Spring and Hibernate.
+ Researched on distributed cache/grid systems for High Performance Computing.
Technical: Maven, Spring, Hibernate, Linux, EJB, Portlets, DB2, Servlet, JSP, JSF, Weblogic
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; STD; Investment Banking industry)
July 2003 — December 2005 (2 years 6 months)
+ Consultant in Global Plan of Treasury in the biggest Bank of Spain. (Main Back Office Platform)
+ Worked across the Derivatives group in the Development of the core Back Office platform. The implementation included a wide range of products including Exotic OTC Options, CAPs & FLOORs, Swaptions, Cross Currency Swaps, Futures and Forwards, ...
+ Reconciliations System between Murex and Kondor+.
+ Programmed a server side multithreading application that audits the whole back-office system.
+ Acted as a Team leader with the responsibility to analyze and develop a distributed system designed to launch scripts, log analysis and automate tasks in remote units.(CORBA)
+ Lead developer in a Rich client application to manage security, roles, permission.
Tech. Env.: CORBA, XML, J2EE, Log4j, JUnit, Design Patterns, Swing, UML, Rational Rose, MS Project, Hibernate, SWT, Eclipse plugins, XSLT, J2EE, RMI, EJB, Websphere, Oracle PL/SQL, Cristal Reports, TOAD, SQL Navigator
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2002 — July 2003 (1 year 1 month)
+ Designed, developed, tested and delivered of web based solutions for different firms.
+ Gained a lot of experience dealing with clients and developing solutions by myself.
+ Involved in duties as entry of requirements and Database designing, choosing the appropriate architecture for each project.
+ Full life-cycle development roles included business analysis, systems analysis, project planning and control, design, programming, testing, implementation and support for the construction industry.
+ Upgraded as Principal Developer I performed a project leadership role within the group including interviewing and recruiting new technical staff.
Technical Environment: J2EE, JSP, Servlets, STRUTS, JavaScript, XML, XSL, FOP, UML, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, SQLServer, Cocoon, SQL
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2001 — December 2001 (5 months)
+ Trainee as C++/Low Level developer in top antivirus company.
+ Wrote low level code, sorting and merging routines, data manipulation with both flat files and relational databases using C++ and Assembler.
+ Trained in virus analysis techniques, in memory debugging, reverse engineering, encryption.
+ Designed and wrote on my own iniciative a complete application in C++, to organize virus headers.
Technical Environment: C, C++, Assembler, SoftIce, IDA, SQL
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 2 months)
+ I was partner and co-founder of the company and was working as a Systems Engineer/Architect.
+ I was responsible for the development which meant working on my own initiative and creating a project plan.
+ Ensured all costumers requirements were met and delivered on time. A very client facing position, this role involved managing many clients simultaneously at various levels.
+ Learnt to gather requirements, set goals, create, analyze, report, and update business process models using a hands on approach. Also, get an introduction to the new features of project versioning, business performance modeling, and web publishing.
+ Assessed and set goals, created, analyzed, reported, and updated business process models using hands on approach. Also, introduced new features of project versioning, business performance modelling, and web publishing.
Technical Environment: HTML, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PL/SQL
HND, Economics, 2001 — 2004
Erasmus, 2002 — 2002
BSC, Computing Science, 1997 — 2002
# Colaborator in Open Source projects for financial forecasting (Neural networks, Genetic algorithms). # Enthusiast and passionate about chartism, FX speculation, commodities, investments in funds and equities.