David Elliman

Current

Principal Consultant at Lab49

Past

Lead Technical Architect at Siemens Business Services/BBC Technology
Technical Consultant at UBQT Media Plc
Technical Consultant at LIFFE

Consultant Team Lead at NatWest Markets
Technical Consultant at ABN Amro/Hoare Govett
Technical Consultant at Lombard Risk Systems
Software Engineer at LBMS Plc
Software Engineer at Software One Ltd

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Education

University of Westminster

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Investment Banking

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David Elliman’s Summary

Hands on specialist in Technical Architecture and Management specializing in all forms of development from requirements down, especially high throughput scalable, highly available distributed systems, in addition also equally experienced in static or dynamic UI frameworks, database development, workflow and performance tuning all on a variety of platforms: Windows, Linux and Solaris. Also, fully experienced in bid/tender preparation and response, negotiation and follow ups.

David Elliman’s Specialties:

Technical mangement, leadership, mentoring - leads from the front using - C++, Java, C# .Net, SQL, patterns and best practices, agile and traditional management with a pragmatic and experienced edge.

David Elliman’s Experience

Principal Consultant

Lab49

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Banking industry)

November 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

Technical Consulting on projects in Front and Middle office derivative and risk management systems. Specialising in the whole lifecycle in areas such as architecture/design, implementation and agile project management. C++, Java J2EE, C# , Grid (DataSynapse, Platform, Digipede), distributed cache technologies (Tangosol, Gigaspaces, Gemfire) as well as database design and performance management, both traditional relational and streaming databases such as StreamBase. Placements have included SQLServer tuning, a T-SQL parser to convert stored procedures to be more efficient. Impementation of a 'scaled out' BPEL compliant distributed workflow engine in WCF, WF and Enterprise Library. Currently implementing Index Trading prototype in Eclipse RCP. In house developments have included Oracle Coherence dev, cluster design and configuration and DataSynapse GridServer service service design (Coherence as a data grid).

Member of Microsoft Connected System Division SOA platform advisory group.
Lead Technical Architect

Siemens Business Services/BBC Technology

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

January 2002 — October 2006 (4 years 10 months)

Responisble for both design and implementation of an end to end DAM system with corresponding Service Oriented Enterprise Architectures for BBC News implemented in C++/C# .Net and Java J2EE client and middleware as well database solutions on Oracle and MS SQL Server.
Technical Consultant

UBQT Media Plc

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Media Production industry)

November 1999 — December 2001 (2 years 2 months)

Video Post Production Integration components using Quicktime, Windows Media (DirectShow) Avid APIs, AAF/OMFI. Design and implentation using C++ and Java and MS SQL Server, MPI and PVM used to model distributed encoding and decoding grid. prototyped using OpenMP, MPI, PVM and Jini.
Technical Consultant

LIFFE

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Investment Banking industry)

January 1995 — November 1999 (4 years 11 months)

Technical lead on Monitor and Control part of the LIFFE Connect product/service. C++, low level networking UDP Multicast, SQLServer
Consultant Team Lead

NatWest Markets

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Banking industry)

January 1994 — January 1995 (1 year 1 month)

Lead Designer and development of front office FX and FX derivatives trading, positions keeping and hedging system to provide new functionality to desks and to integrate with existing reporting engines and settlement/confirmations systems. Involved Trade Entry, Blotter, and pricing, Dynamic GUI framework, distribution model using DCOM and Corba. C++, COM, Corba, Sybase
Technical Consultant

ABN Amro/Hoare Govett

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Banking industry)

January 1993 — December 1993 (1 year )

Design and development of time series analysis service and work on front office equity derivatives trading tool, included trade entry, trend analysis, pricing. C++, TCP/IP, SQLServer.
Technical Consultant

Lombard Risk Systems

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Banking industry)

January 1992 — December 1992 (1 year )

Designed and developed Windows replacement for Oberon Interest Rate Derivative system. C++, Windows, BTrieve, SQLServer
Software Engineer

LBMS Plc

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1990 — January 1992 (2 years 1 month)

Developed CASE tool Systems Engineer's Workbench product, an automated report generation engine unique for its time. Worked with early releases of Windows NT, Windows SDK and SQLBase
Software Engineer

Software One Ltd

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1989 — January 1990 (1 year 1 month)

CASE Integration tool using C, C++ and Prolog.