Martin Clarke

Current

• Senior Consultant at Lloyds TSB Asset Finance
• Consultant at Lloyds TSB Asset Finance

Past

• Projects Specialist at More Store
• Senior Developer at NKD Webmedia Limited

Education

• The University of Edinburgh

Connections

42 connections

Industry

Financial Services

Martin Clarke’s Summary

Consultant, Developer and Analyst with Project Management and Leadership skills

Direct experience of researching, analysing, designing and developing to contribute to business critical systems, particularly e Commerce initiatives in financial services, including the award winning LetsUConnect.

Direct experience of re-engineering business processes, excellent problem solving abilities.

Direct experience of dealing with legislative (CCA, PCI DSS, Basel II) and compliance pressures.

Martin Clarke’s Specialties:

Industries: Financial Services, Retail

Technologies: C#, ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Prototype, JQuery, SQL, Microsoft, SQL Server and Python

Martin Clarke’s Experience

• Senior Consultant

  Lloyds TSB Asset Finance

  (Public Company; LLOY; Banking industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  Responsibilities included delivering high levels of technical expertise in the analysis and delivery of eLoan.co.uk and Online Payments for the company's collection function.
  
  Major Achievements:
  
  As a key element of the eLoan project; captured and analysed the requirements for the loan application process. Developing front-end and back-end of system with a particular focus on performance and cross browser compatibility.
  
  Led the development of Online Payments system allowing customers to make payments over the internet; captured and analysed requirements, designed system, integration with payment processor and ensuring system was compliant with PCI DSS.

• Consultant

  Lloyds TSB Asset Finance

  (Public Company; LLOY; Banking industry)

  January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)

  Responsibilities included delivering high levels of technical expertise in the analysis and delivery of a dealer facing system supporting the companies effort to sell finance at the point of sale – the industry leading and award winning LetsUConnect system (Institute of Transport Management - Innovation in Motor Finance 2007, Motor Trader - Innovation Award 2007, National Business Awards for Scotland - The Atos Origin Award for e-Enablement 2007)
  
  Major Achievements:
  
  As a key element of the LetsUConnect project; investigated, analysed and developed fast fund with fax and fast fund with electronic signature systems, facilitating the electronic execution of motor finance agreements at the point of sale over the Internet. Reducing the cost of processing documentation.
  
  Designed and delivered on-line dealer commissions system, allowing dealers and finance staff access to real-time information regarding commission on finance agreements and reducing telephone enquiries.

• Projects Specialist

  More Store

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Retail industry)

  June 2003 — December 2004 (1 year 7 months)

  Your More Store (t/a More Store) was a medium sized discount retailer that operated in the United Kingdom. Reporting to the IT Manager and to project stakeholders; analysed, managed and implemented key projects to modernise the business.
  
  Major Achievements:
  
  Collaborated with the audit team to redevelop the company’s stock take process, enabling the company to measure their shrinkage more accurately. Designed and developed software for PC and Denso devices to facilitate the new process.
  Extended the company’s “back office” system to eliminate paper from the business and to streamline branch and head office processes (Payroll, Finance).
  
  Collaborated with merchandise department to create a Data Warehouse. Goal of the project was to facilitate easier reporting on retail patterns.

• Senior Developer

  NKD Webmedia Limited

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2001 — January 2002 (1 year 1 month)

  Major Achievements:
  
  Designed, led the development and managed the company’s key contract with Glasgow City Council, transformed a pen and paper system managed by FileMaker Pro to a full internet enabled solution managed by a VB application.
  
  Extensive client contact, including face-to-face time with management and users. This included extracting requirements, installation of software and user training.
  Writing technical papers, vision documents and tender documents for distribution to clients, potential clients and contractors of clients.
  
  Guided the training and development of new technical staff.
  
  Mentored new developers and presented seminars of technologies and company standards.

Martin Clarke’s Education

• The University of Edinburgh

  BEng (Hons) 2:1 , Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering , 1997 — 2002

  Awards: Lehman Brothers Prize for Entrepreneurship, Citigroup Prize for Best Systems Design Project and Runner up in ETF Business Plan competition.

Additional Information

Martin Clarke’s Interests:

technology, software engineering, project management, startups, football, tennis, family

Martin Clarke’s Groups:

•    Edinburgh Informatics Alumni
•    The University of Edinburgh Alumni
•    stackoverflow

Martin Clarke’s Honors:

Edinburgh University, Division of Informatics: Lehman Brothers Prize for Entrepreneurship (2001)
Edinburgh University, Division of Informatics :Citigroup Prize for Best Systems Design Project
Edinburgh University, Division of Informatics: Runner up in ETF Business Plan competition.

Martin Clarke’s Contact Settings

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