Consultant for Brown Study Ltd at Trafigura Ltd
London, United Kingdom
Consultant for Brown Study Ltd at Trafigura Ltd
London, United Kingdom
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Oil & Energy industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Engaged by Trafigura to re-engineer commodities market risk assessment systems. Work to date includes:
- Provision of systems and training for corporate knowledge management.
- Strategic consulting for adopting a Services Oriented Architecture.
- Provision of a comprehensive Schema for representing commodities products and reference data.
- Development of messaging bus and components that integrate Algorithmics risk products.
- Automation of daily risk assessment processes, using BPEL technology.
- Production of sophisticated risk reports.
(Privately Held; Capital Markets industry)
October 2006 — Present (2 years 10 months)
Strategic consulting and provision of IT services to the capital markets industry in the City of London.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)
November 2006 — May 2007 (7 months)
M&G wished to create an internal messaging bus to handle equities and equity derivative products.
A comprehensive, bespoke XML Schema was designed and supplied with full documentation. A number of XSLT message transformers were developed to integrate the message bus with existing data end-points.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Investment Banking industry)
October 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 1 month)
IT Stream Lead in the implementation of a front-to-back trading system (Murex) for the Resource Banking department.
Chevening Scholarship , Technology in Business , 2003 — 2004
Awarded a full Chevening Technology Enterprise Scholarship (CTES), studying business part-time through London Business School (LBS) and involved with a software start-up company, Systemwire, at University College London (UCL)
B.Sc. IT (Hons) , Computer Science , 2002 — 2002
Post-graduate study in software engineering and network protocols.
Research published for the Southern African Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference (http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000053/)
B.Sc. , Computer Science, Psychology , 1999 — 2001
Awarded a full academic scholarship to study at UCT
Member of Smuts Hall Residence during first year
London Business School (CTES)