Stephen Nimmo
Senior Technical Manager at SunGard Global Services
- Location
- Houston, Texas Area
- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
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Stephen Nimmo's Overview
- Current
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- Senior Technical Manager at SunGard Global Services
- Past
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- Consultant at Spectra Energy
- Inspection Reporting Analyst at Intertek Caleb-Brett
- Consultant at Accenture
- Consultant at Continental Airlines
- Technical Specialist at Enron Transportation Services
- Education
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- University of Houston
- Stephen F. Austin State University
- Recommendations
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3 people have recommended Stephen
- Connections
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429 connections
Stephen Nimmo's Summary
Technical solution architect and front/middle office functional analyst in energy trading and risk management.
Technical experience
Hands-on experience leading development teams in delivering high quality software using Agile methodologies including mentoring junior development resources
Experience managing distributed teams as well as working with key stakeholders in multiple locations
Expert knowledge of Java development and object oriented design, strongly emphasizing best practices
Enterprise level architecture experience around data integration and event propagation including messaging, distributed caching, and low latency connectivity strategies
Exchange and broker integration for trade capture, market data and order routing management
Development and implementation of testing frameworks and deployment strategies including unit testing, regression testing, functional testing, performance testing, build management, deployment management, and source code management
Certified Scrum Master and Agile enthusiast with hands-on experience on multiple projects
Functional Knowledge Highlights
Front office trading strategies including hedging, financial and physical arbitrage, options pricing, as well as fundamental and technical analysis of commodities markets
Middle office experience around trade capture for position management, P&L calculations including mark-to-market, risk calculations including VaR and the Greeks
Market data management including real time pricing and curve management
Natural gas transportation experience
Planning and impact analysis of the Dodd-Frank Regulatory Act
Specialties
Core Java, J2EE libraries, Spring Framework (Core, MVC, Data), Persistence Frameworks (JPA, Hibernate), Java Concurrency Framework, Distributed Data Caching (Coherence 3+, Hazelcast 1.5+), JMS (Weblogic, ActiveMQ), Struts 2, JSF 2+ (Primefaces, Ajax4Jsf), Websockets (Jetty/jQuery implementation), Quickfix/J and Cameron FIX, Maven, DBMS (Oracle, PostGre, MySQL). Other skills include intermediate linux administration, cloud-based deployments, deployment with Cruise Control, Hudson and AntHill.
Stephen Nimmo's Experience
Senior Technical Manager
SunGard Global Services
Privately Held; 10,001+ employees; Information Technology and Services industry
September 2006 – Present (5 years 9 months) Houston, Texas Area
As a Senior Technical Manager, my role is to provide hands-on technical management of client projects across the energy and financial services industries, focusing on implementation. Within SGS, I am an active member of our Advanced Technology Practice, focused on projects with highly technical or cutting edge technological implications. I also actively contribute to other practices including our Energy Practice and Mobile Application Development groups.
Consultant
Spectra Energy
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry
June 2005 – September 2006 (1 year 4 months)
This project was dealing directly with the allocations and balancing pieces of internal pipeline management software. These software systems generate the billable numbers for over $2 billion in annual revenue.
Responsibilities: Convert existing COBOL programs and reports from OS/390 to Java. Convert all predetermined allocation creation and defaulting processes, along with several of the balancing processes to the in house LINK framework, which consisted of an existing persistence and messaging framework. Responsibilities included converting 20 to 25 reports that were currently implemented in COBOL over to a Java/ReportMill system. Assisted in conversion of enterprise database from DB2 on OS/390 to Oracle 10.
Technologies: Spring, Java, DB2 SQL on OS/390, ReportMill
Systems are implemented in a J2EE environment using agile methodologies.
Inspection Reporting Analyst
Intertek Caleb-Brett
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; ITRK; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry
September 2004 – June 2005 (10 months)
Overview: This Company is an inspection and testing service for the petrochemical and oil industry. Our services include barge inspections, shore tank inspections and sample gathering for laboratory analysis. SAM is the software that the inspectors use as a reporting system for the results of the inspections. The functionality includes the ability to generate RTF documents for our customers that include all the technical data needed, such as volumes of tanker loads and analysis results.
Responsibilities: Maintenance of existing software product as well as requirements gathering and analysis of software centralization and redesign. Development was accomplished using Eclipse, MyEclipse Workbench. Development, testing and production deployment were on Tomcat 4.1.20.
Technologies: Java, Tomcat, XML, XSLT, JavaScript.
Consultant
Accenture
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; ACN; Management Consulting industry
January 2004 – September 2004 (9 months)
AspenTech's APS Workbench product manages data from incoming data sources such as 3rd party applications and flat files, allows users to create OLAP cubes based on the incoming data. Data published from different sources to common data bus using TIBCO. Product is integrated with Hyperion’s Essbase Analyzer. UI designed to run on client’s server using Tomcat and allows user to create the different data constraints needed to customize reports needed from OLAP cube.
Responsibilities: All architecture design of APS Workbench and data management packages. All Development was completed using Java, JDBC, Apache’s DBCP, Struts (UI), and Log4J. Development and deployment of application was done on Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003. Code works with both Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Oracle 9i (could be ported to other DBMS with very little work).
Technologies: Java, Tomcat, Apache DBCP, Struts, JDBC, XML
Consultant
Continental Airlines
Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
July 2003 – January 2004 (7 months)
Architecture and design of web services for enterprise data retrieval and business processes. Created Web Service based system in which SOAP Requests from client applications are processed using servlet filters and stateless session beans (EJB). The stateless session beans call Oracle stored procedures via JDBC and return data to the client via a SOAP Response. Second iteration moving to table level stored procedures and entity beans with bean managed persistence (EJB BMP) for all enterprise data access. System runs on WebSphere 5.0.1 located on 5 IBM Blade Servers running Red Hat Linux Advanced Server.
All development done using WebSphere Studio Application Developer. Testing and deployment on WebSphere Application Server on XP Pro and Red Hat Advanced Server. Required mentoring existing Continental employees on Java, WebSphere and web-based technologies such as HTTP, AXIS, and SOAP.
Technologies: AXIS, SOAP, EJB, WebSphere, JNDI, all J2EE technologies, XML.
Technical Specialist
Enron Transportation Services
Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Oil & Energy industry
June 2001 – June 2003 (2 years 1 month)
Overview: Developed Contract Management System for natural gas transportation on multiple pipelines, including Northern Natural Gas, Florida Gas Transmission and Transwestern Pipeline.
Responsibilities: Design, wrote and implemented front end navigation for capacity release system utilizing Struts to integrate back end business logic with front end JSPs. Wrote both front end navigation logic and back end business logic. Involved in requirements gathering, as well as system testing and integration.
Document Management System. Developed custom legal document management system. Creates documents based on centralized language library stored in SQL 2000 database. XML documents are created from back end object-oriented JAVA code and then sent to Cocoon for presentation to business users. Also wrote front-end navigation using Struts Documents are converted to FO then to PDF using Cocoon pipeline. Heavy JAVA and XSLT.
Technologies: Java, J2EE, Resin, XSLT, CORBA, Struts, XML
Stephen Nimmo's Courses
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Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Energy Trading Risk Management
University of Houston
- Energy Trading (FINA 7397)
- Energy Analysis (FINA 7397)
- Options and Other Derivatives (FINA 7350)
- Futures and Swaps (FINA 7351)
- Financial Risk Management (FINA 7397)
- Energy Value Chain (FINA 7371)
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Independent Coursework
- Technical Analysis Workshop by Updata
Stephen Nimmo's Skills & Expertise
- Java
- ETRM
- Software Development
- Spring
- Hibernate
- Struts
- Weblogic
- REST
- JMS
- ActiveMQ
- Multithreading
- J2EE
- Tomcat
- Maven
- Ant
- JSF
- JUnit
- Low Latency
- JDBC
- Market Data
- Integration
- Eclipse
- Deployment
- Persistence
- Trading
- ICE
- Web Services
- Grid Computing
- Application Design
- JPA
- AJAX
- Core Java
- JAXB
- PL/SQL
- Design Patterns
Stephen Nimmo's Education
University of Houston
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Energy Trading Risk Management
2009 – 2012 (expected)
Grade: 3.7/4.0
Dean's Award of Academic Excellence
Activities and Societies: Bauer MBA Society
Stephen F. Austin State University
Bachelor of Business Administration, Computer Information Systems
1994 – 1999
Activities and Societies: Senior Class Vice President, Student Government Association, Computer Science Club, Sigma Tau Gamma
Stephen Nimmo's Additional Information
- Interests:
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Overall technology enthusiast, Web 2.0 technologies, Ubuntu, website development, graphic arts. I enjoy vacations where I can go diving, physical fitness, biking, NFL football, fantasy football, and spending time with my family.
- Groups and Associations:
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Member of the Houston Java Users Group, Member of Houston Agile Developer Group, Sigma Tau Gamma
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- Honors and Awards:
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Certified ScrumMaster
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