
Director at Leonard UK Ltd
London, United Kingdom

Director at Leonard UK Ltd
London, United Kingdom
Systems Developer/Analyst Programmer.
A lot of experience writing data feeds in investment banks. Familiar with flat-file, MQ, J2EE. Some experience with derivatives and credit risk.
UNIX, Java, J2EE, JBoss, XML, XSLT, MQ, C++, UML, ERM, Korn shell, Sybase, AUTOSYS, Perl, HTML, javascript
(Internet industry)
October 2008 — Present (10 months)
Programming and web design services.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RUKN; Insurance industry)
September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Lead developer working on market risk VaR engine (historical simulation).
Technologies used: Java J2SE, JSPs, XML, HTML, Javascript, perl, Sybase, UNIX, LINUX, subversion, Eclipse.
Contract role.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 1 month)
Contract role. Credit risk development and support. Mostly on UNIX with scripting, Sybase and some Java. Used Tivoli Maestro scheduler and PVCS source control.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; 8604q.L; Investment Banking industry)
July 2004 — June 2006 (2 years)
Development with some support for the Reference Data team. Mostly on UNIX using Java, MQ, Sybase, scripting, XML. Some C++.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LEH; Investment Banking industry)
June 2001 — June 2004 (3 years 1 month)
Support and development role supporting the credit risk systems and users. Mostly on UNIX with C++, Java, scripting and Sybase. Used AUTOSYS scheduler.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2000 — June 2001 (7 months)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Banking industry)
November 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 2 months)
Graduate trainee position. Learned C++ , Sybase on UNIX
MSc (Part-time) , Businesss Systems Analysis & Design , 2005 — 2008
Awarded Distinction. Studied amongst other things: HCI, UML, database design, knowledge management, and requirements gathering.
BSc , Physics , 1993 — 1997
After starting to learn German in 1995 (on top of regular studies), spent summer of 1996 working in Munich in order to improve that skill.