Stephen Leonard

Current

Risk Developer at Swiss Re
Webmaster at www.glassandslverjewellery.co.uk
Webmaster at http://www.tomleonard.co.uk (Self-employed)

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Past

Credit Risk Developer at HBOS Treasury Services
System Developer at Nomura International
Risk Developer at Lehman Brothers

Software Engineer at Intuwave
Analyst Programmer at Standard Chartered Bank

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2 more...

Education

City University
The University of Edinburgh

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Stephen Leonard’s Summary

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.

Stephen Leonard’s Specialties:

UNIX, Java, J2EE, JBoss, XML, XSLT, MQ, C++, UML, ERM, Korn shell, Sybase, AUTOSYS, Perl, HTML, javascript

Stephen Leonard’s Experience

Risk Developer

Swiss Re

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RUKN; Insurance industry)

September 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)

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.
Webmaster

www.glassandslverjewellery.co.uk

(Arts and Crafts industry)

March 2006 — Present (2 years 7 months)

Maintain the website for Sonya Leonard's Dichroic Glass Jewellery (http://www.glassandslverjewellery.co.uk)
Webmaster
http://www.tomleonard.co.uk (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

August 2003 — Present (5 years 2 months)

Maintain web site to provide on-line resources for readers of Tom Leonard's writing (http://www.tomleonard.co.uk)
Credit Risk Developer

HBOS Treasury Services

(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.
System Developer

Nomura International

(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++.
Risk Developer

Lehman Brothers

(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.
Software Engineer

Intuwave

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2000 — June 2001 (7 months)
Analyst Programmer

Standard Chartered Bank

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Banking industry)

November 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 2 months)

Graduate trainee position. Learned C++ , Sybase on UNIX

Stephen Leonard’s Education

City University

MSc (Part-time), Businesss Systems Analysis & Design, 2005 — 2008

Awarded Distinction. Studied amongst other things: HCI, UML, database design, knowledge management, and requirements gathering.
The University of Edinburgh

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.

Activities and Societies:

ISC (International Student Centre): Vice President (1996-7);
ISC (International Student Centre): Excursion Manager (1995-6);
"Student" Newspaper - journalist(1994-5)