Thomas Barker

Past

• Software Development and Infrastructure at Zopa Ltd
• Developer at DecisionSoft
• Summer Analyst at Morgan Stanley

• Summer Analyst at Morgan Stanley

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Education

• University of Warwick

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

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Thomas Barker’s Summary

I am a graduate of Warwick currently employed at Zopa.com - an on-line money market for people.

My professional interests are in financial modelling, mobile technologies and social software.

Thomas Barker’s Specialties:

Java - Fully J2SE and J2EE certified -eg. Swing, JSP, JDBC, etc. HTML+CSS, finance and derivatives. Some experience of SOAP webservices and ASP .Net C# .

Thomas Barker’s Experience

• Software Development and Infrastructure

  Zopa Ltd

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Capital Markets industry)

  April 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 11 months)

  Managing and developing a public site for user transactions.
  Site traffic analysis.
  Preparing management information.
  Transaction system support
  Datacenter Builds

• Developer

  DecisionSoft

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

  October 2005 — April 2006 (7 months)

  Developing products for corporate reporting, generally centred around the XBRL standard and XML taxonomy technologies.

• Summer Analyst

  Morgan Stanley

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Investment Banking industry)

  July 2004 — September 2004 (3 months)

  Integrated a J2EE credit risk database reporting system for over-the-counter equity exotics at Morgan Stanley, that served data from Sybase data warehouses. This has given me experience of derivatives, swaps and counter-party risk modelling.

• Summer Analyst

  Morgan Stanley

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Investment Banking industry)

  June 2003 — September 2003 (4 months)

  Prototyped a currency settlements web interface using ASP .Net with C#, and SOAP web services to access a legacy mainframe system. Later extended into a production system, which helps to manage Morgan Stanley’s FX settlements processing.

Thomas Barker’s Education

• University of Warwick

  BSc, Computer Science, September 2001 — July 2004

  Activities and Societies:

  Nordic Soc, Anime Soc, FreeSpirits Cocktail Society, Grovewood Software.

Additional Information

Thomas Barker’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Portfolio
• My RSS feed

Thomas Barker’s Interests:

investing, history, economics, microfinance, finance, java, technology, venture capital, social software, mobile technology

Thomas Barker’s Groups:

IEE

•    Banking and Finance Technologies member
•    First Tuesday member
•    BarCampBank member

Thomas Barker’s Honors:

INDUSTRY QUALIFICATIONS

Sun Certified Java Programmer
Proficiency in the fundamentals of the Java programming language syntax and structure using the Java 2 Platform.

Sun Certified Developer for J2SE
Demonstrates advanced proficiency in developing complex, production-level applications using Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition.

Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for Java
For enterprise architects responsible for designing J2EE compliant applications, which are scalable, flexible and highly secure.

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