Scott Spence

This is past experience not related to web development, there is a lot of past experience on working on projects with stakeholders.

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Summary

Contract work, working on new product development as part of the ACE Chubb merger. Post Chubb, working on GitHub community Build to Learn project.

Highlights

Excel VBA, Word templating and coding, Cluster7 champion.

Utilising CSS Grid for layout and styled-components for styling CSS-in-JS

GitHub project manager for Build to Learn project with two other remote developers based in Serbia and Egypt building a project with the static site generator JavaScript framework Gatsby.

Summary

Part of Insight framework development team. Developer of bespoke solutions for clients including but not limited to Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Old Mutual and Tullett Prebon.

Highlights

Developed & maintained a reusable components repository.

Championed source code control integration for the product with Visual Studio Team Services.

Implementation of using Microsoft PowerPoint as a reporting tool for Deutsche Bank, this incorporated a new class to be used in the reporting framework for Insight which used the existing functionality to report on a SharePoint list into a preconfigured template for risk accountability and a heat map

Summary

Situated on the Fixed Income Global trading Desk Primary responsibilities include ensuring start of day isn’t impacted, monitoring batch machines carrying out triage for any issues that arise. Build and maintain relationships with operations, trading teams and quants to deliver reports.

Highlights

Extract tool which was basically a query tool in Excel for the trade data on bonds, fx and cash, this was stored SQL with Excel building the query string with parameters selected by the user. Implementing coding standards across legacy applications ensuring compliance to agreed structure and testing any changes before deploying to production.

Working with large data sets extracting large data sets from the a Bloomberg API to Excel for importing into Oracle via SQL*Loader.

Summary

Redesign, development and maintenance of existing desktop application. Involvement in client meetings and liaising with clients to gather requirements and deliver products.

Highlights

Migrating all source code from Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) to Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Implemented a custom VBA IDE menu bar tool to export the code modules so they can be stored individually rather than as a BLOBs

Responsible for implementing Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) for any new changes which also included writing the individual tests.

Summary

Company develops software applications in-house and the Application Support team is responsible for supporting these systems internally. The systems process property-related financial information. Most utilise current Microsoft technologies but some systems run on other platforms. Ownership of, diagnose and fix issues for a wide range of systems, escalating to developers and keeping users informed as necessary. Ensuring support cases are logged and prioritised. Initial focus is supporting and documenting core processing systems, with emphasis on understanding complex business logic behind these systems. Technical knowledge requires use of SQL to diagnose and fix issues and maintain data.

Highlights

Data collection. Excel-based data collected from multiple client sources and imported into the database. Data is moved through several stages where it is transformed, validated and standardised to a quality where it is suitable for use in reporting. Primarily C# /SQL Server with some Oracle.

Core processing. Bespoke Unix-based system producing company core calculations where it’s necessary to understand complex business logic.

Reporting systems. Use of core system output to produce Excel client reports and datasets suitable for client-facing web applications and tools. Primarily Excel/VBA/SQL Server with C# and Analysis Services.

Web-based systems. Includes internal intranet and external subscription sites. The subscription sites are used by external clients to access data in several ways including PDF reports and interactive data mining tools.

Summary

Seconded to Barclays Capital to project manage, build and test a tool used to ‘link up’ Barclays Capital base rate hedges with Barclays Corporate loan data for the Risk Solutions Group in Credit Markets.

Highlights

Front office role.

Built from the ground up in C#

Linking hedge products the respective offsetting Barclays Corporate loan account.

Recalculating amortization profile of loan account.

Producing letters of variation to clients.

Summary

Project manage the development of new systems and enhancements of existing systems within the banks Risk function. Main achievements include: Maintenance of one of the banks systems used to for automatic decision and pricing for medium to large businesses. Estimating project costs and analysis of budgets. Co-ordinate the enhancements for existing systems, working with the business owners. Developed an excellent knowledge of VBA, VBE, VB, SQL Server, MS Access and program design. Writing technical specifications/user guides for new and legacy systems. Provide training for Excel and Access users within the bank who are looking to strengthen their knowledge in a particular area. This is achieved by running a drop-in surgery and structured classes. Participate in and improve all aspects of the application development life cycle, to ensure efficient and effective use of processes, standards tools and resources.

Highlights

Most recent project [Financial Crime Unit Sanctions Workflow Database (Workflow Tool)] winning a Gold ROSCA [Barclays internal award for excellence formerly known as a RAFTA] award for process enhancement.

Redeveloping two key systems within the team, both of which had reached the end of their current lifecycle. Both projects were MS Access databases with a client server architecture, involving custom replication via ADO.

Championed implementation of VSS into the team, building add-ins for Excel and Access and acting as contact point for queries in the team.

Summary

Working in the banks’ risk function looking after cost centres, involving monthly reconciliation/attestation and financial planning [£5.4m budget].

Highlights

Winning a Gold RAFTA award [Barclays internal award for excellence] for the creation of the MB&A and Generalist Credit New to Role Training Plan for Credit Managers. My Line Manager and I proactively identified the need to refresh the existing training plans which were used within GLT. The plan included bespoke drop down menus which are specific to the role of the individual and provides time bound actions which include technical skills, Credit Skills Development and the wider aspects of the role including understanding the ethos and culture of Business Banking Risk. The plan incorporates a comprehensive library facility for direct access to relevant documents and web links. The training plan was delivered in a tight timescale to universal praise from the recipients. The impact of the quality of the plan was so great that it was immediately adopted as ‘best in breed’ by wider Risk teams and HR. The feedback has been excellent, although the best evidence of the quality of this piece of proactive work is the speed and diversity of its wide spread adoption. A piece of work which allows Business Banking Risk to set the pace in providing professional and comprehensive development .This is a first class example of real obsession with making Business Risk a world class environment to work in.

I have since constructed similar plans for the New Risk Accreditation plan for Larger Business sector found on the Business Banking Risk Learning intranet.

Construction of the Sanctioners Toolkit also won a Silver RAFTA, this also was delivered within a tight timescale [two weeks!] which has also been adopted by all the GLT staff as an essential piece of kit enabling smarter working within the teams. Feedback on this was phenomenal

Summary

Reporting directly to the Head of Director’s Office Finance Team [DOFT], Shared Client Services [SCS]. With specific responsibilities to assist in the day to day management of all financial administration within 17 SCS teams [HO and Network].

Highlights

High level of MS Office experience gained whilst on DOFT particularly with Excel & Excel VBA Assisted the Head of DOFT in the collation of the foundation data for the creation and development of financial models to aid the forecasting process.

Assisted the Head of DOFT in the creation of an appropriate annual budget in respect of Shared Client Services.

Aiding the Finance Manager in the appropriate allocation of this budget amongst the various SCS Network and HO Teams.

Enact measures established to monitor financial performance across the business unit in financial terms and against key actions.

Application of costs e.g. staff costs [salaries, overtime and allowances to appropriate cost centres].