Senior Developer & Community Leader
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Analyst Developer
OES Technology Nov 2016 - Mar 2018 (1yr 4mos) 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.
VBA Developer
Mansion House Consulting Jan 2016 - Jul 2016 (6mos) 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
Senior Software Engineer
Fidelity Dec 2014 - Dec 2015 (1yr) 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.
VBA Developer
Deloitte Aug 2013 - Dec 2014 (1yr 4mos) 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.
Support Developer
MSCI Oct 2010 - Aug 2013 (2yrs 10mos) 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.
Technical Project Manager
Barclays Mar 2010 - Oct 2010 (7mos) 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.
Technical Project Manager
Barclays Jul 2007 - Oct 2010 (3yrs 3mos) 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.
Business & Information Manager
Barclays Nov 2005 - Jul 2007 (1yr 8mos) 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
Financial & Commercial Assistant
Barclays Feb 2002 - Nov 2005 (3yrs 9mos) 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].
Testimonials
Scott understands business needs and rapidly meets all requirements.
He is great to work with and would be great on any project
– Sandra Penfold
Scott picked up a difficult technical concept relating to the
reconciliation of multiple financial products very quickly,
including financial derivatives. Very unusually, he also had to do
this whilst learning and applying SQL database programming in an
investment banking sales environment where the only choice was
self-directed learning and working without support. Scott was
excellent - self-supporting, motivated, quick to learn and focused
on delivery. I would not only recommend him, I would seek to work
with him again in the future. Ah, if only he hadn’t left the
company…
– Paul Gorman