• I am working for the tribe that develops applications to onboard customers to the retail bank, allow sign-ups to additional products and authorise transactions. The team uses agile and develops customer identification and contract signature applications.
• Backend development and DevSecOps for 3 SaaS assets. The assets are microservices that are both clients and services, interacting with other microservice assets both inside Spain and across the global infrastructure.

• I worked as part of the agile, performance team in the SAP Field Service Management division.
• The work was ongoing development of applications related to a CQRS Read Model that enabled the UX to be more responsive. The application is provided as a multiple-tenant SaaS. Domain Driven Development was followed and the application is implemented as microservices in k8s with managed services from AWS.

• I was working onsite and later 100% remote for an agency of the European Union. The project was the development of pharma vigilance systems (VICH and DEG standard) for the pharmaceutical sector.
• Familiar with the ISO/HL7 27953-1 standard.
• The project was run using a Scrum agile and TDD methodology. When I came on board the project was achieving less than 25% of targeted work each agile sprint. That metric is now over 100%.

My assignments have been across the Unipol group of companies; including Unipol Banca, Unipol Gruppo, Unipol Assicurazione and most recently in the Leitha innovation start-up. These have related to pricing and aggregating of risk (VaR), at company or group level and improving the performance of existing application. I also worked on J2EE / AngularJS projects related to health insurance.

• Implemented a system to provide risk insight and simulation of multiple stress events, across the group?s banks and insurance businesses. The core of this application is an in-memory OLAP hypercube that aggregates risk (VaR) in realtime. Whereas the solution, originally provided by Finastra, needs 1 hour to load all the PVs, my solution takes around 1 minute to load the 1 billion PVs from XML files. The requests, from users, to aggregate across subsets of dimensions are returned in around 4 seconds. This application integrates with BI tools, through JDBC and MDX drivers that I developed.
• Pricing of the PVs is performed by a combination of legacy applications and GPU / OpenCL based programs.
• Built around this is a custom web application that displays a dashboard of KPIs and allows drilldown into the data, using Tibco Spotfire embedded as mashups. The latest incarnation of the application is implemented as a Docker containerised micro-services architecture.
• Assistance with design activities and prototyping.
• Implement and perform unit tests reflecting system specifications.
• Implement and maintain the necessary software development lifecycle artefacts.
• Working experience in using static code analysis software and addressing violations raised by the product.
• Working experience in using defect tracking software and addressing defects.
• Training the users of the system.
• Operational support of software produced.
• Evaluating and testing products delivered by external system suppliers.
• Liaising with operations team and providing the necessary documentation support and training to transition the system to production.
• Escalating issues as they became apparent
• Designing and prototyping

Migration of K+, MGR (a.k.a. Fusion Risk), Kirl and interfaces to a new hardware platform for their customer, Unipol Banca.  This was a very short assignment that just needed knowledge of Solaris, Sybase and the Java based KIM product developed previously.

• This was a very short assignment to improve the performance of Java based interfaces
• Used to load core-banking positions into an ALM application. Load times were reduced from several hours to a few minutes.

• As part of the merger of Misys and Thomson Reuters Turaz, the project?s aim was to migrate all regional development, UAT and demo environments to a Solaris container / VMWare cloud.  
• I was 1 of a team of 2 automating and performing the migration.  

• Projects for multiple customers to implement Turaz applications and to provide customised solutions.
• Development of a Java based EAI / ETL product called KIM
• The initial work was to implement and customise solutions, for customers, of the Turaz Applications (Kondor+, Kirl, KGR, etc). Later, I took over the development of a Java based EAI / ETL product called KIM.

Projects for multiple customers to implement Thomson Reuters applications and to provide customised solutions. Employee's Roles & Responsibilities in the project:

Mission critical applications for the online payment system and ancillary applications.

• I took over this role whilst the company, an IPSP (online credit card transactions), was still in start-up phase and the core systems were really just betas written in PHP.
• I Reorganised, recruited and headed a team of 12 in software development, technical support, systems administration and risk (fraud detection).
• One of the key targets that I met was obtaining the first PCI DSS Level 1 security certification for the company.
• Most of the work involved leading the team to redesign the core payments systems, & ancillary systems (invoicing, customer portal, etc.).
• Implement Continuous Integration (CI/CD) based on Subversion, Trac and Hudson. Following Agile principles and specifically using Test Driven Development (TDD).

Projects for multiple customers to implement Reuters applications and to provide customised solutions. Employee's Roles & Responsibilities in the project:

• Implementations, upgrades and customisations of Kondor  +.
• Providing 3rd level support.
• Developing EAI and ETL applications, using Java and Tibco BusinessWorks.

• Creating eCommerce web sites and software development projects in Java.

• Full time intensive courses in Spanish language and RYA Yachtmaster.
• Sailing my yacht from the UK, via France, Portugal and Spain to the med.

I was one of 4 partners and part of the project management team of TRS who were the prime contractor for the merger project at Landesbank Baden Württemberg (LBBW) Stuttgart. The project combined the front-office trading and risk systems, of the 3 separate banks that merged into LBBW. The system was also expanded and high-availability and disaster-recovery implemented. The principal application was Reuters Kondor+. The final system was rolled out to 250 users across all trading desks. The servers were Solaris but the clients utilised diskless Linux workstations.