My role here is as a Business Analyst working on their Front Office team. The main focus of this contract is to help with the implementation of the system at a couple Asset Management companies in London. This covers initial configuration of the system, data migration / interfacing, design and specification of new requirements and user training.

Duties Include:
• Creating Functional Requirements documents.
• Liaising with development teams regarding requirements documents.
• Documenting and configuring Data-Mapping used for data migrations.
• On-site implementation consultancy and training.

My role was split 50/50 between support/development of an existing web-based Fund Research system, and development of a new C#/WinForms-based Asset Allocation system. I was based in the development team belonging to the “Fund of Hedge Funds” department at GAM.

Duties Included:
• Support for existing systems.
• Additional minor developments of existing systems.
• Analysis and development of new systems.
• 1st line support of a 3rd party Investment Analysis system (Pertrac), used by the Investment analysts.
• Writing Ad-hoc SQL reports & data fixes as needed.

Achievements / Skills gained:
• Re-wrote an existing Excel based report as a WinForms application. Reduced time taken to generate the report from 2 man-days to 1 minute, and increased productivity of the Research Team who use it.
• Wrote a service to pull emails and attachments from Exchange and store them in SharePoint to facilitate searching. This also included development of an add-in to Outlook to allow users to apply Metadata to emails, to enhance the searches.
• Learnt to make extensive use of UML in analysis of new systems.
• Was provided with external training on the effective use of design patterns.

I worked as a Team Leader and Senior Developer at a software house, specialising in systems for the Financial Services Industry. Systems included both Front Office and Back Office components, although my involvement was primarily on the Front Office side. Developments also included extensive work interfacing these systems to existing 3rd party systems. My role was as Team Leader to a group of between 2 and 7 developers, assigning and checking work, day-to-day management of team members, along with technical analysis and design and coding of new areas of the systems.

Duties Included:
• Managing a small team of developers.
• Technical design and specification of new system functionality.
• Liaising with clients, both on-site and off-site.
• Liaising with Business Analysts on requirements.
• Development of new systems and functionality.
• Support and enhancement of existing functionality.
• Management of builds and releases.
• On-site implementation consultancy and analysis.
• Role of “Technical Architect” for the entire system.

Achievements / Skills gained:
• Designed and built GIPS compliant Performance Measurement sub-system.
• Implemented new Fund Management systems on-site in Frankfurt and Stuttgart, and across the UK.
• Developed specific system enhancements for a UK Fixed Income Fund Manager.
• Gained experience in full development life cycle. From initial design, through implementation and to support.

I worked as a Visual Basic developer at a small software house, developing systems for both the Financial Services industry and the Manufacturing industry.

Duties Included:
• Developing new systems and functionality.
• Maintaining and enhancing existing functionality.
• Creation and maintenance of Company Website.

Achievements / Skills gained:
• Learnt Visual Basic, ASP and SQL.
• Was heavily involved in developing a Fund Management system from the ground-up.
• Developed a stand-alone reporting engine that was utilised across many projects.