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Bank of America Merryl LynchJune 2017 - March 2019
* Devops release engineer and production support for various high-profile enterprise applications using Jenkins, Jenkinsfile, Teamcity, Nexus, Mavan, GIT and SonaQube for Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD)
* Utilising Geneos ITRS for proactively monitoring applications
* Continuous improvement of deployment processes
* Performing Jenkins, nexus and teamcity upgrades when required.
* Developed internal tools for monitoring & data-analysis using powershell, python, and pandas.
* Writing and debugging Linux bash scripts for build, deployment, testing, and health checks.
* Liaising with different teams (Development, Sys Admin, DBAs, QA) Planning, supporting & co- ordinating operating system patches for windows & unix servers across all environments.
* Utilising Geneos ITRS for proactively monitoring applications
* Continuous improvement of deployment processes
* Performing Jenkins, nexus and teamcity upgrades when required.
* Developed internal tools for monitoring & data-analysis using powershell, python, and pandas.
* Writing and debugging Linux bash scripts for build, deployment, testing, and health checks.
* Liaising with different teams (Development, Sys Admin, DBAs, QA) Planning, supporting & co- ordinating operating system patches for windows & unix servers across all environments.
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Mizuho InternationalDecember 2014 - March 2017
Position: Devops, Build and Release Engineer (Contract)
* Devops release engineer, providing delivery for a global risk system utilising continuous delivery and deployment. Bamboo, Powershell, Jira, Confluence, Kanban.
* Reporting to Head of Risk IT Support & BAU Development
* Build relationships with key stakeholders in Market Risk Management, Information Risk
Management, and Production Support teams in London, New York and Tokyo
* Devops release engineer, providing delivery for a global risk system utilising continuous delivery and deployment. Bamboo, Powershell, Jira, Confluence, Kanban.
* Reporting to Head of Risk IT Support & BAU Development
* Build relationships with key stakeholders in Market Risk Management, Information Risk
Management, and Production Support teams in London, New York and Tokyo
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Lloyds Banking GroupSeptember 2009 - December 2014
* Devops engineer / release manager providing technical analysis and delivery across a portfolio of trading system change projects. Teamcity, Windows, Unix, Murex, Kanban
* Specific responsibility for Release Management control of major release cycles with regulatory risk reporting impacts.
* Mentor junior team members in functional and process skills and behaviours.
* Specific responsibility for Release Management control of major release cycles with regulatory risk reporting impacts.
* Mentor junior team members in functional and process skills and behaviours.
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BNP ParibasOctober 2008 - September 2009
1st and 2nd line production support for key credit risk generation, aggregation and display systems used by the global flow credit, and structured credit businesses. The risk generation system runs on a large data synapse grid. Aggregated values for daily and intraday risk measures are displayed via a number of C++ and C# windows based applications.
Investigating and resolving queries on PnL, PV, and risk values for front, middle and back office business users.
Investigating and resolving queries on PnL, PV, and risk values for front, middle and back office business users.
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CQSApril 2008 - July 2008
Front Arena solutions for Middle Office and Product control.
o Reconciliation
o Middle Office
o Product Control
o Cash flow Instruments
o OTC products
o Valuations
o Reconciliation
o Middle Office
o Product Control
o Cash flow Instruments
o OTC products
o Valuations
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UBS O' ConnorFebruary 2006 - April 2008
Business analysis, design, development, testing and project management of local and global IT projects across the front to back office for the UBS Alternative and Quantitative Investments business. Support for Equities, FX and Fixed Income risk management, portfolio analytic, trade execution, order routing and straight through trade processing systems. Improvement and enhancement to existing systems and processes between the various trading desks, logistics teams and IT groups within London and Chicag.
Rule FinancialFebruary 2004 - February 2006
Independent ContractorJune 1991 - December 2003
CentricaJanuary 1998 - January 1999
My stack
Software testing
Debugging
Databases
Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase
Others
Technical Support, Release Management, Business Analysis, Continuous Integration, Data Science, Risk management, Nexus, Continuous Delivery
Other
technical analysis, Apache Subversion, Microsoft Internet Information Server, release manager, Microsoft C-SHARP, DevOps engineer, Microsoft Windows, Market Risk Management, Information Risk Management, Production Support, Engineer, Murex Financial Software, Continuous Improvement, process skills, Mavan, Nexus Technology, ITRS, Build and Release Engineer, Sys admin, Secure Socket Layer, CI/CD, Bash Shell, C Programming Language, JenkinsFile, Python Programming, Devops / Release Manager, Mentor junior, CD, Scrum Methodology
Middleware
Jenkins
Analysis methods and tools
DevOps, Kanban, SonarQube, Confluence, Bamboo, JIRA
Technologies
TeamCity
Languages
Python, C#, Java, PowerShell
IT Infrastructure
Unix, Git, Linux, Sun Solaris
My education and trainings
BSC Field Of Study Mathematics - Royal Holloway, University of London1979 - 1982
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