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### Profile
With close to 5 years experience working with Tier 1 Financial Institutions across the business and technical spectrum; having delivered entire Production migrations to AWS, whilst streamlining redundancies and inefficiencies within client business operations, I have a proven record of delivering excellence. Possessing a rare combination of a hyper innovative and technical mind, coupled with exceptional interpersonal acumen, I analyse business needs and turn them into a technical design, delivering the technical solution. Experience on both the business and development side, allow me to continually build and nurture solid relationships with clients and deliver complex solutions to a high standard.

###### Domain Skills
Market Data; Agile; Software Development; Relational Databases; Software Product Management; Software Project Management; Cloud Computing; Software lifecycle; Software business management; Systems Engineering; Solutions Engineering; Workflow & Operations Optimisation.

###### Technical Skills 
Java; Spring Boot; T-SQL; Spark SQL; Python; UNIX; Confluence; Jira; Machine Learning; REST APIs; YAML; AWS Stack; Git; Bash; Markdown; Terraform; Ansible; Markit; Python Pandas; Flutter; SwiftUI; iOS Development; Fabric; Azure Suite.

###### Project Skills
Automation; Product Owner; Project Resourcing; Functional / Non- Functional Requirements; Atlassian Suite; Interviewing Resources; Product Manager; Project Management

###### Spoken Languages
English 

### Career History
#### April 25 - Present
###### Data Engineer & Product Owner
- Project Owner of Omniscope Migration
	- Delivered successful migration of Omniscope included:
		- 130+ reports
	- Responsible for timelines & stakeholder alignment
	- Result: Streamlined tooling. Cost reduction. 
- Engineered Common Charges data model
	- Action: Noticed a commonality across banking functions with respect to exchange costs. Subsequently proposed and delivered a charges model to facilitate Operations and Bank Funding Group. 
- Proposed & Implemented report version control
	- Action: Pioneered developer-based thinking on business side to start using GIT for version control on Power BI reports. 
	- Result: the banks first version control on reports ensured total accountability on reports and enabled semantic model roll back if prod issues.
- Main Stakeholders include: Banking Operations, Private Equity Group, Investment Bankers, Securities (among others...)


#### Jul 21 - July 24: 
###### LONDON CLEARING HOUSE (LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE GROUP) - Senior Developer
Preliminarily a member of the BAU team, to then be selected as part of newly created, highly specialised technical team responsible for migrating the client's entire product to AWS cloud.

Key Highlights
- Migrated Production, Pre-Production, UAT & Member Test environments to AWS Cloud
	- *Cross-team Collaboration*: Advised other Teams within LSEG on their AWS implementation and assisted with implementation 
	- Result: Accelerated development and delivery times
- Created an AWS wasteful resources analysis tool
	- *Action*: Tool scanned for hidden 'Zombie' instances which were alive but could not be detected nor used and would then kill them.
	- *Result*: Zombie instances cost £100s each month, thereby saving the team thousands per year and the broader company much more. This also helped LCH deliver on their sustainability objectives.
- Improved their Asset Control automation testing framework
	- *Action*: Refactored entire codebase
	- *Result*: Automation failures fell by over 40%, more easily readable and maintainable codebase

Technologies used
> Java | Spring | Maven | Cucumber | Jenkins/Cloudbees | Shell scripting (bash) | Ansible | Terraform | AWS (AWS Lambda, AWS RDS etc.) | Packer | Python

#### Jun 19 - Jun 20 
###### ORACLE - JUNIOR MEMBER OF TECHNICAL STAFF 
- Member of Oracle Commerce Cloud Platform Team
- Built a statistics reporting dashboard using Prometheus and Grafana
	- *Outcome*: allowed upper management and broader team to analyse API usages (among other metrics)
	- *Result*: More effective resource allocation decisions on their APIs
- Built a new Pricing API which integrated with Oracle's Fusion Cloud
	- *Outcome*: allowed vendors to communicate between multiple Oracle services within the Commerce Cloud Package
	- *Result*: it not only meant that the vendors easier communication between services if they owned them but also presented Oracle an upsell opportunity where they could couple more items into a sales process

#### July 24 - April 25: 
###### Internal Projects - Product Owner, Product Management, Development
*Projects*
- Editor AI Newsletter (included writing thought leaderships, the newsletter design and driving project forward)
- Proposed and created AI interview preparation tool
	- AI generated flash card questions for those on bench
	- Kept colleagues skills sharp and primed for client interviews

### Education

*2017-2021 Queen's University Belfast*
- 1st Class Honours BSc. Computer Science
- [The ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest](https://icpc.global/), 2018 QUB Representative 

### Professional Qualifications & Training
###### Aha! : Aha! Product Management Professional Certificate
###### Project Management Institute (PMI)