Employed by Consultancy on site at Mitsui-Sumitomo Insurance on green field development.
* Analysing requirements for aggregate erosion functionality
* Writing Hibernate test cases for Dao infrastructure components
* Assessing use of ActiveMq with JNDI under Oracle OC4j container

Role: Java Analyst/Developer – Fixed Income Operations (Settlements)

Future State Architecture (FuSA) utilises a Java POJO/Spring 2.0x/Hibernate settlements engine over Sybase, supported by a Tomcat app server hosting web services consumed by other FuSA components. The components communicate using Tibco EMS messaging infrastructure. Key development tasks:

* Web services using Axis 1.3/2.0 – Settlement Instruction request processing, including payload marshalling/unmarshalling using JAXB.
* Web service monitor tool using SpringMVC, JSP/JSTL and XSLT view technologies.
* STP rules processing subsystem, including rules table schema changes under Hibernate
* Interest Rate fixing processing logic.
* Describing and documenting interface protocols to FuSA front end.
* Junit test cases for the above.

The original settlements engine carried an integral accounting and funding gateway, interfacing to downstream systems using IBM MQSeries. Key Tasks:

* Separation of gateway logic to form separate FuSA component, communicating with settlements engine using Tibco EMS Pub/Sub model.
* Develop enhancements to accounting and funding processing.
* Junit test cases for the above.

Support and maintenance. Key Tasks:

* UAT support – Interest Rates Swap settlements business stream (also regression of several Confirmations test cases).
* Operations IT support liaison – including providing support documentation.
* Support of production and preproduction environments, both installations and second line support.
* Investigation of production bugs, and provision of remedies, workarounds, patches.

Development performed within Eclipse IDE, originally managed using Clearcase, but migrated to Subversion. Continuous build using Ant and Cruisecontrol.

Role: Development Team Leader.

* Performing technical architecture role proposing legacy systems upgrade program to J2EE server and .NET client technologies. Addressing EAI aspects of upgrade, production of costed proposal documents for board approval.
* Migration and upgrade from Jakarta Tomcat to WebLogic 8.1 environment.
* Designed and developed web services (SOAP) interface to external business partners for real-time job transfer. Constructing distributed computing framework using RMI.
* Designed and developed business partner web site (JSP/Servlets/POJO).
* Build control using Ant and Maven.
* Designed and developed real-time vehicle scheduling system in Java, interface to existing C despatch application using JNI, using UML design notation.
* Apache based Intranet, Tomcat and WebLogic administration.
* Replacing Perl CGI scripts with Java servlets and Swing applets.
* Development and maintenance of automatic vehicle dispatch system written in C and Java, on UNIX platform; Investigations into performance and database sizing issues.
* Performing Team Leader role - workload planning, recruitment, appraisals and training, operating in PRINCE2 project environment, typically as Senior Supplier.

* Requirements analysis and definition with clients, UML Use Case Analysis.
* Analysis and design of system modifications, testing and installing including provision of documentation and transition to Customer Service group.
* Involvement in pre-sales process supporting sales staff dealing with prospective clients, preparing quotations and preliminary assessments of system requirements.
* On-site Host Integration testing to SAP R/3 system via Mercator mapping tool.
* Re-evaluation of internal procedures, recommending changes to quality processes.
* Customer product training and course material preparation.
* Providing DBA consultancy, resolving configuration/performance tuning issues.
* Coding and testing modifications in C and ESQL, Shell (Korn) scripts and Perl scripts.

* Install banking subsystems at international sites, enhancements, training, liaison with client management and suppliers, post-implementation support.
* Developed EFTPOS TCP/IP interface to X25 network, client site testing.
* ATM, EFTPOS, sub-host controller and card production systems in C and Pascal.
* Experience in financial security systems including encryption key management.