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====== Career & Profession ======

===== 2010 – Present: Investment Banking, London, UK =====

I am currently working as a Senior Software Engineer for a large UK Investment Bank, developing various real-time electronic trading systems. My primary focus has been developing algorithmic trading software against European equity exchanges.

**Project Summary:**
  * Smart actionable indication of interest (IOI) routing 
  * Capital commitment, Central Risk and automated facilitation/risk unwinding algorithms
  * Prop market making and algorithmic trading
  * Core client algo stack
  * Smart order routing (SOR)
  * Real-time system monitoring
  * Native market exchange connectivity 
  * Risk monitoring

**Main Technologies:**
  * Java 8 / C++
  * Middleware (Solace/Tib)
  * Linux

===== 2003 – 2010: Thomson Reuters, London, UK =====

At Thomson Reuters I worked in various teams within the data collections and distribution department. Primary concern was the delivery of real-time level 1 & 2 tick data from European and North American stock exchanges.

Development focused on high-throughput, low-latency quote processing systems, receiving trade/quote data from exchanges, normalising, adding value and distributing to clients.

The systems had to provide a high level of redundancy, to ensure accuracy of data in the event of service disruption. 

**Main Technologies:**
  * C++/Windows Advanced Server (VS2003-2008 32/64-bit) 
  * C++/Solaris (Solaris 8/10, UltraSpac III & AMD Opteron)
  * C/VMS (HP OpenVMS)

Deployed hardware included HP DL-585, IBM BladeCenter, Sun Fire 4800 & HP AlphaServer ES45.

===== 1999 - 2003: MEng Software Engineering – Southampton University, UK ===== 

Graduated with First Class Honours MEng Software Engineering degree from Southampton University.

**Main Technologies:**
  * C/C++
  * Java
  * Scripting (Perl, TCL, Bash, Ash...)
  * Web (PHP, MySQL, Perl CGI)

**Projects:**
  * 3rd Year Project - [[projects:xmlnetman:home|Network Management using Abstracted XML Specifications]]
  * Networking Project - [[projects:tmip:home|Transparent Mobile IP]]