Skills & Achievements

Previous achievements include

• Development manager and architect of one of the first STP (straight-through processing) asset management dealing systems for an offshore transfer agency. This system gained the company major new clients allowing a ROI within 2 months of first installation.
• Helped ADP Dealing systems to design and launch the development of a new version their flagship ERP product.
• Solved major software development problems within several large blue chip companies, and showed them how to best organise existing teams in order to develop virtually bug-free software, thereby significantly reducing the TCO of internally developed systems by up to 30%.
• Set up and launched an Indian offshore team for a major client allowing them to reduce software development costs without sacrificing quality.
• Development of complex distributed architecture for a financial services software company allowing support costs to fall by nearly 80%.
• Commissioned to write a series of articles for Microsoft on architecture with .NET.