
Contractor at Westpac/St George Bank
Melbourne Area, Australia

Contractor at Westpac/St George Bank
Melbourne Area, Australia
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Over the past 16 years I've been involved in a number of ground-up, full lifecycle projects, all within the financial services industry. I've been involved in building significant parts of systems ranging from Risk Management and Trading Systems for the Wholesale Banking sector to Account management and Branch sales for Retail Banking. The most recent development efforts have been within the Insurance industry, building Policy Admin, Illustration and Receipting systems.
I was part of the core development effort for the Value Flow System, which is a financial services meta-system applicable to a range of financial instruments and environments. This system is successfully deployed to Commercial Union (Polska) as their primary strategic Policy Admin system for a range of their products, including one of their flagship Universal Life products.
Java/J2EE developer with 16 years financial services systems development. Expertise in JPA and JDO OR-mapping (Hibernate and Kodo), J2EE implementations with spring deployed to both heavyweight (Weblogic) and lightweight containers (tomcat). XML transformation (xslt, stx) and Webservices (SOAP). Strong Oracle and unix experience, especially Solaris and RHEL. Group development and agile techniques with ant, ivy, ruby, cucumber and BDD, continuous integration and TDD.
B.Comp (Hons. 1st Class) , Computer Science , 1990 — 1993
Research Assistant (1993) - Dept. Information Systems
Sessional Tutor (1993) - Object Oriented methods
Australian Postgraduate Research Award (APRA scholarship) 1993
Simsion Bowles data modelling prize 1993
Australian Computer Society award 1992
Aspect Computing scholarship 1992