Senior Software Engineer (Architect) with 20+ years of development experience, specialising in Java based application development. Solid Finance, Superannuation and Insurance product knowledge. A team player who thrives on challenging situations and finds it natural to "hit the ground running".
Qvalent is a wholly owned subsidiary of Westpac Group. Qvalent provides Receivables and Payables solutions to Westpac’s institutional and business banking customers.
QuickSuper User Interface Modernization
QuickSuper is a whitelabelled superannuation portal provided by Westpac, and used by the vast majority of Australian Superannuation funds. The modernisation project is moving the existing servlet based portal to a Single Page Application (SPA) using Vue.js and REST APIs.
Design and implmentation of a streamlined service to make STP simple for small business. This included building out a REST API, file processing and online capture of STP data, along with integration into the ATO Standard Business Reporting suite.
Implementation of many high profile Westpac customers using a range of products to meet the business needs.
BGI was the largest corporate money manager in the world, with over £1.04 trillion (US$2.08 trillion) under management (2009), with offices in San Francisco, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Munich and Toronoto.
BGI is a pioneer in the exchange-traded funds business, with its iShares brand and is beginning to invest heavily in exchange-traded notes. As technology lead for both the iShares and iPath websites I have completed several multi-million pound projects on time and on budget. I lead a team of 7 developers in the creation of the first European iPath website. This was a greenfield project, that allows marketing and reporting information to be displayed to both professional and retail clients. I was responsible for recruitment, architecture, design, standards, development and testing support.
Global Client Reporting System (GCRS)
GCRS provides management of the internal reporting process, as well as integration between BGI and JPM, who were responsible for fund accounting and reporting of a subset of the clients. I was technology lead for this greenfield reporting project that lasted 18 months. I lead a team of 4 developers from project inception through estimation, design, implementation testing and into production.
Software house producing Insurance / Finance products for Small to Medium Enterprise within the UK.
We support many co-branded marketplaces (such as AOL, MSN, Tiscali, etc) where an SME would be able to get multiple quotes from different vendors after filling in a single request form.
End-to-end solutions that provide interactive web based capture of business leads through to online quote & buy functionality, as well as backend integration into external clients systems.
I'm married with 3 kids. I enjoy mountain biking, coaching AFL and time out on the boat.