Providing maternity cover for a member of the database engineering team.

Coordinating release lifecycle of the DBA toolset along with maintaining, supporting and updating the tools. Day to day maintenance of the Perl toolset while working with the DBA team to identify priorities for updates and bug fixes.

Moved the toolset from the previous ClearCase environment into subversion with the attendant changes needed to the build system.

Updated entire toolset from using an early version of Perl 5 to the latest release, involving recompilation of Sybase libraries and re-engineering XS code.

Working within the database engineering team.

Maintaining, supporting and updating the DBA toolset. Day to day maintenance of the predominantly Perl tools used by the DBA and database engineering team to provision and monitor Oracle and Sybase installs.

Created extensible Perl tool to connect to remote hosts via rsh or ssh and run modular checks against those hosts.

Working within the "Knowledge Management" (Market Data) team as part of a 3-man team deployed within the Active Equities team.

Working with Equities Researchers ("Quants") & Portfolio Managers to provide data & rapid development of tools for the Alpha Generation team. Data from various sources was downloaded, processed and uploaded to Sybase IQ servers for AlphaGen team to research possible investment strategies.

Provided knowledge of internal data systems and assistance with SQL, Perl & Unix to equities researchers, and also to other members of the team via the internal Wiki.

Working within the database engineering team.

Firstly on a 3 part cost transparency project:

Created 3 Perl modules to report on database replication for Sybase, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server using SQL and SQL-DMO to extract information from all live databases.

Enhanced current Intranet site to allow data about decommissioned databases to be retained within the current data structures. Intranet site was coded as VBScript ASPs with JavaScript providing the user interface.

Created a system to report if a given database matches CSFBs internal standard build criteria, written in Perl and SQL.

Contract extended for the certification of the DBA toolkit on Oracle 9i RAC and RedHat Advanced Server 3.0.

Created a Perl script to allow the cloning of Oracle databases backed up using Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN).

Contract extended for certification of the DBA toolkit on Oracle 10g non-RAC and Solaris 8. Also certified internal audit and monitoring tools for this build of Oracle.

Specified and designed a script to allow DBAs to create Oracle 10g databases according to the internal CSFB standards.

Contract extended to assist the operational engineering team with maintenance, support and updates to the internal database engineering toolset.

Operations for the J P Morgan bond trading system. Monitoring the running application, fault finding and diagnosis, code rollout & ad hoc report creation.

Solaris, Sybase and WebSphere were the main technologies, SQL, Bourne shell and Unix skills were used on a daily basis. Involved liaising by phone, email and IM clients with all levels off staff & supporting many levels of technical expertise.

WebSphere, Unix and SQL were used to support developers, especially in rolling out code to UAT and live environments.

Developing the client software for JPMorgans inventory system. Divided into 2 areas:

A Unix client in Perl to be deployed onto 10,000+ servers worldwide. Multiple Unix versions (Solaris, HP-UX and AIX) and hardware configurations are to be reported on, the data is transmitted in XML to an intranet server running WebSphere and a Java application and stored in a Sybase database.

A Windows client in C, to be deployed to 100,000+ desktops worldwide. Reporting on hardware and software configuration using many methods to gather the information such as registry scans, SMBIOS scanning and WMI. This client is self-updating with the DLL scanning component being replaced when an upgrade is present using Microsoft Authenticode technology to digitally verify the authenticity of the DLL.

Also performed various Developer Support tasks including Solaris problem diagnosis, iPlanet configuration issues and Perl scripting.

Systems Management Services team - Developing a Devolved User Administration in Perl and VBScript. Using ADSI, ASP, CDO, MS SQL Server 2000 and Oracle to add users to Active Directory, PDCs and Exchange Servers via Tivoli. Operating systems Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Solaris 7.

Capacity and Storage Management team - Developed a suite of Perl scripts for automating the reporting of backup status from Tivoli Storage Manager and Veritas NetBackup using ActiveState Perl on Windows NT4 with reporting via Microsoft Excel using Perl and OLE.

Taken on to assist with the redevelopment of the BA website, including 1 month based at iXL, the web design agency used for the 'look and feel'. Remainder was based in Newcastle maintaining the current site, including small fixes, larger scale page changes, JSP development, and Perl scripting and general Unix work.

Taken on as a Web Developer / Systems Programmer. During reorganisation moved into the infrastructure team as sysadmin, Weblogic administrator and developer support. Varied tasks included a web site log analysis package written in Perl, modifications to JSPs and SQL queries, code deployment for a team of Java developers, Apache, mod_perl, Solaris, Linux firewall and Weblogic administration, porting SQL Server databases to Oracle and general Unix housekeeping.

Many, varied projects ranging from ISDN and graphics drivers in C to web content management systems in Vignette and Perl. Highlights include a web log analysis package written in Perl for an audit by ABC Electronic, high performance image manipulation DLLs written in C, the Euro2000 live match entry system using Perl &MS SQL Server 7 and porting an undocumented AIX based Informix database to MS SQL Server.

Originally taken on as a maintenance programmer, to maintain a DATIMTEX format tape writing system. Developed several other tape systems for other contracts.

Created a distributed OCR system for Patent abstracts.

Diversified, along with the company, into Document Image Processing. Implemented a document capture, display, manipulation and storage system in C using Kofax Image Products hardware and software.