Responsible for developing a new Post Office Counter solution called HNG-X. This is a complete replacement for the old Horizon counter software and will be rolled out to every Post Office counter within the U.K. during 2009. This project was closely monitored by the Post Office who had a number of staff on-site for user interface assurance. He was part of a large project of 71 with 7 Team Leads in total, including himself. HNG-X is an electronic point of sale solution with many back office and administration tasks, including stock management, stock transfer facilities and many others. The architecture is SOA Service Orientated, split over multiple tiers, Counter (User Interface), Web Services (Branch Access) Layer routing to third party and internal business components, Infrastructure layer using the DAO Data Access Objects and Oracle Branch Databases hosted in Ireland which serve the whole of the U.K. All code was written in Java using open source components where possible.

IFDS is the leading service provider in the Financial Administration Solutions Technology (FAST) arena, with clients including Virgin money, Gartmore, Schroders, Barclays International Funds, M&G, Merrill Lynch and many more household names in the Investment Management world.
He played a key technical role on Virgin Money project, he was involved from the beginning of the project. The project utilised his skills in the following areas; SOA, Object Orientated analysis and design and OO design patterns, use of Open Java frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate object relational mapping. The project depended on many key technologies such as SOAP, JMS and MDB, EJB, XML/XSLT, Weblogic application server, eclipse IDE, EA modelling tool, MS-SQL RDBMS. He used and helped introduced many of them.

The project required the design and developed an integrated Java Framework using J2EE and native JVM Applications delivering:
• Dynamic customisation via a framework integrated RDBMS and XML
• Straight Through Processing (AS400 - STP) or routing to Netserver/AWD for manual processing.
• Store and Forward (SAF)
• Third Party Transaction Source transformation (XML/XSL) and processing Strategies
• Centralised, customisable error logging

He played a key technical role in the development of frameworks which where used by all eProduct offerings, each supporting multiple third parties, on a fully distributable, resilient and scalable Service Channel Architecture developed in Java, allowing access to core mainframe systems, all of them offer Straight Through Processing (STP) and routing to an Automated Workflow Management System (AWD) for exception processing:
He made a major technical contribution to the following eProducts;
e-Trade - SOAP (Corporate Dealing Channel), utilised technologies such as SOAP, Stateless EJB, JMS and MDB, Producer/Consumer framework, XML/XSLT, Weblogic 8.1

e-MultiTrade – FTP-feed, batch processing (Corporate Dealing Channel, integrated with a secure extranet), utilised technologies such as JMS, Producer/Consumer framework, XML/XSLT

e-HUB - EMX/FiXML (Dealing/Valuation Channel for Independent Financial Advisors, integrated with a secure extranet) utilised technologies such as Producer/Consumer framework and XML/XSLT, web logic 8.1

e-Investor - HTTPS (Web Application for direct investors, STRUTS based.)

e-Advisor - HTTPS (Web Application for Independent Financial Advisors, STRUTS based.)

e-Correspondence - OPUS (Elixir) Electronic and printed correspondence integration (statements, cheques, contract notes etc. OPUS ) he developed a generic Cipher framework based on JCE to allow Message authentication to take place. This framework was later adopted by all eProducts.

He joined First National as a Java developer for the Dealer Relationship Management (DRM) project to help in the strategic design/planning and implementation.
The purpose of the DRM Project was to develop an integrated system which streamlines the New Business Process providing speed, automation, user configurability and flexibility in order to reduce the cost/income ratio for all new business processed.
He had the responsibility to architect a generic interface between motor dealerships and the existing DRM system, using Java (J2ee) and XML/XSLT based technologies. He also held the responsibility for the QA and refactoring existing functionality within the DRM application, which included the Experian and SCOREX/Transact links. He developed a unit test framework based on Junit which ran under Weblogic 5.1 and the DRM core FINEOS java framework.
The DRM platform was Weblogic 5.1 with Oracle 8i as a persistence store, data transfer and transformations used XML/XSLT

Joined the direct trade and finance team to design and implement major new functionality for
DirectNet. Requirements were to support business-to-business direct trading needs. He played a key role in the design and implementation of both client using (SWING) and middle tier using UML/Rational Rose/OO design patterns/Java.
He played a key role in introduction of version management tools, a team development methodology and the introduction of an IDE (JBuilder) . He developed new and refactored existing Java functionality to gain most benefits from component based technology and the use of Junit as a testing framework. Introduced XML/XSL for data transfer and manipulation to replace a proprietary technology.
Completed several proof-of-concepts using J2EE technology for the Credit Suisse ‘Huskey’
e-commerce framework, using VisualAge for Java.

Joined the Electronic trading, applications development team as a lead OO analyst/designer. Where he made leading contribution to development and architecture used as well as playing a leading design role within the applications team and mentoring colleagues on UML, Rational Rose and the use of OO design patterns (Gamma). Business domains were generated from Rose models and implemented using Java (IDE Jbuilder), data transfer using XML, JSP, Servlets and Enterprise Java Beans and running on BEA Weblogicv5.1 application server,persistence storage was on Microsoft SQL server 6.5/7