Experience

Icon Solutions

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• DevOps Engineer

  • Apr 2016 - Present

  Contracted into Lloyds Banking Group to design and implement CI/CD strategy for deliveringspring boot microservices to cloud platform, creating Jenkins automation pipelines and shared libraries for platform agnostic clouddelivery. Notable achievements:★ Utilised maven and fabric8 maven plugin to facilitate automatedbuild and delivery of service project without need for additional HELMintegration★ Played key role in:⁻ Design and implementation of IBM integration bus CI strategyutilising Maven, Jenkins and Gerrit.⁻ Design and implementation of spring/apache camel-basedinfrastructure for testing IBM integration bus processes.⁻ Prototyping and implementation of docker testing platform



Spida Solutions

• Co Founder

  • Jul 2015 - Jun 2020

  Established company to take advantage of the opportunitiespresented by the convergence of service and component-basedarchitecture. The company provides turnkey solutions and consultancyservices while taking a common-sense approach to softwaredevelopment, using the best of breed software without big labellicense limitations. Established company to take advantage of the opportunitiespresented by the convergence of service and component-basedarchitecture. The company provides turnkey solutions and consultancyservices while taking a common-sense approach to softwaredevelopment, using the best of breed software without big labellicense limitations.



AXA Investment Managers

• France
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consulting Solutions Architect

  • Sep 2013 - Mar 2016

  Key projects:★ Designed and developed new broker-based interfaces and services,and implemented enhanced exception framework using pub/submonitoring functionality. Subscription services utilised springframework to facilitate late binding and dependency injection.★ Migrated and rationalised broker and java-based projects,repackaging projects to comply with organisation’s policies. UpgradedESB to IIB V9 and migrated IIB V9 platform from Solaris to SUSE Linux.★ Supported and maintained existing integration services



Kaleidocode Pty Ltd

• South Africa
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Solutions Architect

  • Aug 2012 - Jul 2013

  Solutions Architect on Kenya Law documentation project. Design and develop WSO2ESB proxy services, AXIS2 based WSO2AS jms services. Implement JBPM based document markup workflow. Solutions Architect on Kenya Law documentation project. Design and develop WSO2ESB proxy services, AXIS2 based WSO2AS jms services. Implement JBPM based document markup workflow.



SPAR South Africa

• South Africa
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Integration Architect/Software Integration Solution Architect

  • Oct 2011 - Jul 2012

  Key Projects:★ Performed technical analysis. Designed and implementedenterprise data bus solution and maintained SQL server data grid.★ Proposed architectural improvements to facilitate integration withSAP. Designed solution and developed broker-based proxy services toprovide standard platform for enterprise services layer.★ Designed solution and implemented GWT-based integrationmonitoring web application.★ Maintained current WebSphere message broker integrationenvironment and WebSphere process server/WAS environments.

• Data Integration Architect

  • Jan 2011 - Mar 2012

  Data Integration Architect, Activities Included:-• Technical analysis, design and implementation of Enterprise Data Bus solution.• Oversight and Maintenance of SQL Server Data Grid.



AXA Investment Managers

• France
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consulting Integration Solution Architect

  • Oct 2009 - Dec 2010

  Supervised development team, maintained and supported existingbroker interfaces and upgraded ESB to WBIMB V7. Supervised development team, maintained and supported existingbroker interfaces and upgraded ESB to WBIMB V7.



SPAR South Africa

• South Africa
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consulting Integration Solution Architect

  • Jul 2009 - Sep 2009

  Consulting Integration Solutions Architect Activities Included:-• Architecture and design of pilot program to implement WBIMB 6.1 as the middleware product of choice for SPAR Central Office. • Implement initial pilot interfaces to prove the technology.• Introduction of the development team to the product prior to formal training.• Technical supervision of support and development team. • Active development of Broker based flows Consulting Integration Solutions Architect Activities Included:-• Architecture and design of pilot program to implement WBIMB 6.1 as the middleware product of choice for SPAR Central Office. • Implement initial pilot interfaces to prove the technology.• Introduction of the development team to the product prior to formal training.• Technical supervision of support and development team. • Active development of Broker based flows



AXA Investment Managers

• France
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Integration Consultant

  • Aug 2004 - Apr 2008

  August 2004 – August 2005 Consulting Integration Engineer, Activities Included:- • Technical supervision of support and development team.• Routine Maintenance and support of existing (WMQI 2.1) between front middle and back office systems interfaces.• Active development of Broker based flowsSeptember 2005 – April 2008 Consulting Integration Solutions Architect Activities Included:-• Impact analysis on proposed migration to SOA. • requirements gathering for ESB.• Analysis of business requirements.• Designing and build of company Enterprise Service Bus. Functionality included, standard mediation, exposing services via the ESB, inter company and internal systems integration.• Middleware/messaging (WBIMB 6 and WMQ 6) Component Design.• Font end Design(.net)• Active participation in full development life cycle.



J.P. Morgan

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Analyst Programmer

  • Jun 1998 - Jul 2004

  June 1998 – January 2001 Analyst Programmer, Activities Included:-Development and maintenance of real-time automated trade processing integration system on Mainframe Natural/Adabas.Core Processing Task triggered on receipt of new trade instruction “Plug & Play ” component based architecture to allow for easy enhancements when new requirements were identified.Front end screens for management of static data and state tracking of events.General Maintenance and enhancements.February 2001 – June 2002 Senior Systems Analyst, Activities Included:-Assist in the analysis of the Mainframe based trade processing systems with the aim of migration to Java based technologies. Active participation in the subsequent development.July 2002 – July 2004 Senior Systems Analyst, Activities Included:-Design and development of integration hub (WMQI 2.1) to serve as a standard interface between Internal systems as well as provide an entry point for external companies. Oversight and participation in the design of all components which included:-Front end (Java, Jakarta Struts).Middle-ware (WMQI 2.1).Database Modelling and Implementation (Oracle).Integration of CORBA and EJB components.Provide technical specifications to development team. Technical Supervision of development Team.



Standard Bank Group

• South Africa
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Trainee Programmer/Analyst Programmer

  • Jul 1995 - May 1998

  Development and maintenance of existing Natural/Adabas Fleet management system.

• MainFrame Operator

  • Jun 1992 - Jun 1995

  Mainframe Operator, Activities Included:- Supervision of Nightly batch runs.Working knowledge of MVS/JES2.Creation of jobs using JCL