Experience

Playground Games

• United Kingdom
• Computer Games
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Lead Systems Engineer

  • Sep 2020 - Present

  Royal Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom

• Senior Tools Engineer

  • Jul 2019 - Sep 2020

  Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, United Kingdom

• Tools Engineer

  • Jun 2018 - Jun 2019

  Leamington Spa, United Kingdom Tools engineer designing and building the tools and software required to create the best selling Forza Horizon 4. C#/C++



Goldman Sachs

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technology Associate

  • Jan 2017 - Jun 2018

  London, United Kingdom High pressure, fast-paced team focused on streamlining the firm’s global operational offering to clients. - Lead a global/international team of 7, using an agile methodology, to negotiate and deliver 10 new system features for the Operations business which provided a 300% increase in system usage. - Lead and coordinated business (Traders, Operations) and engineering teams (Front Office Technology) to release and pilot a business requirement across 5 systems. - Redesigned… Show more High pressure, fast-paced team focused on streamlining the firm’s global operational offering to clients. - Lead a global/international team of 7, using an agile methodology, to negotiate and deliver 10 new system features for the Operations business which provided a 300% increase in system usage. - Lead and coordinated business (Traders, Operations) and engineering teams (Front Office Technology) to release and pilot a business requirement across 5 systems. - Redesigned and migrated the user-facing features of a business critical monolithic system into a new, high performing, scalable, testable, asynchronous, micro-service architecture written in Java, with a front end in HTML5 and React. Used performance testing techniques to optimise system throughput and latency. - Researched and designed the requirements and architecture for a system that would consolidate the workflows of two operations teams. - Became an expert in a firm propriety configuration system within 2 months to deliver tooling that enabled substantial extra revenue.

• Technology Analyst

  • Jul 2014 - Dec 2016

  London, United Kingdom - Designed and implemented 2 automated testing frameworks in Java and JavaScript that changed the development cycle from a waterfall to agile model and halved the time required to release new system features. - Worked with the Trading and Operations teams to automate a client’s booking process, which reduced the business’ daily effort by 1 hour.



Goldman Sachs

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technology Analyst

  • Jun 2012 - Jun 2013

  London, England - Built and released a cross-business metrics tool within 6 weeks of joining using a firm proprietary language that is still in use today (Feb 2018). - Designed, tested and deployed a validation system for the Private Investor Product Group which ensured the firm complied with incoming ESMA regulation.



ICT Solutions

• Malta
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Developer

  • Jul 2011 - Sep 2011

  Malta - Web application development in C#.



PwC

• IT Administrator

  • Jul 2010 - Sep 2010

  Malta - IT administration and support.