Experience

Mettle

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Technical Architect & Payments SME

  • Mar 2020 - Present

  Part of the architecture team, delivering a brand new banking platform.



Bó

• Payments Technologist

  • Oct 2018 - Aug 2020



Icon Solutions

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Platform Engineer

  • Feb 2018 - Sep 2018

  London, United Kingdom



Icon Solutions

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• IPF Architecture & Design Lead

  • Jan 2016 - Sep 2017

  Wimbledon Leading a small, highly skilled agile team creating a new real time payments solution. Using Akka (Java) and other innovative technologies to achieve asynchronous processing with both high throughput and low latency.



Vocalink, a Mastercard company

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chief Architect - Zapp

  • Nov 2012 - Nov 2015

  Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire Leading the Architecture team producing a new P2B payment system - ZAPP. Robert is providing leadership, architecture, documentation and consultancy on Agile Practices including Agile Architecture, Scrum and BDD.



Merrill Lynch

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Java Consultant

  • Apr 2011 - Aug 2012

  Croydon, United Kingdom Providing Architecture, technical design, implementation and team leadership on the new version of the Global Liquidity Platform using BDD and DDD in a Scrum environment.



Presynt

• Partner and Server Side Developer

  • Dec 2010 - Jun 2011

  Developing the server side components of a new real-world social networking application. Developing novel Geo and messaging solutions using Neo4j Spatial, Geo Tools and Openfire XMPP.



Cazcade

• United Kingdom
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Seed Investor and Serverside Developer

  • Jul 2010 - Jun 2011

  Working to provide the infrastructure to enable a new form of multi-touch visual social networking. Robert is working on some specialised server software components.



DiarWise

• DiarWise

  • Jul 2010 - Dec 2010

  Robert is prototyping an HTML 5 based website that will provide sophisticated new ways for users to organise their day-to-day lives.



HSBC

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Team Lead and Architect

  • Sep 2008 - Jun 2010

  Working to architect, design and implement a new platform at Global Banking and Markets. Robert's team has been using Scrum and Behaviour Driven Development to deliver releases every 2 weeks.



NHSBT

• Enterprise Architect

  • Mar 2008 - Jun 2008

  Working through Sapient to define an Entrerprise Architecture to help NHS Blood & Transplant prepare for the challenges of the next few years.



SITA

• Switzerland
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Architect

  • Jan 2008 - Feb 2008

  Consulted on the technical architecture of an airport Border Control System built in Oracle and Java; integrating diverse sources of information to provide alerts of possible threats.



Vocalink, a Mastercard company

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Architect

  • Aug 2005 - Jul 2007

  Technical Architect for the Faster Payments Service. Responsible for the overall technical solution for the Voca portion of this new Payments System. Working closely with a large, geographically distributed team of developers and interfacing with Link, Bank of England, Swift and Customer teams to define the final solution.



Siemens

• Germany
• Automation Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Team Lead & Designer

  • 2005 - 2005

  Design and implementation responsibility using OptimalJ for part of the EPA2 project.



Searchspace Ltd.

• Technical Team Lead

  • 2003 - 2004

  Working on the 4.1 release of the AML software package.



Hewlett Packard Enterprise

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Design Authority

  • 2002 - 2004

  Responsible for the overall technical design and implementation of the XHIBIT court service project. Initially responsible for only a part of the solution, latterly responsible for the whole system. Working with a team of over 50 developers and analysts.



FDM Group

• United Kingdom
• Information Technology & Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant

  • 1998 - 2003

  Working as a consultant for FDM Group on many client sites.



Fidelity Investments

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant

  • 2002 - 2002

  Brief tenure working on a technology refresh at Fidelity.



West LB Panmure

• Consultant

  • 2002 - 2002

  Joined the architectural team and worked on the Corporate Broking Portal.



BBC

• United Kingdom
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• Java Team Leader

  • 2000 - 2001

  Joined BBC production department as a support developer for P4A. Became Java team leader for BBC Technology Ltd.



CEDAR International

• Human Resources Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Java Developer

  • 1999 - 2000

  Designer and developer working on various components of Cedar's technology base. Latterly chaired the architecture committee.