• 4 Year Masters degree (MEng) in Computer Science (grade 2:1)
• Final year software / research project into Bayesian Networks and Inference
• German taken to "Beyond A-Lebel" as 1st year Humanities Option (Grade 2:2)
• Courses taken in: Network and Network Security, Object Oriented Programming, Decision Analysis as well as options in Law, Economics and Starting a New Venture in association with the Imperial College School of Management
• Java, C and VB Programming

• 4x A-Levels - Grades ABBB in Maths, Computing, German and Physics
• 11x GCSE's - Grades A*-B

Working in a Market Data support and engineering team, I am knowledgeable in installation and support of Reuters Triarch, TIB and RMDS infrastructures and also with ITRS NetAgent. Additionally, I have installed and supported a variety of 3rd party Market Data systems including NewsEdge, AXL/Landmark, Telerate, Garban, Liberty and other TIB broker feeds. I was also GL certified at the core level. I am familiar with RV and RRCP Broadcast and Multicast.

I have significant programming experience in VB/VBA and in writing shell / PERL / CGI scripts. Additionally, through University, I have programmed in Java and C.

• Associateship of the City and Guilds of London Institute (ACGI)
• Member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (MIEE)
• Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS)

• Assistant Vice President, Market Data Technology Services
• Deputy operations manager in addition to 3rd line support and engineering of the existing TIB and TRIARCH infrastructures
• Responsible for functional testing of all major RMDS components and testing the implementation / migration strategy on Redhat Linux
• Major projects include: DACS 5.2 Server / Station testing and upgrade, ciServer 7.1.11 rollout, Sao Paulo TIB hardware refresh / global build migration, RDF Upgrade in London and remote sites, Implementing scripts to monitor sink_dist load on Solaris and Network connectivity using CDPR on both Solaris and Linux in PERL

• Technical Associate, Infrastructure Management Group, Market Data Services
• Responsible for installation, maintenance and support of Reuters TRIArch and TIB infrastructures and stand-alone Market Data Vendor systems accross Europe.
• Second-line and some frontline support

• 6 Month industrial placement forming part of my degree
• The IT Guy, role included software development in VB/VBA, working with Microsoft Access 97 as well as MIK's proprietary relational and OLAP databases. Systems installation, purchasing and maintenance work

• 3 Month summer internship
• Investment Banking Technical Support Group - Administrative, Technical and Auditing roles
• Frontline support concentrating primarily on Windows NT Desktops

• 10 week University summer-holiday employment - Help Desk / Technical Support
• Solaris Server set-up, Win95 / NT4.0, Mac, AppleTalk, Linux and general networking hardware setup, installation and troubleshooting

Wherever possible, I try to keep fit and recently participated in the Cisco city challenge and put together a team for the 2005 London to Brighton charity cycle ride. I enjoy socialising, sightseeing and own a Series III Land Rover to pursue an interest in off-roading. Wherever possible, I like to keep up my German language skills.