Senior Systems Software Engineer with extensive FIX experience available in Australia.

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Senior Systems Software Engineer with extensive
FIX experience available in Australia.

Experience is in the design, development, testing
and implementation of front office systems for
both Buy-side and Sell-side organisations in
Tokyo, Hong Kong and Europe.

FIX related experience:
-> FIX Messaging requirements analysis for large
European Asset Management Firm.
-> FIX Server/Engine requirements analysis for
large European Asset Management Firm.
Participated in the selection process for a
third-party FIX Engine for the firm.
-> Development and implementation of a bespoke
FIX Connectivity solution for a medium
sized Hong Kong based British Asset Management
Firm. Linked a proprietary Order Execution
System and a third-party FIX Engine.
-> Added the IOI and Advertisment functionality
to a proprietary Order Execution System for a
Tokyo based British Securities Firm. Extended
the Order Execution System so that IOIs and
Advertisments could be published from the
international sales desk to buy-side
counterparts via a third party FIX engine.
-> Participated in the design, development and
implementation of the FIX connectivity
components of an acclaimed Buy-side order
management system.

Technical Skills

System Topologies:
-> Client-server systems with data in and out
flows, server processes, & batch processes,
APIs.

Development Languages
-> C and C++. (Unix;Windows NT) Perl, SQL,
PL/SQL, Unix scripting, XML, HTML.
Operating Systems:
-> Unix (Sun/Solaris, HPUX), XP, NT, Windows 95
& 98.

Relational Databases:
-> MS SQL Server, Sybase, Oracle 8i, Access,
Ingres.
-> Experienced in database normalization and
de-normalization; design and development of
stored procedures and triggers.

Desktop Applications:
-> MS Project and MS Office (Word, Excel etc).
-> FrameMaker, Visio and ER-Win.

Version Control:
-> ClearCase, Visual SourceSafe 5.0 and CVS (Unix)

Scheduling Tools:
-> Control-M, cron

Design Methodologies:
-> Object Oriented Analysis and Design – Booch
Method, HOOD and UML.
-> Data Flow Diagrams, Entity Relationship
Diagrams, Gantt Charts, Petri Nets.

Protocols and Meta Languages
-> Financial Information Exchange Protocol (the
FIX Protocol) FIX 3.0 onwards.
-> XML and XML Schema and DTDs.

Middleware
-> Tibco (formerly Talarian) SmartSockets, Tibco
Rendezvous and IBM’s MQ Series.

Email: kevin_english2003@yahoo.com