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Robert James Gordon - CV

Address:, London E10.
Age:35

Profile

A senior Java developer with extensive experience of the exchange-traded derivatives industry.

Key Skills

J2SESun Certified (91%), Swing, Threads, RMI, JDBC, Java Beans.
J2EEJMS, JNDI, JMX
XMLSAX, DOM, XSLT, SOAP and Web Services.
DatabasesOracle, Sybase, SQL Server.
Open sourceTomcat, Struts, Hibernate, Axis, Ant, JUnit.

Education

1988 - 92 University of Lancaster.
BSc Physics - First Class Honours Degree.

Employment History

Investment Bank - London May 2005 - Present

Skills: Java, JMS, Sybase.

Working in Market Risk.

Sabbatical May 2005 - January 2006

Skills: Java, JMX and Swing, Linux Administration.

Developing a scheduling and automation system called Oddjob.

Financial Software House - London July 2004 - May 2005
Position: Contract Developer

Skills: Java, JMS, Struts, Tomcat, Hibernate, JNDI, SQL Server, Web Services and Axis.

Developed a web based risk management tool. Hibernate, Tomcat and Struts were used to present the Risk Manager with a real time assessment of a clients market exposure.

Enhanced an on-line margin calculation engine including the provision of the margin calculation as a Web service.

Investment Bank - London May 2002 - July 2004
Position: Developer

Skills: Java, Oracle, JMS, Tomcat, Java Mail, Cocoon, XSLT, FOP and Apache's POI.

Solo developer of a risk monitoring application. The application integrated with a third party margin engine using JMS. Java Mail was used to notify account managers when their clients reached certain limits.

Additionally involved in many small projects to enhance trade flow and reporting using Oracle and PL/SQL.

Futures and Options Broker - London May 2000 - May 2002
Position: Development Manager

Skills: Java, Servlets, Oracle, SQL Server, PHP, CORBA (VisiBroker), C++.

Technical lead migrating the team from Delphi to Java. Involved in the development and maintenance of in house brokerage and treasury systems and data feeds to the PATS trading engine and Reuters Triarch.

Developed an interface to the LIFFE Connect and EUREX VALUES APIs for an order routing system. FIXML messages were parsed and constructed and routed using Oracle Advanced Queuing.

Financial Software House - London November 1995 - May 2000
Position: Developer

Skills: C++, Solaris, C, VMS, VAX Basic.

Specialised in the development and maintenance of real time exchange interfaces and trade feeds.

I.T. Consultancy - Kent June 1994 - November 1995
Position: Developer

Skills: Cobol, VMS.

Developed and maintained logistics software.