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Freelance / Employment Activities
- 2/2026 to now Freelance Analyst and Developer for HSBC, London - MODA (OPSCO)
| 2/2026 - now | Analyst & Software Engineer on a Calypso 18, Java 21 financial services implementation; feasibility study of onboarding ELN (Equity Linked Notes) using classic screens and pricing script; overhaul and modernisation of the FitNesse tests (CAM, DataUploader, CMF). |
- 8/2022 to 3/2025 Permanent Analyst and Developer (Director) at Carne Group, London
| 8/2022 - 3/2025 | Director of SW Engineering; C# microservice (REST) implementation of an accounting book of record (ABOR) and data management platform; lead team member on an MVP project as part of the acquisition of Aprexo by Carne; RISK data ingestion framework (C#/.NET, Azure/Azurite, MS SQL, Talend). |
- 12/2020 to 8/2022 Freelance Analyst and Developer for Aprexo Ltd., London
| 12/2020 - 8/2022 | C#/.NET microservice (REST) implementation of an investment and accounting book of record (IBOR, ABOR); MVP of a data management platform; bond and portfolio accrual, P/L and risk calculations; consulting on data management (DWH, Data Mesh). |
- 6/2019 to 4/2020 Freelance Analyst and Developer for Rokos, London
| 6/2019 - 4/2020 | FO/MO implementation RCM 2.0 - Senior Software Engineer on a multi-threaded front/middle office trade capture (Commodities, FX, IRS, Fixed Income, CDS) using CALYPSO 13; broker interface (FIX 4.4, Apache Camel), ICE LINK auto-affirmation, Swing GUI. |
- 4/2019 Further Education - Oracle Certified Associate, Java 8 Programmer (IZ0-808)
- 4/2017 to 12/2018 Freelance Analyst for Clydesdale Bank / Accenture, London
| 4/2017 - 12/2018 | Business Analyst, Cross Asset Calypso 15.1 implementation (front and back office); real time market data (Bloomberg), batch process management, documentation. |
- 4/2015 to 4/2017 Freelance Analyst and Developer for Erste Bank, Vienna
| 4/2015 - 4/2017 | Analyst & Technical Lead, Cross Asset Calypso 12.0 / 14.4 (middle/front office and risk platform); large lean project with 7 implementation streams (XP, TDD, BDD); performance optimisation of the multi-threaded Value-At-Risk platform (CALYPSO grid) and batch export of ~120 million VAR scenario data points; migration Calypso 12.0 to 14.4, PRIIPs reporting, TPL (Treasury Process Landscape). |
- 2/2015 to 3/2015 Freelance Analyst for Credit Du Nord, Paris
| 2/2015 - 3/2015 | Technical Analyst; FX/MM, Calypso 14.1 (middle and back office); analysis and estimation for the migration of the back office system CALYPSO 14.1. |
- 1/2015 to 4/2015 Further Education - Agile Project Management (APMG Foundation and Practitioner), Coursera.org (Data Scientist, Android Programming)
- 6/2014 to 12/2014 Freelance Analyst for LetterOne, London
| 6/2014 - 12/2014 | Business Analyst on a greenfield cross-asset Calypso implementation (middle/front office, SaaS, Calypso 11 → 14.2) that consolidated a fragmented operating model; contributed to functional scoping, P&L report scoping and interface management, go-live November 2014. |
- 3/2014 to 5/2014 Further Education - PRINCE2 (Foundation and Practitioner) and Scrum Master
- 1/2013 to 3/2014 Freelance Analyst and Developer at COMAC Capital LLP, London
| 1/2013 - 3/2014 | Analyst & Technical Lead; Cross Asset Calypso 11.0 (middle/front office); architecture, optimisation and analysis; build management/continuous integration (Maven), standard tools (Findbugs, Checkstyle, PMD), interfaces for MarkIT Trade Manager and SEF/TRADEWEB (central counterparty clearing). |
- 6/2010 to 12/2012 Freelance Developer for James Caird Asset Management (JCAM), London
| 6/2010 - 12/2012 | Analyst & Team Lead; development and analysis of the front office system on all asset classes for JCAM, by means of CALYPSO 9.3, later migrated to Calypso 12 SP3 / Tradar PMS (Eze Software) (FIX 4.4 with C#). |
- 2/2010 to 6/2010 Freelance Developer for Calypso, London at Gazprombank, Moscow
| 2/2010 - 6/2010 | Analyst & Lead Developer; development and analysis of the front- and back office system for equities and fixed income trades for Gazprombank, by means of CALYPSO 11.1. |
- 7/2009 to 2/2010 Freelance Analyst Developer for LBBW (Landesbank Baden-Württemberg), Stuttgart
| 7/2009 - 2/2010 | Analyst Developer; development and support of the front- and back office system for interest rate and credit derivatives for LBBW, by means of CALYPSO 10.3. |
- 5/2008 to 12/2008 Freelance Analyst and Developer for HVB - UniCredit Group, München
| 5/2008 - 12/2008 | Enhancement and optimisation of the settlement system for fx, fx options, mm and credit derivatives for HVB, München, by means of CALYPSO 8.x / 10.0. |
- 6/2004 to 4/2008 Freelance Developer for The Royal Bank of Scotland, London
| 6/2004 - 1/2005 | CMPP phase I (go live) - Replacement of the settlement system for fixed income (GTE) of The Royal Bank of Scotland, London, by means of CALYPSO. |
| 2/2005 - 7/2006 | CMPP phase II (enhancements) - Enhancement and optimisation of the settlement system for fixed income; implementing a test framework for automated testing of trade feed engines and accounting engine (regression tests). |
| 1/2007 - 4/2008 | CMPP (Investment and Support) - Redesign and optimisation of the accounting engine; archiving of security trades and positions; |
- 9/2005 - 2/2007 Further Education at Securities & Investment Institute, London
| Bond and Fixed Interest Markets |
| Financial Derivatives |
- 5/2003 to 5/2004 IT Consultant at HighQ-IT for the financial industry GmbH, Ottobrunn/München
| 5/2003 - 5/2004 | CMPP phase I - Replacement of the settlement system for fixed income (GTE) of The Royal Bank of Scotland, London, by means of CALYPSO. |
- 10/2002 to 2/2003 Freelance Web Developer for several Clients
| 11/2002 - 1/2003 | Webdesign for Glasbau Kollofrath GmbH, Kempten |
| 10/2002 - 2/2003 | Webdesign for Treffeisen & Roder GmbH, Wiggensbach |
- 4/2002 to 11/2002 Freelance IT Application Developer for HighQ-IT for the financial industry GmbH, Ottobrunn/München
| 4/2002 - 11/2002 | Phoenix Phase II (MM) - replacement of the settlement system for foreign exchange and money market of the Dresdner Bank AG, Frankfurt, by means of CALYPSO 5.1. |
- 3/2000 to 3/2002 IT Consultant for CMG Finance GmbH, Eschborn (now CGI Inc)
| 5/2000 - 12/2000 | DBPort - migration of exposis database (settlement system for foreign trading credits) from Informix to MS SQL Server 7.0 for Hypovereinsbank, Munich |
| 3/2000 - 4/2001 | forCalc - internet portal for a forfait calculator for Bayerische Landesbank, Munich |
| 3/2000 - 4/2001 | roHIRST - technical support for the forfait management system for CMG Finance, London |
| 4/2001 - 3/2002 | Phoenix Phase I (FX) - replacement of the settlement system for foreign exchange and money market of the Dresdner Bank AG, Frankfurt, by means of CALYPSO 4. |
- 11/1997 to 11/1999 Freelance IT Application Developer
| 7/1999 | Assistant Manager - Basic concept of institution wide implementation of MS Exchange Servers in cooperation with Kossorz Consulting, Würzburg for Bavarian Judiciary, Munich |
| 7/1998 - 7/1999 | Further Education in Microsoft products - MCSE 1999 (Win NT 4.0) |
| 11/1997 - 10/1998 | SpeBu - in cooperation with IRIS GmbH, Würzburg for Diakonie Stuttgart |
| 10/1998 - 10/1999 | DASPO/PTA - in cooperation with IRIS GmbH, Würzburg for Deutsche Post AG, Hannover |
- 4/1997 to 1/1998 Computer construction and maintenance at Comtech GmbH, Würzburg
- 8/1994 to 5/1998 IT Developer for Treffeisen & Roder GmbH, Wiggensbach
| 1/1997 - 3/1997 | Planning, design and implementation of a website for Treffeisen & Roder GmbH |
| 8/1996 - 5/1998 | Migration of an application for administration of addresses, Puppenkreis (collectors club) data, staff data and an interface for automatic bank transfers with Centura using SQLBase 6.0 |
| 8/1995 - 12/1995 | Planning, design and implementation of a network under Windows NT 3.51 with 5 clients using Windows 95 |
| 8/1994 - 7/1996 | Implementation of an application for administration of addresses, Puppenkreis (collectors club) data, staff data and an interface for automatic bank transfers with dBASE 5.0 |
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Product Development
- 1/2015 to now treffeisen ltd, London - In-House Development
| 1/2015 - now | Account and personnel management system: Spring-based microservice (REST) with web and Eclipse RCP clients, web server, data scraper (automated extraction of online account statements), cost forecasting and Qlik Sense analytics; modern stack (Java 21, Spring 6, TomEE 10 / Jakarta 10, Postgres 17, Maven, Git). |
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Further Education
- 4/2019 Oracle Certified Associate, Java 8 Programmer (IZ0-808)
- 4/2015 Agile Project Management (APMG Foundation and Practitioner)
- 2/2015 Android Programming (POSA), Coursera
- 1/2015 Data Scientist (R and Python), Coursera
- 3/2014 PRINCE2 (Foundation and Practitioner) and Scrum Master
- 9/2005 to 2/2007 CISI Diploma (formerly SII)
- 7/1998 to 7/1999 MCP/MCSE on Windows NT 4.0, emphasis MS Exchange Server
- 4/2000 Certificate as a Training Supervisor (IHK - German Chamber Of Commerce And Industry)
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Study
- 1988 Computer Science, Fachhochschule Augsburg
| 1989 20 Weeks work experience at SJS Steuerungstechnik GbR, Wiggensbach |
| 1990 Preliminary Examination |
- 1990 Computer Science and Philosophy, Bay. Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
| WS 1990/91 | D. Münz, Philosophische Probleme der Informatik (seminar) |
| SS 1991 | W. Wechler, Rechneranlagen und Rechnerstrukturen (tutorial) |
| SS 1991 | Prof. Dr. J. Wolff v. Gudenberg, Informatik II (tutorial) |
| SS 1991 | Prof. Dr. K. W. Wagner, PASCAL-Programmierkurs (practical) |
| WS 1991/92 | D. Münz, Grundlagen der Kognitionswissenschaft II (seminar) |
| WS 1991/92 | Prof. Dr.-Ing. P. Tran-Gia, Elektrologisches Praktikum (practical) |
| WS 1992/93 | Prof. Dr. H. Heineken, Lineare Algebra (Zahlentheorie) (seminar) |
| SS 1993 | Prof. Dr. J.-H. Königshausen, Discours de la méthode (tutorial) |
| SS 1993 | Dr. H. Basler, Statistik I (tutorial) |
| SS 1993 | Prof. Dr. A. Forchel, Physikalisches Praktikum (practical) |
| SS 1993 | Prof. Dr. W. Flach, Der Begriff der transzendentalen Erkenntnis bei I. Kant (seminar) |
| SS 1994 | Prof. Dr. W. Flach, Einführung in die Philosophie (seminar) |
| SS 1994 | Prof. Dr. S. Rusheweyh, Divergente Reihen (proseminar) |
| WS 1994/95 | Dr G. Pagel, Einführung in die Anthropologie: Tod, Geschlechtlichkeit u. Symbolik (tutorials) |
- 1996 Technical Computer Science FH Würzburg
| SS 1996 | Dr. U. Brunsmann, Neuronale Netze |
| SS 1996 | Dr. H. D. Tegtmeier, Systemprogrammierung |
| SS 1996 | A. Binder, Maschinennahe Programmierung |
| SS 1996 | Koch, Numerische Mathematik |
| WS 1996/97 | Dr. H.-J. Spielmann, Software Engineering I |
| WS 1996/97 | H. Grauer/A. Binder, Betriebssysteme |
| WS 1996/97 | Fr. Schilling, Französisch I |
| 10/1996 - 2/1997 | 20 weeks internship at Dipl. Inform. (FH) M. Eckert, Würzburg |
| SS 1997 | Dr. H. D. Tegtmeier, Rechnertechnik |
| WS 1997/98 | B. Breuthmann, Datenbanken |
| WS 1997/98 | E. Grötsch, Compilerbau |
| WS 1997/98 | Dr. K. Junker-Schilling, Telekommunikationsdienste |
| WS 1997/98 | E. Grötsch, Einführung in die Automatisierung |
| SS 1998 | Dr. K. Junker-Schilling, Datenkommunikation |
| SS 1998 | H. Grauer, Echtzeitsysteme mit Java |
| WS 1998/99 | Dr. H.-J. Spielmann, Software Engineering II |
| SS 1999 | Diploma thesis at Iris GmbH |
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Graduation
- 1984 Secondary School Certificate (Mittlere Reife), Staatl. Wirtschaftsschule Kempten
- 1987 University of Applied Sciences Entrance Qualification (Fachhochschulreife), Staatl. Fachoberschule Kempten
- 1993 Intermediate Diploma (Vordiplom) in Philosophy, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
- 2000 Diploma in Computer Science (Dipl.-Inf. (FH)), Staatl. Fachhochschule Würzburg
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