JAMES NIGHTINGALE

Contact Information

Email:

jim2@nightech.com

Home Phone:

(203) 244 5078

Address:

26 Seymour Lane,
Ridgefield,
CT 06877

Summary

Eleven (11) years of experience as a senior developer with project lead and applications architect experience in Web development and Client Server programming. Excellent communication and leadership skills with over six (6) years as Project Lead for development groups. Industry experience includes working in Front and Back office environments in Risk Management, Corporate Finance & Advisory, Restructuring, Equities, FX and General Ledger.

Technical Skills

Skill

Level

Years

Last Used

ASP / VBScript

Expert

6-10

<1

Visual Basic

Expert

>10

<1

SQL Server / T-SQL

Expert

>10

<1

Javascript

Expert

6-10

<1

HTML / XHTML / DHTML

Expert

6-10

<1

CSS

Expert

6-10

<1

Visual Interdev

Expert

6-10

<1

Crystal Reports (inc.Web Reports)

Expert

6-10

<1

MS Access

Expert

>10

2-3

VBA

Expert

>10

2-3

IIS

Advanced

6-10

<1

XML

Advanced

2-3

<1

Adobe Photoshop

Advanced

4-5

<1

Dreamweaver

Advanced

4-5

<1

PHP / MYSQL

Advanced

4-5

2-3

MS Excel

Advanced

>10

2-3

ASP.Net

Intermediate

1-2

<1

VB.Net

Intermediate

1-2

<1

ADO.Net

Intermediate

1-2

<1

XSL

Intermediate

1-2

<1

Other Notable Technologies:

Visual Sourcesafe, Visio, MS Project, Open Bloomberg, Terminal Server Thin Client, MS Word, MS Outlook, Active Directory, SQL Replication, Stored Procedures, Triggers, Cursors, Database Tuning and Optimization

Professional Experience

1. Systems Architect/Project Lead

Project:

Global Intranet

Industry:

Investment Banking

Company:

Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein

Location:

New York, New York

Dates:

November, 2001 – May 2004
  • Serving as Project Lead, led the development team to integrate the New York Lotus Notes based Client Tracking System with the UK ASP/SQL Server based system. This involved creating a globally replicated series of databases to manage Employees, Clients, Contacts and Events for the Investment Banking Division, and to modify the UK based system to handle global concerns such as dates, addresses etc. The merger occurred while still maintaining a functioning UK system with all necessary enhancements requests by the business unit occurring at the same time.
  • As Systems Architect and Project Lead, consolidated the 3 existing North American intranets into a suite of fully integrated applications to be used globally by the bank. Designed and developed reusable components for use by the myriad applications.
  • Member of the team maintaining, enhancing and optimizing globally replicated SQL Server 2000 databases. Performed data mining to integrate the data from North American operations and Europe. Optimization of all databases including indexing, triggers and stored procedures. Solved problems of international date and address formatting, as well as authorization methodologies.
  • Designed and developed the following applications:
    • Expense Reports
    • Prospective Clients
    • Client Billing
    • Time and Attendance
    • New Business
    • Information Center Requests
    • Directory Lookups

2. Senior Programmer Analyst (Legacy System Upgrades)

Project:

General Ledger Systems

Industry:

Entertainment

Company:

ABC Television

Location:

New York, New York

Dates:

January, 2000 - July, 2001
  • Supported the existing General Ledger and Capital Planning systems.
  • Member of the team that was tasked with upgrading all existing company applications from Visual Basic 3.0 to Visual Basic 6.0 for use by Windows 2000 Terminal Server Thin Client. These included programs such as databases for actors, program scheduling, and travel & entertainment.
  • Prototyped a web reporting system for the Capital Planning System, using ASP, DHTML, Javascript and CSS Print methodologies as an alternative to Crystal Web Reports.

3. Systems Architect/Project Lead

Project:

Global Risk Reporting

Industry:

Market Risk Management

Company:

Credit Suisse First Boston

Location:

London, England & New York, New York

Dates:

January, 1998 - November, 1999
  • As Systems Architect  and Project Lead, developed a system to improve the existing T+2 localized Equities Market Risk Reports into a Global T+1 reporting system delivered via email and the intranet.
  • Designed and developed the following systems:
    • Equities Position Import system to extract all London equities positions from existing Front, Middle and Back Office Systems. Data was obtained from various sources, including Sybase, SQL Server, Oracle, Excel and Text Feeds.
    • Position/Sensitivity Aggregation Engine took the consolidated London Equities positions, allowing the risk analysts to reconcile the books and quickly find any anomalies to be reported to the traders. Once the position data was fully cleansed it was exported to the Global Risk Database.
    • Global Risk Database for all positions from North America, Europe, Latin America and the Far East. Fully optimized the database and created scripts for importing of all global position data.
    • Variance Covariance Risk Report Generator, allowed Market Risk to be viewed globally, ensured limits were not exceeded, provided compliance information and generated ‘what if’ scenarios for many potential global crisis simulations. This was later modified to use Historical Simulation instead of Variance Covariance. Reports were available on the intranet and email directly to traders.
    • Open Bloomberg Data Extraction Tool imported time series, betas and weightings for the entire universe of traded indices and stocks. The system cleansed the data and generated an export of stock and index volatility. This information was used in the Risk Reporter.

 

4. Systems Architect/Project Lead

Company:

Crabnet UK ltd

Location:

London, England

Dates:

November, 1992 - January, 1998
  • Started out as a junior programmer, moving to senior programmer and finally systems architect/project lead.
  • Member of team that developed systems for accounting, legal, telesales and advertising companies.

5. Backoffice Support Staff

Company:

Several Investment Banks

Location:

London, England

Dates:

June, 1987 - October, 1992
  • FX and Money Market back office reconciliation, instructions, investigations and confirmations at Robert Fleming, Banque Belge, Bank of Tokyo, Chase Manhattan and Citibank. Heavy interaction with Front Office Traders whilst doing investigations.