Strengths and Skills

Professional Strengths

• My strong background in banking and finance and understanding of financial markets allow me to grasp business challenges and drivers and help customers understand the impact of technology on business strategies.
• I have specific knowledge in the area of financial mathematics, financial modelling and risk management.
• I have a broad experience in working with many organisations in different industries, including banking and finance, communications, manufacturing, retail and transportation. I can adapt to different organisational styles and cultures.
• I understand and can apply different IT architecture consulting methodologies to real-life engagements.
• I have a broad technical background spanning many different areas, including IT architecture, business and systems analysis, application development, maintenance and porting, IT operations and performance/capacity analysis and planning.
• I have specific skills in areas that are currently of high relevance in the IT industry, such as object distributed computing, oriented design and software development, transaction processing, systems software development, relational database design and implementation.
• I have strong analytical and problem solving skills, plus a proven track record in the ability to apply these skills in critical situations.
• I am a good communicator (in terms of being able to listen well, ability to articulate difficult technical concepts without resorting to jargon, good presentation skills, ability to build a rapport with customers, excellent report writing skills)
• I have an ability to consistently exceed customer expectations and deliver quality results on time.
• I have an ability to manage people (both internal and external), schedules and deliverables based on prior experience in managing large projects.
• I work very well within a team and contribute effectively as a team member. I have the ability to take the initiative when necessary.

Technical Exposure

• Programming languages: C, C++, Smalltalk, RPL, FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, various assembler (6502, Z80, PDP-11, VAX, 80X86), and many more including 4GLs
• Operating systems: CP/M, MS-DOS, Windows 3.1/95/NT, UNIX (various, including HP/UX, SunOS, Solaris, NCR UNIX, Pyramid Osx, AIX, NetBSD, Linux), VMS, MVS, GNU
• Development environments: UNIX, Internet/WWW, MS-DOS, Win16/Win32, X Window System
• Relational databases: Oracle, Sybase, Ingres, Informix, Postgres
• Groupware/messaging: Lotus Notes, Microsoft Mail, Lotus cc:Mail, HP OpenMail, Internet mail/news
• Networking/communications: NFS, LAN Manager, NetBEUI, TCP/IP, SNA, LAN and WAN technologies
• UNIX shells and utilities (including make, SCCS/RCS, sed, awk and perl), *roff/TeX
• Mainframe utilities such as ISPF, SCLM, etc.,
• Wide variety of PC tools and utilities (e.g. Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Lotus Smartsuite, Norton Utilities, Adobe Photoshop, etc.)

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