Sener - Consultant SWIFT

February 2018 to Now:

Fujitsu Technology Solutions

At European Investment Bank Luxembourg
SWIFT Alliance Administration & Support
Support the EIB SWIFT Alliance infrastructure on daily basis: Daily operations, monitoring scripts, review and enhancement in shell (ksh/bash) or Perl, updates on routing rules, enhance DB/BO application.
Participate in the on-boarding of the EIF to the EIB SWIFT infrastructure.
Release SWIFT version 7.2 with patches & SST 2018

Technology: SWIFT Alliance, Linux (ksh/bash), Perl, Sybase, BusinessObjects

May 2015 to January 2018:

Tata Consultancy Services

At Royal Bank of Canada Luxembourg
Banking Application 2nd Line Support
Support on various bank applications: Multifonds, BusinessObjects XI 3.2, BODS 4.2, Wiki (MediaWiki that I migrated and upgraded), GAIN, Arpson‎, MIS Advantage, Fermat, SOFIE‎, Kondor, Documentum, SharePoint & a couple of internally developed applications for Global Custody, AM, TA, billing,...
And at “infrastructure level”: Windows & Unix servers, Scripting (shell, perl, powershell), Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, IBM WAS, Websphere MQ, TWS, Splunk, Newtest
December 2011 to April 2015:

Tata Consultancy Services

At the European Commission (DIGIT)
Tools Support and Development Team Leader
• Team leader role:
o Manage a team of 5 persons in charge of the Support and Development of Tools used by infrastructure teams (Computer Room Supervisors, Unix, Backup and Storage) in the areas of Monitoring, Alerting, Automation, and Asset Inventory.
o Solution design and architecture together with Tools' stakeholders.
o Defining procedures for enhancing the delivery quality.
o Re-organize the team in order to fulfil the commonly defined release process (result: better formality and build quality together with a better visibility in current achievements and future releases)
• CROC: Development of an asset management and process automation tool for the CRS team to manage the hardware infrastructure used by the EC.
• Project Server 2010: Migrate, configure and enhance the environment for Project Portfolio, Resource and KPIs management and reporting.
• CMDB: Infrastructure related project management, data analysis and integration into BMC Atrium CMDB application.

Technology: Visual Studio 2012, ASP.Net, VB.Net, SQL Server 2008R2, MS Sharepoint + Project Server 2010, IIS, Nagios, BMC Atrium CMDB, Perl, Java, Oracle, Shell script, MS Access

March 2005 to December 2011:

Tata Consultancy Services

At ABN Amro Bank Luxembourg
Senior IT and Business Analyst
• The 3rd level Application Support of following applications and solutions for the ABN Amro Bank (6 branches worldwide):
o IBM Websphere Datastage TX (ex Mercator, middleware of the EAI/ETL solution) with Websphere MQ, MS SQL Server and Oracle
o Business Objects (support, design, development and project management)
o SWIFT Alliance, Olympic, DataWarehouse, ROR (FIX, e-trading), Triple'A, Intellimatch, Reuters, Telekurs, Bloomberg, NBK, clearings…
• SWIFT Alliance: Migrations to SwiftNet2 - Upgrade SWIFT to version 6, put in place RMA and review/add Routing Rules. Deploy new SWIFT environments (technically and administratively) after the split of ABN Amro and RBS. Support business teams for SWIFT related projects.
• Migration from Mercator to the Datastage TX solution, and to IBM Websphere TX (review of the solution architecture, Design, development, documentation, test and training).
• Manage the near-shored Business Objects team for the Hong Kong branch. Support and develop Business Objects infrastructure and reports for other branches.
• Development of various internal applications in JAVA and VB: reporting, time and resource management.
• Technical and Process documentation.
• Providing training internally and externally (to IBM staff).

Technology: Business Objects, SWIFT, Datastage TX, Websphere MQ, SQL Server, Oracle, VB6 & Java

June 2008 to March 2009:

Tata Consultancy Services

at ClearStream Bank Luxembourg IT and Business Analyst

• Define the Business requirements for the implementation of the TCS BaNCS application at LinkUpMarkets, a joint venture by 10 Central Securities Depositories for streamlined interoperability between CSD markets and introducing efficient cross-border processing capabilities.
• Provide the specifications including the communication protocols, technologies and security patterns between the CSDs and LinkUpMarkets.
• Define technological solutions for the implementation of the patterns.
• Performing User Acceptance Tests with CSDs.
June 2004 to February 2005:

Asset Technology, Paris

at State Street Bank Luxembourg Software engineer

• Worked on the new release of NAV Suite. My mission was to optimize the NAV calculation, approval and delivery process (funds and classes list) before the integration of 150 new funds from ABN-AMRO bank. The application became five times faster:
o Review of the structure of the application (Architecture and Design).
o Optimizations in ASP pages and SQL Server Database.
o Centralization of computations.
o Redistribution of processes.
• I also wrote a program in Perl for sending files through “Connect:Direct”:
o Automatically creating the sending configuration file.
o Back-upping files to send.
o Processing the sending with Connect:Direct.
o Logging tool.
o Purging Backups, Logs and Transferred files.
o Providing a configuration tool.
• The DART pooling project. Its purpose is to handle a commonly managed pool of funds. Some source files had to be downloaded regularly for specific computations:
o Writing ASP pages for the set-up of funds, classes, pools and source files.
o Developing in VB6 for the download program, a generic transfer (LAN, FTP) system avoiding redundant downloads.
o Architecture, Design and Development of the Oracle DB structure.

Technology: SQL Server 2000, Visual Studio 6, ASP, Java, XML, XSL, Visual Basic 6, HTML, Javascript, Transact-SQL, Connect:Direct, UNIX, Perl5, Oracle, Toad.
November 2003 to December 2003:

avantIQ, Luxembourg Software engineer
Managed a project developed in C# for integrating a proprietary formatted DB of trademarks, coming from the Benelux patent office, to an SQL Server 2000 DB in XML format.

Technology: Microsoft Visual Studio 2003, C#, SQL Server 2000, XML, XSL, XSD, UML, Rational Rose, XML Spy.

April 2003 to October 2003:

SAG,
Luxembourg Developer
• LegisDOC, a software written in Visual Basic 6.
• And SEI-AMD, a 3-tierd application written in Java/JSP running on Sun iPlanet Server.
• Both Edition Applications are used by the European Parliament for editing and translating legislative texts. My tasks:
o Programming in VB6 and C++ for the treatment of XML files.
o Programming in Java (JSP/HTML) for new functionalities on the web client.
o Modification of scripts in PL/SQL.
o Modifying macros regarding functionalities in MS Office Editor.

I also prepared both applications to migrate to the new Application Installation Protocol developed by the European Parliament coming together with the migration to XP (Windows XP and Office XP)

Technology: Microsoft Visual Studio 6, Microsoft Office 97, Microsoft Office XP, Sun iPlanet, Eclipse, Java, PL/SQL, Oracle 9i, Emacs, C, C++, XML.

January 2001 to December 2002:

Liebhart Systems, Basel, Switzerland Software engineer / Project Manager
• Webfeedback, a software written in Java. It’s a web mining application. Its purpose is to get comprehensive information about a web site in order to help to the marketing strategy. My tasks:
o Debugging the program and add functionalities.
o Internationalization (GUI redesign).
o Designing the new architecture for version 3 of the soft.
o Developing an “advanced search” functionality (for version 3).
o Developing a proprietary Data Base Management System.
o Developing a User-tracker system.
o Managing a team of 4 developers.

I finally became technical responsible for the software. I managed new development processes and was the contact point between the technical team and the marketing team or clients.
Technology: Java, Swing, Jbuilder, IntelliJ, UML, Object Domain.

• And a Data Sharing and Integration project for Winterthur Insurance where I wrote scripts in SQL on Oracle8i and developed an interface in an internally developed middleware (DraCoMap).
Technology: SQL, Oracle 8i, Toad, DraCoMap.
March 2000 to September 2000:

ABB Corporate Research, Sweden Developer
Developed a driver in JAVA for the wireless communication part on a new embedded control system.
Technology: Java, JBuilder, AT commands, the Tiny board.