Hello.

I'm Jono, and this is my online resumé.

About Me

I am a focused and self-motivated technologist who has spent more than 15 years working in finance, investment banking and global capital markets. I possess a keen interest in discovering the bigger picture by uncovering technical details and have developed a comprehensive understanding of computer networking and programming across numerous languages and platforms. These qualities, coupled with my creative flair and quantitative skills, make me the ideal candidate for a career where innovation, numeracy and a talent for design are needed.

Technical Skill Highlights

C#, SQL Server, Windows Services, WCF, WPF, ASP.NET, JavaScript, HTML, Excel, XML, Message Queuing, Grid Computing, Unit Testing, Continuous Integration, Performance Testing, Design Patterns, Visual Studio, TPL Dataflow

Business Area Highlights

Finance Technology, Fixed Income Analytics, Risk, Bonds, Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives Settlement

Professional Qualifications

Amazon AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate ^{[In
Progress]}
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Candidate for Level 2
Microsoft MCPD Web Developer 4
Sun Certified Web Component Developer for J2EE
Sun Certified Business Component Developer for J2EE
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for Microsoft.NET
Microsoft Certified Application Developer
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform 1.4

Career Experience

Nomura International plc. (London)

Jan 2010 - Jun 2018

Contract developer with Nomura's Treasury, Finance Product Control and Derivatives Operations Technology units. Responsible for increased capacity of existing cash payment systems to cope with CDS roll date volumes. Developed database index and partition strategies. Redesigned processes for higher throughput with Microsoft's Robotics tool kit. Implemented real-time performance monitoring across a number of servers. Decreased operational risk by boosting performance of long-running monthly Excel front-office versus back-office reconciliation reports. Led a team of six developers who built a WPF application to manage the bank's liquidity across multiple legal entities globally.

UBS Investment Bank (London)

Oct 2007 - Aug 2009

Contract developer with UBS Delta, an award winning fixed income portfolio analytic system. Responsible for developing and integrating DataSynapse GridServer services providing asset classification, risk, return attribution and cash flow analysis. Designed a custom system to build Excel reports. Learned various portfolio management and fixed income concepts to enable face-to-face professional interaction with our external clients and gathered requirements from end users.

Royal Bank of Scotland GBM (London)

Apr 2007 - Oct 2007

Contract developer within the Digital Business team. Responsible for implementing a visual redesign and managing the security of the public facing RBS Marketplace research portal with public key cryptography. Supported the FX and Prime Brokerage teams publishing research. Planned and delivered a high performance method of capturing site usage to enable management reporting. Designed a new index strategy to revitalise an overburdened 2TB database. Consulted with internal teams to enable wider usage of our common single sign-on product.

Detica (London)

Jul 2006 - Mar 2007

Senior Consultant on a bond and credit derivative portfolio analytics system. Responsible for developing techniques to allow clients to view multidimensional representations of asset allocation across numerous classifications. Redesigned computationally intensive operations to run on a DataSynapse grid network. Developed a small management information system to prioritise clients and account for work undertaken by marketers. Performed technical reviews of other in-house systems.

Avanade UK (London)

May 2005 - Jun 2006

Systems Analyst for an ASP.NET intranet application used by the global marketing team at EMI Music. Responsible for enhanced scalability and availability with load balancing and SQL Server clustering. Followed Accenture's business process framework guidelines to deliver a number of Microsoft technical solutions to the client.

Korbitec (Cape Town)

Jan 2003 - Mar 2005

Software Engineer for GhostEnquiry, a server application that unified more than 400 databases located in estate agency branches distributed country-wide. Responsible for replacing existing components with a faster and more reliable solution to reliably handle all concurrent requests with minimal latency. Technical Architect for WebConvey, an intranet application hosted by a major South African bank. Responsible for analysis of the existing architecture in terms of reliability, scalability and performance, and delivered a recommendation for clustering, load balancing and scaling-out. Designed automated performance and functional tests. Developer, Technical Writer and Product Support for ODBCExpress and Prof's Components projects. Responsible for clear and concise documentation of cryptographic, data access and concurrency components developed in-house. Better known clients include NASA and Boeing.

Education

Bachelor of Science with Distinction in Economics

1999 - 2002 Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

(UK Grade Equivalents: 1st Economics & 2.1 Computer Science)
Dean's Merit List placement in 2002
Merit scholarship awarded by Rhodes University, based on A-Level results
Tutored Java™ to first-year Computer Science students

GCE A Levels and O Levels

1992 - 1997 Peterhouse School, Marondera, Zimbabwe

Academic scholarship to high school in 1992 and Art Prize in 1996
National U16 cycling champion for time-trial and road race in 1995
House Prefect responsible for 60 students in 1997
Finalist for the Old Mutual Mathematics Olympiad in 1997
Sports team member for Swimming, Hockey and Athletics

Connect

South Africa: +27 76 4777 342
United Kingdom: +44 208 144 5097
Skype: jono.pare
E-mail: jono.pare@gmail.com

Post Script

In an attempt to condense 15 years of professional experience into a 2 page document, some facts will inevitably be forced to make room for others. I intend for this short section to expand some of my relevant technical interests in which I've found success: Arduino and Raspberry Pi, Linux, RabbitMQ, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Hadoop, VOIP (Asterisk), OpenVPN, OpenSSL, PDF, Hardware Virtualization (Xen Project), Akka.NET, Wireshark, TopShelf, Apache Cassandra and memcached.

Why Extelligent?

Extelligence is a term coined by Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen in their 1997 book Figments of Reality and comprises of all the cultural capital that is available to humankind, transcending generations. It later reappeared as a central theme in Terry Pratchett's 2002 book The Science of the Discworld 2, which they co-authored and from which this quote was taken:

“Culture allowed any individual ape to make use of the ideas and discoveries of thousands of other apes. It let the ape collective acquire knowledge cumulatively, so that it didn’t all get lost when its owner died. [...] Extelligence is like our own personal intelligence, but it lives outside us. Intelligence has limits; extelligence is infinitely expandable. Extelligence lets us pull ourselves upwards, as a group, by our own mental bootstraps.”

Extelligent is named for this phenomenon; it represents the sum of expertise that is not constrained to only one mind, but is available for the benefit of all to share and improve.