simon brooke

Member of a team designing, developing, documenting and deploying an equity trading system accessed by external brokers. Project was based on an object-oriented component-based architecture implemented in C++, Unix, Sybase and X25.

Working on the External Communications Generator (ECG) component of the Odyssey system.

Trade Capture and Decision Support team for the Markets division, then Global Equity Trading and Risk Management. This division then split out to Credit Suisse.

Programming a sales/trading report generating application in C and maintained a PC network running a multi-user bond-analysis database, then working as part of an eight-person team involved in the production and ongoing enhancement of a front office real-time risk management and position monitoring system.

UBS works with private clients, institutions and corporations around the world to help answer some of life's questions – whether through expert wealth management advice, investment banking and asset management expertise, or general banking advice in Switzerland. We're a team of 60,000 colleagues, collaborating across all major financial centres in nearly 900 offices and more than 50 countries, and we've been recognised as being good at what we do (by Euromoney and many others). Universum rated us one of the world's most attractive employers in 2015 for the 7th year in a row. We help our talented colleagues answer some of life's questions too – by offering a supportive, challenging and diverse working environment that rewards passion, commitment and success.

UBS works with private clients, institutions and corporations around the world to help answer some of life's questions – whether through expert wealth management advice, investment banking and asset management expertise, or general banking advice in Switzerland. We're a team of 60,000 colleagues, collaborating across all major financial centres in nearly 900 offices and more than 50 countries, and we've been recognised as being good at what we do (by Euromoney and many others). Universum rated us one of the world's most attractive employers in 2015 for the 7th year in a row. We help our talented colleagues answer some of life's questions too – by offering a supportive, challenging and diverse working environment that rewards passion, commitment and success.

Designed, developed, tested and delivered the realtime strategy game Infested Mars in December 2014. Currently working on a strategy board game for local multiplayer....

Involved in complete project lifecycle of an equity derivatives trade capture, workflow and straight-through processing system deployed globally. I was a member of the inter-bank Financial Product Markup Language (FpML) Equity Derivatives Working Group (now sponsored by ISDA) which has produced a comprehensive equity derivatives protocol fully aligned with ISDA definitions.

All things test automation...