Mike McFarlane

A Solutions Architect / Market Systems SME in Group IT. Responsible for developing a High / Mid Level technical design for the migration of the group’s data and systems in order to meet UK's Ring Fencing regulatory requirements. I work closely with four key areas; Trade Processing (Summit v5.5/Murex v3 based), Risk (largely bespoke development), Lending (ACBS/Fidelity v8) and Global Transaction Banking (TI Plus v2.5). Review and integrate business and technical designs, perform Gap Analysis.

Working within Corporate Technology Services, Settlement Systems (Gloss HV/PB) . Developed a new set of software development best practices for real-time gateways and services. Coached / Mentored team in the use of new technologies and design techniques, developing new interfaces for Trade and Static data. Technologies and Tools used including Java 8, Spring Boot, Apache Camel, JUnit, Cucumber, Maven, Nexus, Gitlab and Bamboo....

Technical Architect, Summit Industrialisation Programme: - Global Business / Technology SME liaison (London, Paris, Bucharest, Pune and Hong Kong) - Cost vs Benefit analysis and research - Project and Resource Planning - Solution Design, with a focus upon the removal of Technical Debt - Software Design (Java, C++, C#.Net) , Development and Code Review - Vendor Liaison, including workshop supervision and attendance at user groups

Phi Partners was founded in 2004 by leading Summit industry experts. Phi Partners has 100 Summit experts working across its European Summit clients covering every aspect of the Summit product and associated modules. Phi has developed 5 key client services: - Professional Services (Time and Materials) - Advisory Services - Training Services - Project Services - Managed Services Phi Partners has offices in the UK, Paris, Bucharest and recently in 2012, opened a new office in Germany.