Alan McLean

Alan McLean

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  • About me

    Software Engineer | Ex-Morgan Stanley

  • Education

    • University of the West of England

      2010 - 2014
      Bachelor of Science Computer Security 1st Class Honours
  • Experience

    • Chigwell Sports Club

      Sept 2008 - Apr 2010
      Bar Operative & Waiter
    • Guoman & Thistle hotels

      May 2011 - Jan 2014
      Bar Operative

      Providing bar and table service to customers in private funcrtions of all sizes, including corporate events.

    • Morgan Stanley

      Jun 2012 - Sept 2013
      Windows Engineer

      Skills mainly used: C#/WPF (using MVVM), PowerShell, SQL ServerDuring my time there, I developed numerous applications that helped infrastructure colleagues in there day-to-day activities one of which, was a central power management console used for for automating the powering up and down of machines on a large scale. I also had a large involvement in a configuration management product used to set up machines at both build time and on a day to day basis. This involved many code changes/additions, research on alternative architectures, and documentation of any of my additions to the product. Show less

    • Morgan Stanley

      Aug 2014 - Sept 2023

      I currently work in Production Management ensuring the availability and stability of Morgan Stanley's Electronic Trading plant. I have a strong knowledge of the FIX protocol, and a large part of my time involves tracing orders at the FIX level through our UNIX plant. Other aspects of the role include incident and problem management, and liaising with the business to identify gaps in our trading applications. I also strive to reduce the manual effort required by myself and my team by writing scripts to automate as many of our common supports tasks as possible. Show less An intense, technical graduate scheme covering a broad range of technologies and assessed by means of examinations, coursework, and a project sponsored by the business. Technologies covered ranged from infrastructure to development and included:OO Development using C/C++, Java & C#Programming using both Perl and PythonUnix Administration, with Shell scriptingStorage, High Availability and VirtualisationBasic Networking & Network ServicesLDAP servicesDatabase technologies using SQL, Sybase and DB2 Show less

      • Software Engineer

        Jul 2021 - Sept 2023
      • Low Touch Production Managment

        Nov 2019 - Apr 2022
      • High Touch Production Management

        Dec 2014 - Nov 2019
      • Technology Analyst

        Aug 2014 - Nov 2014
    • Chicago Trading Company

      Sept 2023 - now
      Software Engineer
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