If you are a banking or financial institution looking for web development or website design, then Indigoextra Ltd. (trading as 1 Website Designer), can assist you with:

  • Banking IT consultancy and development - to give you valuable insights into the nature of banking website development.
  • Graphic design for your bank website to ensure you present an attractive and professional image.
  • Website promotion and content writing to communicate the benefits of using your service to potential and existing customers.

Working together with Robert Alan O'Brien, we can offer you tailored solutions for your unique business needs. Robert O'Brien is an IT Consultant and Project Manager with over 20 years experience in web design, development and testing.  He works together with 1 Website Designer, who provide the graphic design skills needed to create an attractive and user-friendly site, plus the search engine optimization (SEO) to ensure that your web site appears high with search engines.

Robert has worked with some of the most well known names in the industry - UBS, Globoforce, AOL and Nortel.  His skills include website development with HTML / CSS / Java / Jython / Drupal / Apache HTTP Servers / Solaris / Websphere / Windows / Entreprise Architect / HP Quality Center / Oracle / MySQL and XML/XSL.

 Banking web development in France

Previous web development experience

Robert O'Brien has had the following web development experience:

UBS AG
Feb 2008 – Aug 2011, Zürich
Senior Software Engineer

I was employed as a senior software engineer, J2EE/Unix specialist, within the credit risk control division of UBS Ag based in Zürich. My first principal assignment was with a team responsible for, among others, two J2EE intranet based solutions. Both these solutions have Struts based GUI front ends. The first and main one of these applications provided a sophisticated report interface to a data mart, and was used mostly by the bank's client advisors. The second of the applications was a data filtering/validation application for human generated data sets, and was used by a single risk reporting business team.

Little significant new Java development took place during this period, however there was a lot of bug fixing, numerous solution stability issues to be addressed, plus platform upgrade from Solaris 8 to 10, and Websphere.

My next major assignment, punctuated my participation on the previous J2EE based projects, and involved a Unix based solution, namely Model Validation Platform (MVP), for consolidation of corporate risk model development within a standardized development framework. This included installing, configuring, tweaking various math simulation packages, provision of wrapper scripts, for the model developers, for executing the math packages and subversion commands. The project involved much interaction with the model developers to establish and coach best software development practices.

The last 20 months has been spent on J2EE based risk calculators. This period has encompassed three business releases and involvement during the whole project life cycle. From a web development perspective, the tasks involve java coding of complicated calculation business requirements provided in a graphical set language notation, followed by intensive periods of unit, integration and acceptance testing. Additionally, some infrastructure enhancement work was undertaken to provide an enhanced reference data management solution. This solution involved use of a resource adaptor (J2EE connector technology) and some Websphere specific distributed caching.

 

Globoforce
May 2007 – Oct 2007, Dublin
Senior Software Engineer

The main project during this contract was to implement a SAML V1.1 Single Sign-On (SSO) solution so that Globoforce's website could integrate seamlessly within compliant organisations. The solution, took 10 weeks over a 14 week period, and involved complete responsibility for feasibility, design, implementation, UAT to production with a compliant organization based in the USA, and comprehensive documentation.

The technology summary at the start of this document shows the technology exposure during this period. Other tasks that I have been involved in over this 6 month period include feature enhancements to main and admin server code, two small standalone applications, bug fixing, plus some functional and technical requirements documents for new features.