Red Squirrel Technical Consulting - "Quick and agile, a rare breed." I have created robust, professional-quality Excel and VBA solutions in several major global banks, including Barclays Capital, Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland. These have included automated reconciliation systems, reporting tools, pricing infrastructure and data-analysis.Most recently, I delivered a fully automated trading system for a London hedge fund, downloading financial time-series data automatically from Bloomberg, analysing the data, and executing trades. This included the user interface, the market data system, the data-analysis and decision-making layer, the back end database, and the front end database monitor. This was delivered 2 months ahead of schedule on a 9 month project, with no unscheduled down-time or major incidents since go-live in November 2012. My strength is creating robust and user friendly spreadsheet applications which are complex yet efficient behind the scenes while being attrac