Robin Dewson

Computer Professional and Author

Location: London, United Kingdom
Industry: Banking

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Robin Dewson's Overview

Past

VP Technical Lead at Nomura
AVP Technical Lead at Nomura
Author at Apress

AVP at Lehman Brothers
N/A at Red Gate Software
Author Beg SQL Server books at Apress
Technical Lead at Lehman Brothers
Technical Lead at Lehman Brothers
Author at Wrox Press
Developer at Save & Prosper

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Education

Scottish College of Textiles
Motherwell Technical College

Recommendations

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Connections

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Websites

Developer in C# server side as well as client side using Winforms and ASP.NET with Sybase back end,Java and Sybase at Nomura. Author of several SQL Server books for Apress. ASP.NET/C# using SQL Server 2008 for www.hospital-pass.com. Also at Nomura/Lehman supported systems in Visual Basic 6, Sybase 12 and 15, Excel VBA, Unix, C-Shell scripts. Also experience of SQL Server 2000 and upwards.
Business experience of FID Repos (10+ years) and Equity Research (1 year), Sales Management (2 years)

Specialties

Repos, C#, ASP.NET, Winforms, SQL Server, Sybase, Java, Excel VBA, Windows Services .NET, Autosys, JIRA, SVN, VSS, Linux, C-Shell

VP Technical Lead

Nomura

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; NMR; Investment Banking industry

April 2011 – December 2011 (9 months)

Made redundant as part of $1.2 bn cost cutting. Very much a hands on developer using C# server and client side, Java server side and Sybase. Was developing a multi-threaded Java app to listen to Websphere MQ when made redundant. Created framework and initial screens for ASP.NET application for a Sales Commission system

AVP Technical Lead

Nomura

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; NMR; Investment Banking industry

November 2008 – April 2011 (2 years 6 months)

Tupeed from Lehman Brothers

Author

Apress

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry

2006 – 2011 (5 years)

Author of several books :-

Beginning SQL Server 2012 for Developers
Beginning SQL Server 2008 for Developers
Beginning SQL Server 2008 Express for Developers
Beginning SQL Server 2005 for Developers
Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express for Developers
Pro SQL Server 2005
Pro SQL Server 2005 Assemblies
Beginning SQL Server 2000 Programming
SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedures Handbook
Professional Access 2000 Programming

AVP

Lehman Brothers

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; LEH; Capital Markets industry

May 2007 – November 2008 (1 year 7 months)

Lehman Brothers file for bankruptcy. Tupeed to Nomura. Worked on the Lehman Repo System during this time developing a new Repo system using C# to replace the VB6 system. This was a WinForms system that was being built.

N/A

Red Gate Software

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry

2001 – 2008 (7 years)

Author Beg SQL Server books

Apress

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry

2001 – 2008 (7 years)

Author of many books with Apress including Beginning SQL Server 2012 For Developers, Beginning SQL Server 2008 For Developers, Beginning SQL Server 2008 Express For Developers, Beginning SQL Server 2005 For Developers, Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express For Developers, Pro SQL Server 2005, Pro SQL Server 2005 Assemblies, Visual Basic .NET Windows Services Handbook, Beginning SQL Server 2000 Programming, SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedures Handbook, Professional SQL Server 2000 Data Warehousing with Analysis Services, ASP.NET Components Toolkit