[Banking-pm] Another Introduction

[Dave Cross]

Since everybody else seems to be doing it. Many of you will know me  
from london.pm, but here goes...

I used a lot of Perl whilst I was contracting in the City of London in  
the second half of the 1990s. Most of what I was going involved  
parsing data feeds in order to load them into databases (mostly  
Sybase) and them producing either outgoing data feeds or web-based  
reports out of those databases. In about five years, I did a grand  
tour of banks - Paribas (now BNP), Nomura, Warburgs (now UBS), CSFB,  
IBJ (now Mizuho) and probably more that I've forgotten.

I wrote a book (http://manning.com/cross/) based on those experiences.

In about 2001 I decided that banking was dull and I decided I would  
have more fun in the Noo Medja industry and spent some time working  
for people like Sportal.com, QXL, Karmadownload, Bibliotech and (more  
recently) Guardian Unlimited and the BBC.

Last year I decided to come back to the City and I'm now back working  
in UBS. Well, strictly speaking I'm working for Perot Systems who  
manage all of UBS' infrastructure. And I'm back parsing data feeds,  
loading them into a database and producing web reports. Currently this  
data is all about NAS and SAN storage usage.

Here's an important question - is banking.pm planning to have any meetings?

Dave...

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