At VTB I was faced with Cognos 8, which had a complete different interface than Cognos 7.4, but I've quickly got used to it. After a few months we've upgraded to Cognos 10 and in 2017 we upgraded to Cognos 11, for report migration and automated testing we've been using Motio (Versioning, Testing and Deployment).

In my first half year, I mostly was working on Cognos reports. Then, after a lot of new DWH related requirements came from Moscow, I had to put more and more data from other productive systems than our core banking system, e.g. Calypso. I've also created some interfaces to Calypso, Bloomberg, Reuters. Sometimes I was working as a “normal programmer” and wrote C# code in Visual Studio (e.g. for a Lotus Notes interface or Customer matching procedure).

Here a list of some exciting projects I've implemented/participated:

• Cost allocation
• Daily client P/L
• General loan loss provision calculation (UGB, IFRS)
• Customer matching for three banks
• Deal matching for three banks
• FTP (=funds transfer pricing) calculation
• Selection process of new BI environment (ETL, BI, data entry)
• Wildfly (formerly JBoss) cluster for ESB (Softproject X4)
• Data migration from Austrian core-banking system (IBP) to German core-banking system (Fusion Banking Midas) heavily using our ESB from Softproject (XML technology)

Here some non-BI/-DWH related projects:

• Member of IT team VTB Austria at the selection process of our central ticketing system
• Member of IT team VTB Austria at the selection process of our new core banking system
• ECB AQR and other regulatory projects
• ICAAP, ILAAP audits by OeNB and ECB representatives

For most of our projects, deep understanding of banking products and good knowledge of accounting and risk management was necessary.

Please find the recommendation letter below.

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