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Our People
Casual Miracles is a fresh young company bursting with new ideas backed by formidable experience and expertise. Our team leaders and developers deliver high quality software with real business value. Time after time.
Channing Walton
Co-founder and director of Casual Miracles.
Finance and Investment Banking
Channing has extensive experience in software architecture, design and development in financial markets and investment banking. He is a Scrum Master, mentor and advisor in Agile Methods of software development. He has worked in the financial markets on Bond trading systems at Deutsche Bank and UBS, FX trading systems at Deutsche Bank, and global reference data systems at BNP Paribas and Capco.
Internet
Channing managed Canon Research Centre's Internet Department
Research
Channing was at the forefront of academic research at the University of Kent and University College London where he pioneered ground-breaking techniques for high speed optical communications and worked on new systems for measuring the middle atmosphere at the Atmospheric Physics Lab.
What really turns Channing on...
- Building high quality systems as simply and quickly as possible.
- Working with clients who value high quality, functioning products to enhance their business.
- Experimenting with new ideas, languages and techniques leading to elegant solutions.
Lance Walton
Co-founder and director of Casual Miracles
Finance and Investment Banking
Lance has many years experience in software architecture, design and development in financial markets, investment banking, health provision and internet technologies.
He is a Scrum Master, mentor and advisor in Agile Methods of software development and is active in a number of open source projects.
Lance has worked on Bond and FX trading systems at Deutsche Bank, credit risk systems at BNP Paribas and reference data systems at Capco. His work in the health sector includes a national care-home management system for BUPA. He was consultant for an international investment management company in California, working on an analytics engine, and he has developed major projects with Reuters.
Research
Lance worked on Neural Networks investigating biological models of learning at the University of Kent.
Lance loves...
- Getting to the core of the problem
- Helping teams to realize their greatness
- Taking the pain away
- Baroque music