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Dorchester, Gb

Dorchester, Gb

Bishops Waltham - Southampton

Step Ahead Technology Ltd consultant, providing IT and Project Management services for Quartix based in the Southampton office. Over the course of several years the role has covered management of IT resources, project management as well as recruitment and team building. The projects have ranged from product upgrades and developments to infrastructure changes and support. Most notably, project manager for the launch of the company in the USA. Right from the start of the USA project, I played a key role as a 'hands on' project manager. Besides project management, co-ordination and support for all project activities during the start-up phase, I was responsible for specifying and implementing the e-commerce solution, defining the integration between US and UK processes, setting up the US office and hiring US based sales (and support) staff. In addition, Step Ahead Technology provided the local US presence to help with setting up the legal entity, banking relationship, insurance, payroll and state and federal tax management as directed by the Quartix board.Other recent projects include GDPR analysis, data flow mapping and Cyber Essentials compliance. In addition, e-commerce and paperless direct debit for the UK customers. During this period, the company has grown significantly, it was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2014, and in the USA product sales continue to grow across all states.

United Kingdom

Step Ahead Technology provides a range of project management, technical and business consultancy services. With a focus on small to medium UK businesses looking to expand their operations into the USA, Step Ahead Technology offers a range of services to support this.

London, United Kingdom

Head of UK Corporate Systems.Management responsibility for multi-disciplinary team with software application development, support, project management and business analysis roles. The team supported applications for approx. 2,000 users in the London office with a focus on support areas eg Finance, Compliance, HR and Facilities. I was also responsible for key applications and projects in several European branches. The technology covered Microsoft platforms and SQL Server databases as well as Lotus Notes and Peoplesoft including both in-house developed applications and third party systems. In addition, the role involved considerable co-ordination of local and global projects, regular travel and working closely with Paris head office and multinational teams globally. The role also included offshoring software development and support projects in both India and France.Main responsibilities include the following :-• Team management and co-ordination of activities with Head office• Project management and reporting to senior management.• Planning and co-ordination of development, testing and software release activities.• Analysis of business requirements, review of test plans and system design.• Budget preparation, cost and progress monitoring and reporting.• Maintaining software controls and quality standards.

London, United Kingdom

IT role within finance department providing specialist support and development for systems. • Development and support of multi user Ingres data warehouse providing business critical Management Accounts information and regulatory reporting.• Software development, testing and support (24 hour) for client and server processes. • Ingres (DBA) Database Administration, performance tuning and project management.• Designed and developed scheduler for overnight batch processing. • Planning, installation and testing of software upgrades for database systems and PC apps.

Design, development and support in IT and Avionics systems over a period of 7 years as a senior system Engineer and team leader (initially starting as a graduate Engineer). • Responsible for design, development and support of Ingres database systems eg multi user aircraft equipment inventory management system with a capacity for over thirty million pounds worth of equipment to ISO9000 standards. • Design, development and coding of real time software simulations for use on the EuroFighter project using Object Oriented design techniques. • Responsible for systems integration of a computer controlled oxygen breathing system which was successfully used on a prototype fly by wire aircraft. Developed software simulations and validated the system reporting progress at regular project meetings.• Systems analysis, design and testing for Tornado IDS and ADV systems.

Grantham, Lincolnshire

Hydraulic system design and development, fault finding and investigation. Engineering industrial placement (Internship).

Chester, United Kingdom

Engineering apprenticeship in plant maintenance, installation, fitting, machining, fabrication, welding, electrical, control and instrumentation systems.

Pgce

B Eng Hons

Ordinary Technical Certificate (Level Iii) / Higher Technical Certificate (Level Iv)

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