Andy Bleach Email & Phone Number

Staines-Upon-Thames, England, United Kingdom

Staines-Upon-Thames, England, United Kingdom

Reading, England, United Kingdom

Bourne End, Bucks

+ Scrum Master & Technical PO for DevOps team+ instrumental in helping to shape and implement Siteset’s agile philosophy+ the driving force behind Siteset’s implementation of DevOps - resulting in projects being more manageable; delivered on time; daily releases and a more relaxed and happy technical team+ lead on coaching DevOps team+ supporting off-shore developers, including visiting India to deliver training on Scrum and on our products+ conduct interviews for technical staff recruitment+ manage day-to-day supplier relationships+ certified GDPR Practitioner - responsible for GDPR considerations within the business and advising clients+ responsible for training and advising the Dev team and other departments on DNS and network+ member of Quality Board, ensuring ISO 9001:2015 compliance is maintained throughout the company+ manage and monitor vulnerability scanning and oversee system security+ close relationship with Client Services Team

Maidenhead, Berks

+ helping to adopt and promote an agile way of life within the Dev team and the wider company+ taking a lead role in determining technical solutions for all clients+ instrumental in introducing a DevOps culture+ overseeing migration from dedicated servers to cloud based solution with AWS+ single handedly migrated client’s whole portfolio (codebases and data for over 2000 websites and 7 web applications) to a new dedicated server solution, including installation of LAMP environment+ as software engineer, designed Siteset's bespoke Molecule CMS, used in all of Siteset's client projects; designed and implemented an additional caching solution using Redis to significantly improve performance

Maidenhead, Berks

+ software engineer developing web solutions in PHP, Laravel and MySQL+ responsible for developing and implementing operations strategy including adoption of version contol (using Git)+ lead on several migration projects+ assisting with recruitment and day to day supervision of dev team members+ member of quality board

Staines Upon Thames, Surrey

Develop and host web sites and database driven web applications using PHP and MySQL. Provision of general IT consultancy and training. Clients included many SMEs, local government and corporates such as BUPA, Surrey and Hertfordshire County Councils (training services), Cable & Wireless (web applications), Saga (MySQL consultancy) and Siteset (web development).

Sunbury, Middlesex

Responsible for 22 staff over 3 sites, looking after the internal network for the UK organisation of 3000 employees and the network links to customers. Managed £3.4M telecoms budget.

Sunbury, Middlesex

Supporting a range of Facilities Management customers helping to ensure smooth migration and running of their mainframe based systems, including significant time on client sites.

Warley, Essex; Stockholm, Sweden

Programming and systems support for non-manufacturing countries within Ford Europe. (Total 18 months employment during 4 year 'thick sandwich' degree course)