Ashley Kitson

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Chief Technology Officer at Zinc Digital Business Solutions Ltd @
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Rushden, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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About Ashley Kitson

Engineer of systems with strong business awareness gained in consultancy, and senior development and management roles in banking, blue chip, technology and eCommerce companies.I've led a varied life including directorships of leading and international companies. I excel in software engineering, so that is what I do now. It gives me the most fun for the buck. Offers over £0.5M pa considered. Otherwise leave me alone please.

Ashley Kitson's Current Company Details
Zinc Digital Business Solutions Ltd

Zinc Digital Business Solutions Ltd

Chief Technology Officer at Zinc Digital Business Solutions Ltd
Ashley Kitson Work Experience Details
  • Zinc Digital Business Solutions Ltd
    Chief Technology Officer
    Zinc Digital Business Solutions Ltd Jan 2019 - Present
    In recognition of the fantastic work that my team have done in the last 2 years, they only went and elevated me. A massive honour and testament to the drive, vision and energy of Zinc. We are re-engineering every aspect of our system to be scalable, separate and secure. Possibly the best company it has been my pleasure to work with in a long career. Absolutely the best place for a die hard tech to be. Come join me
  • Zinc Digital Business Solutions Ltd
    Head Of Engineering
    Zinc Digital Business Solutions Ltd Apr 2019 - Jan 2021
    Humbled to be leading a big, dedicated and happy team of PHP, Go, Angular8, Node, Python and mobile engineers based in the UK & India delivering the very best in critical incident management systems to private sector and government clients. And I still get to code. Life is perfect.
  • Freetimers Internet
    Head Of Engineering And Production
    Freetimers Internet Feb 2017 - Feb 2019
    Northampton, Northamptonshire, Gb
    Bringing old systems back to life. Enforcing automation. Enforcing development standards. Turning 1 day deployments to 30 seconds. Ensuring code quality through test/CI deployment. Implemented a roll-in strategy to AWS for major customer sites, with resilience. Integrated modern communication standards for global team development (Hipchat and Slack). Automating all dev stages. Implemented modern task management (Jira), Version control ,done properly (Git) and glue (Jenkins). Corporate password management (using LastPass) .And when I wasn't doing that, I wrote 100K lines of code, all fully unit tested, and led/mentored a small team of overseas developers requiring minute by minute attention in addition to home team.
  • Eng Dreams
    Consultant Software Engineer
    Eng Dreams Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
    Building the new POS API server software. Mentoring in Agile. Creating the testable build chain.
  • First Utility
    Principal Software Engineer
    First Utility Feb 2016 - Oct 2016
    Coventry, Warwickshire, Gb
    Responsible for service delivery of web based systems. Currently engaged in:- breaking out legacy code to position it for refactoring- bringing Continuous Delivery to the web platform- re-engineering into a Node/React platform where it makes sense- fostering Open Source development- engaging a DevOps culture for platform delivery
  • First Utility
    Lead Software Engineer (Web)
    First Utility Apr 2013 - Feb 2016
    Coventry, Warwickshire, Gb
    The senior web developer at First Utility. Technical ownership of all things PHP within the company's application stack. Leadership of the website development team, developers of The Best Utility Website of the year. see http://websiteoftheyear.co.uk/
  • Time Out
    Senior Developer/Team Leader
    Time Out Jun 2012 - Mar 2013
    London, England, Gb
    PHP systems development using Symfony 2 to enable global rollout of Time Out's digital platform. Implementation of a Spanish city site. XML/XSD/XSLT based site configuration tool. Lead on internationalisation program.
  • Phorm Uk, Inc
    Lead Developer
    Phorm Uk, Inc Jun 2011 - Jun 2012
    London, Gb
    Customer facing systems development of the Phorm platform. Integration to complex network Deep Packet Inspection backend systems. Provisioning of systems to Turkish and Chinese telecoms companies
  • Zf 4 Business Limited
    Owner
    Zf 4 Business Limited Jan 2010 - Jun 2011
    Specialising in Zend Framework for business applications From engineering, thru finance to marketing
  • Zware Limited
    Technology Director
    Zware Limited Apr 2009 - Apr 2011
    Development of Contextual Overlay Software to provide business processing via a web based interface.
  • Etrader Group
    Systems Designer
    Etrader Group 2010 - 2011
    Implementation of the Stockshifters SelfTrade system for sellors at Stockshifters. Implementation of Worldpay payment gateway to Stockshifters system.
  • Zinc Digital Business Solutions Ltd
    Technology Manager
    Zinc Digital Business Solutions Ltd Feb 2008 - Apr 2009
    Little Houghton, Northamptonshire, Gb
    Initially as a hired contractor, then permanent. Managing a small team of PHP developers for this Northants based web development agency. Redesign and implementation of large scale web based systems for clients including Land Rover, P&MM, and others. PHP and MySQL.
  • Independent Consultancy
    Owner
    Independent Consultancy Nov 2002 - Feb 2008
    Providing independent management and IT consultancy services to small businesses and public service bodies including the Total Protection Group, Northants County Council Education department, The Arab British Centre, and Amaranth Games. I have embraced PHP programming and develop open source software for the Xoops Content Management System (CMS) and private clients. All my systems run on Linux.
  • Homeline Improvements
    Managing Director
    Homeline Improvements Nov 2002 - Feb 2008
    Providing carpentry and building services to the domestic sector in Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire.
  • Riggs Bank
    Executive Director And European It Director
    Riggs Bank Oct 1999 - Nov 2002
    Us
    - £10m technical implementation of an IT system to support the start up of Riggs & Co. – International Private Banking in London and Jersey. This was completed on time in 2.5 years, with the initial systems up and running 18 months after project start to allow the bank to open.- Initial design and functional and integration specifications of banking, trust and company administration, accounting, document processing, CRM and knowledge management, portfolio management, portfolio modelling, consolidated client reporting, and application delivery systems in a largely web based environment. The entire system was designed on principles of straight through processing and systematic control of the “business getting” function of private bankers.- Implemented a structured programme and project management and reporting methodology for the company to control the multi faceted and complex implementation program. This was based on PRINCE 2 but cut down to ensure rapid delivery of systems. The parent organisation of Riggs Bank in the USA adopted this methodology for their ongoing home-grown developments.- Implemented a central programme office (CPO) to administer projects monitoring and reporting.- Authored request for proposals and invitation to tender documents and lead subsequent systems selection teams.- Implementation management of teams from Misys (Midas, ToF, OMS, Meridian middleware), Landsteinar (Navision), Aston Group (Navision), Tower (Doc Processing), Pegasystems (CRM), Bloomberg (PTS), Network Models (Portfolio modelling) , Blueprint Management Systems (data warehousing and Business Objects client reporting), Syan (Citrix, Tivoli, networks), an inhouse team and others.- Managed the outsourcing of IT operations, negotiated SLA.Finalist in the 2002 Institute of Financial Services/BT Financial Innovations Awards for the Best CRM Strategy.
  • Ariem Limited
    Owner
    Ariem Limited Jul 1994 - Oct 1999
    Riggs Bank NA, London & Washington: Feasibility study of existing banking systems in preparation for implementing a new international private bank. (Aug, Sept 99)SETE, London (Engineering finance and project managers): IT management, design and implementation of a small-scale office environment. (Sept 98 to Sept 99)HSBC Securities, London. (Institutional asset management): Project management to recover a failed implementation of a sales support system, and management of Y2K compliance implementation on existing sales support systems. (April 98 to Mar 99)EFG Reads Trust Company, Jersey. (Trust, Fund and Company Administration): Computer and business systems review leading to redesign using BPR methodology of those processes to meet future business requirements. (Sept to Dec 97.) Package evaluation and development of implementation plan for the core Trust & Company client accounting, practice accounting, payroll, HR and fund management functions of the company. The analysis and design work that I undertook for the Trust & Company system eventually formed the core of the Trust system developed by Landsteinar (CI) Ltd. (Feb to Mar 98)EFG Private Bank, London: Design, project management and implementation of bespoke CRM system using OOPs methodology. (Feb to Dec 97.)Merrill Lynch, European Regulatory Systems, London: Consultancy on Secam+ automation scripts (May, June 97).Coopers & Lybrand, London. (Accountancy & Management Information Systems): Development Team Leader. Design and implementation of ECAM+ Europe V2/3 capital adequacy (CAD), SECAM+ (Securities) and GECAM+ (Gilt Edge) systems front ends using OOPs methodology. Design and Development of Help Desk Support system using Lotus Notes. Hiring developers and providing recruitment advice to C&L. Consultancy work for C&L to clients. (May 95 to Dec 96.)TSB Bank plc, London. (Retail Banking): Design, analysis and implementation of Property Management system. (Oct 94 to Apr 95)
  • Hill Samuel Bank Ltd
    Office Systems Consultant
    Hill Samuel Bank Ltd 1992 - Jun 1994
    A high profile role as consultant to I.T. and business management on issues relating to the use, procurement, operations and development of PC and network systems. Project manager for PC systems implementation.
  • Sturge Holdings Plc
    Network Projects Manager
    Sturge Holdings Plc 1989 - 1992
    1200 workstations, 1000 users, 6 sites, 7 staff. Accountable for planning, design, procurement, implementation and support of all local and wide area networks and end user PC support.
  • Johnson Matthey Plc
    Head Of Information Centre
    Johnson Matthey Plc 1988 - 1989
    Support, training and development of PC based systems
  • The Housing Corporation
    Senior Micro Support Officer
    The Housing Corporation 1987 - 1988
    Nation-wide telephone support of approx. 200 micro users
  • Various Education Authorities
    Teacher
    Various Education Authorities 1982 - 1987
    Teacher of Art. Head of Art. Head of Information Technology. 11-18 year old students

Ashley Kitson Skills

Php Mysql Software Development Javascript Web Development E Commerce Management Jquery Sql Zend Framework Linux Agile Methodologies Lamp Ajax Oop Xhtml Apache Cms Team Leadership Front End Web Applications Python Crm Phpmyadmin Doctrine Software Project Management Private Banking Subversion Architecture Symfony Phpunit Object Oriented Design Google Apps Behat Oop Php Xml Customer Relationship Management Object Oriented Programming Bdd Xml Programming Crm Software Accounting Open Source Software Front End Development Content Management Systems

Ashley Kitson Education Details

  • The Open University
    The Open University
    Maths And Computing
  • Birmingham City University
    Birmingham City University
    Art
  • Newcastle University
    Newcastle University
    Creative Arts

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