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Bristol, England, United Kingdom

COINS – Building Value Through Innovation.COINS continually innovates to provide construction software solutions that help construction and engineering companies improve the management of their business. For more than 40 years, we have based our successful approach on the simple principle that we must add financial value to our customers by compressing.

Bath, England, United Kingdom

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Managed the difficult transition from the original London engineering team to the new team in Bristol, without compromising service to either the business or its customers.
• Played a key role in the transformation from start-up to commercial success, ensuring that the inherited platform was redesigned to improve its reliability and scalability.
• Defined the product roadmap, driving innovation to ensure that the company’s energy auto-switching platform remained ahead of its competitors.
• Designed a flexible API to allow partners to incorporate the find best deal algorithm and switching process into their solutions, greatly increasing customer sign-ups.
• Developed new approaches to increase the level of automation within the system, reducing the cost to serve by around 40%.
• Performed the GDPR assessment, ensuring that the company’s platform, policies and procedures complied with the regulation.

Keynsham, Bristol

• Lead the architectural design of software (including mobile apps for iOS and Android) and cloud infrastructure (SaaS) for the company’s cashless solution, ensuring that the platform adhered to best practice and.
• Orchestrated a migration of around 200 clients to new private cloud infrastructure with no disruption to core service. This reduced hosting costs by around 25% and provided greater bandwidth and resiliency through.
• Introduced Scrum methodology to the development process, allowing the development team to improve the delivery of new functionality.
• Initiated a redesign of the web application to take advantage of the ASP.NET MVC framework, making the software more modular and easier to maintain.
• Implemented an ISMS based on ISO 27001 (acting as IT Controller), allowing the company to more effectively deliver on its commitment to information security.
• Completed client security questionnaires, providing information regarding the data protection and network security mechanisms within the system.

• Provided advice to clients regarding platform deployment in China, helping them to build in-country partnerships to give their projects the best chance for success.
• Identified and developed additional value-added services for existing providers, such as SMS based alerting and mobile accessible services.
• Designed and implemented telecoms protocol stacks using C and C++ for use in the UK and abroad running on a mixture of Unix and Linux platforms using Oracle and MySQL.

Beijing City, China

• Introduced the authentication product Swivel Secure PINsafe (Java) and a conference bridge system (Linux and Solaris) developed with Telesoft to the Chinese market.
• Built a team of Chinese engineers, project managers and technical translators to work on installation and localisation.
• Managed the interaction between software development teams in the UK and China, altering both products to meet local regulations, standards and practices.
• Successfully obtained operating permits and licenses by working closely with governmental agencies and carriers to test system compliance.
• Developed partnerships with Chinese providers and resellers to increase new deployment opportunities.
• Produced system documentation to enable 3rd party developers to integrate their own systems with the provided solutions.

Blandford, Dorset

• Provided on-site support and assistance for the company’s carrier-grade switching and monitoring systems all around the world, including the UK, China and India.
• Gained first-hand experience of both fixed line and mobile networks in relation to voice and data traffic, working with both carriers and Value-Added Service providers.
• Expanded software development experience into telecoms signalling protocols, complementing existing knowledge of transport protocols in computer networks.
• Gave technical integration advice and support, allowing clients and partners to build their own solutions around the core system APIs.

Ilminster, Somerset

• Development focus shifted from being purely network-centric to also include local application design and testing, with products such as Norton Antivirus and Ghost.
• Acted as a liaison between the development and QA teams, gaining fresh insight into the software testing process and interdepartmental relations.

Ilminster, Somerset

• Worked on the company’s networking products including single sign-on and firewalls, obtaining a large amount of knowledge regarding access control and network security. The core languages used were C and C++.
• Acquired hands-on experience with a great deal of hardware, operating systems and software, including desktop PCs, servers and mainframes.