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Edinburgh, Gb

Edinburgh, Midlothian, Gb

Responsible for development, design and direction of in-house developed smartphone apps for Miller Homes employees. Our work aims to simplify and improve existing day-to-day processes primarily for Production/Site and Health and Safety teams, but also for Customer Care and Sales teams as well. We've also branched out into development of apps for customers and subcontractors who work with us on our sites. Our customer-facing app aims to improve our Customer Journey by providing the customer with essential information on their new home and by keeping them informed of their new home's build progress, right up until the day the customer moves in. We work hands-on with all different teams in service of something that brings a genuine benefit to the business, and will continue to do so.

Edinburgh, Midlothian, Gb

Responsible for development, design and direction of in-house developed smartphone apps for Miller Homes employees. Our work aims to simplify and improve existing day-to-day processes for Production, Customer Care, Sales and Health & Safety teams. We've also branched out into development of apps for our customers. These customer-facing apps aim to improve our Customer Journey by providing the customer with essential information on their new home and by keeping them informed of their new home's build progress, right up until the day the customer moves in. We work hands-on with all different teams in service of something that brings a genuine benefit to the business, and will continue to do so.I also continue to support our document management system, HR systems and Intranet portal.

Edinburgh, Midlothian, Gb

Continued development, maintenance and administration of the open-source enterprise content management system Alfresco. Provide general IT support to a user base of over a thousand employees located in branch offices throughout the UK. Part of my role also involves working with employees to assess business requirements, and eventually develop a solution to improve day-to-day processes using the Alfresco platform. I have been heavily involved in numerous projects within The Miller Group's three divisions, surfacing content via a bespoke interface, using custom content modelling and Alfresco's Webscripts platform. I have first-hand experience in content migrations, having taken part in many branch office migrations during office downtime and delivering support on-site as well. Our migration process has a particular focus placed on liaising in advance with the branch office, of which I would be seen by that branch as a touchpoint within the IT department - a person employees can have queries answered or raise concerns with during the migration period.I also provide assistance and support to IT teams internally when required.

Edinburgh, Gb

As a Web Analyst at the Miller Group, my role is the installation, configuration and continued maintainment of an open-source enterprise content management system called Alfresco. My day to day tasks involve customisation and extension of the new content management system in order to meet the needs of the Miller Group, while also migrating over business processes still used in our original ECM, which Alfresco will eventually replace.I am also on hand to provide general support for our other web applications whenever required.

Edinburgh, Lothian, Gb

My main role as a Graduate Developer would be the participation in the development process of mobile applications. Throughout most of my time there, I worked mainly on a series of gambling games for JackpotJoy, an online gambling company.The games developed are mobile phone versions of online Flash games. Working in teams of two or three, the games would designed, developed, tested and released in a development cycle of around six to eight months, with constant bug fixing and updates.My tasks would be different each week but primarily consisted of working on gameplay, graphics and animation work, user interface quality, creating menus and user navigation and occasional audio work, all using Java Mobile.For an upcoming release or update of a game, I would take on a supporting role. Mainly using white-box testing, I would test the application on different mobile phones (more phones were used depending on the screen sizes to be released) to ensure the application is working properly. If a problem did arise, I would debug the application to find the problem, fix and then test again. I had varying participation in the development process for the slot games Deal Or No Deal and Diamond Bonanza, and the casino game Roulette.My most significant work is on the mobile version of Roulette. On that game, I did a lot of animation and audio work, as well as the navigation menus and all small screen size versions of the game. I also did some touch screen work with Roulette too, for release on smart phones and the emerging touch screen phone market.I also worked on smaller screen versions of games,for small screen mobile phones. After the application development I worked on streamlining our build process, using Apache Ant. Then I started database work using MySQL, combined with Java Standard Edition, this consisted of creating queries to manipulate data in tables through Java. It was during this time that I learned about JUnit testing.

Bsc Hons, Computing (Mobile Games)

Btec National Diploma, Computing

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