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- Hired to lead a team of software engineers to continue evolution of a bespoke software suite of monolith & microservice Laravel PHP & Angular/React applications.- Within 8 weeks, role expanded to take on further responsibilities after departure of Head of Engineering.- Chair of weekly full department meetings of 30+ colleagues to ensure high levels of collaboration and communication whilst ensuring continued compliance with ISO27001 regulations.- Trained up on ISO27001 requirements and have directly dealt with Auditors during two successful inspections thus far.- Responsible for review, evolution and implementation of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) in accordance with ISO27001.- Actively addressed any Non-Conformance issues through team collaboration and technical leadership- Championed the usage of DORA for establishing ‘Team Win’ metrics and to drive progress towards greater team effectiveness.- Responsible for considerable Upgrade and Lifecycle projects to ensure the bespoke software suite is secure and fit for purpose.- Leading teams through example, a positive attitude, attention to detail and motivation to develop skills and thrive. 1-2-1’s, management and career, goal planning for 7 direct reports.- Recruited 3 new development members to the team.- Aiding migration of services to containerised AWS Kubernetes provision.- Keen champion of recently updated Company Values including use of GROW coaching.- Pushing usage of AI tooling throughout the company whilst ensuring conformance with ISO regulations.Advocate for Containerised development to ensure platform/environment consistency.- Champion of OpenAPI specification usage throughout suite of API’s

- Employed to consult directly for several commercial clients alongside colleagues in varied team sizes across multiple technical disciplines.- Mentoring and leading small development teams. Regular direct client interaction.- Delivered considerable upgrade migration of PHP, Laravel & Google Ads integration.- Aided build of re-engineered React UI and React Native Mobile UI for legacy app.- Aided build of React UI and Rust API.- Helped create Three.JS 3D charting interface for stock trading app.- Assisted with infrastructure on AWS, GCP and Debian Linux.

A website development consultancy which to date has delivered over 250 substantial bespoke websites and e-commerce systems.In a management capacity I have built, managed and scaled multiple diverse agile development teams in different territories to suit client requirements.

Scoped, designed & built bespoke Laravel PHP, MySQL & JQuery/Vue.js bookings management software & infrastructure. Migrated to Google Cloud Platform in 2019.- Consultation, requirements, risk & cost analysis, technical specifications and wireframing.- Project management using JIRA with remote agile development teams in UK and Europe.- Integration into enterprise grade API’s and web services.- Design, development and provision of JSON web service API’s.- Automated testing via usage of Selenium & PHPUnit utilising Virtual Box VM’s to automate multiple browsers.- Yielded significant cost reductions through automation of specialised processes, customs & shipping documentation generation, billing & supplier reconciliation and daily operating procedures.- Reduced IT expenditure after hosting audit, migration and consolidation. Designed, built & fully managed distributed Ubuntu, NginX, PHP-FPM, SSL cloud hosting provision.- Migrated fully to Google Cloud Platform in 2019 through custom build of App Engine Custom Runtime Environment.- Through preparing for GCP, constructed Docker based environments using Docker Compose with custom images.

Buckle Consulting supplied all technical input to Parcel Monkey to launch this online courier reseller system. The company hit a £2 million pound annual turnover based on sales in March 2010. All transactions and integration automation into DHL, FedEx, CityLink & HDNL were built and managed by Buckle Consulting.

Fresh out of Uni applied to and got taken on by Capgemini UK Plc. to work on their grad scheme. Worked on Oracle systems for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and project analysis on the HMRC Aspire accounts gaining government SC clearance.