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York, Gb

Gateshead, England, United Kingdom

York, England, United Kingdom

Identified business opportunity for a SaaS application that solved the business requirements of dance organisers. Designed and delivered the solution - dancecloud.com. Managed the business, setting budgets, working with external suppliers and hiring contractors. Drove successful uptake with dance organisers, generating >60% sales increase 2019-2020. Navigated company through COVID and orchestrated business recovery post-pandemic, achieving 50% increase in sales 2023 compared to 2019.Key experience:- Vision and strategy. Identified opportunity for specialist software for dance organisers, by approaching the problem of lead/follow balancing in a completely new way. Designed the solution based on an in-depth understanding of the problem, and successfully delivered a SaaS product that met user requirements.- Lead and manage software development. Designed and delivered a scalable multi-tenant architecture, implemented using best-in-class technologies. Delivered user-facing interfaces based on clear user experience design. Continually prioritised iterative development work to match business objectives.- Cloud infrastructure. Orchestrated and managed high-availability infrastructure capable of flexing to meet demand, using IaaS providers such as Digital Ocean. Adjusted infrastructure to match demand and ensure continued value for money.- Stakeholder management and compliance. Proactively worked with dance organisers to determine development priorities. Ensured compliance with legislation such as GDPR and PCI compliance. Dealt with support requests from users, ensuring timely responses.- Software stack: PHP (Laravel Framework) and Javascript (Ember.js) For example, event ticketing system, ecommerce site with card payments for event ticket purchases. Only ticketing system in the world to provide fully-automated lead/follow balancing.

York, England, United Kingdom

Team lead for a multi-disciplinary team of Software Engineers (Junior to Senior), Quality Engineer and Business Analyst. Responsible for the delivery of business critical projects via Agile methodologies, primarily focused on Gear4music's Secondhand Platform and spanning customer-facing workflows and in-house warehousing systems. Improved team performance by optimising Sprint ceremonies and organised transition from time-based estimates to story points. Fostered a 100% Sprint completion mentality and ensured team delivered packages of work on-time and to predictable delivery timelines.Line manager responsibilities for 4 Software Engineers and 1 Quality Engineer. Responsible for the wellbeing, career progression, and day-to-day workload management of reportees distributed across multiple locations with remote working. Mentoring and training of software engineers - most notably delivering training for a Junior Engineer (in their first engineering role) and upskilling the team on Test Driven Development and ReactJS.Responsible for code reviews of the team's output, and planning and executing complex deployments across cloud-based platforms. Managed risk of code changes and releases to highly complex legacy codebases. Architected and oversaw development of new software in PHP and Javascript (ReactJS), ensuring team pursued best-practices in software development - for example, Domain Drive Design and Test Driven Development.

Easingwold, North Yorkshire

Full-stack developer of complex software delivering mobile network solutions. Redesigned software around standards-compliant JSON APIs, with clear separation of concerns and ensuring full testability of code. Drove strategy to modernise frontend approaches and improve user experience.Key experience:- Architectural design and strategy. Modernised development approach by introducing test-driven development and implementation of standards-compliant JSON APIs. Re-architected backend software to a non-blocking asynchronous approach to improve user experience and deliver reliable code paths with high test coverage.- Software design and implementation. Designed and built a large-scale API for the core component in the mobile network solution. Re-implemented user interfaces using modern technologies, delivering improved user experiences and easy to maintain code.Key projects:- Internal business management software. Completely redesigned a key internal business tool. This delivered business improvements and demonstrated how the business’s approach to development could be modernised and improved.- Mobile network core component. Designed and built a customer-facing API for the core network component. Re-architected the internal software implementation to ensure high test coverage and improved reliability of the software.

York, United Kingdom

Backend developer responsible for complex business software. Re-architected several processes around standards-compliant APIs, and drove strategy to modernise frontend approaches using Javascript application frameworks.Key experience:- Architectural design and strategy. Redesigned processes to ensure clear separation of server and client concerns. Developed and implemented strategy for client/server communication based around RESTful JSON API services.- Full stack development. Backend development in PHP and complex data structures in MySQL and Mongo DB databases. Built large-scale customer-facing interfaces using modern Javascript frameworks. Deployment to cloud IaaS providers. Key projects:- Bike insurance. Developed framework agnostic business layer for quoting, completing and purchasing bike insurance policies. Incorporated into multiple insurance websites.

London, England, United Kingdom

Swing dance teacher, specialising in Lindy Hop and 1920s Charleston.

ICT Business Change Manager. Working on a multi-million-pound ICT procurement. Liaised with ICT suppliers, assessed procurement bids and developed business change strategies. Worked extensively with ICT businesses during the demonstration of capability for the procurement project. Provided analysis of existing ICT infrastructure and advised them on architectural design to meet business functions and user requirements.

London, England, United Kingdom

Career starting in criminal intelligence analysis. Rapidly identified as a high flyer and commended for my work, my career progressed into team management, project management, best practice and policy development.Key experience:- Business analysis. Reviewed existing processes and targeted opportunities for improvement. Developed policies to conform to legislative and organisational changes, including organising collaborative working with legal teams and external stakeholders.- Team management and training. Led teams, setting work, line management, performance review and team strategy. Handled staff issues and motivated team during complex organisational changes.- Training and best practice. Developed and delivered training courses that up-skilled staff and improved productivity. Identified and assessed best-practice in intelligence analysis, documenting and disseminating this knowledge, improving departmental performance.Key projects:- Multi-Agency Project Lead. Lead manager for a major intelligence project, managing multi-agency stakeholders across government. Delivered operational outcomes and project was commended as best practice.- Intelligence specialist on government drug strategy initiative. Selected for a multi-agency strategy group working to the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit. Assessed and analysed existing action against Class A drugs and developed and delivered future strategy.

London

See description under roles with SOCA - NCIS was merged into SOCA in April 2005.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), History

Activities and Societies: University Radio, College Boat Club

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