Christopher Owens Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, Gb

London, Gb

— Coordinates application development activities through direct and indirect staff. — Key stakeholder for the introduction, management and development of Agile analysis and development methodologies, and extending these to the wider business where applicable. Agile protagonist.— Recruits and manages permanent and contract developers. Working with the Programme Delivery Manager, manages the software development activities.— Coaching, mentoring and development of Developers with objective setting, development plans, governance, standards, quality, tools and techniques.— Works closely with the Application & Data Architect to deliver solutions based on the target Azure architecture and with Service Delivery Managers on assigning resources to business as usual tasks as the needs arise. — Ensuring the Customer Experience is always priority.

London, Gb

- Guides the Applications Development Team and Supports the Applications Development Manager in the Development and Support of both 3rd party and in-house applications. - Involved in the full systems life cycle and is responsible for designing, coding, unit testing, implementing, maintaining and supporting application software that is delivered on time and within budget. - Works with the Applications Development Manager in planning a ways of working Roadmap consistent with the technical Strategy and Target Architecture. - Mentors Team members to achieve their PDR goals, leads development and other IS Team members on the road to Agile/Scrum.- Agile methodology advocate.

Bromley, Kent, Gb

Worked on contract for Realtime Management Ltd, a change management company. I was approached to join them for an engagement project for a Client of theirs in the oil and lubricants sector.I was responsible for assessing their Client's existing infrastructure and systems in the distribution arm of their business, working with the Consulting Director to understand their requirements and produce the technical solution sections of the engagement paper. The technical solution consisted of a combination of the Microsoft SQL Server BI stack (specifically SSIS and SSRS) and smart-client .NET applications. In addition, a .NET smart client proto-type was developed, using the Client's own data, to support the proposal.

London, Gb

Responsible for leading systems development and managing the development team in the production of predominently smart client back office systems including supply chain and financials for a Magazine Trade Marketing and Distribution company. This included a large number of business-to-business interfaces with our publishing and distribution partners, achieved using Agile methodologies.Research & Development for new technologies to aid the Business' ever-changing requirements, including SharePoint and smart client technologies.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Designed, wrote and implemented a new system within short timescales which directly resulted in a £60M per annum client signing a 3 year contract..• Designed and wrote a Carriage Invoicing system from the ground up, which was used as a USP for new business as well as reducing the data input overheads in the finance section by 15%.• Led the team that wrote a new cost modelling / forecasting system allowing the business to predict and reconcile costs, resulting in finding new streams of revenue and reducing costs.• Led the team that built a 500M+ row EPoS warehouse that was used to provide automated reporting to our clients saving 2 days per week of resource.• Designed and implemented the company’s main data security infrastructure. This ensured security compliance as part of our clients’ contracts and was independently audited by Delloite UK.• Utilising project management skills, I managed the team that was responsible for the move of the company’s IT infrastructure from its premises near Oxford Street to Smithfields. The planned move was executed over a weekend and saw zero downtime to the business.• Migrated the company’s legacy operational reporting data to a SQL Server platform allowing the business to use more cost effective and efficient reporting tools such as Microstrategy on their legacy data.• Determined the company’s new direction from legacy “Ingres” to the VB6 and subsequently VB.NET platforms

Freelance software solutions with clients such as the AA (working on their 5 star car insurance product stream) and the Bank of England covering Insurance and Collateral Assets Management systems (incorporating the first system to cater for collateral management in multi-currency (preparation for the EURO)).

Developed Software Solutions using VAX11 Basic and indexed files for the this White-ware manufacturer's back office functions. Migrated systems to use SQL and Ingres relational database prior to leaving to work in the UK.

Developed software solutions for Avis rent-a-car's national rental systems.

Nzcdp, Information Technology And Business Studies

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