Working as an SME within the Office of Technology identifying and growing software engineering capability advances within Leidos. Working with US and AUS counterparts to ensure dissemination and availability of Leidos research and operational software engineering tools, processes and practices.Current focuses include the application modern software architectures to Multi Domain Operation applications, secure code pipelines and hosting platforms on commercial cloud and developing software in high information classification environments

Lead the Software Engineering capability for Leidos in the UK - working within the Office of Technology (CTO Office) serving the Civil, Defence, Homeland Security and Intelligence divisionsResponsible for skills and resource capability growth within the software engineering community to enable delivery of key programmes of national significance. Management of a large number of software engineering professionals resourced through a matrixed organisation (170+ software engineers from graduate to chief engineer)

Software Engineering capability lead within the Civil division of Leidos UK

Leidos merged with Lockheed Martin's IS&GS business in August 2016.Lead technical engineer focusing on large scale proposals and delivery of complex, high risk software engineering solutions within the Civil domain

Technical Lead within Lockheed Martin UK. Responsibilities include:-:- Technical consultancy-:- Pre-sales and bid work-:- Technical delivery and quality assurance

Technical consultant (to lead consultant level) for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and 2013 implementations, primarily in the financial services sector.Responsible for design, development and delivery of complete CRM-based systems for clients including:-:- banks-:- insurance companies-:- private equity groups-:- credit providers-:- financial advice organisations.

Senior Technical Consultant for 2e2 corporate clients implementing large scale CRM solutions.Technical Lead for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and associated .Net development projects, managing work packages and developers and providing technical assurance.Team Lead for various levels of Technical and Business Consultants within the 2e2 CRM practiceCustomisation, configuration and deployment of the CRM product, together with development of associated applications and services. Also responsible for infrastructure design, implementation and maintenance (AD, ADFS, Sharepoint integration, DR procedures etc.)

Building enterprise-grade web applications using the following technologies : ASP.Net (to 4.0), C# (to 4.0), ORMs (Entity Framework 4, NHibernate and Linq to SQL)Designing and building service-based infrastructures using WCF Services and WCF Data Services to facilitate enterprise applicationsBrowser client development using HTML, CSS, JQuery and AjaxBuilding performant database layers to support web applications using SQL Server stored procedures and functions (to 2008 R2)Design and development of Management Information Systems using SQL Server and ProClarity-based data warehouses surfaced through Excel pivot tables (to 2010), Excel Power Pivot and SQL Server Reporting Services (to 2008)Introduction of unit testing and a TDD-style development approach within development teams, including the use of dependency injection frameworks to facilitate dependency mocking.Working with systems teams to build and carry out deployment of applications into high-availability clustered infrastructuresTeam Foundation Server administration for multi-discipline teams (currently TFS 2010)Mentoring and managing iterative development methodologies in development teamsProduction and interpretation of team metrics to understand performance and areas for improvement Definition and management of coding standardsRequirements capture, analysis and translation into use casesEstimation of delivery dates and development resource required to meet deadlinesNew technology research, evaluation and promotion for use within development teamsWorking with senior management to develop IT strategy (to director level) including providing advice on technical direction to achieve business goals.Functioning as the main interface between sales force and development team, translating requirements in both directionsHigh level of CRM design and development skills including introduction of CRM systems and managing behavioral change through the use of IT

Marshalls PLC is the UK's leading manufacturer of superior natural stone and innovative concrete hard landscaping products, supplying the construction, home improvement and landscape markets.Analysis, system development and project management of applications for various businesses in the Marshalls Group. Primary focus is on Customer Relationship Management applications to aid sales staff and to maximise sales opportunities.Applications delivered in a mix of ASP.NET, C# and SQL Server.

DLA Piper is one of the world's largest law firms, with offices in 25 countries. I worked in the Volume Legal Services division, which specialised in debt management, property transactions and litigation.Whilst there I was responsible for analysis and development of DLA Direct, the company's customer portal, working with companies such as Egg and HBOS. I also worked on the company's internal workflow applications.

OnMedica is an information portal for healthcare professionals. I worked for MediDesk, whose focus was developing an online clinical system for use in medical practices.I was a member of the team responsible for developing the clinical system and for developing ad-hoc applications, such as the web-based questionnaire application that gained the Wheeler Innovation award from the British Healthcare Business Information Association.

BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries.I worked in the Fraud Solutions team which provides telecommunications fraud detection and management systems to BT and other telecoms companies. Whilst there, I researched the application of artificial intelligence technologies such as genetic algorithms, expert systems and intelligent agents to the fraud detection arena.I also filed a worldwide patent on the use of intelligent software agent technologies to provide real-time billing in a telecommunications network