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Edinburgh, GB

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• I lead a team of senior developers who create and maintain libraries, services, tools and templates used by Baillie Gifford's other development teams. My role has also given me the opportunity to:
• Line-manage six staff and conduct one-to-one meetings with them
• Plan and run Agile stand-ups, sprint planning sessions and retrospectives
• Manage timelines on a portfolio of IT delivery projects and contribute to Programme planning
• Write and refine user stories and tasks based on Gherkin's Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) syntax
• Create and update Yaml-based pipelines for the deployment of IIS and Kubernetes applications

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• My time was split between leading a team of junior & senior application developers and acting as a subject matter expert in Data Engineering. My role required that I:
• Provide project consultancy for the use of Cloud-based Data Platforms and tooling such as Microsoft Azure, Snowflake, DBT & Airflow
• Write Streamlit Python applications in Snowflake which display business performance metrics

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• I was part of a team who supported critical, high availability systems such as Identity Server. I was responsible for the development and maintenance of web application templates used by other development teams for.
• Reverse-engineered and documented legacy systems
• Created and configured a Kubernetes cluster to host Selenium Grid automation-testing software
• Performance-tuned Kubernetes (K8s) clusters and set up liveness probes
• Co-ordinated the re-hosting of various production web services during a platform migration
• Designed & coded a Windows authentication wrapper for Secret Server's Cloud-based REST API & SDK

Edinburgh City, Scotland, United Kingdom

• I worked as part of a multi-disciplinary IT delivery team at an investment management firm and was responsible for designing and coding web UIs, scalable APIs and ETL processes in an RDMBS-based Microsoft software.
• Leading the Reactive to Proactive programme to tackle technical debt
• Developing financial trading platform software in C# ASP.NET
• Coding micro-services and restful APIs using Akka.NET
• Scripting ETL data migrations & batch imports which interface with 3rd-party data tools
• Creating analytics in SEQ to identify faults in production applications

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• I led a re-platforming exercise over a 6-month period for Zonal's iOrder platform - which powers JD Wetherspoon's "Order and Pay" app. I reverse-engineered and documented over a hundred API endpoints and processes.
• Designed restful APIs for hospitality software in C# ASP.NET Core MVC
• Wrote automation and unit and tests for C# applications
• Produced SDK/API design documentation in Swagger
• Used Docker virtualisation/containers to setup local development environments
• Applied Agile (Kanban) methodology for delivering user stories

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• I led a workstream in a service improvement programme for the Chief Engineer's office which worked primarily with Big Data and Oracle 11g. I had a very broad remit to investigate Openreach's networks and worked with.
• Analyse Big Data from telecoms providers in a Hadoop cluster using HQL & Datameer
• Identify improvement opportunities from network performance data using R Studio
• Conduct Before and after analyses following network interventions
• Present data to senior stakeholders and management

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• As a software engineer, I worked directly with business partners to identify problems, prototype software solutions then deploy them over very short timescales. One of my tools was rolled-out across Openreach’s fibre.
• Mentor and train junior members of the team to upskill them in software engineering
• Code an Enterprise-level customer experience tool in C# ASP.Net & Oracle 11g
• Develop a system to co-ordinate and track problem management business functions
• Analyse, graph and alert against telecoms fault/repair/user session data
• Create an email management tool to co-ordinate data imports/feeds

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Working as a web developer, I led on the creation of an online self-service portal which let Edinburgh's state school teachers quickly and easily elevate their account permissions to access network resources and file.
• Developed a web sites (Classic ASP, jQuery, JavaScript, PowerShell, Batch Scripting, VBScript, Microsoft Active Directory)
• Managed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and 1st/2nd-line support of live user management portal (Classic ASP, jQuery, JavaScript, PowerShell, Batch Scripting, VBScript, Microsoft Active Directory)
• Co-ordinated community activities for a professional network of Infrastructure engineers and developed a platform for knowledge sharing (Microsoft SharePoint)

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• I was solely responsible for managing software and hardware configuration information to a group of 5 project managers who were co-ordinating an enterprise-level hardware refresh of circa 7000 PCs for the City of.
• Code a Transact SQL (TSQL) database to manage the refresh (Microsoft Access, VBA)
• Develop a workstack management tool to co-ordinate application packaging tasks across a team of 10 packagers and testers (Microsoft Access, Excel, VBA)
• Create a test environment based on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 & Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM)
• Mock-up a pilot CRM system in Microsoft Dynamics CRM
• Work with Active Directory/GPO, application packaging/virtualisation (MSI, App-V, InstallShield) technologies

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• I managed the roll-out of a new, city-wide network for the City of Edinburgh Council. It linked Edinburgh's libraries, providing them with internet access, and had an initial budget of around £100k. I managed the.
• Managed circa 30 small ICT projects and 5 larger projects, each of £20k-£100k value (Assyst CRM, PRINCE2, Microsoft Project)
• Coordinated the work of small teams of technical specialists and tracked progress
• Created automated billing tool which created itemised costings of customer-submitted change request forms (Microsoft Word, Excel, VBA, Macros)

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• I provided project control consultancy to ten project managers to help them manage their projects' risk profiles and resource forecasting. I was also responsible for managing the financial reporting of thirty projects.
• Created work package-based resource and budget forecasts at programme level (Microsoft Access, Excel, Clarity PACS)
• Automated and oversaw customer experience report compilation including service performance, fault reporting and service credit calculation (Microsoft Access, Excel, VBA, Macros)
• Developed UserScripts to automate repetitive functions on Clarity PACS (JavaScript)

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

I was seconded from BT to work with the City of Edinburgh Council to gather and refine user requirements then translate these into working systems. I created an online ICT rate book and procurement system using the council's internal CMS and developed bespoke reporting tools in Microsoft Access and Excel using VBA/Macros.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

I set up and managed a support centre with 1st/2nd line support & research services. It provided information to bid managers and around 600 users who were responding to customer tenders in both devolved and local government settings. In addition to this, I created a web portal for users to access this information and curated the featured content.