Carried out work on significant Regulatory Programme, focussed on the production of a High-Level Design for Corporate Banking, along with a number of other deliverables for the Lead Architect.

- Responsible for shaping E2E solution for the New World Retirement IT Programme - Led team of Solution Designers, with wide range of backgrounds and experience- Supported Enterprise Architecture activities, including a number of RFPs- Roll-out of light-weight UML-based solution documentation approach- Governance of third-party supplier IT design activity and IT design decisions- IT Representation on Programme Decision & Change Board – including vetting CRs and Key Design Decisions to ensure appropriate IT impact assessments had been carried out, or had enough information to proceed- Started work on Hadoop Proof of Concept exercise prior to programme replanning

Lead designer on c£15M strategic project. Responsible for governance of E2E design, infrastructure design, detailed pricing & commission design.

Senior Solution Designer currently working on a key strategic project.

Working as Lead BSD on the Isis Programme - a multi-year, multi-million pound programme within the Investment and Protection arena. Overall responsibility for E2E solution design.

Currently working as Programme Architect on a multi-year, multi-million pound programme with multiple teams, and many stakeholders.

Currently working as lead designer on a >1 year, multi-million pound programme with multiple teams, and many stakeholders.Previously my work has embraced the technical - resolving some significant system issues in a sensitive finance system - to the more business oriented - working as lead designer/solution architect on some of our more significant multi-tie business.

Initially worked as part of a multi-disciplinary team with a design-focus, before moving on to focus on design full-time.

Worked in a lead position, involved with all elements of the life cycle - from requirements analysis, through design and build, to implementation planning and post-implementation support. Move into a more design-oriented role, as the opportunity presented itself. As part of the merger with Norwich Union I lead the re-design of the Underwriting system.

Initially started work as an Analyst Programmer working with Cobol/CICS/DB2 - then moved in time to working as a team leader/developer/tester/implementation manager.

Worked for Anglain Water, subcontracted via WQM, to work onsite at a new water treatment works, carrying out sampling and analysing the results, in order to deliver a report on the service readiness. I had been offered an extension when a permanent position with General Accident opened up, hence the shortness of the contract.

Worked as a Deputy Manager of the Hands On Internet Cafe business, based in Leeds/Manchester - unfortunately it was a short-lived position, as both the manager and I were made redundant shortly before the company folded.Duties included:Delivering some 1-1 trainingHelping configure the store's infrastructureSome marketing activitiesMaking coffee