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Cheltenham

London, City

Managing a data migration project and a web application replacement project.

Gloucester, United Kingdom

Managing a number of web projects with very tight resource, budget and timescales. Great people to work with though and loving it.

Gloucester, United Kingdom

Temporary assignment to put together a programme plan for a number of concurrent strategic projects which have specific timescales but which are achievable given the right direction.

Gloucester, United Kingdom

- Project management for new third party intranet solution;- IT project management for new third party broker solution;- Project management for integration of new client business systems;- Involvement in a corporate business transformation project;- Reviews for a number of US group acquisitions;- Providing technical solutions and pricing for tenders and proposals;- Due diligence activities and IT risk assessment for new acquisitions;- Involvement with a Global IT Review project;- Identification and implementation of software for Solvency II requirements;- Project management of capacity planning exercise for an internal virtualisation and high availability solution;- Project management for implementation of a new Claims system in Oracle Apex;- Project management for a number of C# .Net websites with web logins, data capture and online dashboards using SQL Server;- Project management for the transfer of a number of third party bespoke systems to the internal network;- Providing IT technical expertise for a number of client and prospect meetings;- Numerous data migrations from external client legacy systems to internal systems;- Leading customer support and maintenance for all internal systems and adhoc requests;- Development of the team and broadening of their skill sets across other disciplines;- Mentoring and coaching of junior developers in PowerBuilder and Sybase platform;- Production of business requirement and design documentation;- Leading the development of the underwriting module;- Development of the reporting data warehouse application;- Creation of documentation required to support the full development lifecycle including standards and quality assurance;

Bracknell, Berkshire

Accountable for the development of a manufacturing application and reporting data warehouse written in PowerBuilder on a Sybase platform. - Production of all lifecycle, standards and quality documentation;- Extension of the foundation class layer;- Creation of the manufacturing application utilising polymorphism, inheritance and encapsulation techniques to build a robust system;

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Employed as a PowerBuilder professional to enable the completion of an existing project. Followed by involvement in a Business Process Reengineering (BPR) exercise, to migrate the mainframe legacy systems to a client server environment.- Evaluation of development methodology;- Identification of suitable business modelling and testing tools;- Creation of a standard corporate development framework;- Workshops using RAD and JAD techniques;- Mentoring of three junior PowerBuilder developers;- Analysis, development and testing of a Customer Management System

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