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Stoke-On-Trent, England, United Kingdom

Walsall, England, United Kingdom

➢ Developed Python based tools to facilitate and automate a FORTRAN 77 to Python codebase migration.➢ Migrated a legacy FORTRAN77 codebase to Python, improving supportability and achieving a 30% reduction in maintenance costs while enhancing code readability and maintainability.

Lichfield, England, United Kingdom

PHP/MySQL Application Upgrade➢ Migrated the SAP interface for a PHP-based application from the deprecated saprfc library to the sapnwrfc library, ensuring continued communication with the SAP backend and enabling utilisation of new features.➢ Upgraded web server PHP version from 5.6 to 8.2, achieving significant improvements in performance, security, and.

Rugby, England, United Kingdom

Senior Infrastructure Architect and Cyber SME, defining technology and strategy road-maps/timescales aimed at ensuring the most effective use of infrastructure and digital services within the regulated space. Responsibility for the capture and delivery of the required business outcomes in this arena. Owned the design, delivery and standardisation of cyber.

Rugby, England, United Kingdom

Elevated to operate as a transitional Cyber Environment Lead for the business regulatory controlled environments, I took ownership of enhancing the end to end delivery of operational performance, security, and efficiency, while also developing IT processes and infrastructure for optimal results. My mission was to align IT strategies with the overarching.

Rugby, England, United Kingdom

This expanded technical project and infrastructure SME/management role saw me working with diverse teams and disciplines across the globe to successfully deliver multiple global infrastructure, cost-out (~$4M) and network/security projects. Adopted a Lean/Agile approach to plan, drive, and track these highly complex infrastructure and application projects..

Rugby, England, United Kingdom

This project management role saw me lead and coordinate a team of 3 people with the responsibility to deliver critical infrastructure projects for the UK business. Over a short but highly eventful period we were able to deliver on projects which provided both operational improvements and simplification for the business and allowed us to integrate with our.

Rugby, Warwickshire

This project management role saw me lead and coordinate a team of 3 people with the responsibility to deliver critical infrastructure projects for the UK business. Over a short but highly eventful period we were able to deliver on projects which provided both operational improvements and simplification for the business and allowed us to integrate with our.

Rugby Warwickshire

This move to a more operations focused role saw me take responsibility for a team of 5 support staff looking after the client, server and network operations for the UK, Korea, Singapore and Australian offices. Through the introduction and increased adoption of KPIs, ITIL processes, CMDB and system monitoring tools, we were able to measure and demonstrate a.

Rugby, Warwickshire

In addition to continuing to operate in a 3rd line technical support role, I took responsibility for end to end delivery of particular infrastructure projects for the UK business. In this role I was able to develop and implement the simplifying technologies identified in my previous role. By combining the skills of an infrastructure architect and project.

Rugby, Warwickshire

In addition to my wide ranging technical role within the department, I developed both policy and procedure, overcame resistance to the adoption of open source technology (several tools were operated to great effect over a number or years) as well as implementing new and effective asset management, security and monitoring systems. A key deliverable in this.

Rugby, England, United Kingdom

IS/IT system design, budget, planning, implementation and support for specialized engineering design unit➢ Introduced quality and policy guardrails into continuous integration and deployment pipelines, leading to a 15% reduction in reversed deployments.➢ Introduced licensing model for in-house design system, recovering 20% of development costs➢ Identified.

Rugby, England, United Kingdom

Introduction, development and support of both COTS and in-house engineering software tools and systems in support of the business goals of engineering excellence and efficiency.➢ Introduced and developed use of COTS Finite Element (FEA) for detailed engineering design (Ansys)➢ Introduced and developed use of COTS Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Responsible for transfer of research technologies (Electromagnetic FEA) from academia to industry
• Re-introduced advanced design technologies (FEA) to engineering department of GEC Alsthom Electrical Machines Ltd
• Developed FEA to allow integration within the standard design process and existing tools
• Software development (FORTRAN, C, C++)