Eadred Birchenough Email & Phone Number

Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

Working on a variety of software engineering and consultancy projects, requiring excellent client communication and team leadership skills, along with solid software engineering and architectural knowledge and practical ability.As the senior engineer on multi-person projects, my role would involve providing technical direction and mentorship to the team.

Manchester

Manchester

My current responsibilities have been to contribute to the development of the UNIFI informatics platform for the processing and presentation of mass spectrometry data within an FDA regulated quality environment. Specific technologies and methodologies used in this role have been:C# 4.5, WCF, WPF with MVVM, C++, TDD, SpecFlow, Oracle.

• Managing a distributed team of developers, testers and a build engineer working within an Agile framework. The team’s core responsibility is to maintain and continuously develop a suite of products, develop new.
• Working closely with project teams and management in order to gather requirements and specify acceptance criteria. The nature of Atmos’ software means that requirements may be sometimes highly technical in nature. It.
• Project management of internal development of new products or large feature additions to existing products, involving agile user story writing, resource scheduling, iteration planning, estimation and progress.
• Involved in the creation and evolution of development quality procedures and ensuring those procedures are followed. This includes the use of feature and defect management processes, user story lifecycle management.
• Reporting to senior management on progress, estimates and planned work. Using metrics in order to refine estimates and monitor quality.
• Monitoring the Request/Issue tracker and the automated test system.

• Developing and maintaining the core product suite using C# and Visual Basic.Net 1.1 through to 3.5, WPF, WCF web services, ADO.Net and LINQ. Writing unit tests using NUnit and Moq.
• Developing in Visual Basic.Net the next major version of Atmos’ flagship leak detection software. The system incorporated a customizable modular design which allowed project engineers to extend functionality for.
• Developing the ‘Data Manager’ module, an OPC DA connection layer with redundancy which can be (and still is) incorporated into other applications to allow them to access pipeline instrumentation data.
• Mentoring new developers and providing support.
• Received training on ASP.Net 2, Agile development and Agile methodology/project management.

Manchester, UK

• Implemented a custom batch tracking system for the Walton Weir jet fuel pipeline using Visual Basic.Net. Responsible for producing project specific requirements specifications, FAT procedures and user documentation..
• Whilst acting as an unofficial developer I designed and coded the comapny's batch tracking system using Visual Basic.Net and ADO.Net.

Salford, UK

• Safeline Ltd. (now Mettler Toledo) designs and manufactures industrial metal detectors, principally for the food, textile and pharmaceutical industries. The role of design engineer involved the assessment and.
• Designing or modifying integrated circuit boards for the metal detection hardware, including the development of circuitry for the new touchscreen based Man Machine Interface of the new model, the design of a new.
• Hardware and embedded software testing, involving devising test routines based on specifications, writing fault reports for non-conformance, and where necessary producing updated requirements.
• Devised the user interface structure and design of the new touchscreen based Man Machine Interface.
• Creating mathematical models of various aspects of the metal detection system using MathCad and PSpice.
• Assessed and documented health and safety issues with respect to human exposure to electromagnetic radiation, including an investigation into existing legal requirements, a practical investigation of the magnetic field.