Project:Digital Transformation of the Government's National Careers Service web site and related back office systems from legacy monolithic applications running on private servers to scalable modern micro services running in a public cloud (Azure) with a clear separation of concerns to partition the business logic into reusable components and libraries.The project was delivered by an Agile delivery team following Scrum and Kanban principles using both a Test Driven Development and Behaviour Driven approach to development with a Continuous Integration and Deployment pipeline.Technology:C#, MVC, .net, SiteFinity, REST/Web Services, Visual Studio Team Services, Target Process, Azure, Scrum, Kanban, TDD, BDD, Selenium, Specflow, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Improvement.Responsibilities:• Analysis and Functional decomposition of user requirements into User Stories to create a Product Backlog• Product Backlog grooming and prioritisation (on behalf of the Product Owner)• Overseeing the sizing and estimating of the Product Backlog work with the Scrum team• Creation of candidate Sprint backlogs from the Product backlog• Creation of candidate product releases• Overseeing daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective• Resolving impediments to the delivery of the sprint• Manage the stories in the sprint responding to impediments and changed priorities, moving stories in or out of the sprint• Stakeholder management• Producing Sprint burn-up and burn-down charts and reports• Liaising with Business Analysts, Architects and Managers to ensure the business goals are achieved by the delivery team• Interview candidates for the agile project teams

Project:Skills Funding Agency's Data Collections and Funding Service responsible for more than £4 billion of Further Education funding for over 1000 colleges, private training organisations and employers each year.Lockheed Martin (formerly Amor Group) along with Trinity Expert Systems developed a flexible system that allowed the Skills Funding Agency to build and develop their own data collection capability using a specialist simplified Domain Specific Language. Gary was seconded to that team to help build the collections as he was part of the original development team that built the collection system.Technology:C#, MVC, .net, XML, SQL Server, Visual Studio, SharePoint, Microsoft CRM, Jira, Version One, Private Cloud, SVN, Scrum, Kanban. Responsibilities:• Solutions Architect and Technical Authority on the agile delivery scrum team responsible for building funding information and data collections systems.• Evaluation of technology used by the agile delivery team as part of the process of continuous improvement e.g. Azure SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, MVC and MVP patterns.• Liaising with the SFA project managers, product owners, business analysts and senior management to ensure the smooth running of the day-to-day service after delivery of the project.

Project: A data collections and funding system for the Skills Funding Agency that used a simplified Domain Specific Language allowing business end users to create their own Government data collections such as the Individualised Learner Record.Technology: C#, MVC, .net, XML, SQL Server, Visual Studio, SharePoint, Microsoft CRM, Jira, Version One, Private Cloud, SVN, Scrum, Kanban. Responsibilities:• Technical Lead on the external interfaces for the collection system (Contracts and European Social Fund claim)• Technical Design Authority on the Applications and Platform Management support team responsible for the continuous improvement of the funding and collection systems.• Scrum Master and Solutions Architect on the team seconded to the Skills Funding Agency responsible for building the data collections• Evaluation of technology used by the agile delivery team as part of the process of continuous improvement e.g. Azure SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, MVC and MVP patterns.• Liaising with the SFA project managers, product owners, business analysts and senior management to ensure the smooth running of the day-to-day service after delivery of the project.

Project: Ridgian were a Microsoft Gold Partner Consultancy specialising in consulting services and building business solutions for external customers such as Banks, Solicitors, Accountants and Government organisations. Technology: ASP.Net, MVC, C#, AJAX, XML, HTML, CSS, jQuery, MVP, TDD, TSQL Stored Procedures, WCF Data Services, OData, Web Services, SQL Server, SharePoint, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Visual Studio, TFS, Entity Framework, Teradata, Salesforce, Scrum.Responsibilities:• Database design and development of a PPI claims management system for Barclays Bank.• Technical architect and project lead for the redevelopment of UK and Ireland’s division of URS/Scott Wilson’s project management system.• Database design and build of intranet based project management applications for PMO function that synchronises the data between on-premise systems and cloud based Salesforce project management system.• Database design and build of an email based service for responding to external email requests to trigger company operations and generate MIS reports.• SQL development of a retail incentive scheme for the retail division of Barclays Bank.• Research and development of cross-platform mobile application development in Html5, CSS and JavaScript using MVC pattern with Sencha.• Development of a custom SharePoint role and membership provider for a legacy legal system.• Provide technical liaison on Customer pre-sales visits.• Short-term client engagements to diagnose and resolve performance issues with SQL databases.