Gordon Thomson Email & Phone Number

Dundee, Gb

Dundee, Gb

- Providing technical oversight, implementing new structures and processes allowing for SUMAC Mentoring Limited to grow and employ additional developers as well as support and sales staff.- Having oversight over all engineering decisions from infrastructure through to application architecture via close consultation with engineering team and other internal stakeholders.- Oversee roadmap, providing guidance to ensure project sales targets are met while keeping current clients satisfied.- Ensuring stakeholders are informed and involved via engineering updates, with a focus on current capacity and potential pitfalls to ensure informed planning sessions.- Instrumental in recruiting and retaining engineering staff through focussed interactions and specific mentoring.- Implementing initiatives for support and customer relations that so far has allowed SML to retain 100% of our customer base during COVID lockdowns.

St Andrews, Fife, Gb

- Joined as experienced engineer and lead developer to migrate system across to a stable and marketable platform.- Successfully migrated to Laravel and was instrumental in assisting the growth of the platform (from 2 accounts to 20+).- Created support processes and implemented support systems which reduced overheads and prevented issues "slipping through the cracks".- Designed, planned, and implemented new features on the platform, further improving them based on customer feedback.- My involvement in the project as the Lead Developer was managing development, handling server administration, answering support requests and occasional training/demonstration.

Dundee, Scotland, Gb

- Ported an internal intranet (originally written in classic ASP) to Laravel 3. Planned, implemented, integrated, and tested the new solution, ensuring maintainable and clear code.- Took initiative to consult with end users concerning UI/UX to address weaknesses and tweaked the existing design language to facilitate adoption across Tokheim.- Benchmarked performance, noticing significant decrease in load times and job execution courtesy of Laravel's inbuilt caching capabilities.- Configured IIS on Server 2008 RC2, migrated the project management system to Git, handled large amounts of data in various forms (XML, SQL result sets).- Utilised 3rd party libraries to cater for connections to various systems (Exchange servers, AS400) to allow for a single source for data.

Part time, moving to full time position working as part of a team using RoR maintaining and updating medium to large scale financial applications as well as addressing customer support queries.

Working with local youth in a youth club setting, providing life counselling in a safe environment using Christian principles.

Upper Second Class Honours, Applied Computing

Geography

Physics, English, Computing, Geography