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Playing an active role in project management whilst directing the company’s operations and providing strategic guidance to ensure the company achieves its mission and objectives.

Creating application architecture and managing the development of new applications and new functionality for existing applications in a fast-paced agile environment. Leading the development of the CMS team, advising on best practices and new technology to improve the development process while setting guidelines for the adherence to development principles.

Refactored and updated the national retail estate stock management system for two blue-chip customers. Worked as part of a team on Ebay store automation and designed and built a product portfolio management system for forecast capturing and manipulation.

Developing company-level reporting solutions to support the commercial and merchandising functions of B&Q. Creating systems for combining large sets of data from SAP, MYSQL and MS Access databases and delivering web-based applications designed to make the analysis of the data fast and intuitive.

Developing tools, mainly using Microsoft Excel and Access Databases, to calculate and monitor several thousand forecasts at a time over 360 stores across the UK. Manipulating stockholding and providing ranging and pricing initiatives to increase profit and efficiency based on analysis of the product range.

Providing architectural direction and managing development.