Jared Watson Email & Phone Number

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Uk

Heading up the development team I work with customers through pre-sales demo work into fully defining and scoping stakeholder requirements. You will most likely meet me in discovery workshops and i will be involved throughout the whole project lifecycle to final system delivery. I am a career software architect and developer with excellent communication skills specialising in Salesforce, Force.com and VF/Apex solutions.

Uk

Skills: CRM, Salesforce, Apex, Visual force, Git, Stash, Data loader, ant, Mavins Mate, Project Planning, Jira.Architect delivering bespoke SFDC platform for user base of 600+ employees. (includes below plus many small changes to triggers, classes, interfaces and pages)• Design and build Integration layer between Internal systems and SF Cloud (Webservice and VF)• Design and build custom reporting layer for above integration data, VF and apex suite of pages as data had to aggregated and transformed• Create Apex data manager layer allowing monthly loads of external information not available over connectors, ensure full drag and drop customisation from admin allowed.• Create interface layers for above to allow further extensions to conform to data and process structure• Design and build new Lead conversion process, allowing mapping of any lead to standard and custom fields. Extending all standard conversion functionality• Create VF Opportunity access manager, allowing private opps in org but giving user view of high level info and allow each user to request access to sales team for those they can contribute to• Create VF plugins for most Standard objects, allowing news, Google analytics and dynamic web linking among others to present in the browse and edit views• Present platform enhancements to review boards.• Liaise with end users to produce delivery schedules, prioritising tasks across team• Build ant test scripts to automate full SF unit testing, emailing reported results across all environments

Skills: CRM, Salesforce, Apex, Visual force, Zuora, Soap, Rest, Git, Stash, Data loader, ant, Mavins Mate, Project Planning.Architect delivering SOAP and REST webservice for CRM, to global user base of 1000+ employees. (includes below plus many small changes to triggers, classes, interfaces and pages)• Design and build Product/Offer catalogue exposed through REST WebService• Design and build SOAP WebService to provide integration functionality to Zuora financial platform• Create Apex data manager layer to encapsulate a generic data interface for the whole organisation.• Create VF front end for data management• Create VF front end to allow customer transitions and step ups, drive retention rather than loss.• Present platform enhancements to review boards.• Liaise with off-shore testing teams to integrate new functionality into Java built regression testpacks, ensuring consistency across all deployment platforms• Build ant test scripts to auto mate full SF unit testing, emailing reported results across all environments• Use gitblit/stash for code repository, built automated ant build scripts on Jenkins to allow continuous integration builds and testing.

London, United Kingdom

Skills: CRM, Salesforce, Apex, Visual force, Data loader, ant, Mavin, Project Planning, Cast Iron.Senior Consultant managing/ developing with a small teams of declarative developers delivering full CRM package to global user base of 2000+ employees. (includes below plus many small changes to triggers, classes, interfaces and pages)• Provide configuration framework to al• Design and build sales Person 360 application, provides sales manager with full view of sales performance for individual. Uses VF charting, google analytics and JQuery to provide enriched user experience.• Provide Visualforce solution to allow searching across all accounts, User can request access, chat with owner and view high level non-confidential info prior to creating a new account.• Design and implement auto subscription/ group management framework. Allows admin to create rules for users to be auto added to sales team, or auto follow opportunities of value/region etc. Rules can also be configured to add users to chatter groups based on criteria of rule.• Provide custom VF components embedded into Opportunity that shows sales team activities as Gantt charts, also allow drill down on user to see monthly utilisation within the company.• Built Customer portal integrated to Corporate web site that allows prospective employee candidates to register interest. Portal posted info to HR teams.• Built Partner portal for main customer client to allow collaboration on product offerings and allow service reviews.• Provide full Global business KPI roll ups. Stale opportunities, adoption, big deals etc. Leader board based to encourage adoption and usage of CRM tool.• Requirements gathering and solution design with client steering workshops.• Integration of Calliduss and Litmus mash ups into SFDC, providing coaching analytics. • Delivered complex business functionality in VF pages using bespoke VF Components.• Develop integration layer between SFDC back office data warehouse using SOAP.

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Skills: CRM, MS Dynamics, Salesforce, Java, Apex, Visual force, PHP, SoQL, Data loader, antSenior Consultant heading up a team of 7 UK SFDC consultants, forming Financial Services Global Business Unit UK for Capgemini. Pre-sales and scoping work. • Requirements gathering and solution design with client steering workshops.• Allocate/Plan/Manage development resource to complete project defined by client. • Defined functional and technical specification from business requirements.• Provide technical expertise and hands on support as required to development team.• Produce Integration layers using Informatica, Pervasive etc. technologies• Release software to client, feedback and design modification as required.

Skills: Salesforce, Apex, Visual force, SoQL, Data loader, antCertified Salesforce Developer, Administrator and Consultant, operating on short term client engagements in a consultant capacity for salesforce. • Defined functional and technical specification from business requirements.• Developed Standard and Custom objects to achieve business goals.• Created Visual Force pages for further customisation of salesforce interface.• Interface Apex code into salesforce triggers and Visualforce.• Migrated legacy data using data loader.• Created Apex to interface to external web services.• Create Custom data connectors to push data from internal data sources into salesforce.• Implement full CRM solutions to 800+ users.

London, United Kingdom

Skills: Salesforce, Apex, Visual force, SoQL, Data loader, antCertified Salesforce Developer, Administrator and Consultant, operating on short term client engagements in a consultant capacity for salesforce. • Defined functional and technical specification from business requirements.• Developed Standard and Custom objects to achieve business goals.• Created Visual Force pages for further customisation of salesforce interface.• Interface Apex code into salesforce triggers and Visualforce.• Migrated legacy data using data loader.• Created Apex to interface to external web services.• Create Custom data connectors to push data from internal data sources into salesforce.• Implement full CRM solutions to 800+ users.

London, United Kingdom

Senior developer for large investment bank reconciliation and reporting system on a Java, Oracle and tomcat platform. The product deals with around 1 million trades daily for UK, Americas and Asia. There are approx 1000 global users, 25 upstream data sources and 60 reports.• Delivered new functional products for US business, providing automated solution to time consuming and error prone process• Decommissioned old US applications and implemented new products with no down time or trade loss to client• Developed java data consumer to poll MQ channel on a 24/7basis, processing 20 million messages daily.• Developed java Sybase data mining components, retrieving batch transactions to Oracle• Developed Oracle packages to facilitate data tier processing for system• Updated data persistence layer in java to accommodate new data object passing• Developed new GUI controls embedded into current front end application• Integrated high volume data consuming components in system with low data processing capability• Followed Sun specified patterns to restructure slow and high maintenance components

London, United Kingdom

Skills: Java, Oracle, PLSQL, SQL, HTML, JSP, UNIX, JDBC, XMLHands on technical consultant on a large investment bank intranet project reconciling trades on a java platform, running a Tomcat Web server. The product deals with around 1 million trades daily for UK, Americas and Asia. There are approx 1000 global users, 25 upstream data sources and 60 reports.• Developed in java feed components to load data for source files.• Enhanced existing frame work to reconcile warehouse trades• Developed in Quartz/java reporting suite to summarise trade breaks.• Developed data access and transfer objects in java• Identified system fail over areas and enhance for stabilization of product• Supporting components and test data during UAT test cycle.• Creating automated account setup procedures triggered from user requests• Performed deployment of application to Unix environment configuring tomcat for new components• Incorporated enhancements highlighted during UAT that were not in original business definitions with no degradation to product.

London, United Kingdom

Skills: Java, Oracle, PLSQL, SQL, UNIX, MQ, XML, Unix, DB Adapter, Defect tracking, Test DirectorManaging team of 4 Analyst/developers and 3 offshore developers providing application development and service level 2 support for back office trade processing, reporting and reconciliation system. The system processes on average, 2 million trades and 10,000 reconciliations daily. Requirement was for on-boarding new traders and providing enhancement development from business book of work.• Ensured development adhered to design standards in terms of performance, maintainability, reusability and scalability.• Created and validated functional and technical requirement documents.• Delivered schedules of the development team and managing requests for change within project timelines• Code reviews, issue escalation, regular progress reporting and defect tracking• Delivering all components in scope for release in timely manner, exceeding original specification• Successful mentoring of multiple developers in parallel• Adjusted resource allocation according to technical ability and availability• Introduced standardised software delivery approach, with iterative drops for staggered testing of components

Skills: J2ee, EJB, Websphere, java, Oracle, PLSQL, SQL, UNIX, JSP, Struts, XML, Indicius, VB, SQL Server, Staffware, Cobol, DB2, QMF, XeroxTechnical lead of 4 developers, developing software for EHIC call centre and card delivery. Responsible for design and implementation of data capture system, validation and processing through to card delivery system. • Performed advisory role to the client on software approach and constraints• Worked with client to identify and specify system requirements• Mentored team through Object Oriented design and development process using UML• Developed scanning application in indicius and call centre correction application in java, for postal applications• Developed internet application system for members of public conforming to w3c standards• Designed and mentored development of Online payment processing framework• Developed J2ee server side tier for data mining and model view controller operations• Devised object hierarchy to achieve final solution• Implemented products in websphere environment• Developed card extract component, extracting 5,000,000 normalised data records and parsing these to multiple XML files. Process then ran real time extracting 50,000 data record daily.• Developed xml parser to accommodate the above data extracts• Developed delivery components for the card info files to offshore printers.