Joined Carbon Finance as a contractor. As the IT Lead, I have taken on many key responsibilities. These have includedTechnical ArchitectAt the time of joining Carbon Finance it was a greenfield project. As a technical architect, I considered AWS, Azure and GCP. I then presented back to the stake holders and made the solution to deliver our product on Azure as this allows us to deliver our single Microsoft ecosystem and utilise extensive experience from previous employments. This included • Azure using App Services• Azure Sql Server Database • .Net core Web Api• Azure Dev OpsTeam LeaderWorked alongside and managed a contractor to help deliver the core product within 7 months. This product is an n-tier solution written in .net core. My specific responsibility was delivering the backend. This Web Api has been deployed using Azure App Services and OAuth2 for security. 3rd Party IntegrationA key component of our solution is the integration with other 3rd party API’s. Managing, mentoring and working alongside a contractor allowed us to quickly create a framework that allowed us to easily integrate into any 3rd party lender quickly. Using the framework, we have connected with 7 API’s so far and another 5 API’s to be integrated by the end of the year.

During my time at HD Decisions, I have had many responsibilities as the company grew from four employees to over a hundred employees and a turnover of £35 million per year. These responsibilities have includedSolution ArchitectInitially as the sole developer at HD Decisions, it was my responsibility to design and deliver all the web services for the price comparison site to consume. These solutions have remained a core product for HD Decisions and have had many enhancements since the original release.More recently, it was my responsibility to design and deliver a solution which would allow HD Decisions to securely consume customer lists that we held on behalf of lenders. This internal service was developed in .NET core as a Web API and is consumed more than 300,000 times per day from a variety of services that we expose to our clients.MentoringAs part of the continual growth of the HD Decisions, the IT team has also grown. As part of this growth, my role has also included mentoring graduate developers, junior developers and senior developers.DatabasesSQL Server has been a key part of all the solutions that HD Decisions have developed. I have developed these solutions in SQL Server 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2016. Each of the databases was well designed and coped exceptionally as the traffic increased.Embracing new technologiesHaving always stayed close to the technical details, I have kept my skill set up to date. This has allowed me to either code or design solutions using the following technologies.• .NET Core 2.0 Web API• WCF Services• SOAP services

 Managing and developing several business critical intranet applications using ASP and SQL Server 2000 Regularly liaising with managers to highlight weaknesses in current working methods and propose automated solutions that would streamline business processes Delivering both windows and web solutions from a concept through to a live product Developing several windows applications written in vb6 including an automated order processing system and a data migration application Integrating applications with Sage Line 50 using SDO Providing hardware and software support

My responsibilities included: Travelling to sites nationwide and liaising with managers to gather requirements Delivering new windows and web based solutions Providing support for multiple business critical Microsoft Access databases