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Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Darlington, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Antwerp Area, Belgium

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Working within the Newcastle Digital Delivery Centre as part of a multi-disciplinary Scrum team on HMRC's tax.gov.uk platform to deliver user centric web services to UK citizens.My role at HMRC involves development of Scala services to live within a wider micro-services architecture. I am involved in the full application stack of the services including.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Medisoft is a specialist software house that produces electronic medical record software directed at ophthalmology clinics and their software is used daily by ophthalmologists at over 150 hospitals in the NHS and Internationally.Medisoft was embarking on a rewrite of their existing software which was developed in VB6 with a view to updating the technology.

York, United Kingdom

Minster Law is a market leading Law firm, part of the BGL group, which specialises in personal injury claims. The Case management software that was developed in house has helped Minster Law gain a significant competitive advantage in its core market. The software is written almost exclusively in C# and utilises an Entity Framework Data Access Layer to.

Initially working on thecitysecret's Merrill Lynch Account as Developer and Account Manager, Later on an internal hedge fund trading platform project.Working as part of Merrill Lynch’s development team within the equity derivatives area. It was my responsibility to build and maintain the Trading platform used by the market making users to issue, market and.

• Sage is a Market leading, FTSE 100 technology company that develops and supports business management software. My role, as part of a team, was to develop and support the internal CRM software used primarily by the.
• Business Analysis — I was involved in the full lifecycle of development projects with special emphasis on gathering and reconciling requirements from diverse areas of the business and assessing the impact of.
• Implementation — The development team utilised an XP methodology and worked closely with the business owners to implement requirements. We used technologies such as reflection, web services and MSMQ to deliver both end.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Perfect Image is an IT services company providing both managed infrastructure and bespoke development solutions to a variety of clients. Projects ranged from small web sites to large integration projects and the work.
• Managing development projects — I oversaw development projects including the preparation of tenders or proposals; gathering detailed requirements; architecting a proposed solution and leading the development effort.
• Implementation — I was heavily involved in the implementation of projects using mostly.net technologies and also provided support for existing applications developed in other technologies including VB6 and ASP. Many.
• Line management duties — I provided line management duties for the development team including responsibility for resource scheduling and the arrangement of a training programme to attain MCAD certification status for.

Regent Street, London

• Write Image is a PR and marketing communications company, specialising in the financial services sector. The Web Team provides technical services to Write Image clients. Projects, typically, are either web sites or.
• Managing development projects — I was involved in managing projects from the initial proposal and production of specification documents, through to launch and often during ongoing support.
• Implementation of solutions — My main role was the planning and implementation of systems. I was responsible for all tiers of a project, from back end, usually SQL server or XML based, through to the interface.
• Client facing — I worked closely with clients, especially where technical details of projects are important. Being able to communicate directly with the client about business requirements removed ambiguity from.
• Supporting and Mentoring — The Web Team consists of many developers of differing abilities and experience. It is a key role for senior developers, to support and assist fellow developers.

Berkhamsted

Ashridge is a highly respected management training college. The online department was responsible for the production of multimedia training materials, both to support extant courses and as a packaged product for client companies. My responsibilities included:• Designing and developing database driven, web based systems for training materials using ASP and.