Working as part of the management team, responsible for the successful running of all aspects of IT from product development, hosting, infrastructure and relationships with external vendors. Key responsibilities and achievements include:• Development and delivery of a true SaaS platform and HR / HCM application.• Continual product development and monthly release cycle based on SCRUM.• Formulation of the Product Roadmap by engaging with Sales, support and reviewing competitors.• Migration of the data centre from in-house to Amazon AWS.• Development of process and procedures for development, hosting, security and internal infrastructure.• Staff management including recruitment, disciplinary procedures, pay reviews, appraisals and development.• Vendor management.

Owner of the R&D team with key responsibilities and achievements including:• Responsible for the development and delivery of a true SaaS platform and HR / HCM application. • Responsible for continual product releases to all existing customers in the same upgrade window.• Responsible for teams in multiple locations and countries.• Responsible for ensuring the usability of the Cezanne OnDemand application.• Working with the Product Manager and local offices to define requirements and priorities.• Working with the Customer Services Director, Marketing Director and CEO to define and develop go to market strategy for Cezanne onDemand.• Actively involved in developing ISO 27001 processes for the R&D Organisational Unit.• Pre and post-sales support.• Working with existing partners, and supporting the creation of new partnerships.• A member of the group’s Executive committee.

Reporting to the Managing Director, key responsibilities and achievements were:• Technical architecture and product functionality of new releases.• Consultancy support for large project implementations of HRM Connect.• Liaising with worldwide partners for HR Charter and HRM Connect products.• Manage 20 staff, covering budgeting, recruitment, disciplinary procedures, pay reviews and appraisals.• Member of the Management Team.• Recommending off shore potential and strategy, including visiting several companies in India to review their delivery capabilities, and overseeing the selected company during the delivery phase.• Ensuring processes and procedures were followed during all phases of the software process on both client customisation and product development projects.• Support of Sales staff and RFP responses.

I was recruited to HRM Software to develop a web based HR / HCM application to replace two existing client server applications. Key responsibilities and achievements include:• Technical architecture and design of a new web base product platform (HRM Connect) to replace existing client server applications. This was based on Visual Basic, COM+, ASP, XML and XSLT.• Requirements capture and solution definition of replacement HRIS and HCM products, including HR, Talent Management, Absence and Organisational Charting modules.• Definition and implementation of a full development lifecycle processes.• Consultancy on all new HRM Connect clients.• Delivery to demanding timescales.• Defining the Product Roadmap and Release plans.

With NatWest I was a technical team leader on the Retail Banking Platform who consistently gaining high performance grades. Key responsibilities and achievements include:• Analysis, design and comparison, development and testing of infrastructure replacements based on MSMQ and MQ Series. This led onto a successful pilot of a possible infrastructure replacement based on MSMQ and MTS based on Microsoft DNA architecture.• Performance improvements and design modifications to existing SQL Server databases.• Review and modification of code for year 2000 compliance.• Initially employed as an Analyst Programmer on year 2000 projects, but moved on to team / project leading of a number of simultaneous enhancement projects.

Key responsibilities and achievements include:• Review of existing applications on a PRIME minicomputer and designing and developing their replacements using Visual C++.• Administration of the network.• Introduction of e-mail• Liaising with the IT departments in productions sites in Germany, Holland and the UK.• Negotiation of maintenance contracts, reducing costs by 50%.• Purchasing of new hardware and software, along with contributing to budget requirements• Evaluation of recommendation of a Document Management System.

During a year placement from Univerisity I was responsible for:• Design and implementation of contingency strategy.• Rollout of a standard PC platform.• Network administration.• Key contact for remote sites.