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Peterborough, United Kingdom

Implemented a 1500 User Salesforce.com org as part of a company-wide Sales Effectiveness program to improve collaboration between marketing, field sales and customer service operations, spanning a wide portfolio of advertising products and solutions for staff in remote locations across the UK.Integrated Salesforce with our distributed advertisement booking system database applications to enable cloud-based access to customer order history for field sales teams.Worked closely with the Performance Management team to design and develop a suite of reports and dashboards with supporting data aggregation web-services to provide cloud-based management and operational reporting data to the Commercial department.Integrated our cloud-based Telephony system with our Salesforce.com org.Participated in a strategic technical initiative to migrate our distributed advertisement booking database instances into a single database and application instance, ensuring existing integration services continued to operate without disruption throughout the migration process.Integrated an online e-learning application with our Salesforce.com org to provide our L&D department with a platform to deliver interactive online courses.Integrated IBM Engage/Silverpop, a cloud-based marketing application, with our Salesforce.com org. Developed Apex Code and Triggers, Workflow Rules and Visualforce Pages to extend the functionality of our Salesforce.com org and automate processes and services.Designed and developed a strategy to address data quality and record duplication using a native and 3rd-Party Salesforce.com applications and custom Force.com development.Provided technical support, design and development for new and existing advertisement booking applications, services and databases.Training courses taken included: ADM-201 Salesforce Administrator Essentials and ADM-211 Administrator Essentials for Experienced Admins and M6236 MS-SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services.

Peterborough, United Kingdom

Worked closely with a variety of 3rd party software vendors, internal software architects and team of developers to design and develop integration solutions for a number of business critical applications primarily using MS-SQL, .net and Visual Studio (2008, 2010, 2012) to create a suite of WCF Web Services. Projects included:Video Publishing Software: To transcode and upload video files to our bespoke editorial content management system and Brightcove (Cloud Hosted Video Streaming Service)Jobs Today: Developed a suite of WCF services and admin website to enable integration of our order fulfilment system (FutureProof/Miles33) with Jobsite (DMGT/Associated Northcliffe Digital)DNS/Whois Record Management Application: Designed and developed software for our IT Infrastructure team to enable management of our DNS records/servers and Whois records. Incorporating Windows Management Instrumentation COM Assemblies, WQL & Powershell.VRM Lookup: Created an ETL process to integrate VRM Lookup Data provided by CAP with our "Motors Advertising" booking system. Editorial Website Migration: Developed bespoke website management software to assist with ongoing configuration and data migration to a new editorial publishing website platform provided by Atex (Polopoly).Website Statistics: Designed and developed software to integrate editorial publishing metrics (WebTrends) and website visitor traffic statistics (Atex Prestige) using Crystal Reports and the MS Charts API (previously Dundas) to provide distributed PDF reports via both email and an admin website.Provided 2nd & 3rd Line Support to the Digital Publishing Helpdesk Team.Conducted code reviews and contributed to the JP Digital Publishing coding standards and best practices guidelines.Researched and promoted adoption and usage of new features made available with each release of the .net Framework amongst our internal development team.Mentored and developed the skills of junior software developers.

Support and Development for all I.T. systems including Exchange Servers, Active Directory, CRM, MRP, Databases, Bespoke Software and Services in both the UK premises and remote offices and networks in Germany and U.S.A.

Higher National Diploma: Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Extra Curricular Activities: Created Software Suite of Musical Education Applications to assist with teaching..

Music

Activities and Societies: Extra Curricular Studies: Jazz Improvisation Compositional Pastiche Music Recording Technology Introduction.

A-Level: English Literature, Music, Sociology, C

Attained ABRSM Grade 8 Classical Guitar with Merit Performed Solo Classical Guitar Recitals and as a member of a Trio & Quartet.

High School, Gcse: English, Maths, Physics, Biology, Music, History, French

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