Jon Roper Email & Phone Number

Wombwell, Gb

Rolling Meadows, Il, Us

• Leads the development of architectures for complex systems, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external, and internal customers. • Takes full responsibility for the balance between functional, service quality and systems management requirements within a significant area of the organisation. • Establishes requirements for the selection of systems architecture components, and co-ordinates design activities, promoting the discipline to ensure consistency. • Ensures that appropriate standards (corporate, industry, national and international) are adhered to. • Within a business change programme, manages the target design, policies and standards, working proactively to maintain a stable, viable architecture and ensure consistency of design across projects within the programme.• Designs logical and physical architectures and solutions to maximise the effectiveness of Digital Platforms.

London, England, Gb

• Currently implmenting the Fresh product (Intranet in a box) from the company Content & Code• Currently playing with the new SharePoint Framework development practices• Collect, analyse, design and deliver user requirements for advanced business process and workflow solutions • Recommend best practice in business process and workflow solutions and deploy and configure solutions using out-of the-box features of SharePoint and other third party applications (based on user requirements)• Perform system testing for SharePoint functionality including UAT• Prepare documentation and deliverables that follow internal team standards and is relevant, comprehensive, accurate and not ambiguous or open to interpretation• Undertake training workshops – User and Super User workshops & Forums• Manage SharePoint user administration e.g. user/group management• Extend out-of-the-box features of SharePoint through front-end configuration• Basic customisation of Front end Master Pages and Themes using SharePoint Designer & Visual Studio• Recommend best practice in information architecture and GUI design for websites, Intranets and applications• Consult on advanced accessibility requirements• Manage 1 SharePoint Developer, 1 Junior Developer

Responsible for delivering a SharePoint solution to multiple businesses, within the Spice group. This involves developing customer SharePoint solutions, distribution of workloads, liaising with the business and ensuring quality deliverables are met.Example SharePoint functionality developed are:• Content Type Hierarchy• Bespoke Workflows.• Bespoke Web Parts.• Bespoke Context Menus.• Event Handlers.• Bespoke Site Provisioning.

Analysing, designing, costing, project management, developing, implementing and supporting numerous bespoke systems for the entire GrantRail group.Working as part of a team of three, I work on many various applications using numerous technologies:- Visual Basic 6. Support and enhancement a legacy planning and rostering system- VB .Net 2005 o Support and enhance the company appraisal system.o Design and implement a mobile phone tracking system.o Various windows services.o Design and implement a sub contractor management system which is used to track what manpower has been ordered from what suppliers at varies rates based on numerous factors.o Design and implement a company wide rostering package. Due to the complexities of the railway industry the system has to be robust but bespoke to each division within GrantRail.- ASP .NETo Online mobile phone declaration system. Users are emailed the monthly bills and are asked to declare the personal amounts, remembering numbers they have declared from previous months.o RSS Feeds.o Bespoke reporting linking to the rostering system.- Mobile Developmento Electronic form submission via tablet PCs.o Welding installation and inspection system.- Sharepointo Design and installation of a bespoke photo library using bespoke workflow.o Bespoke email services based on file upload/modification.o Development of Web parts and event handlers

Analysing, designing, costing, project management, developing, implementing and supporting numerous reward and procurement websites for Argos Business Solutions.Working as part of a two man team, it is my responsibility to support, maintain and enhance a legacy web application. Written in ASP and JavaScript, this application is used by over 100,000 people and brought in a turn over of more than 1 million pound for Argos. My role within the team covers the entire product life cycle, from writing specifications through to deployment. It is also my responsibility to cost projects, estimate delivery times and liaise between both Argos and their external clients.

Analysing, designing, developing, implementing and supporting a Utility Management Information Systems for a small software house.Working as part of a small development team, it was my responsibility to develop a Management Information System for a number of Utility companies (Balfour Beatty, Murphy, and Transco). This system was used for the planning, scheduling and tracking of all “Jobs” that the company did. These included laying pipe, fitting meters, digging up roads, interacting with council systems and lots more. This application was written in Visual Basic 6 and uses either SQL server 7 or 2000.As well as developing the MIS system, I was also involved in a handheld system. Although not involved in the handheld development, I was involved in the development of the back end system which processed/sent messages to and from the handhelds.

Analysing, designing, developing, implementing, installing, training and supporting College Management Information Systems for a large, successful, international software house.In charge of a small, highly skilled team (5 people), I developed a number of applications for use within Colleges. These applications were designed to be sold stand-alone or to “plug in” to the rest of the College MIS system. Developing these products involved organising user group meetings with a number of Colleges, designing the modules and returning to the users to check functionality issues (prototyping). Visual Basic 5 was then used to implement each design. Colleges use different databases, therefore applications need the ability to communicate between Access 97, Ingres and SQL server dynamically and cope with functional differences within each database (dates etc). Once the applications were ready for release, I was responsible for organising the installation of the applications at numerous Colleges. In addition to this main role, I also took part in the general support of other older character based applications. This involved database housekeeping on an Ingres database, solving ODBC connection problems and general help desk responsibilities. This support came in the form of telephone conversations, email or remote support.I was also given the responsibility of developing a piece of software to run on a Windows CE machine for another team within Sanderson. This involved downloading data from a server onto a handheld, developing software so that users could enter data into the handheld, and then extracting the data from the handheld into the database on the server. This was all done with applications that I had written in Visual Basic and Embedded Visual Basic.