• Analysing, defining and prioritising requirements and processes to drive software development and ensure projects successfully satisfy business need.• Using Agile methodologies to provide regular department output while managing changing business priorities.• Writing structured business driven user stories with acceptance criteria to communicate requirements to the development and test teams.• Running workshops with project stakeholders and system users to demonstrate new systems.

Acting as a primary contact between the business and IT for development projects where it is my responsibility to interpret, define and agree requirements, schedule work, plan testing and oversee deployments.Leading a team comprising of five developers and two testers while working closely with project managers to ensure projects successfully satisfy business need..Heading daily scrum meetings with the team, organising achievable sprints of work via planning sessions and taking review meetings to improve internal processes and department output.

C#, ASP.Net, SQL Server...

Designing and developing web and win based applications to control, log, report and monitor factory production lines.

Developing and commissioning software using VB, C#, ASP and SQL to customer driven specification to provide prepayment applications and support services for electricity utilities using various communication technologies including Flag protocol, SMS, radio and Smart Cards.Independently developing numerous stand alone systems to support product development and providing applications for customers. An example of product development being a VB.Net tool for the Embedded Software team to aid development and test emulated code. An example of a customer application being a VB.Net field tool using an SQL DB to perform functions on electricity meters and report back to the main ASP.Net based back office system.Implementing database design using SQL, improving data management and performing data transfer (importing and archiving) services on large scale databases.Working as part of a large development team using Visual Studio Team System and successfully implementing numerous tasks of widely varying technical content. The team's main project being to supply a leading American utility with a .Net/SQL prepayment system to support one million customers effectively and efficiently.Taking the lead development role within one of the company's divisions where I worked closely with the customers to meet their requirements and successfully delivered and commissioned on site C#/SQL systems. Working on large prepayment systems that encompass both code and database source control.

Working in the Software Validation department, I was tasked with thorough analysis and testing of energy measuring devices and back office systems software to meet customer and technical specifications. After successfully leading a test team for a significant product, I was given the opportunity to move into the Software department as a developer.

Working as part of a small consultancy team, I was involved in preparing information and design advice for products aimed at the visually impaired.

Developing and commissioning SCADA systems for factory production lines.During my time at CDD I mainly worked as part of a development team providing touch screen applications using InTouch to communicate with programmable logic controllers for a new Walkers crisps production plant.I also carried out some software commissioning for Weetabix and an industrial plant in Middlesbrough where I represented the company.My position at CDD was made redundant, along with five other employees, following a dramatic fall in order book.

Apprenticeship in all areas of engineering including secondments to the software department, mechanical/electrical shops and drawing offices, the fabrication department and maintenance. After a year at APV Baker I moved on to study Engineering at The Nottingham Trent University.