Julie Waters Email & Phone Number

Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom

Product Associate working with Product Management on product strategy and roadmapping and Senior Product Owner ensuring delivery of quality new features and enhancements across our cloud solutions.

Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom

Certified Scrum Product Owner for Allocate Software

Lincoln, United Kingdom

QA Analyst and Agile testerFull time quality assurance analyst working in a research and development team in an Agile environment. With a wealth of product knowledge across all the company's core applications, responsibilities include: the writing of business requirements for new features as we continue to enhance our products with innovative design using REACT components; agreement of business requirements with key stakeholders; preparation of test strategies; creation of, management, and running of test cases using Azure Dev Ops; accessibility and usability testing; API testing, liaising with the product owner on user story approval in line with the definition of done; and demonstration of enhancements to stakeholders for feedback.

Lincoln, United Kingdom

Full time professional services consultant with responsibilities for: implementing the company's applications for new clients in both public and commercial sectors; ensuring through in-depth product knowledge that clients attained the very best solution for their individual requirements. As a PRINCE2 practitioner, project management of several projects running concurrently from project kick-off to business as usual, with communication, people skills, and the ability to facilitate meetings, and deliver each project to the required timescales. During my time in Professional Services, I also managed projects allowing a client to convert existing paper-based processes to individually and unique electronic processes with online forms and accompanying workflows for the form approval process.

Lincoln, England, United Kingdom

Full time quality assurance analyst with the role of planning, management, and execution of tests across the company’s accounting and payroll systems, including accounting suites for the construction industry sector. Working mainly in a waterfall environment, ensuring that new and amended systems performed as expected and that risks associated with deploying updates to the company user base were mitigated. Full regression testing suites developed across the accounting products with emphasis on higher risk products such as payroll, particularly in line with tax year end updates.

Rheindahlen, Germany

Network manager and system administrator for the systems used by the pupils of Windsor School, 1200 on role. Responsible for the network, all associated hardware (PC’s and printers), implementation and maintenance of all software running on these PC’s. The assigning of access permissions across the system, and support for teachers, often time critical due to lesson timetabling.

Mildenhall, England, United Kingdom

UNIX system administrator for the council’s server systems and also first line support for all council employee’s using these servers and supporting software. The role involved liaising with and support for employees for both hardware and software issues; development of the authority’s office automation system; training for office automation users. As of July 1996, the IT department was outsourced to Syntax Managed Services – part of the Sema Group but my role remained the same.

Bradford, West Yorkshire

1989 to 1994 - Support AnalystCommissioning of servers for new clients including the building of the hardware, installation of the UNIX operating system, installation of all software and drivers, and implementation of the company’s software accounting suite. Delivery and implementation of the new system at client site. I was also the system administrator for both the support team and the company’s accounts department UNIX systems, and, continued some developer work as below.1982 to 1989 - DeveloperAs a developer I worked on the company accounting and payroll packages, later becoming the lead developer for the payroll application. Designing and managing government legislative changes and implementing these within the system for the company’s users. The role also included the planning and testing of new features and technical documentation.

Grantham, England, United Kingdom

2015 - 2017With a keen interest in property and property development, I worked for a period in a part-time role (again along-side a full-time role) as a sales negotiator for a local estate agent. The role involved: working with property owners and those looking to purchase; booking and management of valuation appointments; property viewings for potential buyers; negotiation of sales; creation of sales brochures and the detailed drawing of the property layout using "Plan-up"; communicating with vendors to keep them informed of the progress of their property sale and production of reports; liaising with prospective buyers regarding properties brought to market. People skills.

Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom

2019 - PresentI currently have my own business as an accredited consultant for the 1:1 Diet by Cambridge Weight Plan, a long-standing employee-owned business with a proven track record of success. I run my business part-time, alongside my current full-time role, which allows me to work one-to-one with individuals wanting to lose weight, helping them to set realistic short and long-term goals and achieve success. I love working with and helping people and helping someone to achieve their goals, often on a difficult journey, is both extremely satisfying and rewarding.

Bsc Hons 1St Class, Mathematical Sciences

M101 - Mathematics Foundation Course M203 - Introduction to Pure Mathematics MST204 - Mathematical Models and Methods M337 - Complex.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Mathematics

M358 Relational Databases - Passed with Distinction

Education record

B/TEC National Award in Computer Studies. Passed with Distinction.