• Involved in technical decision making relating to tool support for CI/CD and with respect to migrating processes to utilise cloud services; Octopus Deploy, AWS etc.• Introduced the following improvements: Code Coverage, reporting to provide visibility and confidence to management, Standardisation, and best practice Patterns, reviewing scripts and refactoring, introducing Pester (PowerShell test framework), and adding test coverage. Creation and management of build pipelines and optimizing build pipelines.• Management and customization of Build Agents for example using Jenkins • Took ownership of team's quality and assurance strategy and processes.• Delving into framework fundamentals, such as Pester Unit Test Framework, to extend the core functionality to reduce repetitive code and make code more readable, Adding assertions on custom complex objects. • Provide support for applications and technologies I previously worked with, for example the Language Query Engine built on top of ANTLR that is a core part of most of the organisations applications.• Development of build integrity approach that provides visibility of major build component status and makes social announcement when a build is compromised or a companywide event is commencing; PowerShell, Team City CI/CD, Jenkins.

• Engaging with Product Owner/ Technology owner to identify and design prototype solution migrating platform from Flex to Silverlight. • Defined and implemented solution in Silverlight that supported a 10x increase in capability for the core business application. Reviewed documentation engaged with stakeholders and reviewed legacy Flex code to ensure delivery of a high-quality solution. Proactively applied bug fixes to legacy production code where defects were found through discovery. • Engaged with business and end users for critical work activities, for example large scale office relocations as well as upgrade and maintain code for various applications and components.• Design and deliver automated tests in Silverlight utilizing Telerik/XUnit and integrated with Jenkins Continuous Delivery.• Worked with a team to deliver a component of the tool suite utilizing BOOTSTRAP REST API, HTML5, Angular and jQuery for offline storage. • Installation and customization of Jenkins Build Agents for wider team. Responsible for meeting code unit testing and code coverage requirements. • Review of team members code to provide a quality assurance layer as well as advise of areas of improvement or deviation from accepted patterns. • Development of Wiki Pages for best practice and use of applications, how to check out using SVN/GIT, system requirements etc. Mentor and support new employees on these tools and technologies. • Contributing to code quality by engaging with the team on initiatives such as adoption of BDD (SpecFlow). Mentoring Testing team to write BDD feature files. Setting up patterns and framework for feature files and implementing steps. • Supporting existing ANTLR grammars and expressions and provide extensions where required. This involved understanding language trees and parsing to enable me to write the corresponding downstream SQL queries.

• Core developer for the company’s new flagship mortgage product prototype, re-featured and set to attract another 1,500 users. Technologies used include C#, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0,.NET 4 Framework, .NET WCF RIA Services and Silverlight 4, Entity Framework, SQL 2009. • Responsible for development of implementation of the core platform with a migration from ASP. NET to Silverlight/C#. • Working with legacy MVC patterns and migrating to Silverlight MVVN utilising Entity Framework with LINQ and PRISM which provided for dependency injection and CI/CD. Writing complex queries using LINQ and provided specifications for the DBA to implement backend SQL queries. • Involved in release management with a core responsibility to troubleshoot post deployment issues and provide solutions (Code, configuration, data etc). • Reviewing new patterns and approaches to technologies to provide efficiencies in project delivery, code maintenance and reuse and delivering insights back into the organisation. Provide mentoring and support to team members in the use of adopted technologies.• Customization and administration of internal Microsoft Dynamics CRM that simplifies and increases productivity in pre-sales management, marketing activities, sales processing, invoicing and case management. • Developed executive reports for senior management and improved transparency to the business. • Expert user of Visual Studio tool suite using ReShaper including Team Foundation Server, MSTEST, MSQL, TELERIK, etc.