Matthew Howard Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

• Led backend development of a network resilience application on aws serverless architecture written in Python - now a pivotal part of the network separacy certification for BT's external customers• Leveraged graph algorithms, a new database schema and transformed relational data to improve the time complexity and performance of a key risk identification algorithm from one day to under 30 minutes• Drove the adoption of the modern Composition API in favour of the Option API for application frontend components - scripted in TypeScript using the Vue Framework• Championed the use of mock object libraries in conjunction with both Pytest & Unittest frameworks for testing, enabling simpler tests, wider test coverage and easier options for test driven development• Proactively reduced technical debt by improving legacy code, optimising cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipeline tasks, which resulted in a reduction to build & deployment time by 65%• Implemented robust security practices by integrating Snyk & Veracode scanning into a pipeline, reducing vulnerability exposure by over 40% • Mentored a graduate of the Code First Girls program for 6 months, which promotes women in software engineering - helped with both technical skills and general professional development

London, United Kingdom

• Led Change Management program for a major manufacturer's inaugural Robotic Process Automation (RPA) implementation. Delivered benefits within the top 5% of UK implementations and won the Blue Prism People's Choice Award as a team• Led discovery & design phases of the Software Development Lifecycle for major Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and other agile system implementations in central Government, manufacturing, publishing and professional services• Initiated and designed a Management Information Reporting framework, leveraging SQL and other data workflows to provided robust data for reporting, visibility and strategic decision making• Proactively adopted stakeholder feedback on a major technical implementation to transform the quality of user stories, collaboration, and increase the frequency of playback sessions between engineers and other business stakeholders - earning recognition as a finalist for Consultant of the Year in 2020• Designed and facilitated large workshops to gather requirements and communicate with stakeholders, from C-suite members to subject matter experts• Mentored several junior consultants, aiding their professional development, visibility and delivery quality

Melbourne, Australia

• Collaborated to implement an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) ordering system for clients, maximising the automation and efficiency around procurement processes• Acted as a super user and delivered training to teams following a major business wide ERP upgrade of Oracle JD Edwards• Delivered excellent operational service to clients - individual average of 5.3hrs to fulfil a surgical case booking against the company target of 10 hours

Auckland, New Zealand

• Developed actionable recommendations relating to profitability and reporting for client to adopt following an efficiency review of their small business, which were successfully implemented• Led presentation of findings to the client on behalf of PwC, and wrote the executive summary and financial analysis components of the final deliverable

Hamilton, New Zealand

• Investigated several organisations which had been placed into liquidation or receivership, assisting partners with settling disputes and outstanding contracts• Analysed debtor and creditor information and created running accounts, determining an equitable distribution to creditors from the liquidation of company assets

Hamilton, New Zealand

Bachelor Of Commerce - Bcom, Finance & Economics

Education record

Education record