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Norwich, United Kingdom

Norwich, United Kingdom

Norwich, United Kingdom

Agile based development within a small team, handling various component parts of the companies in-house developed systems, written in.NET and SQL Server. Systems worked on include the workflow management system, the call center console, the mobile client and server suite (using UWP) and claims management interface (using WCF/ASP.NET), for all insurer.

Walsall, United Kingdom

Providing a central design and governance role, for the extension and improvement of newly introduced services, covering the end to end process flow of the business from contracts to claims.

Walsall, United Kingdom

Provided a central design and governance role in the adaption and integration of a new suite of business systems including Pega, Talend ETL, Talend ESB, Talend MDM, Alfresco and GMC Inspire. As part of this I was key to defining a system agnostic messaging infrastructure along with a canonical service/schema namespace and versioning practice, supporting.

Norwich, UK

Agile based development within a small team, handling various component parts of the companies job workflow system written in VB.NET and C# utilising windows form, windows CE, web form, web service and SQL Server technologies to provide for the operational needs of the company.

Walsall, United Kingdom

Handling the design, development, testing and service transition of source system extract processes and an associated data transformation layer to supply various existing UK and US system's daily financial data to a new Oracle cloud based financial / data warehouse system. The source systems were MS SQL, Progress and Oracle based running on both Windows.

Preston, United Kingdom

Delivered various enhancements to key enterprise system areas as part of a programme to improve the contractor network infrastructure and process. This involved both liaising with the architecture team to ensure adherence to the companies IT strategies, and technically leading ongoing scrum based analysis and development output of the core claims systems.

Agile based development within a small team, handling various component parts of the companies job workflow system written in VB.NET and C# utilising windows form, windows CE, web form, web service and SQL Server technologies to provide for the operational needs of the company.A large proportion of development time was spend creating the frame modelling.

Preston, United Kingdom

Managed the transition of key systems to an Indian based outsourcing company. Headed a team of 6 to transfer the required knowledge and to support and develop various systems. After the transition I continued work with the team to enhance and improve the systems, this included the co-authoring of a replacement web service orientated solution.Throughout all.

As team leader I managed team sizes between 4-7 developers. A multitude of projects were worked on relating to my team's skill set within the department, These skill sets included new instructions, system work flow, pricing algorithms, insurer specific pricing mechanisms, product data and control data maintenance tools. Technologies involved were mainly.

As the development manager my main roles were to 1) provide first class programming solutions using a variety of technologies including Web/Windows VB.NET, VB 6, SQL Server and legacy FoxPro environments and 2) to liaise with possible and current clients trying to give a non technical angle on technical solutions.Projects undertaken ranged from an internet.

Lead the implementation of the new Y2K compliant EDI Gateway. This required a full understanding of EDI messaging standards, various mapping techniques, connectivity integration, VB6 and various IBM OS/370 mainframe programming languages including COBOL, JCL and OPC. Also investigated other new technologies such as PKI for the e-mail system and TCP/IP.

Pgrad, Data Telecommunications & Networks

2I Beng, Computer Systems Engineering