Founder and Lead Technical Consultant for a cloud centric mobile/web development organisation. Role consists of on-site and off-site development of .Net application development, Umbraco CMS solutions and Xamarin cross platform mobile apps. Contract clients include Ticketmaster & bet365.com. The organisation has implemented a fully agile development philosophy that has been extended through to the client/stake holder. The role encompasses configuration and dev/ops integration with Microsoft Azure and continuous delivery tools.Notable projects delivered with Umbraco included: Content management build for McBride (Europe’s leading provider of white label household products), AutoTrader Group website, Trentham Estate’s website www.trentham.co.uk providing detailed information on events and activities for its 3.2million visitors a year, making it one of the most visited attractions in the UK.Dozen’s more Umbraco websites were developed including many third party integrations with external API’s and services such as LinkedIn.com for recruitment websites alongside Twitter and Facebook.Recent Umbraco projects include; www.pps4jobs.com - Online Recruitment, www.amion.co.uk - Economic and financial management consultancy. (Responsive)

Leading a team of developers and infrastructure engineers to fulfil the technology requirements of the group. Responsibilities include board level liaison and strategic planning of the company’s long-term IT objectives. The position is a hands-on role requiring a wide breadth of knowledge of the full development stack including networking, software/web development through to data protection and corporate IT compliance.Focussing on replacing two legacy CRM systems with an ASP.NET MVC/Web API application using the Knockout MVVM JavaScript framework. This responsive application, built on top of Twitter Bootstrap, provides bespoke functionality throughout the customer journey from pre-sales through account and document management leading into detailed analyticsAlongside software development the role includes direct responsibility for the Group’s multitude of web sites, web services and affiliate portals. The business operates a call centre with over 60 staff and this role includes management of the extensive infrastructure, development and reporting requirements for a predictive dialler based system.Project management is undertaken using agile techniques, specifically Kanban after moving on from Scrum, and has helped in providing a continuous delivery approach against given requirements

Key role to drive the technology requirements of the business from project pre-planning to application architecture and development. Additionally responsible for personnel, sales, account management and project planning.Exceptionally knowledgeable about the Umbraco ASP.Net Content Management System having constructed over 50 sites. Developed considerable number of e-commerce applications and payment gateways (SagePay, WorldPay, PayPal, Datacash) including use of third party e-commerce platforms e.g. uCommerce.In depth knowledge of social media marketing and technical level integration with API’s for Twitter, Linked In, You Tube Facebook.Extensive experience in ASP.NET, C#, Visual Basic, SQL Server, Windows Server & Desktop, Visual Basic.NET, Classic ASP, Web Services, CSS, XML & XHTML.Knowledge of Mecurial, SVN and Git.

Manager for a team of developers and designers constructing web sites and CD-ROM applications.Project manager and lead sales person for the authoring division including pre-sales planning and customer liaison. Responsible to the Chairman of the board from the parent PLC.

Leading a team of developers and designers constructing web sites and CD-ROM applications. Responsible for the IT infrastructure throughout the organisation including IT hardware, telephony and the IP (ATM) network.