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Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

Formed company with two distinct streams of work: software design and film production.Wrote, produced, directed and photographed a 50 minute movie, Electra.https://electra.movieVarious clients for software development.Designed iOS application to control Blackmagic camera focus using LiDARDesigned web app to manage film production.

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

Designed new OCTAS training management system - https://octas.bridgeway.consulting.Managed development of internal call management system.Various enhancements to existing systems

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

Rewrote various javascript microservices to use strategy pattern to enable easier team maintenance.Wrote internal app to unify update process to multiple separate databases into single action.Cleansed data across multiple databases to bring them all into line.Wrote application to enable developers run microservices locally while debugging app that consumes them.

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

Designed the following from the ground up: Web app with drag and drop capabilities to plan projects / interact with existing roster system. Web app to meet need of training contract won by business. PDSW. Web app to handle hotel bookings. iPad application for engineers to record shift activity. API to interact with iPad application.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Designed Windows applications (C# .NET WPF) interacting with SQL Server database and SQLite to manage customers and sales and generate reports.Designed iPhone application for use with sales force, that interacts with the cloud to create a life cycle that connects back to head office and Windows applications. Designed VBA interactive reports.Worked with third party company (Phocas) to manage the Business Intelligence software. Oversaw the process of migrating this software from… Show more Designed Windows applications (C# .NET WPF) interacting with SQL Server database and SQLite to manage customers and sales and generate reports.Designed iPhone application for use with sales force, that interacts with the cloud to create a life cycle that connects back to head office and Windows applications. Designed VBA interactive reports.Worked with third party company (Phocas) to manage the Business Intelligence software. Oversaw the process of migrating this software from client computers to the cloud. Re-engineered the software so that dozens of reports that had formerly been created manually are now available through the BI software.Collaborated with colleagues in the U.S. on a regular basis to work on software enhancements, reporting requirements, server upgrades.The main point of contact for reporting for the whole of the UK business, responding on most days to queries about reporting. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Designed Windows application to enable the department to manage time planning, record work performance, track budgeting and produce client billing. Created Windows programme that interacts with a SQL Server database to produce interactive reports that teams use to: validate information that has been provided by clients using a web app; Analyse the client data and produce interactive reports in Excel that can be output to PDF for the client.Worked with a team of programmers in… Show more Designed Windows application to enable the department to manage time planning, record work performance, track budgeting and produce client billing. Created Windows programme that interacts with a SQL Server database to produce interactive reports that teams use to: validate information that has been provided by clients using a web app; Analyse the client data and produce interactive reports in Excel that can be output to PDF for the client.Worked with a team of programmers in the U.S. and India to develop, test and enhance a new piece of company software rolled out to hundreds of users worldwide.Oversaw the migration of a database with millions of data points to a new system. Wrote scripts and created small programmes for this purpose. Worked with the team to make sure that the new system would meet their needs. Delegated work where appropriate. A big project as outputs would have to be generated using a significantly different system but match (and improve upon) those generated historically. Show less

Nottingham

Work in Operations with Management and I.T. to create reports that monitor Service Level Agreements, Key Performance Indicators and financial turnover on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. Analysis of email marketing campaigns. Daily analysis of Work-In-Progress. Analysis of trends. Work independently to produce new ways of looking at data. Put together statistics for the monthly board report. Create analysis to map the business lifecycle over the last 5 years for the CEO to use in… Show more Work in Operations with Management and I.T. to create reports that monitor Service Level Agreements, Key Performance Indicators and financial turnover on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. Analysis of email marketing campaigns. Daily analysis of Work-In-Progress. Analysis of trends. Work independently to produce new ways of looking at data. Put together statistics for the monthly board report. Create analysis to map the business lifecycle over the last 5 years for the CEO to use in consultation with the board of directors in order to update the business model. This received a personal thank you from the CEO.Write VBA code to create interactive Excel reports that would otherwise take hours (making substantial use of pivot tables, graphs and buttons). A report that tracks everything with a KPI has become the standard tool used by Senior Management for appraisals and Middle Management to track performance.Created a semi-automated system that sends team-specific emails from Outlook to ten separate teams across the country, three times a day, generated from a live database. These allow staff to prioritise work to achieve SLA’s. Show less