Mike Magowan Email & Phone Number

Blackpool, Gb

Blackpool, England, United Kingdom

• Engaging with the business gathering requirements for new projects• Determining appropriate architectures and approaches for new projects• Identifying technical debt and balancing work with business priorities to reduce / remove.• Lead role in preparing a multi-national team for, and passing, security audits (based on ISO 27001) to gain certification for a external lottery manager license.• Creation of an in-stadium centrally managed digital signage platform used successfully around several premier and championship league football clubs• Managed, supported and improved an externally developed prize competition website• Deployed and configured a Proxmox cluster to support MariaDB Galera and Redis Cluster to provide scalability and high availability to prize competition website• Deployed and configured Nextcloud and integrate with the BD Admin system via SSO. Integrated ElasticSearch and OnlyOffice via Docker Compose.• Migrated subversion code control to Gitlab and integrated with SourceGraph.• Manage and support company server equipment

Blackpool, England, United Kingdom

• Developed subscription based charity front end to interface with the AscendFS fund raising lottery platform via REST API• Developed a basic digital signage platform used at Wembley stadium across the entire stadium to promote specific bets odds and drive sales• Provided IT support and website hosting to several small businesses.

Blackpool, England, United Kingdom

• Developed web based administration system to manage all functions of BD Stadia Ltd, including game financial data, staff management, third party system access and reporting.• Developed a web based EPOS system used to take bets at major football stadiums around the country.• Implemented Best Practical Request Tracker and added integration and SSO with the BD Admin System to facilitate customer enquiries and external partner communications.• Developed stadium management and bet scanning technology for use in-stadium.• Iterated betting EPOS system into a version used in Belgium that utilised optical mark recognition to automatically recognise bets.• Developed a ecommerce site which was used to power the official NFL UK shop and ESPN America TV channel online store.• Developed a desktop alerts system for the North American Sports Network (NASN TV channel) to engage with subscribers and deliver sports results in real-time and occasional direct marketing.• Liase with football club IT departments to ensure betting business is supported in-stadium.• Responsible for maintaining all IT hardware within BD Sport / BD Stadia.• Host websites and email and provide support for several small businesses• Procure, deploy, manage and support HP server hardware in data center with disaster recovery outside the UK.• General IT Support

Preston, England, United Kingdom

• Used as a consultant across several different development teams including different business units.• Led a team in creating a system to allow statistical data from the Social Fund Computer System (SFCS) mainframe to be exported, merged and imported to a MySQL database which allowed end users to run regular reporting and ad-hoc queries against via a web based interface• Led a team that developed a secure intranet site for the DWP with role based access control. Liased directly with cabinet level civil servant to determine the initial requirements.• Developed a VB application to allow all local authorities to download income support / job seekers allowance data to inform on housing benefit claimants benefit eligibility.• Developed multiple intranet micro sites for various tools including postcode lookup, bank sort code lookup, IS Office location lookup and several more.• Conceived and successfully delivered a solution to email and then capture updated details for approximately 30,000 DWP staff with only a 12 to 14 day lead time.