Neil Brookes Email & Phone Number

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Provide strategic technical direction for BUUK Infrastructure and influence decisions at board and senior management level relating to IT futures. To encompass role of Principal Systems Developer (see previous role).• Influence, propose, review and set technical strategy and standards• Communicate with board and senior managers• Operate at all levels within the group• Operate at a strategic technical level across diverse technologies• Balance technical strategy with business needs• Technical authority and adviser• Drive changes forward with IT and with group managers• Budgeting responsibilities for technical strategy• Drive project teams forward• Adherence to appropriate project management practices• Mentor, guide and supervise and help others solve complex problems• Deputise for Business Systems Manager• Provide project progress reports• Provide leadership to develop and enhance development procedures, processes and standards• Provide leadership on new technologies• Ensure adherence to appropriate policies, procedures and standards• Negotiate with business representatives to prioritise, scope and agree timescales for project implementation• Support business sponsors in the preparation and documentation of software requirements, estimates and specifications• Design and development of in-house systems and integration with other systems and technologies• Database design and support• Lead colleagues performing development and database administration roles• Development, Maintenance, Support and reporting of in-house systems• Maintain and improve system and database security controls• Maintaining software in the appropriate source control systems ensuring these are secured adequately• Manage currency and support of technology stack• Schedule and project manage software improvements, upgrades and migrations• Streamline or automate development procedures and processes• Develop configuration and release management processes and procedures

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Principal Systems Developer for a development team which develops software on behalf of Brookfield Utilities UK. Involves continuous new-build development and maintenance of an Oracle Forms and Reports application as well as stored PL/SQL packages and database design. Responsibilities include gathering business requirements, design and build, system testing, support of user acceptance testing and software implementation and integration with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. Methodologies used include the traditional ‘Waterfall’ approach as well as system prototyping. Also provides support to the business for general business systems issues through a support helpdesk. Other responsibilities include database and application server administration, application migration, management of source code version control, administration of Tracker incident control, and administration of the Oracle Designer repository. Undertakes team as well as individual development projects.

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Whitchurch, Cardiff

Joined as a Programmer and promoted to Analyst Programmer in July 1998. Entailed developing a new major application for the business. Gained two years development experience using the Oracle family of Database products, primarily Oracle Forms and Reports v.4.5 and v.5. Developed skills in software development and management as well as attaining strong interpersonal and team working experience. Also, solely responsible for developing a Java front-end user interface based on an Oracle database. This included gathering user requirements, design, build and implementation and involved time management skills to reach expected end user deadlines. Completed courses including SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle Forms and Java.

Msc Computing, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: IMG Football

Bsc (Hons) Business Administration