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London, England, United Kingdom

I was contracted once more by New Link to complete works for Willis Towers Watson, focused on enabling timely and profitable sales decisions with a bespoke SPA app and customised dashboards that provides real-time, data-driven insight into target markets and clients. I leveraged Agile throughout the full SDLC, coached juniors and partnered with cross-functional stakeholders as key Technical Expert to influence decisions, secure buy-in for recommendations, conduct information security audits and rectify vulnerabilities.◼️ Transformed the legacy process for reporting on target markets and clients from a 3-month timeline to automated, real-time reporting within 11 months, currently in use in 5 pilot countries.

Worked From Home

I was engaged to develop and manage cloud-based, reusable API solutions that integrated the core CRM with legacy internal and supplier systems. This involved collaborating with the Agile Project Team to produce stories, plans, and technical solutions in alignment with high-level strategy, alongside reviewing all code before release into automated DevOps pipelines, supporting testing, and producing technical documentation.◼️Trialled, validated and secured buy-in to utilise Service Bus topics for the first time at Openwork.◼️Designed and built an automated upload for Firm and Adviser data within the 12-week deadline.

London, England Metropolitan Area

WTW required Azure infrastructure and DevOps processes to support the KYC application, I was engaged as Kubernetes/artifacts SME to design and develop the infrastructure. I collaborated with multi-functional stakeholders to define requirements, developed and deployed Azure infrastructure/DevOps pipelines and introduced and integrated deployment tooling. I also established project-wide compliance, identified and remediated network and implementation issues and executed meticulous user testing.• Utilised a broad technology stack including C# .NET Core, Azure security/SQL, Docker, PowerShell, React, Service Bus, Terraform, Typescript and more.• Built C# micro-services with OOP and functional programming practices aligned to SOLID principles.• Created and stored project documentation in a centralised Wiki to aid future upgrades and handovers. • Enabled Kubernetes containers communication with on-premise SQL Server databases via Kerberos.• Established a robust and heavily automated infrastructure that significantly streamlined and optimised the Know Your Customer (KYC) application with capacity to serve 150+ global users per hour.

I was engaged as part of a greenfield project to deliver a live customer life quoting system that was critical to one of AIG’s major strategic partners optimisation strategy. I collaborated with Business Analysts and Technical Leads to ensure functional business requirements were addressed with robust solutions, contributed to regular Agile stand ups/retrospectives, delivered unit testing, identified solution weakness and rolled out proactive fixes.• Utilised C# .NET, React, Jscript, Oracle 12, SQL Server 2016, AutoFac, Episerver, MVC, Azure, Jest and GIT.• Established leading-edge solutions, gained business approval and merged and branched source controls.• Trained and mentored internal Developers on Test Driven Development best practice.• Key contributor to the development of a robust and streamlined customer life quoting system closely aligned to predefined business requirements that actively supported AIG’s long-term vision and goals.

London, United Kingdom

Hired to develop and deliver several continuous integration and deployment projects. Firstly, I identified performance bottlenecks impacting system scalability and performance before partnering with project teams to devise and deploy effective hot fixes. I collaborated with stakeholders to translate business requirements into detailed user stories, managed several concurrent workstreams, utilised Agile practices throughout the full SDLC and conducted regular environment reviews to identify CI/CD opportunities. • Integrated the internal policy fulfilment system with several disparate third-party systems and led development of micro-services for black box motor insurance. • Eliminated threading issues by using an in-depth knowledge of IOC injections using Structured Map. • Utilised OO, Azure, Net 4.7+, WCF, Jscript, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, IOC, Signal R, BDD and MSMQ.• Introduced and created PowerShell scripts to reduce the production deployment time of IHP.• Acted as Biztalk domain expert and created and delivered engaging best practice training to Developers.• Mastered the use of Biztalk to fill an internal skills gap and enable a timely and effective project delivery.• Trained, mentored and monitored the development team on Test Driven Development best practice.• Awarded 3 coveted AXA star awards for PowerShell Automation, contribution to the GDPR project and for the quality of the data enrichment delivery.• Enriched data on the award-winning Insurer Hosted Pricing (IHP) application, allowing for heavily reduced risk and maximised product competitiveness on insurance aggregators and a reduction in IHP deployment times from 30 minutes to 5 minutes.• Established an optimised, streamlined and profitable fulfilment system with onboarded partners to effectively limit risk by extracting and centralising intermediary data.

• 01/2011 to 06/2011: Doctor Chambers: Software Developer (Contract)• 05/2010 to 01/2011: Reed Business Information: Software Developer (Contract)• 10/2009 to 05/2010: TFL: Software Developer (Contract)• 09/2005 to 10/2009: The Football Association: Software Developer (Contract)• 07/2001 to 08/2005: Cofunds: Software Architect• 01/1994 to 07/2001: Cap Gemini: Software Developer• 08/1990 to 12/1993: Civil Aviation Authority: Analyst & Programmer