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Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

High Wycombe, GB

High Wycombe, GB

London, London, GB

At National Grid, I began as a DevOps lead with responsibility for building and managing Enterprise grade tools for a full DevSecOps platform running self-hosted in Azure, used by hundreds of engineers.I delivered an AKS multi-environment / multi-cluster system for hosting these tools, incorporating a GitOps deployment pattern.I quickly picked up more.

Newbury Business Park, Newbury, GB

At EValue I worked on several projects as a team lead and scrum master providing technical expertise and code contributions, whilst line-managing a small team of developers. I had responsibility for creating Continuous Integration pipelines for a range of different products; Polymer web components, a Java monolithic web app and a containerised NodeJS.

Abingdon, Oxfordshire, GB

At Sophos I led and managed various projects and teams in a highly dynamic environment, covering hiring, appraisals, line management and project planning.My first significant project was delivering Sophos’ first full cloud-managed product targeted for the consumer market – Sophos Home (https://home.sophos.com/).I went on to manage several projects to.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, GB

At Sage I was responsible for the full line management of mixed-function Scrum Teams of up to 8, including a tester, a technical author and software developers at all levels.My line-management duties included hiring into my own and other teams, regular 1:1s and annual appraisals. I also simultaneously matrix-managed up to 10 others including a team of.

Slough, Berkshire, GB

After just over a year at Iris, I was promoted to the position of Team Leader and was subsequently responsible for managing a team of developers working in C# and C++.As well as guiding the more senior members of the team and acting as a sounding-board for their development decisions, I also mentored junior members of the team and championed and led a.

Slough, Berkshire, GB

At Iris I was instrumental in the development of the iXBRL solutions for both Tax and Accounts applications, taking the lead during the re-architecting of the core 'reporting' module to provide iXBRL output. This work led to the Best Technological Innovation award in the 2011 Taxation Awards.I worked in C, C++ and C# on various parts of the application.

Languages used include C++ and Java. Software stacks used include Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, Eclipse, Clearcase and Jira. I enjoyed several roles whilst working at Quantel in a productive and agile environment; I performed the duties of a team leader for a small group of software maintenance developers which involved performing technical interviews.

Reading, Berkshire, GB

I was responsible for application development, planning and managing various projects; where timescales have been small and large, both internally and for external customers. I managed pre-sales specifications and analysis, and post-sales support with customers all-round the world. Version management and the ability to work on several large-scale projects.

I worked on pro-audio DSP software systems for high-end audio workstations such as DigiDesign's Pro Tools and TC-Electronic's PowerCore. I was involved in the cross-platform development of audio plugins that run within a variety of VST hosts on both the PC and MAC. The audio algorithms were written in 56k code, and the interface and control-logic ran under.

My duties involved responsibility for the design and implementation of an audio framework for Intent RTOS. This was similar in concept and use to Microsoft’s Direct Sound, but suitable for low power/footprint devices such as the Smartphone platform. Audio DSP, alongside cross-platform embedded coding for hand-held devices was foremost in my work. I worked.

Bsc (Hons), Computer Science

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