Product Development Manager
Big Picture Software
As Product Development Manager with Big Picture Software, I was responsible for managing the Agile design, development and delivery process of the Ease™ Product Suite and bespoke development projects.Ease™ Product Suite consisted of a wide variety of web-based E-Commerce Applications to enable small-to-medium sized business provide enterprise solutions via the internet/intranet at a fraction of normal corporate project costs. This was essentially a fully integrated set of cloud applications delivered 5 years before the term “cloud computing” was coined. Product Suite included:• Web Content Management• Dynamic Personalised Content Delivery• Email Marketing• Intranet/Extranet• Document Management• Shopping Cart• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)• Customer Support• Customer AnalyticsBespoke Projects included:• Liverpool FC Staff Intranet Desktop & Invoice Approval application. • NHS HES Online – Comprehensive online access to NHS Data Warehouse.• Consilient Health Care – Online Ordering System, reporting services, CRM.• RTE Schedule Reconciliation System, data warehouse providing regulatory reporting, analysis and audit functionality. • Online Learning Centre for UK OnlineManagement Duties included:Managing team of designers, developers and testers, including both internal and offshore resources, ensuring smooth solution delivery within deadlines and budget.Producing detailed Commercial Proposals for customers including Requirements analysis, Solution design and documentation, Costing and Scheduling. Development Responsibilities included:Database Schema Design, extensive database development, Performance & Tuning, including query optimisation and some database administration etc.Application/Web service design and development using JAVA, JSP, DWR, AJAX, JQuery, JSON, WCF, C#, .Net, CSS, HTML, Social Networking technologies integration.Apache-Tomcat/IIS server and SQL Server installation, configuration, deployment and administration.