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Leeds, GB

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Managed a team of seven engineers responsible for the installation, upgrade and configuration of a number of on-premise and SaaS software solutions

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Team Lead for the newly formed Reporting Team. Built a Business Case for the replacement of the companies third party reporting software provider with in-house SSRS and Power BI reporting suite.Implemented data warehousing solutions and migrated all customers onto the new solutionDeveloped a.NET winform utillity for the administration of the companies.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Leeds

• Key Achievements
• Development and maintenance of a Rackspace hosted ASP.Net (VB, C#, Javascript, AJAX and WebServices) and SQL Server workflow solution. Specific involvement in financial modules
• Development of a WinForms and Windows Scheduled Task solution to manage the conversion of two million documents to PDF format and generate XML metadata relating to the documents. The solution also managed the FTP.
• Working as a member of an Agile team to develop and maintain an award winning SAAS workflow solution for clients involved in the Debt Management and IVA industry. Clients included Grant Thornton and Fairpoint
• Technical Lead for Fairpoint’s IVA solution

Leeds

• Key Achievements
• Formulating a business case and project plan for the creation of SharePoint 2007 web farms and the development of client extranets using this platform
• Successfully developing extranet sites for clients such as John Lewis and Liverpool involving developing data access layer for web parts in NHibernate Framework, installing and configuring live and development.
• Designing and implementing the user security policy for Thomson 3e practice management
• Advising on the selection of version control software involving analysing data from multiple sources, presenting results to the development team and recommending Team Foundation Server
• Collaborating with end users during workflow requirements definition and testing stages of developing a personal insolvency application within the Visualfiles case management system Responsibilities

• Key Achievements
• Designing and writing an installation management web application for the installations department using ASP.NET, AJAX and the Google Maps API, with use case, sequence and class diagrams created in UML using Visio
• Successfully updating the Global Logistics and Suppliers web applications involving upgrading to Visual Studio 2008 and introducing concurrent version control using Subversion and Tortoise SVN
• Spearheading the introduction of Agile development methodologies involving planning work using stories, developing in iterations, creating an automated build using Nant and unit testing with NUnit
• Personally rewriting the IT helpdesk’s issue recording and tracking software with a complete redesign of presentation and data tiers and the creation of full user documentation Responsibilities
• Gaining rapid promotion from Software Developer to Team Leader responsible for designing, building and implementing project phases whilst supporting existing software solutions

Employed initially as a.NET Software Developer and subsequently promoted to the role of Development Team Leader

Bradford

Designed, wrote, tested and maintained transactional mailing applications. Documents including statements and invoices, credit reports, general election ballot papers, payslips and insurance documentation were created for clients such as Experian, Homeserve, Virgin Mobile, Yell, Greenflag, Bradford and Bingley and Serco Ryan.

Developed transactional mailing applications for clients including Virgin, Emap, Jewson, Black and Decker, Vodafone and CItibank

B-Eng, Electronic Engineering

Master Of Science (Msc), Technical Consulting, Distinction

Course was taken part time and distance learning Key Modules Included: Web Application Design and Modelling. Change Management and Systems.