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Remote

Oxford, United Kingdom

A member of the management team and an integral part of setting the strategic and functional direction of the company, with responsibility for the development and implementation of an online portal and API to deliver Middle Eastern (and later African) Business Intelligence to clients worldwide.Built a team of trusted developers to support and enhance both the online portal and several internal facing applications used to load, cross-reference, and link data together and present it in interesting and insightful ways. Managed the redevelopment of the existing legacy database application and its subsequent migration to Azure hosting.Driving force behind the adoption of Kanban and other agile management techniques as a means of satisfying competing priorities across the business, whilst also undertaking development as projects required it.

Oxford, United Kingdom

Bicester

This role involved:• Overall responsibility for product development at all levels including guiding the architectural design, establishing and refining a delivery roadmap, building and testing new features, and reviewing code quality and development practices within the team.• Providing cost estimates and planning delivery timescales for multiple concurrent projects.• Communicating customer needs to development team ensuring that this included the “why” as well as the “what” when describing their requirements.• Providing the technical leadership and strategic direction required to refresh the company’s existing applications and services.• Mentoring team members to improve individual performance and increase levels and effectiveness of teamwork.

Bicester

This role involved:• Developing a number of bespoke web applications and SaaS products to meet the needs of several clients in the automotive and financial services sectors.• Introducing a range of process and quality improvements including Test Driven Development and User Stories into the company's operation.• Supporting fellow developers in improving the quality, consistency and reliability of their components through pair programming and refactoring.

Bicester

This role involved:• Establishing Accelerate’s brand values and identity with new and existing Crash Media customers.• Developing a scalable business strategy through development of SaaS based products instead of the preceding model of bespoke developments.• Hiring staff to increase the development team’s capabilities and replace developers based off-shore.• Demonstrating completed projects to clients and using the opportunity to actively seek out additional ways to add value and generate further business.• Negotiating customer contracts including successfully increasing the effective development rate card.• Reporting overall progress and key financial information to fellow board members.

Skipton

This role involved:• Delivery of an automated system to replace the existing time-consuming and error prone manual process for managing customer referrals to 3rd party clients.• Building the new application using BizTalk for orchestration and WCF to access existing Jade database hosted web services and .NET data exposures.Whilst undertaking this role I was responsible for:• Using test-driven development to produce several Microsoft based middleware components.• Working with fellow developers to successfully integrate all systems components.• Supporting others (including customer representatives) as they adopted an agile approach using SCRUM, TDD, User Stories and Kanban for the first time.• Helping fellow developers improve the quality and reliability of HML’s middleware components.

Halifax

Working within a small team of highly experienced developers responsible for:• Pro-active management of the eBusiness (internal facing) and eCommerce (external facing) web platforms.• Provision of 3rd line support for all Microsoft DNA and .NET applications.• On-going support and maintenance of Microsoft based in-house development frameworks.My role was to provide support to other development and service teams via:• Code and design reviews of major changes.• In-depth problem and root-cause analysis using IIS and Event Logs.• Improvements to application performance and efficiency.• Development and support of (C#) utilities that aided development, testing, implementation and on-going monitoring. • Formulation and communication of implementation best practice.

Halifax

This role involved designing solutions, gaining funding approval, and overseeing development of a number of major initiatives and projects, including:• Extensive system changes to meet requirements of Mortgage Regulation.• Addressing performance issues within the existing Securitisation system.• Customer communication activities to support Banking Licence Consolidation.• Establishing the technical infrastructure to support an off-shore workforce.• Provision of a Modelling Environment and Scoring Platform for Risk Analytics.• Upgrading and expanding use of existing Collections and Fraud detection back office systems.I would typically be the lead and/or only technical resource within the project teams, ranging from 5 to 25 staff, and would be responsible for:• Validating requirements with business users.• Provision of technical guidance within core project teams.• Technical communication with other development teams, internal infrastructure support teams and 3rd party suppliers.

Halifax

This role involved leading development teams from a range of technical disciplines (Active Server Pages / Visual Basic / WebSphere Message Queue Integrator (now WBIMB) / COBOL) in the design and delivery of major system changes, including:• Establishing an in-house WMQI development team, removing reliance on Accenture and contract staff, whilst supplying middleware solutions to numerous projects.• Re-engineering end-to-end loans sales process to make full use of internally held customer data in approval and pricing decisions.• Development of a completely new complaints handling system.

Halifax

This role involved leading the delivery of mainframe and later client and middle tier components, my responsibilities included:• Design, build and implementation of middle tier application infrastructure to support internal facing applications against very challenging timescales.• Support and on-going enhancement of application infrastructure.• Design of common customer centric components that would subsequently be re-used by several development areas in a range of applications.• Provision of guidance on component design and use of application infrastructure.• Enhancing existing in-house fat client infrastructure and supporting development areas that were using it.• Evaluating a variety of internet and other thin-client technologies as potential alternatives to existing fat client infrastructure.• Delivering system changes to existing mainframe hosted batch applications.