Peter Raymond Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

Software Architect and Security Lead for the SCCM business unit at OpenText (a portfolio of eight products), ensuring software development best practices/processes are followed, mentoring/training the team, and providing technical design, direction and advice. Helping teams select technologies/frameworks and design patterns to create scalable, performant, maintainable and secure solutions. Giving any technical advice/assistance the teams may need. Working on enterprise multi-tier products with a modern Java stack (Angular/Spring/Hibernate/JPA) and also more legacy systems written in C/C++. Ensuring security best practices are followed, auditing and assessing/scoring issues, tracking metrics around security issues and reviewing/signing off products from a security perspective. Performing Threat Modelling and assessing risks. Assisting with any security enquiries from customers and security researchers.Working closely with customers to gather requirements and design solutions, leading the product direction along with the Product Managers. Defining user stories, allocating/tracking the work, verifying it met requirements.Assisting pre-sales by demoing the products, talking at user conferences, meeting with analysists etc.

England, United Kingdom

Continuing with my Software Architect role at Micro Focus but now more focused on security, compliance and cloud infrastructure for a portfolio of eight products.Ensuring security best practices were followed, helping the teams audit and asses/score issues, tracking metrics around security issues and reviewing/signing off products from a security perspective. Assisting with any security enquiries from customers and security researchers.Drove the initiative to migrate the SCCM products from on-prem labs to AWS. Designing the AWS infrastructure and DevOps processes to be used by the teams. Remaining hands-on implementing fixes for security issues and developing “infrastructure as code” for the AWS environment.Continuing to contribute to design and development of new features in the products.

St Albans, United Kingdom

Responsible for the architecture and design of several enterprise Application Lifecycle Management products. Leading the teams from a technical perspective, driving design, planning and delivery of new product features.Ensuring solutions were performant, scalable and maintainable. Working with enterprise multi-tier products with a modern Java stack (Angular/Spring/Hibernate/JPA) and also more legacy systems written in C/C++. Worked closely with customers to gather requirements and design solutions, leading the product direction along with the Product Managers.Also had the role of being an agile Product Owner for teams of around ten developers. Defining user stories, allocating/tracking the work, verifying it met requirements. Mentoring the team in new technologies/frameworks/best practices, and reviewing their work.Assisted pre-sales by demoing the products, talking at user conferences, meeting with analysists etc.

St Albans, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for the architecture and design of the Dimensions CM SCCM product. Leading the team from a technical perspective, driving design, planning and delivery of new product features.Led design and development of new "Orchestrated ALM" product solutions. Integrating several Serena products to deliver end-to-end SDLC functionality for our customers.Worked closely with customers to gather requirements and design solutions, leading the product direction along with the Product Managers. Had the role of managing the team working on the server side of the product (around ten developers). Mentoring the team, allocating/tracking/reviewing their work, helping them learn new technologies and skills. Working with other teams where we had dependencies. Ensuring the team had well defined goals, understood their work, and were recognized/valued.Transitioned the team from being waterfall to agile SCRUM sprint teams. Became a certified Scrum Master and Product Owner.Designed and implemented database schema, APIs, and business logic for many new product features in Java/JavaScript/HTML/CSS/jQuery and also in C/C++ technologies.Assisted pre-sales by demoing the products, talking at user conferences, meeting with analysists etc.

Hertford, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for new feature development and customer defect investigation/fixes for a cross platform enterprise C/C++ application.Technical team lead for the server components of the system, mentoring the team and driving design.Implemented many new features and resolved customer issues.Refactored the large C/C++ codebase into modules and services to make it easier to maintain.Made sure the system could scale and perform for large enterprise teams.

Harlow, England, United Kingdom

Debugging and fixing customer issues in a large C/C++ application which ran on VAX/VMS minicomputers. Assisted with porting the application to Unix with a Motif/X11 user interface. Developed the first Windows client UI for the application (written in MFC/Win32).