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Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Technical lead for many state driven projects within the Hunt Fish sector• Using previous experiences led several initiatives for process improvement around ETL and IT for IT projects• Followed SCRUM methodology with 1 lead Dev with offshore support working in a primary stack working directly with QA, CL and PM• Led most data related projects due to a broad knowledge of several DB technologies• Met deliverables and excelled in high stress strict deadline projects• Worked closely with project, account and client managers to evaluate scope, estimate tasks and deliver bug-free releases• Key Achievement: Full frontend redesign and e-license conversion for LA increasing site usability whilst reducing cost per license across the board.• Key Achievement: Full AODA compliance across ON state site following strict legislative guidelines• Core technologies: PHP, In-house MVC Framework, CodeIgniter, Oracle, JQuery, Bootstrap, SQL

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

• Senior developer, developing IT for IT focused on customer integration and various development processes• Identifying and developing automated systems from server builds to global release management systems• Managing architectural design and integration with current applications such as CA Service Desk, asset management systems and Spectrum monitoring software• Key Achievement: 100% scripted automation of server build and software installation• Key Achievement: Global code review and Service desk integration for internal release system• Core Technologies: .NET, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, MySQL, SQL, ISS, .NET 4 Framework, Powershell

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

• Operational management of over 400+ daily ETL processes• Key Achievement: Internal tool development around error handling, real time process reporting, failure logging gaining increased visibility across the business in a reduction of handling times and customer interaction• Core Technologies: FTP, SFTP, Connect Direct, Sagent and Microsoft SSIS

Northampton, United Kingdom

• Initial role from college as IT support and server backup & maintenance• Moved to core development team for internal development projects• Moved to lead of 5 person development team for the redevelopment of internal tools to differing platforms originally from Access based to VB/SQL through to .NET/SQL• Excelled in getting results and moving the team forward with forward thinking and initiative through self motivation• Key Achievement: Development of race, test, engine and component tracking system used throughout the business from designers to engine builders to race track engines during live events• Key Achievement: Developing key engine build measurement software reducing engine build time by 20% due to calculated CNC machining over manual build and measurement• Core Technologies: VB, SQL, .NET