Richard Walker Email & Phone Number

Halifax, GB

Manchester, United Kingdom

Halifax, United Kingdom

• Covéa Insurance is a UK general insurer specializing in commercial, motor, high net worth, property and protection insurance. Key assignments included:
• Developed a new website allowing affinity partner John Lewis to provide car insurance online. Sole Senior Software Engineer tasked to develop the website as part of the overall project. Built using MVC4, JavaScript.
• Responsible for selection, design and co-development of a new Single Page Application (SPA) using Angular4 to enhance their customer Self Service portal for policy holders to amend their car details online. Presented.
• Maintenance and improvements of existing car insurance website including a fix to the existing payment gateway resulting in a saving cost approximately £29,000/annum;
• Delivered addition to the customer insurance portal UI to provide the ability to process online renewals. Resulting system was developed using MVC4 / ASP.NET C#, AJAX and EPiServer CMS, incorporating n-tier style.

Bradford, United Kingdom

• Provident Financial plc is a British financial services group specialising in credit cards, home collected credit, online loans and consumer car finance.I was hired to provide technical and web development expertise. I.
• Delivered proof of concept prototype, which led to approval for full development of an Employee Appraisal system. Resulting system was developed using MVC4 / ASP.NET C#, WCF, ADO.Net and TSQL, incorporating n-tier.
• Evaluated 3rd party content management systems, produced and presented prototype using Umbraco 7.2, MVC4, Knockout.js, AJAX, JSON and JavaScript.
• Redeveloped Personal Credit UK website to provide full mobile responsive design and functionality to improve overall user experience.
• Worked closely with SEO specialists to implement SEO strategy, defined SEO tags and established HTML generated templates to enable marketing team to dynamically add keywords. Optimised page load performance using.

Halifax, United Kingdom

• Richard Walker Web Design provide specialist technical expertise and website development services.I operate as an Independent Consultant providing business and IT consultancy. I worked directly with the client to.
• Designed and developed 28 page CMS for Fitness Finesse using Joomla 2.5, enhancing the clients web presence and providing a stable platform to publish content.
• Implemented a CMS for Advance Welding using Joomla 3.5 integrating to 3rd party e-Commerce plugin. Created login portal for technicians to access more in-depth technical information.
• Built job portal web site in collaboration with local graphic design agency to provide a Tax Recruitment company with their own bespoke job board.
• Created a website for the charity Hope for Kenya’s Orphans to raise their online presence and enable online donations.

Halifax, United Kingdom

• Halifax General Insurance, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group.I was hired to design and deliver visually appealing, user-friendly web applications to support key business requirements.I provided.
• Led team of on / off shore developers for new £1.2 million project to build an internal web application integrating Lloyds Banks Home Insurance and Halifax Mortgage Sales platforms, coordinating all technical design.
• Designed and developed the Household Customer Proposition web application using ASP.Net 3.5 / C# / XHTML / XML / CSS.
• Led design and implementation of Birmingham Midshires website using ASP.Net 3.5 / C# / ASPX Web Forms.

Halifax, United Kingdom

• Developed COBOL/DB2 mainframe applications for mainframe back end systems
• Developed batch JCL jobs for overnight batch production of insurance data
• Worked extensively with business analysts and stakeholders in the design and build of batch and interface driven COBOL routines

Bradford, United Kingdom

• Trained to develop COBOL mainframe applications using COBOL 85 and ADABAS/Natural database technologies

Halifax, United Kingdom

• Repair and maintenance of industrial textile machinery and general steel fabrication
• Learned COBOL on a self funded distance learning course to pursue a career in I.T