* Management: Interviewing, onboarding, 1-1s, coaching, evaluating performance (including advocating for promotions), personal development planning, creating and implementing improvement plans, offboarding, contractor management. * My team is a combination of remote and onsite team members in several countries, and was all home based from 2020 to 2023. I've very rarely had team members resign, especially recently.* Scrum Master: Leading PI and sprint planning, standup, feature elaboration, backlog generation and retrospective meetings. Reporting team progress and status in ART sync, and demonstrating stories and features in iteration/sprint reviews. Ensuring quality gates and standards are met. Accepting stories on behalf of Product Owner on many occasion. Speaking up for the team when they are not confident to do so.* Organising and participating in volunteering efforts such as kidsloveclothes and the local foodbank. Also taking part in Mastercard's Girls4Tech initiative to show girls they can have STEM careers.* Spring Java (and Perl up until recently) development and testing.* Jenkins job setup and monitoring.* Management of some Docker containers such as NGINX, Jenkins and opengrok. * Preparing and presenting code reviews and performing code reviews of others work.* Release note generation and presentation to stakeholders. Important projects:* Open source vulnerability remediation in Java/Maven.* Version minimal API preparation and launch, including chaos testing.* Java 8-17 (Zulu) upgrade of components and applications.* Add multi-factor authentication (MFA) to Portals applications.* Separated a subsystem from the main Gateway release. This included definition and agreement of how to meet quality gates. The main benefit of this project was being able to release the subsystem at a much increased cadence.* Legacy gateway retirement.* Two internal cloud migrations.* Debian (Stretch) version upgrade for dev environment.

* Migrated my team (generally between 4-6 people) from Waterfall to loose Agile style of working.* Work continued to be TDD in Java and Perl using MySQL on Debian. CI used Jenkins.* Projects included: * Gateway MySQL upgrade. * Implementing new bank integrations and accreditations. * Adding new card types support. * Upgrading bank integrations to new versions of specifications and performing re-accreditation. * Other feature enhancements.

- Bank integrations and change requests for acquiring banks and merchants.- Analysis, design, implementation, testing and releases.- Peer reviews.- Test driven development in Java and Perl using MySQL.- Continuous integration using Jenkins.- Debian and RedHat packaging.- Team leadership tasks such as task planning, monitoring, feedback and holding team meetings.

Lead Designer, Designer and Developer on Devolved Government Projects/Programmes, with experience of the following:- Customer and supplier management, - Release management,- Technical team leadership, - Feeding into, monitoring and feeding back progress against the project plan, - Raising and mitigating risks, - Coaching, training and presentations.- Requirements capture and workshops,- Design and development using UML and Java (SCJP for Java 6 qualified) with agile (user stories) and waterfall approaches,- Use of common JEE design patterns,- Use of Weblogic Server, J2EE/JEE, Backbase JSF, JPFs, JSPs, CSS, Hibernate, Ant, Subversion,- Oracle SQL, Pro*C and some database administration (holder of Oracle OCA SQL Fundamentals and currently studying towards Oracle OCA DBA),- Informix SQL, 4GL, ESQL/C and some database administration, both logical and physical, - Solaris, Ubuntu, CentOS and Windows operating systems including shell scripting and system administration,- Design and development of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) on Solaris and Windows using Tenet (now Envitia) GSQL, C and Visual C++,- 3rd line application support.

- Member of the Sales History team. - Filled in the gaps that the end user reporting tool could not fill by producing custom reports for various functions within the business using Oracle SQL*Plus, Microsoft Excel, VBA and Cognos Impromptu.

- Employed during college and university holidays.- Part of team that single sourced a Mitrefinch application written in Pascal so that it could be used on VAX, UNIX and PC operating systems.- Designed, built and maintained company database in Borland Paradox 3.5.- Setup Ethernet LAN and configured Novell Netware.- Built clocking terminals in the Engineering department.- Performed callouts throughout the country to install, fix or replace clocking terminals.