Ross Carr Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

• As programme technical lead, I have consistently demonstrated my expertise in orchestrating the successful delivery of a £15m program over a three-year period. Through my leadership, I coordinated the seamless integration of in-house, contract and vendor resources ensuring the implementation of a sophisticated, integrated on-premise and cloud-based solution, to the highest standards of quality and timeliness.• Transformed customers onboarding, strategy creation and management, financial reporting, and customer communication by introducing pioneering techniques that took our success to the next level. From ideation to execution, I was the driving force behind these processes, ensuring everything ran smoothly, from brainstorming to execution.

Hull, East Yorkshire, Gb

Leading the IT Development, Testing, MI/BI, DBA and DevOps functions, my role is to ensure the delivery of high-quality, stable and integrated solutions. I lead technical innovation with the teams and ensure that the organisation gains maximum benefit from existing and emerging technologies. Working with the senior team, I ensure that IT strategy is aligned to business objectives and that we are able to respond to market opportunities.During my time in role, I have been responsible for:-Introduction of Change Management Process-Standardised development environments, at server and developer levels. Now in the process of automating these builds using Ansible and Vagrant.-Created a standard 'Route to Live', that removed the need for developer access production systems and allowed the operational staff to fully integrate and support releases. Now in the process of automating this with TFS and Jenkins.-Introduction of source control(TFS) and documentation systems (SharePoint) to enhance support and cross-functional working, as well as to ensure that code assets are protected within the business.-Introduction of common documents sets: Business Requirements Document->Functional Specification->Technical Specification, to ensure delivery is aligned to business needs.-Introduction of Agile development methodologies, using Kanban boards and backlogs and Scrum style bi-weekly sprints. This is prefaced by user story mapping and enhanced by the use of wire framing and prototyping where possible.-Introductions of structured training plans, online training, MSDN, workshops and code reviews to ensure that knowledge and best practice are shared within the department.-Creation of a testing functionCurrent initiatives:-Collaboration improvements using Skype for Business-Creation of automated Route to Live with key sign off points -Creation of automated check-in, unit testing and regression testing-Enhancement of development environments using VMWare and Vagrant

Gb

Reponsible for hte identification and implementation of technology solutions, I delivered cross-functional solutions to all parts and levels of the business. Key achievements include:- Identification and introduction of SQL 2012 solution for data archiving. Archiving of over 6TB of disparate data from SQL server, Oracle, IBM Iseries, DB2, Excel and Access. This required the design, mapping and staging a large amounts of data and the design of an appropriate series of Data Marts to allow ongoing access.-Design and implementation of cross-company replication using MS SQL Server to support near real time reporting.-Introduction of MS Office Sharepoint Services as a document library across the business.-Design and development of a number of apps in C#, asp.net, MVC and Javascript to support key business initiatives.

Gb

At a time of major change for the organisation and the expansion into a number of new areas, including the creation of a new bank, I was the Senior SQL Server DBA across the organisation. I inherited a number of systems that were unfit for purpose both in terms of technical design and support/maintenance. Leading my team, we rebuilt the estate to be robust, scalable and compliant. I had responsibility for over 40 servers across multiple versions and operating systems and for numerous business functions - many of them mission critical

Working on the development of internal intranet and web based applications. Full life cycle of design, development, test and implement as well as project management and integration of external solutions. Key technologies; Windows; IIS; ASP; ASP.NET; SQL Server; DTS; HTML; CSS; Javascript

My remit was to architect the delivery of information to field-based senior management. This involved the design and development of the required business models, along with the training and support of a very senior user base, most of whom were very new to the use of computers.Initially I focussed upon the extension and development of the existing framework, and then later the design and creation of a much wider enteprise wide data warehouse.

I began work as a the Authority's Senior Information Systems Specialist, designing and implementing systems to support clinical management and patient care. I progressed to Developments Manager, running major projects such as the Authority's GP Links project and a national pilot of Telemedicine.

EYH is an acute hospital specialising in Cardio-vascular and General Surgical complaints. Working from within the Information Directorate, I was involved in the specification, design, construction and support of a number of major information systems and the negotiation and management of a replacement system for the HSDU unit.

Pedigree Petfoods is one of the leading subsidiaries of Mars, and producer of the majority of top selling petfood brands. Working from within the Finance Department, I was assigned to a number of multi-disciplinary teams working on a range of initiatives within the business. This included working on the development of a usage tracking system that realised substantial financial savings for the business.

Bsc Joint Hons, Management And Computer Science

Pgdip, Marketing