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Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Development of an advanced quoting platform tailored for North American Home and Auto Insurance markets utilising cutting-edge technologies including React, TypeScript and AWS to deliver robust, scalable and efficient solutions.

Londonderry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

• Mastered the.NET based Duck Creek Policy administration system and worked on state rollout development as part of ABI’s re-platforming and subsequent rollout of the new website across the USA.
• Created extensive documentation based on knowledge transfer material from an external vendor that helped our engineers understand development for this new system.
• Led the training, mentoring and team management of a group of 12 graduate developers, allowing them to quickly get up to speed and begin contributing to development.
• Helped interview, select and onboard new leads for 3 new Agile teams along with engineers for a new production support team. Adding these experienced individuals had a positive impact to our cross-team development.

United Kingdom

• Supported and developed the integration layer between Allstate applications and a third party hosted policy administration application.
• Analysis, design, development, testing and deployment of complex integration solutions.
• Extensive use of Java, Oracle SQL, SQL Server, Linux plus XML, JSON and XSLT transformations to develop solutions that allowed policy data to flow between Allstate systems.
• Maintained and supported three legacy ASP.NET applications and their Windows server hosting, allowing continued use of these valued apps by stakeholders.
• Project / resource management.
• Mentoring junior developers.

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• Designed, developed and maintained complex TIBCO Middleware solutions to provide a real-time integration layer between global factory toolsets.
• Developed integrations between Linux / Windows servers and an Oracle based Data Warehouse.
• Facilitated the continued operation of a high-tech manufacturing plant along with enhancements to several key systems.

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• Extensively used Oracle SQL combined with data modelling software to predict yield and identify the root cause of yield excursions using multivariate data analysis.
• Developed innovative solutions to automate manual reporting making significant improvements to the team’s analysis time.o allowed defective material to be scrapped earlier in the process which had a huge cost benefit.
• Assisted with the transfer of process data to Seagate’s Oracle based Enterprise Data Warehouse allowing global factory datasets to be combined and analysed.Also use of Oracle PL/SQL combined with SAS JMP data discovery.

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Lead a small team of analysts to help investigate downstream yield issues and present findings to senior management. Automated manual reporting activity using Excel macros and assisted with transfer of process data to Seagate’s Enterprise Data Warehouse.

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Design and development of automated systems using Borland Delphi and Oracle PL/SQL to facilitate analysis of downstream yield data and it’s relationship to the factory’s internal measurement data.

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Management and development of new software projects using Borland Delphi and Oracle SQL.

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Borland Delphi and Oracle SQL were used to develop a system for the retrieval, analysis and presentation of yield and parametric data stored on an Oracle database in Seagate’s Minnesota plant.

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Data analysis and automation of quality reports using Seagate’s Oracle, Paradox and Consillium databases. Tracking customer complaints, internal auditing and new product qualifications.

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Operation of various pieces of hi-tech equipment and training new employees in their use

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Data entry and computer maintenance

Graduate Diploma In Computing, 2:1 Honours Degree

H.N.D. In Computer Studies.

O.N.D. In Computer Studies.

7 G.C.E. O' Levels