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Steyning, Gb

Shoreham By Sea, England, United Kingdom

- Advise customers on the appropriate target architecture for their workloads, data andapplications, and migrate them from their current environment, providingconsultancy to our customers in a pre and post sales capacity- High level design of customer specific solutions- Providing ongoing consultancy for customers, ensuring they are leveraging the mostappropriate cloud technologies, and developing migration and adoption strategies based onbest practice and customer requirements- Providing pre-sales support and development of proposals- Technical leadership across teams , including mentoring and sales ena blement- Identify, evaluate, recommend and develop new technologies- Support the development of end to end services and solutions based on products withintheir area of specialisation and cross architecture- Provide product support to internal teams at Focus

Redhill, United Kingdom

• Responsible for designing Cloud (primarily Azure) and On-Prem solutions, aligned with customer requirements• Ensure solutions include appropriate Operational efficiency, Performance, Resilience, Security, Cost efficiency, Monitoring • Research system designs and enhance solutions, creating proofs of concept• Work with a wide range of engineering resources, ensuring that end-to-end infrastructure design is completed • Co-ordinate and develop project concepts, objectives, specifications and resource needs• Assist project team with requirements completion and submittal of responses to RFP’s • Participate in the design, development, planning, modification and improvement of software operational systems

London/Durrington

• Created business case, architectural design, proof of concept, selection of COTS and technical specification for API exposing Hachette’s bibliographic data, used in current websites and other platforms. Technologies used: API Management (Apigee, Swagger/JSON), Cloud NoSQL Database (Azure Cosmos DB), Web API (Azure .Net Core), SQL Server• Set up cost-effective, secure, resilient, performant WordPress environment in Rackspace Cloud, hosting over 100 company websites. Technologies used: Load Balancers, Synching (LsyncD), Caching (Varnish & Memcache), Apache, PHP, MySQL, WAF (WordFence), Monitoring (New Relic), Logging (Rapid7 Logentries), Email (Postfix & Mailgun). Custom built PHP-based portal to manage security and updates (nightly core, theme, plugin & Let’s Encrypt SSL checks), with minimal support. • Provided Hachette management with strategic, commercial analysis of various COTS Web CMS platforms, used as basis for final selection of current Hachette web platform. Systems analysed: WordPress, Teamsite, Umbraco, Kentico.• Acted as both technical expert and product owner for current Hachette web platform, writing/validating user stories used in Agile environment. Set up internal environment & workflow and provided guidance to internal developers. Technologies used: Windows Subsystem for Linux, Bash, Docker, PHPCS, Github, WordPress VIP, Elastic Search• Acted as technical expert for GDPR website remediation programme (over 300 websites), working with legal and marketing teams to ensure websites are sufficiently secure and compliant.• Authored specification for secure, GDPR compliant system collecting sensitive personal data for work experience applications. Technologies used:.Net, Encryption, SQL Server• Provided technical advice to marketing teams on Technology, Security, Developers/Commercial, SEO• Sat on Enterprise Design Architecture committee providing critiques, advice & mutual approval on technical solutions across the Enterprise

London/Durrington

- Ran large scale project (>£1M) to create new corporate websites across Hachette UK, including: setup of steering group, authored RFP to 3rd parties, organised pitches & vendor selection, scope, high level technical architecture/interfaces, stakeholder management. Technologies used:.Net 4.0, Teamsite/IDOL, SQL Server, SSIS, XML, WAF/DDOS protection (Silverline)- Responsible for web team management & hiring- Project Management for internal and 3rd party built websites- Supplier management - website related contract negotiation for Group & publishers- Setup of standard supplier web contract- Stakeholder management - publishers, steering group- Establishing solutions and support processes- Responsible for web department budget- Became certified as Prince2 Practitioner

London, United Kingdom

As Technical Team Leader, responsible for Web Team management, hiring & work allocationLead developer for various high profile ASP.Net/C# websites including M6Toll, Steam Packet Ferries, Days Out Guide, States of Jersey TourismWorked with various CMS platforms including Microsoft CMS, Sharepoint, Umbraco and SitecoreMaintained in-house email marketing platformResident expert on 3rd party email marketing platforms: Campaign Monitor and CheetahmailCross browser HTML and accessiblityLoad testing and performance profilingWeb security work, based on penetration testingAuthored SQL for Business Intelligence reports

Lead developer on numerous intranets for architectural practicesBuilt Rapport3 intranet and project costing framework in Classic ASP/ASP.Net/SQL ServerDesign and Cross-browser HTML buildBuilt interface for Active Directory using LDAPData migration using DTS/SSISBuilt Websites/CMS using PHP/MySQL

London, United Kingdom

Trained customers on online Monster product, including BBC, Orange, YellDesigned and built HTML for company profilesEstablished standard client contractCo-ordinated UK product upgrade projects, private label sites and co-branded alliances

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba) Honours, English Language And Literature, General

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