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Birmingham, United Kingdom

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Coventry, United Kingdom

• An innovative development leader with 5 years’ solutions design experience.• Predominantly architecture / design-focused for the past 2 years.• Responsible for design and delivery of integrated solutions for high-value business changes.• Familiar with architectural methodologies including PRISM, Unity and TOGAF.• Always seeking innovation whilst ensuring quality and maintainability of delivery.• Significant leadership experience; a regular mentor to new starters and junior team members thanks to extensive, broad technical ability.• Responsible for co-ordination of code-reviews and automated testing.• Conversant with Agile methodology; facilitating task-breakdown / estimation sessions, promoting Test-Driven Development and Scrum.

Coventry, United Kingdom

• Highly skilled developer in C#.NET, WPF, XAML, Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX Shell with extensive experience of associated development, tuning & source control tools.• Significant experience of messaging technologies using SOAP Web Services (WCF / ASP.NET), XML, REST, Oracle Advanced Queues.• Comfortable in the large-scale project arena, working to complex business requirements with a backdrop of diverse systems and technologies.• Extensive use of MVVM & MVC software patterns with Dependency Injection founded upon sound principles of object-orientation.• Fully engaged in the complete software development lifecycle from requirements analysis to post-implementation support.• Used to working remotely in a multi-developer environment.• Regular presenter of Show & Tell sessions to colleagues and stakeholders.

Coventry, United Kingdom

• Pricing Support team manager responsible for a team of Analyst Developers.• Out-Of-Hours Support Manager leading on-call staff 24/7 for all Corporate Retail systems.• Ensured prioritisation and delivery of production fixes and small-scale project-based solutions in a high-pressure, time-critical environment.• Co-ordinated with internal and external project development resources to facilitate smooth delivery of new functionality.• Successfully in-sourced support for externally-developed Sales system (UNIX / Oracle OLAP solution), thus achieving significant service improvement and cost-saving.

Coventry, United Kingdom

• Manager of team supporting 24-hour batch processing operations for Corporate Electricity & Gas Sales, Registration and Billing systems.• Successfully transitioned a very reactive team to a proactive position through a process of continuous improvement.• Implemented migration of gas and electricity systems to Control-M Enterprise Batch Scheduler from disparate, legacy tools without interruption to online processing.