Simon Starr Email & Phone Number

Remote

As the Connections & Add-ons team lead, I'm responsible for managing engineers and overseeing software development projects alongside our Product Manager. Some of the projects my team have delivered include:- RBSG Front Book Provisioning: An integration with NatWest Group to automatically provision FreeAgent accounts for new NatWest and RBS business.

Remote

I first joined FreeAgent on the Growth (née Banks) Team, where I was involved in the development of the free account offering for customers of NatWest and RBS. I also worked on initial development of the CoPilot add-on and was tech lead on the implementation of our connection with Hiscox Insurance.

Bath, United Kingdom

As CTO and lead developer at Tabb (formerly Cahootify), I was responsible for building the app from scratch in Ruby on Rails, as well as ensuring the reliability and security of its hosting. As a co-founder I also shared the responsibility for product development and day-to-day running of the business.

Bath, United Kingdom

On the board of directors responsible for overseeing the running of The Guild, Bath's first coworking community.

Bath, United Kingdom

Freelance technical consultancy and software development.

Bath, United Kingdom

Having never run any kind of large-scale event before, I foolishly decided that I should organise a conference for 500 Ruby developers. It proved to be very popular so I went on to do it a couple more times.My responsibilities included planning and budgeting, booking and paying speakers, booking the venue and suppliers, organising accommodation, finding.

Bath, United Kingdom

Building and managing an in-house development team, planning and implementing new features, providing technical support to our customers.

Building and maintaining the Ruby on Rails back end software.

Remote

I was responsible for the development of this booking system which allows schools to hire out their facilities and included GoCardless and Realex integrations for payment handling. As well as writing a lot of the code myself, I also sub-contracted some development out and managed a small team of freelance developers.

As one of three co-founders, I was responsible for the technical side of this digital publishing startup. Using open source technology, we created and launched one iOS magazine in the App Store before coming to the conclusion that the iPad magazine market wasn't really going anywhere in a hurry.

London, United Kingdom

Development of the Reuters Real Estate website using Ruby on Rails. RRE was run as an independent startup within Thomson Reuters, following agile practices to develop a web app tailored to the needs of commercial property investors around the world.

Remote

I joined an existing development team and contributed to the Rails app as well as working with the founders to design new features.

Remote

Working on a small software team to develop a furniture marketplace app using Ruby on Rails. My main contributions to the project were the development of the discussion forums and HTML newsletter.

Providing independent consultancy, systems administration and development services for a number of high profile clients.

London, United Kingdom

Norwich, United Kingdom

Bristol, United Kingdom

- Supporting SQL, Exchange, IIS and SMS servers at three security levels- Building Windows 2000 and 2003 clusters on IBM and HP hardware

Mod Sites Across The UK

- Upgrading 500 Windows NT desktops to XP across multiple sites in the UK- Desk-side user training on the new features of Windows XP and Office 2003

Chippenham, Wiltshire

- Installing, maintaining and supporting test and development environments consisting of Solaris 8/9 servers and Windows 2000/2003 servers running Citrix MetaFrame- Creating and deploying images of servers/software using Altiris- Installing and troubleshooting internal development/test builds of NSPIS Case Preparation software on the test environments.

Technical Lead on a project to implement and later upgrade Symantec Antivirus.Technical Lead on a project to implement GPRS connectivity using Infowave technology.Creating, updating and managing Symantec Ghost builds of workstations and laptops.

Swindon, United Kingdom

Supervising the desktop support team, preparing documentation for ISO9001 certification, assisting with the development of a tailored Windows XP training course for the 1st and 2nd line support teams.

Thornbury, Gloucestershire

Supporting 600 users on a mixed Windows 3.1/95/2000 network.

Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Novell ZENworks 2 administration, desktop support, Year 2000 testing and contingency preparations.

Handled the general running and maintenance of the TCP/IP network including PC, Apple Macintosh and Unix based systems.Worked on the development and maintenance of several major websites including Shell International and Redruth Brewery.Assisted with the development and testing of several interactive CD-ROMs, including The Magic World of Beatrix Potter and.

Ndita

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