Freeform Automation Ltd is a company specialising in bespoke automation solutions for different business domains.

Responsible for the development of B2C and B2B software applications in various technologies including C#, .Net Core, SQL Server, GCP, AWS and AngularjSImplemented back-end micro services for supporting native Android and iOS mobile applicationsMajor projects: Lift-n-shift infrastructure to Google cloud platform (participatory), OAuth 2.0 Enterprise Identity replacement (Lead engineer), Sales portal maintenance and development (Lead engineer), Online sales catalogs (Lead engineer)

Working as a senior software consultant for designing, implementing and deploying technical solutions to assist startups with business growth and expansion into emerging markets.Major projects: Bespoke 'Data Transmission Tool' for scheduled data ingestion to the ETL pipeline (Lead & architecture), 'Equipment classification tool' (Lead & architecture)

- XLN is a £120m+ telecoms and business services company operating in the mid-market technology and telecommunications sector within the UK.- Responsible for leading a department of 25 software developers/testers/analysts and 8 operational support staff providing software & hardware support for 350 internal users, 130,000 customers and automated management of c~200,000 telecom assets.Key achievements:- Part of a senior management team responsible for bridging EBITDA from £12m to £18m in 4 years- Management and allocation of Op/Cap expenditure budget of c£1m- Architectural design and development of an automated B2B telecom management platform integrating with multiple wholesale platforms and service providers.- Successful acquisition, data-migration and process/business integration of two smaller UK telecoms and credit/debit card processing companies into the existing telco management platform.- Communicating commercial and technical challenges among the business directorate to facilitate sound business strategy and direction- Establishment of appropriate Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans- Deployment of a company-wide knowledge sharing & collaboration platform for information retention of business/technical processes and enhancing staff training/induction programmes.- Deployment and integration of a SIP-based voice telephony platform providing dynamic call routing, interactive customer IVR and performance metrics to support a distributed contact centre of 250 agents in multiple locations.- Development of Business Intelligence and KPI reporting models using data warehousing and BI tools/techniques.

Leading a team of 10 software engineers on feature, defect and project implementation to reduce operational costs across the entire business domain and customer life-cycle using C#, Java/J2EE, Asp.NET, Javascript, JQuery and HTML/CSS with MSSQL/T-SQL as the RDBMS foundation.Responsible for overall architectural strategy, release management, prioritisation, systems maintenance, coding standards and resource management coupled with project management and hands-on software implementation.Other responsibilities included:- continuous integration and software quality control/assurance- internal coding standards and tools standardisation- critical issue diagnostic, resolution and preventative remedy- systems/business process analysis and design- migration and upgrade strategies for legacy code base to newer technologies

Lead developer of a multi-lingual online psychometric and candidate assessment suite of tools using C#/Asp.NET, PHP and MSSQL