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Belfast, United Kingdom

• Director and CTO.
• Identify and realise market opportunities.
• Design and implementation of Rails based full stack apps.
• Management of the entire software development lifecycle in a fast moving, dynamic start-up.

Belfast, United Kingdom

• Software development consultancy.
• Creating products on Distributed Ledger, and Blockchain technologies, such as R3 Corda.
• Architecture of large scale products consisting of legacy components and new micro-services.
• Business transformation consultancy, including proof of concept and technology reviews.
• Implementation of REST API, services and web applications using Spring and Java 8.
• Agile development consultancy and mentoring.

Zurich, Switzerland

• Managing a delivery department of around 75 people.
• Handling offshore, nearshore and local teams.
• Ensuring the successful delivery of B3i’s portfolio of products.
• Responsible for the technical decisions.
• Promoting B3i’s technology with partners.
• Managing vendor relationships.

Zurich, Switzerland

Zurich, Switzerland

• Responsible for ensuring that B3i used the most appropriate blockchain technology.
• Ensuring that the development teams can work with our chosen technology.
• Wrote many key components of B3i’s software portfolio.
• Assisted the Chief Architect in defining the architecture for B3i’s products and innovative Fluidity architecture that provides a solid base for transformational change in the Insurance Industry.

Belfast, United Kingdom

• Involved in early stage opportunities, building trust and confidence with clients.
• Helping clients understand their needs and how their business can grow with Intel products.
• Definition of client specific solution architectures that encompass Intel and non-Intel products.
• Defining marketing messages for the product suite.
• Preparing and delivering product messaging for the field.
• Helping to broaden the reach of the product suite by utilizing it in new markets including Retail, Healthcare and Industrial.

Belfast

• Responsible for setting the product direction for the Partner Management Engine (PME).
• Architect for the Partner Management Engine, with overall technical responsibility.
• Consultant on API design for internal and external projects, promoting the use of RESTful APIs.
• Handled complex customer engagements, both on-site and remotely.
• Organisation of customer workshops to get round difficult roadblocks and facilitate progress.
• Continuation of all responsibilities from Principal Software Engineer role.

Belfast, United Kingdom

• Analysed trends in market place, predicted future direction and decided on appropriate path to take.
• Produced requirements for R&D roadmap features of the product suite.
• Prepared material for consumption by sales and marketing to further their product knowledge and drive product sales.
• Prepared and presented material to customers outlining direction of products, features and how they could be utilised those to further their business.
• Led several teams of developers in local and off-shore locations.
• Developed a high throughput, low latency proxy to front services, which extended their capabilities through provisioning, authentication and authorisation, policy rules, logging, reporting, monitoring and load-balancing.

Belfast, United Kingdom

• Architect for an enterprise level insurance application.
• Identified and scoped refactoring opportunities.
• Worked with analysts on gathering and reviewing requirements.
• Estimated project effort and managed project planning.
• Led and successfully delivered several high profile projects.
• Improved the skills of others through mentoring and code reviews.

Belfast, United Kingdom

• Developed frameworks to simplify development of complex business rules.
• Developed coding and testing standards to improve quality.
• Worked on the design of a J2EE application to replace existing legacy systems.
• Held company information sessions to further new technology adoption.

Belfast, United Kingdom

• Directly mentored other developers and new hires.
• Suggested and developed an analytical tool for monitoring our primary application’s performance using Hibernate, AspectJ and Struts 2.

Belfast, United Kingdom

• Team’s WebSphere and J2EE standards expert.
• Responsible for development of a Struts based layer for a new application.

Belfast, United Kingdom

• Part of a large development team working on an MFC C++ based application.
• Optimised Sybase database and stored procedures cutting query times from minutes to seconds.
• Detected, analysed and fixed memory leaks in the product and its underlying framework.
• Re-implemented core components of the product framework to be more reliable and easier to work with.
• Trained new developers on the product, its fit in the larger portfolio, and the business cases behind it.