Stuart Hemstock Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Managed delivery of software by the supplier on behalf of the consortium of 5 stakeholder clients. (BBC, ITV, Channel4, Channel5/Viacom, Sky)
• Facilitated meetings between all technical decisions on the project with key Stakeholders.
• Reviewed technical documentation for proposed changes and enhancements.
• Acted as the primary contact point for the Key Service provider and Broadcasters; providing updates on progress.
• Produced procedure documentation to support BAU running by CDN.
• Launched the Reporting of Diamond in summer 2017 in time to deliver a presentation at the Edinburgh TV and more flexible reporting in December 2017 for the Broadcasters internal use.

London, United Kingdom

• Managed Implementations of Software supporting Sky’s core business.
• Published outline forward release plans with regular (2-week) cadence allowing planning of release content and coordination with external teams.
• Facilitating meetings, especially around proposed release content and delivery status.
• Increase the software quality by publishing reports enabling timely test results checks before deployments.
• Documented procedures and ensure compliance with audit requirements.
• Co-ordinated resources across teams to deploy software.

Ensure that the Software releases are planned in, developed to acceptatble quality and communicate progress to developers and Project managers so they can ensure timely development.

Maintain and develop the Broadcast Support System (BSS) application and related systems.The system is written in a mixture of Oracle and UniPaas (from Magic software - it as called "Magic" until a recent release.)

Worked on the new Stakeholder-Pension system as an analyst/programmer using Oracle PL/SQL and Oracle Forms.

Slough, United Kingdom

Worked on the in-house M-Power call centre software; written in C and interfacing to most of Cellnet's systems to allow resolution of incidents in one call. The application was written in PL/SQL, Oracle Forms and C with some Unix scripts and provided the usual call-centre functionality as well as working with the companies billing, cell site, messaging.

Programmer / Senior support for their suite of software which provided support for the sales force of pharmaceutical companies.C, SQL, Informix, Oracle, Unix Shell Scripting, Microsoft Scripting (BAT files), SED, AWK.

Worked as a programmer / analyst programmer on software tools around the Fortran suit of tools; including pretty printers; migrations tools to interface to Matlab etc. Working mostly in C and some Fortran 77.

Oxford, United Kingdom

Developed solutions mostly to convert data into visual formats using a mixture of C, Fortran, BBC micro, IBM PC etc.