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Great Ellingham, England, GB

United Kingdom

Norwich, England, United Kingdom

Norwich, United Kingdom

Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Responsible for all group-wide global IT systems, applications and data assets for approximately 1800 staff, 24x7. Responsible for all the Change Delivery functions - Development, Architecture, QA & Test, Database &.
• Responsible for defining the 3 year IT strategy and management of 6 million pound Opex\Capex budgets.
• Implemented business critical support & business continuity frameworks. Rollout of Change, Release and Incident Management processes.
• Successful global rollout of Microsoft Dynamics CRM throughout the organisation to 42 global sites, a roaming sales force and 400+ user base (~ £2M budget).
• Implementation of cloud 1st strategy and responsible for the transition of application services onto Azure and Office 365 platforms to exploit the business benefits they provide.
• Currently managing the technical implementation of strategic ERP (HRM, FRM modules) and global CEG intranet.

London, United Kingdom

• Managed the GHO IT Development and Test teams of 20+ staff (permanent and contract). Assignment included implementing operational improvements and removal of the dependency on contract resource.
• Responsible for developing SharePoint and Solvency II software solutions for Group Head Office (GHO) (£250K - £2M+).
• Building effective relationships with business stakeholders and managing problems/escalations to resolution.
• Responsible for building a permanent in-house capability (10+ staff) and removing key man dependencies.
• Management of 3rd party resource suppliers and consultancies.
• Responsible for identifying and mitigating risks within the department and their impact to GHO.

Norwich, United Kingdom

• Managed the eChannel DC (Change, BAU and DevOps) comprising of 40+ staff (permanent and contract). Responsible for developing all Aviva General Insurance web solutions and integration with Corporate Partners.
• Responsible for the delivery of the eChannel book of work using agile methods to meet the demands of the business (30million+ monthly website hits and multi-million pound revenue stream).
• Engagement with business stakeholders to provide vision, direction and managing problems to resolution.
• Management of Onshore/Offshore resource suppliers and Global Service Providers (GSP).
• Management of risk within eChannel and mitigation of impact on the business.
• Improvement to the Problem and Incident management processes within the department and MI reporting.

Norwich, United Kingdom

• Technical consultancy regarding software engineering, processes and risk within eChannel.
• Standardisation of software engineering processes and creation of technical governance.
• Improvements to software configuration management (SCM), continuous integration (CI), ALM and SDLC processes.
• Implemented operational improvements within eChannel such as process mapping & re-engineering, MI monitoring & reporting. Ensuring a continuous improvement philosophy.
• Improvements to quality assurance process within eChannel such as defect analysis, unit testing and test automation.
• Capacity and capability management using resource planning, skill matrixes and succession planning.

• Business consultancy on a variety of assignments for private and public sector clients such as University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich City FC and HM Treasury.
• Compliance awareness and training - accessibility (DDA & WCAG compliance), code quality, security (PCI, DPA, Cookie & OWASP compliance), scalability/performance, SEO, architecture, Usability and design.
• Responsible for transitioning codebases from off-shore to in-house development teams.
• Architectural design and implementation of technical solutions including 3rd party integrations.Specialities include:IT Consultancy, Application Development, Application/Web Architecture, Interim Management, Software.

Norwich, United Kingdom

• Responsible for ensuring that the technology and architecture of solutions support the business strategy.
• Solution architect and consultant for business (B2B) and customer (B2C) solutions for Moneyfacts and its blue chip clients such as Which?, MoneyExtra and USwitch (1 million+ monthly visits, £3M+ revenue).
• Ensuring functional and non-functional requirements are considered and aligned with business objectives.
• Technical governance and leadership for all internal, external development projects and 3rd party integrations.
• Identifying business opportunities and risks to upgrade, or take advantage of new, technologies and report via the Architecture Review Board.
• Responsible for establishing SLAs, KPIs and MI reporting for the business.

Norwich, United Kingdom

• Managed the development team of 20+ staff responsible for developing all the software solutions internally using the Microsoft stack.
• Responsible for the development of core web sites (such as www.moneyfacts.co.uk) and database applications accounting £2m+ revenue. Working with business analysts to provide vision and direction of applications.
• Implementation of standards, methodologies and best practice guidelines such as code, release and build management.
• Responsible for security and compliance such as DPA, PCI, DDA, OWASP
• Successfully completed transition of the department from VB6 to.Net technology stack.
• Implemented training programs for the department including MCTS & MCPD qualifications leading to Microsoft Partner status.

Norwich, United Kingdom

• Design, development and project manager for mortgage database application and Moneyfacts Web Datascreen web site.
• Development of e-commerce web sites using “classic” VB, ASP or.Net v1 (VB.Net, ASP.Net) frameworks. Solutions utilised DHTML, Javascript, XML, XSLT, SQL Server (7/2000), COM+.
• White labeling of web sites.
• Development of n-Tier VB windows applications using VB, COM+, DCOM and SQL Server (7, 2000).
• Development of COM and DCOM components running under MTS.
• Creating and optimising SQL Server objects for handling business logic, data formatting and searching.

Lowestoft, United Kingdom

• Design and development of VB applications for use by CEFAS, Environment Agency and universities.
• Development of COM objects and VB wrappers for C++ Dll’s.
• Development of algorithms in VB for analysing tagging data.
• Statistical analysis and graphical presentation (some GIS) of data for reports and publications.
• Management of various MAFF projects, budgets and staff.
• Reporting, presentations and creation of proposals to MAFF and external clients.

Msc (Research), Parasitology

Bsc (Hons), Biology & Oceanography