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Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Intelligent Traffic Systems. I oversee feature development of the web-based Insight system, working with customers and acting as Scrum Product Owner specifying and accepting work undertaken by a team of developers and testers. Technologies used include PHP, MySQL, Postgres, Timescale dB, Flexmonster.By assisting both the team and the business in the development and monitoring of process and performance, I also perform some aspects of the Scrum Master role.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Managed projects in a hybrid Prince2 / Scrum environment involving software and hardware development and rollouts using Project Briefs, PIDs, Gantt charts, RAID logs, tracking against budgets, change control.Ensured internal and customer stakeholders kept engaged through project boards, steering groups and written reports. Negotiate plans and changes with external and client stakeholders.Worked with sales, product owners, customers, development, installation, procurement, support and delivery teams in multiple countries to progress projects. Software development used Scrum and Jira.Worked with PMO and the various teams to develop processes and procedures.

Oxford, United Kingdom

- IT representative on MultiVu leadership team.- Assisted business stakeholders with proposals, business cases and budgets. - Facilitated requirement gathering and business analysis through workshops, visuals, prototypes.- Managed the MultiVu & Multimedia project portfolio including prioritisation, resource allocation, architecture and infrastructure. Managed projects in terms of product backlogs, story writing, backlog grooming, stage/release/iteration plans, release and sprint goals, burn-down/up charts, team and project budgets, risk and velocity management.- Lead/facilitated mixed in-house and outsourced development teams, ensuring use of good practices, collaboration tools, source control, unit tests and continuous integration engine. Validated requirements using HTML/CSS.Achievements include:• The creation of a new SaaS Product from scratch using an offshore development team and Cloud infrastructure. After significant problems with the vendor’s process, I introduced Scrum project methodology which allowed the on-time go live of the product on time• Migration of a product from Ruby to merge with a Java based product, avoiding duplication, improving peak performance and saving six figures in annual development costs• Visual refresh of web page builder application to make the appearance of Multimedia News Releases more modern and to give designs more flexibility within the product framework, including responsive design.• Delivery of an application to eliminate very high third party fees for manual creation of custom distribution reports of broadcast video distribution, and greatly streamline workflow and data ingestion.• A successful initiative working with development and infrastructure staff to overcome significant performance and stability issues to address customer dissatisfaction. I then took over the ongoing development of this project to get stalled development of ‘responsive web design’ moving towards a successful conclusion.

Oxford, United Kingdom

- Managed a sotware development team responsible for life-cycle of EPOS, EFT and mobile products.- Wrote responses to technical aspects of ITTs.- Managed software projects including both in-house and contracted out development, through all phases of inception, elaboration, construction, transition and maintenance.- Wrote requirement specifications for major bespoke projects using client requirements workshops and prototyping captured using UML use case, activity and class diagrams.- Hands-on design, programming and debugging of C/C++, using a variety of third party tools including SQL Server, .NET, EFT and EPOS in DOS, Windows and Unix.Achievements include:• Completed from scratch and customization projects for clients included blue-chip companies such as Dairy Crest, Co-ops, Virgin Trains, Matalan, McCormicks, WH Smith.• Re-engineered older POS product to allow more sophisticated offers, reporting and more difficult infrastructural environments to extend the life of POS software and so allow the company to continue to earn maintenance and installation revenues from it.• Created custom applications for retail hand held applications, allowing customers to automate the delivery and recording of diary and newspaper sales to retailers.• Successfully introduced Object Oriented Development with C++ to the C development team realising benefits in scalability, traceability, reliability and code re-use. Using UML and Object Oriented techniques allowed us to customize behaviour of parts of the application while leaving the bulk of deliverables untouched, to increase code re-use and also to more accurately reflect application design in code making it easier to manage customizations.