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Hook, England, United Kingdom

Hook

GDS Instruments (a division of Global Digital Systems Ltd) designs, develops and manufactures materials testing machines and software used for the computer-controlled testing of soils and rocks.

Bourne End

Causeway is the only global software provider that powers the design, build, operation and maintenance of the built environment. Unlike other software companies, our products provide in-depth functionality at each stage of the process, helping our customers increase their delivery, profitability and environmental performance.

Architect and contribute to the conversion of all Axum legacy applications from VB6 to VB.net, including migrating the data access layer from ADO to LINQ to SQL and reworking the UI in WPF.

Designing, building and maintaining a scalable web-scraping platform for analysing retailer websites, consuming millions of products and prices dailyWorking with suppliers and clients to design and build bespoke software solutions to allow retailer and field agency systems in the UK, America, Australia and South Africa to link to, and exchange data with Brand ViewDeveloping and maintaining all software tools for collecting, quality checking and integrating data into the Brand View… Show more Designing, building and maintaining a scalable web-scraping platform for analysing retailer websites, consuming millions of products and prices dailyWorking with suppliers and clients to design and build bespoke software solutions to allow retailer and field agency systems in the UK, America, Australia and South Africa to link to, and exchange data with Brand ViewDeveloping and maintaining all software tools for collecting, quality checking and integrating data into the Brand View serviceResponsible for all data entering Brand View, including ensuring product pricing from hundreds of websites is captured daily, and maintaining a web portal for uploading UK field collected dataLine managing including recruitment, appraisals, mentoring and career development of teamsManaging expectations internally and externally, allocating resources to the development pipeline; bringing new client requirements online as fast as possible Show less

Reading, United Kingdom

Designing and project managing the creation of a web portal allowing the scheduling of field data collections and quality checking of submissions from agencies Designing and implementing a natural language processing system to identify the promotional mechanic from the advertised textProducing matching software designed to identify the same products from different retailersWriting monitoring services to determine the overall health of the system and take effective action as… Show more Designing and project managing the creation of a web portal allowing the scheduling of field data collections and quality checking of submissions from agencies Designing and implementing a natural language processing system to identify the promotional mechanic from the advertised textProducing matching software designed to identify the same products from different retailersWriting monitoring services to determine the overall health of the system and take effective action as requiredAuthoring a formal appraisal system for the development team; initiating the use of Agile processes Show less

Authoring web-crawler software for analysing retailer websites consuming millions of products and prices daily. Forms the core of Brand View’s business data.Designing, optimising and maintaining databasesCompleting bespoke data mining and other internal support services

Manage and lead the IT team in the design and development of first class software products.Following merger with Cardno, worked with sister company in Australia, XP Software to identify and adopt best practices for project and quality management across the software division. Investigated potential areas of shared development for collaboration. Researched requirements for and designed a new software product for the international market.Worked with industry bodies to define… Show more Manage and lead the IT team in the design and development of first class software products.Following merger with Cardno, worked with sister company in Australia, XP Software to identify and adopt best practices for project and quality management across the software division. Investigated potential areas of shared development for collaboration. Researched requirements for and designed a new software product for the international market.Worked with industry bodies to define requirements for future UK development.Partnered clients to assist with complex modelling projects.Designed, specified and project managed the maintenance upgrades for WinDes. Show less

Overall responsibility for the software development function including working methodology, programmer career development and recruitment. Project managed the conversion of all company software products to VB.net. Supervised the support system ensuring resource availability and quality of service.Maintained compliance with ISO 9001and TickIT.

Designed, specified and project managed the development of a new software module; Pluvius a database system for managing and analysing rainfall data. Visual Basic programming and testing including the design and development of two new software modules; DrawNet a CAD application for defining drainage networks graphically and FloodFlow a 2D flow analysis engine for calculating flow across a triangulated terrain model.Assisted and mentored junior team members.

Visual Basic programming and testing of new features for existing modules including a longsection plotter for producing scale drawings to printer, plotter or CAD and a 3D graphics engine for showing pipe networks beneath a full ground model.