Poynton, England, United Kingdom
Over 30 years’ experience in information systems, both in the UK and overseas, with a broad range of technical skills, excellent administration, communication and management skills, and the ability to design, implement and deliver complex technology solutions. A highly experienced and versatile IT professional with solid commercial, full SDLC and Agile experience. Able to build and coordinate onshore and offshore teams of stakeholders at all levels, and in possession of excellent analytical, problem solving and project management skills. In summary, an information systems all-rounder with strong business acumen, excellent communication skills, team leadership/mentoring and senior management experience. From Nov 2015 to Mar 2017, I fulfilled an interim technical lead role for the IVR platform at a leading credit card provider. In 2015, I worked with a Big Data start-up, helping them design and implement a mobile telematics platform using RESTful Microservices deployed on AWS. In December 2014, I concluded the delivery of a 3 year transformation programme including the successful completion of several high-value data migrations for a pan-African financial services group. In 2013, I successfully completed a year long senior leadership programme facilitated by the Hay Group. More recently, I have overseen the technical integration of a leading car rental platform into Booking.com’s suite of global travel product offerings and have been working with a Property Tech start-up developing an innovative, cloud-based property search portal targeted at property investors. In 2021 and the first half of 2022, I worked as a VP of Software Engineering with a global software factory focusing of process improvement and driving quality software delivery at pace. Technical Skills ● Languages & Frameworks: Java 11, Grails, Groovy, Dropwizard, JEE, SOAP, REST, Spring 5, Hibernate, Apache Camel, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery, SQL, JUnit | Mockito | PowerMock, Cucumber, Selenium, XML | XSLT | XPath, UML, Android ● Tools & Platforms: Eclipse, IntelliJ, Maven, Git, JIRA, Jenkins, Enterprise Architect (UML), Redis, Elasticsearch | Logstash | Kibana, Experian Pandora (Data Quality) ● Web/App Servers: Apache Tomcat 6.x-8.x, JBoss 5.x, WebSphere 8.5 ● OS & Databases: Windows , Windows Server 2008/2012 R2, RHEL, Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL Server ● Cloud: AWS, GCP ● Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SDLC, TDD, BDD, DQM Business skills Requirements Analysis, Project Management. Business Planning and Strategy, Coaching, Mentoring and Leadership.
Experienced IT practitioner.