Chris Adams

Head of DevOps at Gamma | 3x Salesforce Certified | Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) | Trailhead Double Star Ranger

Greater Northampton Area, United Kingdom

About

Personal Summary An IT professional with over 20 years of software development experience spanning a wide variety of business sectors. Highly motivated, influential and adaptable individual used to working in a changing and high-pressured environment. Proven capability in leading and managing a team to deliver complex projects on time and to budget, using best practices and software development life-cycle methodologies. Ability to establish strong and productive working relationships. Skills Salesforce: force.com platform, lightning, sales cloud, service cloud, REST API, SOAP API, Data Loader, SOQL Supporting Technologies: Git, Github, Jenkins, Jira, MS SQL, ASP, IIS, Java Script, JQuery, HTML, CSS, PHP, Shell Scripting. Non-technical: DevOps, Scrum, Agile, Waterfall, Business Analysis, Project Management, Process Modelling, BPMN, Data Modelling. MS Office 365: Advanced level of Excel, Word, Visio, PowerPoint, Project. U2 family (Unidata & Universe): Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Linux environments, Unibasic, Designbais.

Experience

  • Head of DevOps at Gamma
    Mar 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Dogs Trust (London, England, United Kingdom)
    • Salesforce Platform Manager
      Aug 2021 - Mar 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos

    • Salesforce Platform Manager - Secondment
      Sep 2020 - Aug 2021 · 1 yr

    • Development Manager
      Mar 2019 - Aug 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Zafire Ltd (Banbury)
    • Development Manager
      Jan 2013 - Mar 2019 · 6 yrs 3 mos

      Managing a team of developers in order to deliver customer requirements Consistent improvement to business analysis skills, software delivery methodologies and people management

    • Lead Developer
      May 2010 - Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      Project lead for software delivery. Working as part of a team or individually to deliver customer requirements

    • Software Developer
      May 2003 - Apr 2010 · 7 yrs

      Part of a development team working to deliver customer change requests Use of business analysis skills to gather customer requirements and provide functional specifications

  • Software Developer at m.m.t computing plc
    2000 - May 2003 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    Using knowledge and methodologies from university worked as a member of the development and support team. Involved in complete development cycle from requirements gathering through to solution delivery.