Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
Enthusiastic and versatile individual with over 20 years of commercial experience who enjoys designing and developing solutions that amaze and delight customers: Solutions that people consistently want to use. Having worked with several top tier companies as sole developer, lead developer and architect, I have developed a track record of delivering strategically important and highly complex projects using a variety of stacks.
Lead developer for the team responsible for creating the next generation of ADP products.
Delivering IT projects that help OI meet it's functional targets and supporting a team of high-performing individuals, coaching them to improve performance. Contributing to the development of improvements in project and programme methodology, problem solving issues by working closely with stakeholders and keeping projects relevant with agile methodologies. Introduced quality and rigour into the development process by adding testing and staging environments. Highlights include: Development of the Oxford Instruments IOS application; Design and development of our international business portal; Design and development of time management software and reporting.
Overseeing GateWest's software design and development team. Development using agile and scrum methodologies. Responsible for achieving objectives of schedule, budget, and quality. As a partner of Autonomy, I developed an intimate knowledge of Autonomy IDOL.
Based in the graphics department, I worked with the IT department developing crossover programming and application design skills. A few highlights include; I developed interactive areas such as the Dyson house, an Isometric Flash based game in which users interacted with a dirty house. The “Colour my Dyson” project in which I developed a drawing and colouring application in Flash that allowed users to design their own Dyson vacuum cleaner. The Dyson interactive kiosk based in stores across the country.
Whilst working at BAE SYSTEMS I won a chairman’s award for the development of a content management system, The CMS was used in America, Europe and the UK. I designed the system to be simple and easy to use so that any PC user could add content to the corporate intranet site, including movies, text and images. A key feature of the software I developed guaranteed that content was automatically spell-checked and formatted into the appropriate company style(s). This management system was one of the tools I used as web editor for BAE SYSTEMS at the Paris air show. I was responsible for managing up-to-date news reports on the web and intranet site, including writing copy, editing information and proofreading submissions. This role further included overseeing the timely delivery by the web solutions company, of the hardware and software needed to supply the internet site live to the air show stand. Working closely with corporate communications, I created the BAE SYSTEMS intranet "look and feel". This large, complex network is accessed by more than 100,000 people around the world, incorporating in excess of 100,000 pages. The site requires stringent levels of security access, with each individual business unit setting up multi-tier structures. The design and implementation work that I undertook ensured that the appropriate house styles could be applied and updated consistently across the entire Intranet.