Ian Holmes
Senior .NET / PHP Developer (Contract 3 renewals) at Nessy Learning- Claim this Profile
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Andrew Lansdowne
Ian is a talented, reliable and hard working developer. He took a leading role in the development of updates to a complex finance calculation system including reviewing requirements, technical design, implementation, to deployment, for multiple European markets. He quickly picked up and understood the existing system and made sure changes were clean and concise to keep it maintainable. He also was happy to talk to and demonstrate the changes to our client which was fantastic. I could rely on Ian to work through tickets and progress the project while I was unavailable and he would always ask if he had any question of what or how something should be achieved. Very happy to have worked with Ian, would hire him again for any technically challenging work!!
John Kinson
Ian worked with Valtech to deliver the new Career Site for the UK Government. Playing a central role in building the site using Wordpress, Ian used his extensive platform knowledge to develop a site that is robust, scalable and responsive, as well introducing a framework and workflows that makes it easy for all government departments to publish content. He maintained an impeccable professional attitude at all times, focusing on successful outcomes while remaining positive and approachable at all times. He also supported Valtech with contributions to enhance the Bristol Fintech community site, which are very much appreciated! Ian has been a tremendous asset to the team, and I would be delighted to work with Ian again.
Andrew Lansdowne
Ian is a talented, reliable and hard working developer. He took a leading role in the development of updates to a complex finance calculation system including reviewing requirements, technical design, implementation, to deployment, for multiple European markets. He quickly picked up and understood the existing system and made sure changes were clean and concise to keep it maintainable. He also was happy to talk to and demonstrate the changes to our client which was fantastic. I could rely on Ian to work through tickets and progress the project while I was unavailable and he would always ask if he had any question of what or how something should be achieved. Very happy to have worked with Ian, would hire him again for any technically challenging work!!
John Kinson
Ian worked with Valtech to deliver the new Career Site for the UK Government. Playing a central role in building the site using Wordpress, Ian used his extensive platform knowledge to develop a site that is robust, scalable and responsive, as well introducing a framework and workflows that makes it easy for all government departments to publish content. He maintained an impeccable professional attitude at all times, focusing on successful outcomes while remaining positive and approachable at all times. He also supported Valtech with contributions to enhance the Bristol Fintech community site, which are very much appreciated! Ian has been a tremendous asset to the team, and I would be delighted to work with Ian again.
Andrew Lansdowne
Ian is a talented, reliable and hard working developer. He took a leading role in the development of updates to a complex finance calculation system including reviewing requirements, technical design, implementation, to deployment, for multiple European markets. He quickly picked up and understood the existing system and made sure changes were clean and concise to keep it maintainable. He also was happy to talk to and demonstrate the changes to our client which was fantastic. I could rely on Ian to work through tickets and progress the project while I was unavailable and he would always ask if he had any question of what or how something should be achieved. Very happy to have worked with Ian, would hire him again for any technically challenging work!!
John Kinson
Ian worked with Valtech to deliver the new Career Site for the UK Government. Playing a central role in building the site using Wordpress, Ian used his extensive platform knowledge to develop a site that is robust, scalable and responsive, as well introducing a framework and workflows that makes it easy for all government departments to publish content. He maintained an impeccable professional attitude at all times, focusing on successful outcomes while remaining positive and approachable at all times. He also supported Valtech with contributions to enhance the Bristol Fintech community site, which are very much appreciated! Ian has been a tremendous asset to the team, and I would be delighted to work with Ian again.
Andrew Lansdowne
Ian is a talented, reliable and hard working developer. He took a leading role in the development of updates to a complex finance calculation system including reviewing requirements, technical design, implementation, to deployment, for multiple European markets. He quickly picked up and understood the existing system and made sure changes were clean and concise to keep it maintainable. He also was happy to talk to and demonstrate the changes to our client which was fantastic. I could rely on Ian to work through tickets and progress the project while I was unavailable and he would always ask if he had any question of what or how something should be achieved. Very happy to have worked with Ian, would hire him again for any technically challenging work!!
John Kinson
Ian worked with Valtech to deliver the new Career Site for the UK Government. Playing a central role in building the site using Wordpress, Ian used his extensive platform knowledge to develop a site that is robust, scalable and responsive, as well introducing a framework and workflows that makes it easy for all government departments to publish content. He maintained an impeccable professional attitude at all times, focusing on successful outcomes while remaining positive and approachable at all times. He also supported Valtech with contributions to enhance the Bristol Fintech community site, which are very much appreciated! Ian has been a tremendous asset to the team, and I would be delighted to work with Ian again.
Experience
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Nessy Learning
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United Kingdom
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E-learning
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior .NET / PHP Developer (Contract 3 renewals)
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Sep 2019 - Present
Hired in a senior developer role and used my skills in both Angular and WordPress to help Nessy. Initial task was a full review of their WordPress site which was running WooCommerce and had bespoke code that made calls back to a core backend written in .Net. It was this latter communication that caused a lot of customer service issues. I re-wrote the bespoke code fully and introduced comprehensive logging capability which meant that daily logs were exported from the host and saved externally. These logs have proved vital in tracking down and preventing a large number of issues. Indeed the support team recently noted that the number of daily calls is significantly less than a year ago. Result! In hand with this I was the lead developer on a project to replace the current WordPress ecommerce site with a bespoke site written in Angular 9. The designs were created by an external London based agency in React and I reworked these into Angular with the help of a storybook project passed across by the agency. Technologies used: Angular, TypeScript, PHP, C#, Web APIs, WordPress. Show less
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Made by Curious Ltd
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United Kingdom
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Software Development
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Founder / Director
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Mar 2010 - Present
Founder of a web development company primarily aimed at helping start-ups and SMEs with their websites and associated technology. Proud to have built up a good portfolio of clients and brought real value to their businesses. - Designed and built an appraisal application for a leadership consultant start up – the tool helped my client to secure a contract with a nationwide utility company who are using the system to gather feedback on their leaders - Created a point of sale application for a regional Opticians group – successfully running in their branches – records all customer activities and offers mailing capability - Several bespoke websites built underpinned by CMS solutions. These cover brochureware sites through to full eCommerce offerings. Additionally, assisted clients with domain registration, email set up, 24/7 website monitoring and back up capability. Show less
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Great State
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior .NET Developer (Contract 2 renewals)
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Feb 2019 - Jul 2019
Senior developer tasked with rolling out changes to a Finance Calculator for Honda Bikes and Cars across additional European regions including Spain, France, Germany and Norway. Responsible for Finance Engine changes to an internal Honda back office system together with updates to public facing Web API end points which are used by the Finance Calculator on the Honda website. Numerous enhancements made in Umbraco CMS which underpins the Honda Bikes website to support the regional rollout and the different ways of working across the European branches. Led discussions with project teams across Europe to understand requirements and playback solutions built. Technologies used: Vue.js, C#, Web APIs, Umbraco. Involved in making changes to Vue components on Honda Bike website to support the enhancements made in Umbraco for the new European branches. Show less
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Bupa
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United Kingdom
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Hospitals and Health Care
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior .NET Developer (Contract 1 renewal)
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Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
Senior developer tasked with numerous enhancements to the Bupa Dental Care website which is underpinned by Umbraco CMS. This included development of new forms and changes to existing ones. Developed and set up several Azure scheduled tasks to supply valuable business reporting to the Bupa Marketing department – involved writing bespoke SQL queries to extract data from Umbraco database tables. Enhancements also made to internal bespoke .NET applications that support the ordering of specialist dental work, online bookings and payments to associates. Reduced significant technical debt around the implementation of Google Maps functionality which was, prior to the changes, creating large monthly fees for Bupa. Tasked with auditing and clearing down large amounts of data from the Umbraco database tables which were making bespoke reports slow and difficult to use. Feedback from Darren Scammell, Head of Software Development: "Ian joined the software development team within Bupa and made an immediate positive impact. His professionalism and attitude were excellent throughout his time with us and he is somebody who we would happily utilize again. Ian engaged well with other team members, quickly integrated with our agile process and was an integral part of the team’s success in delivering great software to the business." Show less
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Valtech
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France
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior WordPress Developer (Contract 1 renewal)
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Dec 2017 - Sep 2018
- Technical lead for the Civil Service careers website. Solely responsible for the development of the CMS solution being used by 150+ teams across the Civil Service. - Numerous bespoke WordPress plugins authored including: :: 2FA using the Gov notify service :: Workflow publishing plugin – supporting defined roles of authors, approvers and publishers :: Anti-virus checking of media uploads using ClamAV - Worked closely with UX designers to build website to match user tested designs. Actively participated in several user testing sessions – invaluable insights gained. - Ensured solution built met published Gov UK guidelines covering accessibility, security, user experience and digital standards - Together with DevOps team created a bespoke Jenkins deployment package for AWS to enable the tear down and refresh of pre-prod WordPress environments in under 10 minutes Feedback from stakeholder: "Ian has been an asset to the team in bringing and delivering his Wordpress expertise in an efficient and focused way to meet timetables required. He is calm and methodical in his approach which provides reassurance to both team members and customers. He is approachable and happy to explain details to both technical and non technical members of the team to provide clarity and understanding to enable decisions and actions to be agreed and taken forward. He has formed good relationships with 3rd party test and hosting suppliers enabling CSHR to deliver and launch the Career Site to deadlines set and handover to the ongoing BAU support arrangements effectively. He has been able to maintain his focus and commitment to delivery during some challenging changes of priority and direction at times, providing the detail needed around the impacts of options being explored. As a customer this approach has been really appreciated and it has been a pleasure to have Ian and his expertise on the team." Julie Peters RPG Delivery Manager, Digital and Analysis Civil Service HR Show less
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Lloyds Banking Group
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United Kingdom
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Developer
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Jan 2009 - Dec 2017
Experienced full stack web developer with over 15 years’ experience working for organisations such as Lloyds Bank, Sainsbury’s Bank and Scottish Widows. - Technical lead for the Scottish Widows and Clerical Medical websites. Main areas of responsibility included: front end framework (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP.NET MVC), web analytics, back end integration, CMS integration, secure web tools and forms. - Responsible for analysing requirements, solution design, consultancy for inflight projects, production support, coding standards, building solutions to meet business requirements - Helped to establish and grow an internal design group, offering both design and front end development services to LBG. - Improved the relationship between business and IT departments to avoid silo thinking and to foster better communication and collaboration. - Worked with 3rd party agencies and ensured deliverables were to the highest standards. Show less
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HBOS
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Bristol
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Senior Developer
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Oct 2001 - Jan 2009
- Lead developer for the Clerical Medical website. Led a major rebrand that involved working closely with an external design agency. - Lead developer on project that created the online offering for Clerical Medical’s Employer Group Pension proposition. Transactional website built that enabled full online servicing by employers and third party administrators. Functionality included the ability to add new members, deal with leavers and amend ongoing contributions. - Built an internal web application to allow customer service teams to manage user accounts for external websites. Provided ability to add users, amend business roles and assign users to organisations. - Involved in SharePoint development to support internal team’s usage of the product – came up with some innovative uses of JavaScript to manipulate the rendered HTML. Ultimately improved the usability of the sites and the team at the time became very busy as word spread of what was possible. Show less
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