Experience

HFIS group

• United Kingdom
• Insurance
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Development Manager

  • Apr 2021 - Present

  Brown & Brown (Europe) Software Delivery LeadKey Skills: Management• Responsible for group-wide software development and delivery• Leading in-house and offshore software teams through full software development life cycle• Expanded the team by recruiting senior roles to cover management of development projects• Reshaped team to better fit updated software delivery profile• Budget owner for department• Successfully guided department through ISO 27001 audits• Worked with senior stakeholders to set business priorities• Refined Change and Incident Management processesKey Skills: Project Management• Worked with project managers to ensure successful and timely delivery of software• Managed tendering process and delivered new platform to enable business to expand into new areas of growth• Managed stakeholder reviews of ongoing projects• Created and owned software release roadmap• Represented IT department within project and change board meetings• Worked within an Agile environmentKey Skills: Technical Lead• Maintained comprehensive knowledge of technical infrastructure and software components Show less

• Development Team Leader

  • Oct 2015 - Apr 2021

  Key Skills: Line Management• Led in-house Development, QA and Service Desk teams• Managed both on and offshore Development and QA contract teams• Interviewed contractors and permanent staff to fill vacant positions.• Conducted contract negotiations with offshore development teams for new projects• Involved in vendor selection process for new development partners• Refined development and testing processes to increase efficiency• Managed budgets and software delivery for multiple high value projects• Carried out performance reviews for team members (6)• Assigned backlog tasks across all available work streams depending on business prioritiesKey Skills: Business Processes• Utilised Jira to allow all on/off shore teams to have visibility of current workload• Integrated Github (source control), TestRail (QA tool) and Go-CI (continuous integration) with Jira to enable full software development life cycle.• Updated QA and release process to better fit new software platform• Managed AWS environments to build required servers for new processes Show less



mydeposits

• United Kingdom
• Consumer Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Lead

  • Dec 2013 - Sep 2015

  Key Skills: Architect, Project Lead• Selected to architect new software solution for recently awarded government contract.• Assisted in writing government bid document for new contract.• Planned infrastructure update to handle new software requirements.• Created project backlog for team to work from.• Managed stakeholder requirements updates.• Tracked team progress and fed back to the business.Key Skills: Team Leading• Implemented regular meetings with relevant departments to gather team feedback and to pass on any process updates.• Utilised service desk software to allow for better raising and tracking of issues, for both the development team and our customers.• Initiated daily stand-ups to allow the development and testing teams to discuss progress and raise any concerns early on.• Interviewed contractors and permanent staff to fill vacant positions.Key Skills: Business Processes• Updated TFS work items to allow workflows to follow our business process.• Worked with Business Performance team to integrate their requirements gathering processes into TFS to allow for an integrated workflow between the teams.• Updated TFS workflows to collect all document templates from SharePoint as part of the build deployment, removing all manual processes from the build.Key Skills: ASP.NET, MVC, Windows Services, WCF Services, SQL Server• Worked on a number of different applications for the business as lead developer. Show less

• Senior .NET/SQL Developer

  • May 2011 - Dec 2013

  Key Skills: Project Lead, Project Manager, Client Facing• Selected to lead several high priority projects with tight (sometimes overlapping) timescales.• Managed team workload.• Liaised with business stakeholders to discuss requirements and priorities, and also to feedback on progress.• Accompanied sales staff to customer sites to discuss new requirements.• Assisted offshore software companies developing their systems to connect with ours.Key Skills: Personnel, Team Leading• Interviewed contractors and permanent staff to fill vacant positions.• Updated interview processes to include initial phone calls and structured technical tests.• Mentored junior staff.Key Skills: Business Processes• Planned and implemented a migration from Vault source control to TFS.• Planned and implemented a SharePoint installation to allow for central document repositories and team sites.• Created continuous integration and release pipeline from TFS to staging and UAT servers, and implemented TFS branching best practises.• Initiated UAT process to allow key business stakeholders to sign off releases before deployment.• Formalised the live release processes to provide for specified deployment procedures, testing and live sign-offs.Key Skills: ASP.NET, MVC, Windows Services, WCF Services, SQL Server• Worked on a number of different applications for the business, both as a developer and lead developer. Show less



Fujitsu

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software and Solutions Developer

  • Feb 2005 - May 2011

  Starting as a security cleared software developer in a small team working on web and winform applications, I ended my time at Fujitsu Services as Lead Architect for several high level MoD enterprise applications consisting of Sharepoint, K2, ASP.NET and SQL, taking a lead technical role at monthly customer project review boards, owning technical actions, responding to technical questions and being responsible for estimating, prioritising and progressing any development, testing and releases from within my team. I mentored junior team members and led several projects where I was responsible for several team members workload and performance. Instrumental in building our development environments to mimic our live ones, allowing for structured development and testing. Show less



Retail Business Solutions Ltd

• Milton Keynes

• Web/Application Developer

  • Oct 2002 - Feb 2005

  Full software lifecycle web and winform developer working on point of sale and back office software. Responsible for travelling to customer locations and gathering requirements, as well as installing software upgrades on site. Full software lifecycle web and winform developer working on point of sale and back office software. Responsible for travelling to customer locations and gathering requirements, as well as installing software upgrades on site.



e-district.net

• Harrow, Middx

• Development Team Leader

  • Jun 1999 - Sep 2001

  One of 2 web developers for a startup, ending up managing a team of 5 other developers following expansion. Responsible for hiring and training of staff. One of 2 web developers for a startup, ending up managing a team of 5 other developers following expansion. Responsible for hiring and training of staff.