Experience

Retail Express

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Solutions Architect

  • Oct 2021 - Present

• Technical Team Lead

  • Oct 2019 - Oct 2021



Fitz IT Solutions Limited

• United Kingdom
• Information Services

• Director

  • Oct 2014 - Present



Wood Mackenzie

• United Kingdom
• Information Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Contract .Net Developer

  • Mar 2019 - Sep 2019



Royal London

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Contract Senior Software Developer

  • Jul 2018 - Mar 2019

• Contract .Net Developer

  • Nov 2017 - May 2018



DSA Practice Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Information Technology & Services

• Contract Technical Manager

  • Jun 2017 - Sep 2017



Ultimate Finance

• New Zealand
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contract Agile Software Developer

  • Apr 2017 - May 2017

• Contract Software Developer

  • Mar 2017 - Apr 2017



The Scottish Parliament

• United Kingdom
• Legislative Offices
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Contract Software Developer

  • Sep 2014 - Jan 2017

  Contract work on the following projects: Questions and Motions - Lead Developer * Upgrade of an existing ASP.NET webform to responsive, MVC project with added functionality. * App allows for the self service of questions and motions by Members and Members Staff as part of the parliamentary procedures. Business Products Project - Lead Developer Part 1 - Business Bulletin * Design and development of a system that allowed for input of the parliamentary business calendar and linked motions and questions (from integrated systems). Also allows for uploading of documents by different departments (petitions, legislation, corrections) for ad hoc reports. * Develop the public facing website to display the parliamentary business calendar, motions and questions, legislation, petitions, corrections and more. * Technologies used: ASP.NET MVC, Web API 2, oData, c#, javascript, jQuery, Bootstrap. Part 2 - Digital Publications * Design and development of Azure services and web app to pull reports from an external XML authoring tool (dita xml schema). * Azure PaaS to download, store, transform and publish dita xml. Includes Web App, Web API (including WebJobs), SQL, CDN, Storage, Scheduler Jobs. * Internal oData webservice for existing database. * External facing Web API 2 service to supply parliamentary information to external XML authoring tool. * Develop the public facing responsive website to display the parliamentary reports (currently Committee and Research Briefings). * Technologies used: ASP.NET MVC, Web API 2, oData, c#, javascript, jQuery, Bootstrap.



Foothills Steel Foundry Australia

• Australia
• Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering

• Software Developer

  • Jan 2010 - Jan 2015

  - Development work on a contractual based agreement - Upgrade of existing systems to newer technologies (ASP.NET) o Windows Forms and Web applications - MVC 3, C#, SQL 2008, Javascript (JQuery), IIS 7 - Import and replication of existing SQL data to the new database structure - Development work on a contractual based agreement - Upgrade of existing systems to newer technologies (ASP.NET) o Windows Forms and Web applications - MVC 3, C#, SQL 2008, Javascript (JQuery), IIS 7 - Import and replication of existing SQL data to the new database structure



Faculty of Advocates

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Aug 2012 - Oct 2013

  * Documentation, design and development of various systems including ASP.NET, MVC and Sharepoint * Development level helpdesk tasks and public website maintenance (HTML) * Documentation and upgrade of existing bespoke software to newer technologies (ASP.NET MVC) * MVC 4, C#, SQL 2008, Javascript (jQuery, Bootstrap), IIS 7 * Import and replication of existing SQL data to the new database structure * Custom membership/security design to handle different staff positions * Documentation, design and coding of Electronic Voting system in MVC4 * Voting system replaced manual paper voting of multiple ballot Office Bearer elections * MVC 4, C#, SQL 2008, jQuery, IIS7, Simple Membership Provider * Basic Sharepoint 2007 webparts development linked to SQL 2008



Shop A Docket

• Software Developer

  • Sep 2007 - Mar 2012

  - Continued high level application support tasks beyond helpdesk capabilities- Australia wide training of new staff on in house developed applications- Minor upgrades and changes to existing ASP.NET web based applications- Development and management of Crystal Reports from various data sources (SQL 2005, Access databases, Excel docs, Attaché Accounting System)- Lead and partial roles in various development projects incorporating the following technologies - ASP.NET (2, 3.5, 4), SQL 2005/2008, VB.NET, C#, n-tier, MVC, IIS 6/7/7.5, LDAP, XML.

• IT Support Officer

  • Sep 2007 - Jul 2010

  - Helpdesk support of hardware and software related issues, starting at basic operating system issues (locked accounts, etc), up to changes in SQL code (views, stored procedures) and minimal levels of programming changes (vb, c#)- Designing, writing and testing of .net applications- Business Systems maintenance and support- Infrastructure support (including remote sites)- Task/Project planning and tracking- Various self applied development projects