Experience

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  Sigma Consulting Solutions Limited

  • Alderely Edge

  • Contractor at AstraZeneca

    • Mar 2012 - Present
    • Alderely Edge

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  Thermo Fisher Scientific

  • Altrincham

  • Software Test Engineer (contractor)

    • Apr 2010 - Dec 2011
    • Altrincham

    Responsible for proof of concept, strategy and development for the automation of manual regression test scripts using Ranorex and C# .Net.Involved all aspects of a project to extend HPs Quality Center application to execute C# automated tests on remote test clients.Responsible for testing Thermo Fisher’s flagship laboratory information management system and to provide test approach advice and guidance using my expert knowledge of I.T. within the Pharmaceutical industry

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  AstraZeneca

  • Architect

    • Sep 2006 - Mar 2010

    Project Architect on a Global Maintenance Programme, responsible for completing application architecture assessments, in order to produce recommendations that align to global IS strategy and shape the future application landscape.Responsible for the performance testing strategy and activities on a major global system used to manage the delivery of new drug projects.Project Architect on Asset Inventory project, responsible for the consolidation and cleansing of a number of disparate sources of asset information. Project provided benefit by giving IS functions an understanding of their assets and highlighting ‘at risk’ applications reliant on ageing, non-supported software components by aligning to Enterprise Architecture software standards.Project Architect on a business critical project to build an interface (using ETL pattern) to an externally hosted web application. The implementation of this interface provides great business benefit by providing the early identification of potential issues with drugs.

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  AstraZeneca

  • United Kingdom
  • Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • IS Specialist

    • 2004 - 2006

    Managed the day-to-day running of a number of systems and responsible for all quality documentation and change control systems.Successfully managed a number of projects, of varying sizes, from conception to completion. These projects comprise applications, large upgrades, database upgrades and web applications.Software developer on several applications using Visual Basic 6 and ASP.Effectively managed the transition of knowledge and responsibility of applications to offshore service providers with no impact to service.

  • Senior Application Developer

    • 2000 - 2004

    Supported, maintained and managed a laboratory information management system used by over 250 scientists globally supporting the drug research and development processManaged and performed a large strategic upgrade of the laboratory information management system. This upgrade ensured the applications’ continued compliance by utilising the Electronic Signatures functionality to meet the FDA’s 21 CFR Part 11 rule..Created interfaces to laboratory equipment that transferred data to information system eliminating manual intervention and transcription errors thus improving efficiency.Designed, built, implemented and managed the delivery of many strategic enhancements, which have provided efficiency gains to the scientists and ultimately the drug development business.

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  Thermo Electron

  • Project Analyst

    • 1997 - 2000

    Responsible for the delivery and customisation of laboratory information management systems.Provided consultancy to assist the customer to fully exploit the functionality in their purchased solution.Delivered standard and bespoke training courses to customers globally.Designed and built an Analytical Quality Control (AQC) module that is used by a number of UK water authorities for monitoring the quality of water.Customer facing role to gather user requirements, write specifications and develop software in order to provide the customer with a solution that met their needs.