Experience

Crane ChemPharma & Energy

• United States
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Global Application Development Leader

  • Dec 2013 - Present

  Managing a distributed Global Application Development team that develops, supports and maintains software for the global business and local manufacturing sites.Leading the global team in developing, maintaining and supporting Intranet & Extranet applications using ASP.NET (C#.NET), MS SQL Server Sharepoint2010 and related technologies.Developing alternative implementation options and supporting budgets to enable the organization to choose different directions and appropriate funding on a project by project basis.Participation in Crane Business System activities to drive KPI improvements through technology and process. Leading innovation forums as part of Chempharma and wider Crane Process Flow business to help set the vision and communication possibilities for the next generation of technologies.



Crane Process Flow Technologies Ltd

• Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Principal Analyst programmer, Team Lead

  • Aug 2005 - Dec 2013

  Leading application architecting and development using best practise and standard development methodologies and stepping into project management roles and team management roles when needed.Designed architecture for a Global Hit Rate and Approval system to meet the needs of the global business after participating in a standard business system JDI analysis session. Currently managing the project with an offshore vender developing using Agile.Took the requirements from a Global Project Management process that resulted from a TPI event, and progressed a basic proof of concept prototype into a global project management tool that meets the needs of the GPM Process and global sales team.Participated in a year long business systems analysis exercise and led the software developments for the.net based presentation layer and business layer for a product configuration, quoting and ordering portal.



Analystic Ltd

• Principle Analyst programmer

  • 2002 - 2004

  Team Leading and participating in the proposal, analysis, design and implementation of bespoke software developments for public and private sector companies and organisations – predominantly in London. Led the development of an n-tier .Net solution for a Sickness Management and Reporting system with automated report and emailing facilities.Assisted in the development of software written for the UK Youth Justice Board that provided planning tools for housing Youth offenders in the most appropriate accommodation for their current age and vulnerability state.



Group 4

• Security and Investigations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Contracting Software Engineer / Team Leader

  • 2000 - 2001

  Contracted for one year to team lead a group of Group 4's own developers in designing and implementing a Cash Office Management System, suitable for supporting the cash office requirements for a number of retail companies.Liaising with the business users and other contracted analysts to pull together a high level and detailed design of the proposed system. Team leading a group of junior developers to implement the design using VB6 and Oracle. Assisting in the training of junior developers in good coding techniques. Liaising with IT departments of numerous retail companies to define interfaces for the project that were compatible with their own existing financial data systems.



Analystic Ltd

• Analyst programmer

  • 1997 - 2000

  Participating in the proposal, analysis, design and implementation of bespoke software developments for public and private sector companies using Microsoft technologies including .Net, Visual basic 6, and several relational databases including SQL Server, Oracle and Sybase.Participated in the Design and led the development of a client-server application for processing applications for research grants for the Lever Hulme Trust. Utilised MS solutions including VB6 and SQL Server 7.0.Participated in a large scale re-development of a banking and treasury system called Citadel using Visual Basic 5 and Sybase, which was originally implemented as a prototype in JAM. Participated in the team that created the core architecture for the back office dealing processes and the core dealing screen application development. Re-engineered, implemented and supported an existing Retail shelf Space Planning product used by major retailers in the UK.



J. Sainsbury plc

• Software Engineer

  • 1991 - 1997

  Software Engineering Role.Involvement at all stages of the application development project life cycle, developing Management Information Systems to support an integrated supply chain. The majority of developments were developed using Visual Basic 3 (and later VB4) with an IBM DB2 relational database. At the start of my employment as a developer I was also involved in writing Batch COBOL Overnight processing systems. Business Testing Analyst Role.Working alongside the business and development teams to assist in the creation of detailed test scripts suitable for the formal acceptance testing of in-house produced forecasting/ordering software that was rolled out to 300+ stores across the UK.Assisting in the design stages of projects by formalising high-level test scripts, at as early a stage in the project life cycle as possible.



DVLA

• Junior Programmer (BSc hons 1 year placement)

  • 1989 - 1990

  Assisting in the development and maintenance of a Project Control System written using an IBM mainframe development product called 'Application System'. • Writing program specifications derived from detailed design documentation • Writing programs and routines using program specifications. • Assisting in the unit testing and systems integration testing of the application Assisting in the development and maintenance of a Project Control System written using an IBM mainframe development product called 'Application System'. • Writing program specifications derived from detailed design documentation • Writing programs and routines using program specifications. • Assisting in the unit testing and systems integration testing of the application