Engineering & Support Practice lead

• Jul 2021 - Present

· During a large portion of this role, Nimble has been without a CTO, so I have been largely filling that role’s activities, as well as my own. · Leading, guiding and mentoring of the Engineering, Infrastructure, Security and Support Teams. · Rebuilding team engagement with organisation of team building events and training opportunities improving team retention rates.· Working with team members individually with personal and career development along with performance management.· Driving Architecture and Platform improvements and engaging the team to share knowledge and experience. · Code reviews, and technical guidance. · Roadmap planning, and deep dive analysis in collaboration with key stakeholders. · Liaising with executive and the board of directors on the company’s technical direction and influencing decisions.· In addition, below Senior Developer responsibilities are still undertaken.

Senior Developer - Technical Lead

• Mar 2021 - Present

Senior Developer

• Jan 2015 - Present

· Involved in all stages of the project lifecycle to date from the Business Case development through to post implementation and support.· Developed strong relationships with key stakeholders from the CEO to Project Managers & end users.· Designed and documented business process flows.· Day to Day maintenance and enhancement to custom software systems including a large-scale .NET platform with SQL Database, hosted on cloud infrastructure.· Some of the systems developed during this time included, Loan Application Engines, Bank Transaction Classification Engine, Loan Book Systems, Loan fulfilment and backend processing, Communication Gateway, Payment Gateways, CRM, ERP.· One of the last major projects was a digital transformation scale project, developing an entire new platform using Serverless infrastructure, Event Based Architecture and integrating numerous 3rd party services and SAS system. This platform was design to replace the legacy system, and enable the business to grow its product offering, expanding into new market segments.

Senior Developer

• Jun 2003 - Dec 2014

JUNE 2002 – DEC 2014 SENIOR SOLUTIONS DEVELOPER, DK GROUP · Focus on project lifecycle from the Business Case development through to post implementation and support. · Developing strong relationships with key figures across the organisation both business and technically focused from the CEO to Project Managers & end users. · Designed and documented business process flows. · Day to Day maintenance and enhancement to custom software systems including VB6 based legacy system with a MS SQL backend. · Some of the systems developed during this time included, Payment Gateways, PCI Compliance, File Processors, Stock Control, Property (Rental) management, Lottery/Gaming, Address correction/deduplication, CRM, ERP, Direct Mail. AS A DEVELOPER, MY ROLES INCLUDE… · Design, document and implement system requirements including support and enhancements. · Testing (unit, integration, user acceptance, regression, load, white box, black box), system performance tuning, and production monitoring. · Team member mentoring. AS AN ANALYST, MY ROLES INCLUDE… · Requirements gathering from end user/stakeholder. · Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to liaise effectively with fellow team members to anticipate technical limitations and glitches and effect smooth system. · Scope new projects, interpret business needs, translate technical issues, identify and model data requirements, identifying business rules requirements, and test requirements. AS THE DEPLOYMENT MANAGER, MY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE… · Manage change acceptance, forward integration into release branch and prepare release notes. · Setup and maintenance of build processes, automated build definitions, as well as deployment testing and deployment. This would include application deployment, database schema updates (including the creation of such scripts).

Business Intelligence Consultant

• Oct 2012 - Nov 2012

· Upgrade existing SSIS projects to 2012. · Add database assets/schema to source/version control. · Implement enhancements to the existing SSIS ETL and SSAS cube. · Upgrade existing SSIS projects to 2012. · Add database assets/schema to source/version control. · Implement enhancements to the existing SSIS ETL and SSAS cube.