Experience

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  Hill Laboratories

  • New Zealand
  • Environmental Services
  • 300 - 400 Employee

  • Chief Information Officer

    • Jun 2018 - Present

  • Software Development Manager

    • Jan 2017 - Jun 2018

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  HSBC

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Technical Architect / Development Manager

    • May 2012 - Jan 2017
    • London, United Kingdom

    Led large groups of developers, testers and architects split between two or more projects. Developers were both on and off shore. Supported individuals and teams through mentoring, coaching and servant leadership in all things from teaching programming techniques to personnel development plans to business development.Designed, evangelized and managed lean software development techniques to all areas of the department.

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  Barclays Capital

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Consultant Software Engineer

    • Sep 2007 - May 2012
    • London, United Kingdom

    • Designed FPML compliant components to integrate with the company orchestration service. • Led transition from a 10Tb Sybase database to SQL server data warehouse, using developers in four geographical locations.• Develop proof of concept or prototypes to help crystallise business functionality and rules set.• Introduced metrics and dashboard to show performance of the project including; technical debt, wait time, time to first response etc.

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  Credit Suisse

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Technical Architect/Development Manager

    • 2000 - 2007
    • London, United Kingdom

    Employed as a lead developer. Moved on to become the departmental architect whilst also managing a development team.• Provided oversight of all technical architecture for Finance department.• Lead teams to implement the more complex architectures using C#, Oracle, Tibco, Websphere MQ.• Spearheaded a new two-year project to deliver an enterprise solution to allow the bank to release $200M in reserved capital.• Hiring of all new developers to the department, constructing development plans for each developer, performance reviews and performance management when necessary.• Performance tuning and re-architecting applications to align them with user expectations.• Establishing a performance benchmarking process for all applications within the department.• Championed and delivered many improvements in areas that the technical support team frequently encountered issues.

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  Datacom

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Lead Developer

    • Jan 1997 - Jun 2000
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Originally employed as junior developer working with powerbuilder and Sybase. Staffing changes lead to me leading the team after just one year. Success in this role allowed me to advance to leading new greenfield projects.