Experience

Drax Group

• United Kingdom
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Development Team Manager

  • Jan 2020 - Present

• BizTalk Developer/C# Developer

  • May 2017 - Dec 2019

  Key Technologies: BizTalk 2016, C#, SQL (2008, 2012, 2014, 2016), SSIS, WCFDrax Power station supplies 6% of the country’s energy needs, including 15% of it renewable power.BizTalk Developer/C# Developer• Acting as a lead integration specialist on several key projects within a small but highly focused development team. I was initially brought in to work on a key business migration of Maximo 7.5 to Maximo 7.6.• This has lead to me being retained for several other key projects within the team. • I have also re-designed the entire interface with the company’s ESB with the focus being on simplification and resilience along with BizTalk and SQL server best practices. • All work has been delivered within the companies SDLC framework including design documentation, test planning and execution and knowledge transfer to both internal and external parties as required.• During my time with the company I was also involved in assisting other members of staff with problem investigation and solution including but not limited to BizTalk 360, C# and SQL Server (DBA type tasks)• The projects have also allowed me to refresh my Windows Service Bus skills. Show less



Phoenix Aviation

• Airlines and Aviation
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Flight Instructor

  • Mar 2013 - Present



Covidien (Medtronic Minimally Invasive Therapies Group)

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Integration Consultant/Architect : Lead Integration Specialist

  • Feb 2013 - Apr 2017

  Key Technologies: BizTalk (2006, 2010, 2013), BRE, SQL (2008, 2012), SSIS, JBA, DB2, IBM iSeries, AS2, Alchemy, Cognos A global healthcare company providing supplies to many both private and public hospitals and medical practices with revenue of $12 Billion. Senior Integration Consultant/DBA/AS400 Consultant • Acting as a lead integration specialist on several key projects within a small but highly focused development team. I was initially brought in to work on key business integration with an external warehousing partner which was delivered on time and on budget and to specification. • This has lead to me being retained for several other key projects within the team including but not limited to a project to migrate all existing BizTalk 2006 solutions to BizTalk 2010 including the implementation of the ESB portal for error reporting and management. • I have also re-designed the entire interface with the company’s main e-commerce partner with the focus being on simplification and resilience along with BizTalk and SQL server best practices. • All work has been delivered within the companies SDLC framework including design documentation, test planning and execution and knowledge transfer to both internal and external parties as required. • During my time with the company I was also involved in a couple of smaller items of work assisting other members of staff with problem investigation and solution including but not limited to BizTalk (2006 & 2010), HIS (2006/2010) and SQL Server (DBA type tasks) • The projects have also allowed me to refresh my iSeries and DB2 skills. Show less



Ads Reality Limited

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Integration Consultant/Architect : SQL Developer

  • May 2010 - Jan 2013

  Key Technologies: BizTalk (2006, 2010), SQL (2005, 2008, 2012), SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, Commerce Server SQL DBA/Developer and BizTalk consultant • Acting as an integration specialist consultant and team lead on various development projects with various external third parties as well as internal Tesco customers utilising different technologies as required including SSIS and BizTalk. • Undertaking the day to day support and monitoring of initially a clustered SQL Server 2005 installation, then as part of a team upgrading this to clustered SQL Server 2008 R2 installation • As the only BizTalk developer, I provided all live support and BAU maintenance as well as all new development required including the development of custom adapters as required. • Design and development of the large scale ETL projects working with key third parties to being in various supporting metadata using SSIS with a mixture of flat and XML files consumed from various FTP and RSS sources ranging in size from a few Mb's with the largest being a monthly ingestion of 7Gb of flat file data. • Design and development of various reports using SSRS for both financial and commercial reporting. • Review and design suggestions on other developer’s code to either improve performance or make use of new functionality with SQL Server • Design and development of Powershell scripts as required performing actions such as large file FTP and unpacking of ZIP files. • Ad-hoc query reporting as required by the business to support day to day activity with a conscious view that I am querying potentially live data from a 24/7 website. • Support of a Commerce Server 2007 implementation which at its peak supported a digital catalogue of over 21 million digital media (MP3's and WMA's) products and 200K physical products (CD, DVD and BluRay). • DBA task such as backups and restored, index maintenance on a 24/7 site with minimal downtime with medium size databases (Largest 200 GB). Show less



Conchango

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Consultant

  • Mar 2006 - Apr 2010

  Key Technologies: BizTalk (2006, 2010), SQL (2005, 2008), SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, Commerce Server A consultancy firm with offices in the UK, US and India. EMC’s focuses on being the market leader in its field for Microsoft based solutions utilising the latest technologies to offer the client the best solutions. Practice Consultant • Acting as an integration specialist consultant on various projects for various clients utilising different technologies as required. Clients I worked with included Tesco, River Island, Next, Harrods and Virgin Atlantic • Design and development of the entire solution from the ground up including recommendations/specification of hardware. • Design of data contracts to meet business requirements with the close integration of the client to ensure solution meets the client’s needs. • Production of custom adapters to support solution requirements and delivery of data to key partners. • Working with the client to assist in problem resolution and solution suggestions relating areas outside of integration area of responsibility. • Creation of new SQL reports using SQL reporting services and maintenance of existing reports to better improve business intelligence. • Providing post implementation support both during business hours and acting as an out of hour’s advisor to other members of the support team. • Production of detailed support documentation. Show less



BCA UK

• Automotive
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior/Lead BizTalk Developer

  • Apr 2002 - Mar 2006

  Key Technologies: BizTalk (2002, 2004, 2006), SQL (2005, 2008), DB2, iSeries, EDI A car auction and remarketing company providing various services from collection through to vehicle de-fleeting and then on to sales, whether that be a physical auction or an electronic sales channel. Senior/Lead Biztalk Developer • Acting in a central advisory role for all issues and best practice questions and implementation/enforcement relating to Biztalk Server applications across all teams within BCA • Act as a technical lead and team lead in the all projects with external parties advising on and implementing both B2B and EAI solutions in BizTalk 2006 encompassing all features of 2006 including integration with SharePoint for both the provision of testing facilities and production Biztalk interaction • Advising on the use of various test and debugging tools including NUnit and BizUnit along with a serializable version of Log4Net • Development from initial concept and on-going maintenance of 47 B2B feeds across 11 customers providing electronic information interchange to assist the business. • My work with BizTalk Server 2002 has allowed me to apply my VB6 knowledge to a commercial environment to better get an understanding of this now legacy product. • Extension and maintenance of existing Biztalk Server applications as required including a processing heartbeat to confirm connectivity and several long running transaction processes to monitor and inform on various customer SLA processes. • Maintenance and support of legacy applications running on an IBM AS400, including Fleet Management systems, Auction Centre systems and Stock Management systems including RF technologies. • All above tasks require that I work closely with the business/users from the initial discussions through user requirements gathering, formal specification and design to coding and testing. Show less



Wiley

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Analyst Programmer

  • Jun 1997 - Apr 2002

  Key Technologies: DB2, iSeries, EDI An international book publishing and distribution company providing scientific, technical and medical books both to the trade and the public via suppliers such as Amazon and BOL and through direct sales. Analyst Programmer • Development and maintenance of stock management and ordering systems to allow for the smooth processing of orders from receipt to delivery. This included re-working annual stock check processing to improve performance and usability of reports • Developed the first electronic feed within the company to accept orders and automatically process them from Amazon and provide an automated response with expected delivery dates • Managed a team of 5 people providing technical support to all areas of the business and acting as a central point for all system queries • Provided out of hours’ support which involved providing technical support to operations department outside of normal business hours and required a high degree of independence and self management to determine problems and solutions quickly and efficiently • As mentioned above all these tasks require that I work closely with the business/users from the initial discussions through user requirements gathering, formal specification and design to coding and testing. To this end, I am happy dealing with people at all levels both internally and in dealings with external customers Show less