Experience

4 Roads
• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Developer

  • Feb 2017 - Present


Kaido Group

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Developer

  • Nov 2015 - Jan 2017

  Working as the part of the kaido startup to build a new platform to empower users based on their health, nutritional and well being data from wearable devices and other online resources such as myfitnesspal. We have been working with a team from Microsoft to build an azure based platform utilising components including webapp, webapi, sql server, service bus, service fabric and the bot framework. Working as the part of the kaido startup to build a new platform to empower users based on their health, nutritional and well being data from wearable devices and other online resources such as myfitnesspal. We have been working with a team from Microsoft to build an azure based platform utilising components including webapp, webapi, sql server, service bus, service fabric and the bot framework.



NPA Solutions

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

• Developer

  • Jun 2001 - Oct 2015

  Working as part of the NPA team to provide solutions to our client needs. NPA are a software development and consultancy provider and I have worked with them and their clients since 2001. The work has been wide and varied and some of the projects I have been involved with are highlighted in the projects section of my linkedin profile. I was also able to work on 'skunk works' type projects modelled on Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programmes, as I had the opportunity to work outside our client's standard management constraints. This freedom allowed the rapid production of prototypes to empower the businesses to evaluate opportunities which would have been more time consuming and costly following the standard management constraints. Working at NPA for over 14 years I was able to work on many interesting and challenging projects, listed below are a few of the more recent or interesting projects. Show less



TNT Express ICS

• United Kingdom

• Programming/Support lead for the TNT document management system TIMS/PACS.

  • Jul 2003 - Sep 2015

  TNT uses a document management system based on the Meridio DMS with TNT specific ingestion and retrieval components, I have been involved in the day to day support activities to keep this 24/7 application available and when necessary provide development resource for the TNT specific modules which are a mix of Visual Basic, C and Classic ASP using a SQL Server backend.The solution currently loads approximately 2 million documents a week.

• Principal Analyst Programmer

  • Apr 2001 - Sep 2015

  Initially I was contracted to provide development resource in Pro IV when the global operations system Quantum was being introduced. I was heavily involved in the early development and worked to resolve initial performance and resilience issues as the application rolled out globally.Since then I have been actively involved in the on-going support and development for the global operations applications which run on a globally distributed HPUX platform with approximately 200 servers supporting over 850 depots as of Jan 2015.I have also developed some C based modules over the years to interface with external services including revenue protection devices (scales), sort machines and web services for denied party screening.More recently as the team size declined I have also been involved with some C# and COBOL programming as and when required. Show less



The Open University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Analyst Programmer

  • Jul 2013 - Jul 2014

  I was contracted as a C programming resource working as part of the DBA team to assist with the development of data migration routines from Ingres to Oracle on the solaris platform. This was an agile project and focused on the major restructuring of course and qualification data to provide a more flexible data structure for their future developments and updated web front end. I was primarily based off site at the NPA Lichfield offices working remotely via the OU VPN with occasional site visits as and when necessary. Show less



Zoo Software Solutions

• Director

  • Aug 2000 - Nov 2003

  I was one of the directors of a software house providing web based solutions using Classic ASP and PHP. I was one of the directors of a software house providing web based solutions using Classic ASP and PHP.



Software Knowledge Systems Limited

• Contract Pro IV Developer

  • Apr 1999 - Jul 2000

  Employed as a contract Pro IV programmer to develop customs clearance solutions for TNT Express Worldwide as part of the Quantum project. Working for a third party provider to produce a flexible interface to the various customs clearance authorities, as of Oct 2015 these modules were still in use all over the world. Employed as a contract Pro IV programmer to develop customs clearance solutions for TNT Express Worldwide as part of the Quantum project. Working for a third party provider to produce a flexible interface to the various customs clearance authorities, as of Oct 2015 these modules were still in use all over the world.



Northgate Information Solutions

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Contract Pro IV Programmer

  • Jan 1999 - Mar 1999

  Employed as a contract Pro IV programmer to work on a commercial vehicle based application for Mercedes Benz. My role was focused on vehicle regulation approvals. Employed as a contract Pro IV programmer to work on a commercial vehicle based application for Mercedes Benz. My role was focused on vehicle regulation approvals.



TNT Post UK

• United Kingdom
• Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Contract Pro IV Developer

  • May 1997 - Dec 1998

  Working in a small team within the Newsfast division helping to re-engineer the core application modules to improve the application resilience and meet the business needs. This role also involved the migration to Pro IV version 4 and ensuring millennium compliance. Working in a small team within the Newsfast division helping to re-engineer the core application modules to improve the application resilience and meet the business needs. This role also involved the migration to Pro IV version 4 and ensuring millennium compliance.



NetCom

• Brunei Darussalam
• Computer and Network Security
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contract Pro IV Developer

  • Sep 1996 - Mar 1997

  Working for CSC on site at Netcom in Oslo as a member of the support department for the GSM version of the ISIS telecommunications billing system. This position was mainly based around the day to day support requirements for the Pro IV based application. Later I was also involved in some revenue recovery activities which focused on locating and re-charging client accounts which had historically not been correctly charged for their telecommunication services. Working for CSC on site at Netcom in Oslo as a member of the support department for the GSM version of the ISIS telecommunications billing system. This position was mainly based around the day to day support requirements for the Pro IV based application. Later I was also involved in some revenue recovery activities which focused on locating and re-charging client accounts which had historically not been correctly charged for their telecommunication services.



CSC

• Computer Networking Products
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contract Pro IV Developer

  • Dec 1995 - Aug 1996

  Working for CSC as a member of the Pro IV development team for the ISIS telecommunications billing system. This position was based around the customisation and deployment of ISIS for the Telecom Namibia and Botswana clients. Working for CSC as a member of the Pro IV development team for the ISIS telecommunications billing system. This position was based around the customisation and deployment of ISIS for the Telecom Namibia and Botswana clients.



TNT Express

• United Kingdom
• Freight and Package Transportation
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Analyst Programmer

  • Feb 1993 - Nov 1995

  Working in the PC Department as the senior Pro IV developer working on various client based applications written in Pro IV. I worked on several client orientated products including partnership and comnex. Working in the PC Department as the senior Pro IV developer working on various client based applications written in Pro IV. I worked on several client orientated products including partnership and comnex.



Comsult (Midlands) Limited

• Application Developer

  • Jul 1991 - Feb 1993

  My first placement after leaving Coventry University as an application programmer working with Microsoft Basic and Pro IV. My first placement after leaving Coventry University as an application programmer working with Microsoft Basic and Pro IV.