Experience

Universal Business Team

• Mobile Apps Team Leader

  • Oct 2017 - Present

  Surrey UBT is a global enterprise spanning 19 countries. We support our clients with business advisory and group buying services to help businesses maintain the competitive edge. Our business advisory services consists of corporate training, consulting and facilitating leadership and excellence for our client’s in their respective industries. UBT nurtures mutually beneficial relationships between member businesses and world-leading providers of business goods and services. The outcome to which we… Show more UBT is a global enterprise spanning 19 countries. We support our clients with business advisory and group buying services to help businesses maintain the competitive edge. Our business advisory services consists of corporate training, consulting and facilitating leadership and excellence for our client’s in their respective industries. UBT nurtures mutually beneficial relationships between member businesses and world-leading providers of business goods and services. The outcome to which we strive is a “win, win” for small-to-medium enterprises and big business alike. Show less



KAYAK

• Netherlands
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Android Developer

  • Aug 2017 - Oct 2017

  London, United Kingdom I have been working for KAYAK since it officially took over in August 2017 although the takeover process has been underway since the start of the year. At present, we are continuing to work on the Cheapflights and Momondo apps while we wait to discover KAYAK’s future plans. It has just been announced that the Momondo app which I have been working on exclusively for the whole of this year has been awarded the Google Material Design Innovation award for best in class app worldwide. I am proud… Show more I have been working for KAYAK since it officially took over in August 2017 although the takeover process has been underway since the start of the year. At present, we are continuing to work on the Cheapflights and Momondo apps while we wait to discover KAYAK’s future plans. It has just been announced that the Momondo app which I have been working on exclusively for the whole of this year has been awarded the Google Material Design Innovation award for best in class app worldwide. I am proud to have been part of this and would like to thank all of my colleagues for their tireless efforts in achieving this magnificent accolade. Show less



Momondo Group

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Senior Android Developer

  • Jan 2015 - Aug 2017

  London, United Kingdom For the first 2 years I worked on the Cheapflights app personalization, rebranding, and hotel search epics, as well as the Assisted booking project. I played a leading role in the expansion of the app to support hotel search using the Hotels Combined API by first writing a prototype to prove the proposed solution and thereby expedite the development process. During the Assisted booking project, I took the initiative to propose and then write a back-end data capture robot to provide the Travel… Show more For the first 2 years I worked on the Cheapflights app personalization, rebranding, and hotel search epics, as well as the Assisted booking project. I played a leading role in the expansion of the app to support hotel search using the Hotels Combined API by first writing a prototype to prove the proposed solution and thereby expedite the development process. During the Assisted booking project, I took the initiative to propose and then write a back-end data capture robot to provide the Travel Fusion API flight search results to the app which enabled us to leverage the existing infrastructure and saved a substantial amount of development time. I also performed a lot of product analysis activities to make sense of the very complex TravelFusion API. Additionally, I played a leading role in ensuring that all aspects of the Assisted booking price breakdown structure were a 100% accurate at all stages in the booking process, which is absolutely vital in the price comparison business. For the whole of this year I have been working exclusively on the Momondo Android app to bring it up to parity with the iOS app. I worked on a number of epics including Fare Alerts, Firebase deep links, and a new person selector, but the most significant one was the expansion of the app to support Multi-city searches which involved rewriting a lot of One-way and Return search code so that all three kinds of searches could be supported using the same code base.

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Nov 2012 - Dec 2014

  London, United Kingdom From November 2013 through to July 2014 I wrote all of the Cheapflights specific, Momondo data acquisition robots for the new Cheapflights meta search websites starting with http://www.cheapflights.co.za, then .co.nz, .com.hk, .com.my, .com.ph, .com.sg, all the way through to http://www.cheapflights.com.au which was launched in July 2014. In the last year I also designed, wrote and implemented the FTP Automated Scheduling Tool (F.A.S.T.) which is a C# multi-threaded windows service which… Show more From November 2013 through to July 2014 I wrote all of the Cheapflights specific, Momondo data acquisition robots for the new Cheapflights meta search websites starting with http://www.cheapflights.co.za, then .co.nz, .com.hk, .com.my, .com.ph, .com.sg, all the way through to http://www.cheapflights.com.au which was launched in July 2014. In the last year I also designed, wrote and implemented the FTP Automated Scheduling Tool (F.A.S.T.) which is a C# multi-threaded windows service which detects the arrival of FTP files and immediately runs the associated upload jobs. Any number of upload jobs can run in parallel. As a result of this new service content is now uploaded onto the website within minutes. Most recently I have designed and developed the META detector which is a comparison tool used to verify the consistency of content across our meta search websites. I have also just finished writing an early warning system to notify us of problems with our data acquisition systems which operate on a 24/7 basis.



Cheapflights

• United States
• Information Technology & Services

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jul 2009 - Nov 2012

  London, United Kingdom This role was as a C# web services developer working on large E-commerce websites for the airline travel business. The Momondo Group websites are: http://www.momondo.com/ and www.cheapflights.com. I wrote C# web service code for the data capture from a huge number of external partners including: Amadeus, EBookers, Expedia, LastMinute, Netflights, British Airways, EasyJet, RyanAir, Virgin Atlantic, and many more. During this time I also wrote two major testing tools to meet urgent testing… Show more This role was as a C# web services developer working on large E-commerce websites for the airline travel business. The Momondo Group websites are: http://www.momondo.com/ and www.cheapflights.com. I wrote C# web service code for the data capture from a huge number of external partners including: Amadeus, EBookers, Expedia, LastMinute, Netflights, British Airways, EasyJet, RyanAir, Virgin Atlantic, and many more. During this time I also wrote two major testing tools to meet urgent testing requirements. One tool known as the “Saved Response Service” (SRS) allows functional and soak testing of websites by firing over 500,000 requests at them every night without having to make repeated real calls to our external partners. Another tool known as the “Direct API Response Tester” (DART) allows comprehensive end user testing to supplement the TDD test frameworks we use. Show less



AXA

• Italy
• Glass, Ceramics and Concrete Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contract Software Engineer

  • Apr 2008 - Apr 2009

  Basingstoke This role was as a C# .Net developer working on a system which supports the wealth management area of the business. The system was used both internally and by IFA’s dealing with high net worth individuals. My most recent work was on an online quotation web service for use in external vendor’s websites. One of the most notable aspects of this development was the extent to which we used Test Driven Development (TDD). I have also been heavily involved in live support work and pioneered the… Show more This role was as a C# .Net developer working on a system which supports the wealth management area of the business. The system was used both internally and by IFA’s dealing with high net worth individuals. My most recent work was on an online quotation web service for use in external vendor’s websites. One of the most notable aspects of this development was the extent to which we used Test Driven Development (TDD). I have also been heavily involved in live support work and pioneered the use of matched execute and backout scripts for live implementations driven by the need for SOX compliance. The development platform was C# .Net 3.5 Visual Studio 2008, Visual Basic 6.0, TFS 2008, SQL Server 2005, XML, ASMX web services and WCF services. Show less



IVIS Group

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contract Software Engineer

  • Jan 2008 - Mar 2008

  London, United Kingdom This role was as a C# .Net developer on a large E-commerce website. It involved the development of a service oriented architecture system (SOA) written in C# .Net 3.5 utilizing ASP.NET, web services and WCF services on an SQL Server 2005 platform. We used the AGILE methodology with Enterprise Architect and UML. We also used Test Driven Development (TDD) so all code had to be accompanied by a full set of automated tests built using Visual Studio’s integrated testing tools plus TypeMock and… Show more This role was as a C# .Net developer on a large E-commerce website. It involved the development of a service oriented architecture system (SOA) written in C# .Net 3.5 utilizing ASP.NET, web services and WCF services on an SQL Server 2005 platform. We used the AGILE methodology with Enterprise Architect and UML. We also used Test Driven Development (TDD) so all code had to be accompanied by a full set of automated tests built using Visual Studio’s integrated testing tools plus TypeMock and Rhino Mocks. Show less



IHS

• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contract Software Engineer

  • Jul 2005 - Nov 2007

  Epsom IHS is the world’s largest independent provider of information, consultancy, and decision support tools to the oil and gas industries. This role was as a C# .NET developer on the QUE$TOR product. QUE$TOR is an astonishingly advanced fully object oriented decision support tool utilising C# and the latest Microsoft .NET technologies. It is used by cost engineers and economists to analyse upstream field development projects whose capital expenditure (CAPEX) is typically in the region of $1.5… Show more IHS is the world’s largest independent provider of information, consultancy, and decision support tools to the oil and gas industries. This role was as a C# .NET developer on the QUE$TOR product. QUE$TOR is an astonishingly advanced fully object oriented decision support tool utilising C# and the latest Microsoft .NET technologies. It is used by cost engineers and economists to analyse upstream field development projects whose capital expenditure (CAPEX) is typically in the region of $1.5 Billion and whose life time operating expenditure (OPEX) is typically in the region of $54 Billion. When I last worked on QUE$TOR it had just under a million lines of C# code. The system contained many complex costing algorithms and these algorithms had to be translated from specifications to C# code, sometimes via intermediate Excel VBA prototypes. One look at http://www.ihs.com will leave you in no doubt about the prestigious nature of this company and its product range. Show less



Avis Budget Group EMEA

• Railroad Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contract Software Engineer

  • Mar 2003 - Jun 2005

  Hayes This role was primarily concerned with the development and support of Avis UK’s web sites. However it also involved the maintenance and support of back office systems developed in C# .Net and Visual Basic. I was also involved in the introduction of an internet content management system using a product called Immediacy. The development platform was C# ASP.NET WebForms, JavaScript, XML, and SQL Server 2000.



Euler Hermes

• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• Contract Software Engineer

  • Mar 2001 - Mar 2003

  London, United Kingdom Euler & Hermes international is the subsidiary of Euler Group which deals exclusively with clients whose premiums are in the multi-million dollar range. Euler Group is the largest credit risk insurance organisation in the world. This role was to maintain and enhance their web site as well as assisting in the migration of their back office system on to a UNIX platform



American Express

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Contract Software Engineer

  • Nov 1999 - Jun 2001

  London, United Kingdom This role was for the sales and marketing arm of American Express’s European Consultancy Services. I was employed on data warehousing / data mining projects concerned with the analysis of marketing information to determine past and future trends in the Airline, Hotel, and Car rental businesses.



IBM

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contract Endevor Consultant (Configuration Management)

  • Apr 1999 - Sep 1999

  Southbury, Connecticut, USA This contract was carried out on a short-term consultancy basis for IBM Global Services of Southbury Connecticut, USA. The contract concerned the identification and application of Y2K fixes, together with analysis and testing of Endevor to ensure millennium compliance. The contract involved a substantial element of teleworking over the Internet.



NatWest

• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Contract Endevor Administrator (Configuration Management)

  • Sep 1995 - Mar 1999

  London, United Kingdom Provided Endevor technical support, advice and consultancy to management and staff on all aspects of Endevor and configuration management.



Royal Mail

• United Kingdom
• Freight and Package Transportation
• 700 & Above Employee

• Analyst Programmer / Endevor Administrator

  • Aug 1991 - Sep 1995

  Farnborough Worked in the Post Office IT department development support area for the IBM mainframe Television Licencing system which at the time had the largest relation database in Europe. Later I served as an ENDEVOR administrator which was the most advanced source control with automated build and deployment configuration management system for the IBM mainframe.



Zurich Insurance Company Ltd

• Portugal
• Insurance
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Analyst Programmer

  • Sep 1989 - Aug 1991

  Farnborough Developed and supported IBM COBOL / CICS / DB2 and SAS insurance business systems. Worked on the evaluation project for ENDEVOR/MVS which was the most advanced source control automated build and deployment configuration management for the IBM mainframe.



BAE Systems

• United Kingdom
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Analyst Programmer

  • May 1986 - Sep 1989

  Prestwick During this period I worked in British Aerospace writing FORTRAN software to translate Computer Aided Design drawing build instructions into the low level machine language used by the robots and CNC machines. I also wrote IBM COBOL software for the the Production Engineering Group System. Languages used included SAS, COBOL, CICS, DB2, DL/1, IMS, CLISTS, JCL, VSAM and FORTRAN.