Experience

International Financial Group Ltd (IFGL)

• Isle of Man
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Analyst Programmer

  • Jul 2020 - Present

  I'm part of a dedicated team of programmers supporting the LIFEfit admin system. I'm part of a dedicated team of programmers supporting the LIFEfit admin system.



FPS Group

• Technical Manager

  • Nov 2014 - Mar 2020

  Paul is an Openinsight/Arev Specialist and Lead Developer reporting directly to the IT Manager. His responsibilities lie with mentoring the development team, training, writing knowledge-base articles, writing technical specifications as well as undertaking quality checks on team member's technical specifications.Since 2016, Paul's primary role has switched to writing business requirement specifications, reflecting his keen understanding of the company's administration system, knowledge of the UK Umbrella market, and HMRC reporting procedures.Paul responds well to daily production support issues and rapidly produces well thought out fixes to solve the root cause of any problems. A quote from a recent appraisal, Paul is the "go-to person when there is a system error."

• Senior Analyst Programmer

  • Sep 2005 - Nov 2014

  Team Leader - OpenInsight and Arev Developer. Responsible for the support and development of the existing OpenInsight/Arev systems, leading a team of OpenInsight developers and conducted systems analysis, producing technical specifications for the development team to follow.As the Lead Developer, I was also called upon to mentor and offer technical advice and training to the Development Team and give regular progress reports to the IT Manager. During this period, the company's client web portal, written in PHP, HTML, CSS, and Javascript. I took responsibility for developing and maintaining this website. I also wrote the HTTP REST API for updating/querying the company's vTiger CRM database from the in-house Admin (OpenInsight) system. The central part of this API was in understanding the relational aspects of the vTiger architecture and subsequently writing the PHP scripts to identify and update the relevant areas in vTiger.



Scottish Provident International Life Assurance (now IFGL)

• Senior Analyst Programmer

  • Nov 2001 - Aug 2005

  Paul was a member of a team supporting and developing the LifeFIT ARev database. It was here that Paul started to develop his skills using OpenInsight. During a short spell of secondment to Abbey National's WinSIPP base in Salisbury for 6 months, Paul made his mark by identifying the cause of a long standing problem with the OpenInsight WinSIPP database. Paul was a member of a team supporting and developing the LifeFIT ARev database. It was here that Paul started to develop his skills using OpenInsight. During a short spell of secondment to Abbey National's WinSIPP base in Salisbury for 6 months, Paul made his mark by identifying the cause of a long standing problem with the OpenInsight WinSIPP database.



Miles 33

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Support Programmer

  • Mar 1998 - Oct 2001

  As a member of the Customer Support team, Paul was called upon to travel the country, to one of many sites around the UK, frequently at short notice, to resolve issues with Miles 33 software on customer sites. Paul received recognition for his resourcefulness and flexibility, as well as an excellent customer facing manner. As a member of the Customer Support team, Paul was called upon to travel the country, to one of many sites around the UK, frequently at short notice, to resolve issues with Miles 33 software on customer sites. Paul received recognition for his resourcefulness and flexibility, as well as an excellent customer facing manner.