Paul Woodington
Head Of Development at Mewburn Ellis LLP- Claim this Profile
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LinkedIn User
Paul was my manager at Endsleigh. He is a strong IT leader and taught me a lot about leadership too. Paul is a logical thinker, he is able to make difficult choices with what seems like ease and has a proven track record that those choices are sound. Paul has been a driving force for good things at Endsleigh. He has improved the way Endsleigh approach the software development life cycle, introduced many of the more agile working practices into teams, created a culture of test & learn and supported the leaders that report to him to achieve also. I can highly recommend Paul to successfully lead in the software development space. He will quickly become a key asset to any business he is involved with.
Jason Collins
Paul has worked for me for the last 8 years. During that time his performance has been exemplary. He is tenacious and an excellent problem solver able to engage and motivate his teams to deliver projects on time and on budget. He seeks out opportunities to continue to expand his knowledge of existing and new technical developments using this effectively to innovate and present insight to senior management. He works well at all levels and is able to build and maintain excellent relationships across the business, often able to bring new thinking and ideas to what they do. I have no hesitation in recommending Paul for a Senior IT role in any business.
LinkedIn User
Paul was my manager at Endsleigh. He is a strong IT leader and taught me a lot about leadership too. Paul is a logical thinker, he is able to make difficult choices with what seems like ease and has a proven track record that those choices are sound. Paul has been a driving force for good things at Endsleigh. He has improved the way Endsleigh approach the software development life cycle, introduced many of the more agile working practices into teams, created a culture of test & learn and supported the leaders that report to him to achieve also. I can highly recommend Paul to successfully lead in the software development space. He will quickly become a key asset to any business he is involved with.
Jason Collins
Paul has worked for me for the last 8 years. During that time his performance has been exemplary. He is tenacious and an excellent problem solver able to engage and motivate his teams to deliver projects on time and on budget. He seeks out opportunities to continue to expand his knowledge of existing and new technical developments using this effectively to innovate and present insight to senior management. He works well at all levels and is able to build and maintain excellent relationships across the business, often able to bring new thinking and ideas to what they do. I have no hesitation in recommending Paul for a Senior IT role in any business.
LinkedIn User
Paul was my manager at Endsleigh. He is a strong IT leader and taught me a lot about leadership too. Paul is a logical thinker, he is able to make difficult choices with what seems like ease and has a proven track record that those choices are sound. Paul has been a driving force for good things at Endsleigh. He has improved the way Endsleigh approach the software development life cycle, introduced many of the more agile working practices into teams, created a culture of test & learn and supported the leaders that report to him to achieve also. I can highly recommend Paul to successfully lead in the software development space. He will quickly become a key asset to any business he is involved with.
Jason Collins
Paul has worked for me for the last 8 years. During that time his performance has been exemplary. He is tenacious and an excellent problem solver able to engage and motivate his teams to deliver projects on time and on budget. He seeks out opportunities to continue to expand his knowledge of existing and new technical developments using this effectively to innovate and present insight to senior management. He works well at all levels and is able to build and maintain excellent relationships across the business, often able to bring new thinking and ideas to what they do. I have no hesitation in recommending Paul for a Senior IT role in any business.
LinkedIn User
Paul was my manager at Endsleigh. He is a strong IT leader and taught me a lot about leadership too. Paul is a logical thinker, he is able to make difficult choices with what seems like ease and has a proven track record that those choices are sound. Paul has been a driving force for good things at Endsleigh. He has improved the way Endsleigh approach the software development life cycle, introduced many of the more agile working practices into teams, created a culture of test & learn and supported the leaders that report to him to achieve also. I can highly recommend Paul to successfully lead in the software development space. He will quickly become a key asset to any business he is involved with.
Jason Collins
Paul has worked for me for the last 8 years. During that time his performance has been exemplary. He is tenacious and an excellent problem solver able to engage and motivate his teams to deliver projects on time and on budget. He seeks out opportunities to continue to expand his knowledge of existing and new technical developments using this effectively to innovate and present insight to senior management. He works well at all levels and is able to build and maintain excellent relationships across the business, often able to bring new thinking and ideas to what they do. I have no hesitation in recommending Paul for a Senior IT role in any business.
Credentials
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Prince 2 Practitioner
APMGAug, 2011- Nov, 2024 -
Agile Practitioner (DSDM Atern)
The Knowledge Academy -
Certified Product Owner
Scrum Alliance
Experience
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Mewburn Ellis
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United Kingdom
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Law Practice
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100 - 200 Employee
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Head Of Development
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May 2018 - Present
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Endsleigh Insurance
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United Kingdom
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Insurance
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200 - 300 Employee
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Development Centre Manager
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May 2016 - Dec 2017
Responsibilities:• Senior member of IT leadership team• Delivering development strategy and IT strategy • All software applications, including: B2C, B2B and internal applications• The delivery of all technology projects• Member of company leadership team, responsible for the operational running of the business• Inspiring a team of 25 mixed skill set developers and team leaders to fulfill their objectives• Leading in technology choices• Acting as an ‘agile evangalist’ • Review of development methodologies, technologies and skill sets• Ensuring new projects are in line with technical road maps• Recruitment of all development FTE, FTC and Contract staff• Working with third parties • Project Management across multiple technology delivery teams• Supporting portfolio management• Setting SMART objectives with every team member• Undertaking 1:1’s, midyear and end of year reviews• Resource planning • Improving capability through performance management• Relationship managementAchievements:• Implemented a product focused team structure, configured to work in an Agile or Waterfall fashion, which was successful in improving domain knowledge and reducing key man dependency• A productive and engaged set of development teams.• Culture of software delivery that has a strong focus on all aspects of the SDLC from planning through to continuous improvement• Developed a ‘test and learn’ culture• Created a peer review framework and developed a suite of automated tests to improve the quality of our deliveries• Developed a company wide ‘Leadership Compass’ and EVP (Employee Value Proposition)• Proposed a new payments web page in response to changes in PCI, which made us PCI compliant and increased conversion on the payments page by 3%• Proposed and Implemented a bundles POC which increased our average add-on sales per customer by 50%.• Managed team through redundancy process, reducing the team size from 25 to 13. Show less
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Development Team Manager
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Feb 2011 - Apr 2016
Achievements:• Highest possible performance rating for four consecutive years• Contribution to setting and implementing the Development Centre technology strategy, successfully moving parts of our technology stack off our legacy ‘fat client’ stack to our newer web stack• Review of development methodologies, technologies and skill setso Defined our company wide approach to Agile development and implemented Agile as a delivery mechanismo Built processes and controls to integrate with Prince2• Experience leading with a mix of FTE, contract and off/near shore resource• Ensuring new projects are using technologies/tools in line with technical road maps• Recruitment of all FTE and Contract staff within my team and supporting recruitment for other teams in the Development Centre • Working with third parties for software delivery• Project Management across multiple technology delivery teams• Delivery of projects of all sizes, ranging from £100k to in excess of £1m• Provision of estimates, delivery plans and check point reports for team work packages• Provision of regular check point reports to project managers to report on progress against plan• Objective setting • Resource planning • Capability management Show less
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Senior ASP.net Developer
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Aug 2002 - Feb 2011
I joined Endsleigh with expertise as a VB6 developer and quickly increased my technical repertoire to include C++ and COM so I could work on all parts of Endsleigh’s system. As EIS started looking for a web solution I pioneered the use of .NET - first as a technology for our websites, then also as our chosen technology for our B2B web services. - Systems / Architecture Design- Estimation of all development work- Communication of technical ideas to business stakeholders- Mentoring junior members of staff Show less
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