Experience

Software Developer

Iglu Ltd, Portsmouth, Hampshire (February 2017- Present)

Working in a team of skilled developers, testers and a product owner in a Agile SCRUM development style team working on the company’s core customer and enquiry management application and supporting products in a continuous integration environment.

Our role as a team is to support both proactively and reactively the products we develop and, by working closely with the sales departments and managers within the company, enhance it to help deliver a product that is both versatile and satisfies the demands of an ever-growing company and evolving sales department.

Having been integral to development of a supporting API that serves core services including completing the project setup and all CRUD features. This has then evolved to become a product consumed by other teams elsewhere in the business and I remain a vital source of knowledge for implementation and use of this key business resource. Accompanying Windows Services have also been created using TopShelf to assist in facilitating other core business-critical services of which I had a major hand in since inception.

Often working to a goal of MVP, deployment of larger features is often done in an A/B testing style to sales agents in the business. This allows us to evaluate the changes with specific members of staff and develop a feedback loop that allows us to enhance on this original MVP product before it is exposed to the broader sales team.

With the growth of the system I have completed the integration of third-party and internal APIs.
Our team has received recognition, via the internal awards system, by the departments we work alongside.
This role has exposed me to many technologies both front and back-end including React, ASP.net MVC, ASP Core, Lambdas, SQS, SNS. As well as deployment tools such as Octopus, Team City, Git and BitBucket.

Within this role I have been able to develop my skills as both a software developer but have also played a role in the growth of the IT department by assisting in the interview process for new candidates. Additionally, I have helped the development of the department itself by running a lunchtime/brown-bag style session to highlight new features that have been added to the AWS cloud platform that we use.

Software Development Manager

Jenison Ltd, Hedge End, Hampshire (March 2016– February 2017)

I was responsible for the development, setup, maintenance and support of e-learning software and business-critical web applications provided across the world.

As the most senior developer within the company I had a pivotal role in steering the business to improve IT infrastructure. This included moving the company away from traditional, static infrastructure provided by Rackspace to the cloud-based Microsoft Azure platform. This allowed our products to react to the ever-changing demand of a global provider of e-learning.

It was also one of my major goals to move the IT department to a more formal setting for planning & development which included implementing of Team Foundation Online. This allowed us then to move towards an Agile way of planning for the future of our products. As part of this migration I also migrated the company’s email provider from Rackspace to Office 365.

With the removal of IE6 as a barrier to backwards compatibility for our products, I took the opportunity to re-write the company’s cloud-based platform for the delivery of e-learning content. Moving the content to a Blob-storage-backed CDN which was delivered via an enhanced API that had a simpler, user-friendly interface for our client’s to download their content snippets to deliver within their e-learning platform.

I also mentored and trained new software developers within the company and existing staff from all departments in the varying technologies used. I also perform other duties such as business and consumer support/relations and internal IT administration.

Software Developer

Jenison Ltd, Hedge End, UK (October 2012– March 2016)

Software Development Intern

Coloni Ltd, Bursledon, UK (2012)

This was a 4-month long internship at an e-learning-based and web applications development company. My duties included support, QA and development of systems for large-scale companies which included national banks and security firms.

Education

BSc (Hons) Computer Games Development (2:1)
Southampton Solent University (2009 – 2012)

4 A-Levels (Computing, Economics, Mathematics, General Studies)
Seevic College, Benfleet, Essex (2007 – 2009)

Additional Information

Full UK Driving Licence

Fire Marshall

Hobbies/Interests

Live music, gym, kickboxing, films and TV, web design

References available upon request.