Work Experience

Technical Business Analyst

  • Managing client and internal stakeholders and leading workshops to elicit and gather requirements.
  • Performing investigations and gap analysis to formulate solutions and provide requirement and functional documentation for software developers.
  • Acting as a conduit between technical and non-technical stakeholders ensuring information flow is understood by all.
  • Performing statistical analysis of data to establish current system performance & provide proof of system improvements.

IT Application Support Analyst

  • Worked as part of a Resident Maintenance IT team providing 24/7 support 365 days a year Providing 1st & 2nd Line support on site to the customer
  • Applying software updates and patches
  • Investigation of reported software issues across the warehouse management system (WMS) and material flow systems, interfacing between WMS and other third party host systems.
  • Generation of site performance/management information
  • Interrogation of data and investigation of Java source code to pinpoint root cause and propose software fixes.
  • Performing statistical analysis of data to establish current system performance in order to provide proactive guidance before issues arise.

Global Product Support Manager

  • Responsible for the effective support of a collections and recoveries product written in Java to customers around the world to agreed SLA’s.
  • Managing Internal and external customer stakeholders and setting expectations.
  • Prioritisation of software fixes for new project implementations going live.
  • Line management of UK based software analyst team and coordination of activities with a Bulgarian based test team.
  • Producing management information reports.

Achievements

  • Transitioning of the original Bristol based support for the product to Nottingham.
  • Effective stake holder management in a fast moving environment.

Web Developer

  • Development and delivery of internal and external solutions including e-commerce systems, e-procurement systems and bespoke web service interfaces.
  • Resolving system issues for customers.
  • Development of system changes on various e-commerce and e-procurement systems.

Achievements

  • Part of a two person team for the rewrite of two e-procurement systems for a major customer.
  • Development of a bespoke web service interface for a government department.
  • Development of an internal staff satisfaction survey application.

Solutions Developer

  • Development & maintenance of services on the message oriented middleware based on IBM WebSphere Message Broker message flows.
  • Continuing development of the Java based backend of the corporate internet site.
  • Development of new Java based developments supporting newly launched products and initiatives.
  • Assist in business analysis, liaising with third party suppliers to ensure successful integration with host systems
  • Performing technical investigations to identify and resolve issues on in house developed and third party systems

Achievements

  • Developed and delivered integration of the arrears system into the message oriented middleware to provide updates onto the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system.
  • Involved as part of a project team tasked with providing the delivery of a new enterprise service bus (ESB) and governance strategy for the control of quality of software deliverables from both third party and internal development teams.
  • Involved in the design and development of a secure on-line banking application and integration with third party external web services.
  • Involvement in a project for the automation of on-line mortgage applications to be pushed through to the internal host systems.
  • Designed and implemented a framework for the rapid development of Message
  • Driven Beans (MDB) components which were to reside on the middleware infrastructure.

Software Designer

  • Specialised in providing solutions for the supply chain industry principally developing bespoke solutions for warehouse management systems (WMS).
  • Responsible for the design of solutions in UML from examination of the functional requirements and scope documents and liaising with Business Analysts.
  • Assist in requirements gathering and sales presentations to customers.
    Mentoring of staff in Java development.

Achievements

  • Acted as a Team Leader and Lead Designer to produce a real time in store picking system for the fulfilment of Internet placed orders for a leading supermarket chain.
  • Worked on the design and development of numerous systems for many large well known brand name customers both in the UK and across Europe.
  • Seconded to Research & Development for an 18 month period to develop a new Object Oriented Java based product utilising JavaEE technology.
  • Developed Java applications for use on mobile Windows CE devices communicating with hardware via the Java Native Interface & C.
  • Originally started as a Junior Programmer & rose through the ranks of Programmer, Senior Programmer & Senior Analyst Programmer to Senior Software Designer.

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