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PA Consulting

Principal Consultant / Architect / General IT

May 2021 — present

Government Digital Services

• Guided delivery across six product teams and wider senior management, ensuring alignment with program objectives and delivering customer-facing and non-functional requirements. Oversaw technical delivery to ensure cost-effective, well-architected solutions.
• Optimized infrastructure, policy, and tooling to enhance system performance.
• Managed team performance and implemented strategies to resolve structural issues.
• Ascertained weak areas first to quickly establish goal-driven activities that enabled accountability and observability leading towards realised improvement
• Represented GDS with external government and commercial collaborations
• Key to fulfilling the aspiration for the government to provide SSO and verification to several government departments and millions of users.

PA Book of Work

• Led a team for senior management, to create data visualization tools using AWS architecture, delivering a company-wide solution that uncovered new commercial opportunities.
• Worked alongside partner-level management within PA to determine project objectives
• Architected and resourced the project, led a small team comprised of UCD, development and BA’s. Mentored the development team.
• Delivered a working product using Kanban

FirstGroup Rail Plc

• Conducted an in-depth analysis of enterprise software architecture for FirstGroups CTO, recommending a group-wide approach to support business growth and governance.
• Achieved a demonstrable saving of 20% within enterprise architecture expenditure by moving towards a homogenous solution approach

Home Office Digital Services Agency

• Streamlined service delivery, aligning it with business objectives, and successfully influenced key stakeholders, including C-suite executives.

Agile Change Management Roadmap Team Leading Mentorship Kubernetes Docker Java 11 Spring Boot JPA Postgres Javascript

Fewtrees Media Ltd

Founder / Lead Developer

2020 — May 2021

• Designed and delivered AboutMyRoad, a mobile application providing critical data (Ofsted, CQC, crime, flooding) through a cloud-based Kubernetes architecture. Managed full-stack development using React Native, JavaScript, and robust backend technologies.
• Managed UCD/UI design, advertising, commercial relations and suppliers.

Kubernetes Docker Java 11 Spring Boot JWT JPA GraphQl nginx SSL Postgres Postgis React-Native Javascript Redux Babel MapKitJS

Sabbatical

2019 September — 2020 July

Life changing events from a heart operation and subsequent stroke. How you react defines who you are.

Co-op Bank/VIO Ltd, Manchester

June 2019 — September 2019

Delivered the Open Banking API for Co-Op Bank, ensuring FCA compliance through developing Java 8 microservices and Spring Boot.

Java 8 REST Spring JBOSS Spring Boot JWT Jira

Department for Transport/Valtech Ltd, Manchester

April 2018 — April 2019

• Led the development of the UK Blue Badge system, managing a high-performing Scrum team and delivering microservices using AWS, Postgres, and Redis.
• Adoption of this system in over 40 councils saved in excess of £30m alongside DfT efficiency savings and provided a flexible implementation of government policy

Website https://apply-blue-badge.service.gov.uk

Java 8 REST Spring Boot JWT Redis Docker AWS Postgres Karate/Cucumber ELK stack SonarQube Git Jenkins Jira PlantUML

The Hut Group

October 2015 — September 2017

• Developed core e-commerce components to streamline order fulfilment for a multinational white-labelled e-commerce platform
• Developed an OAuth authentication system and mobile API for The Hut Group’s sales channels, improving backend systems and enhancing operational efficiency.

Java 8 Couchbase REST MSSQL OAuth Camel Spring 4 Angular Bootstrap Jasmine Karma Gulp Google Guava

Before

Barclays Bank Plc

Developed a customer ID & verification solution for government sites.

Cultura Technologies

Led projects delivering microservices and SPAs using Java and Spring Boot.

Stagecoach Plc

Designed and developed a high-availability e-commerce application for international travel services.

GlaxoSmithKline PLC

Developed pharmaceutical trial software.

Royal Bank of Scotland

• Implemented the New York Treasury and Capital Markets report system.
• Analysed and remediated operationally critical apps through the Y2K problems.
• Developed applications to support the Front Office Futures Trading desk.

Bank of America

Delivered re-write of the banks credit card pin disclosure system for both telephone and web channels.

Sage UK

Delivered a PKI managed digital platform for updating and licensing customer desktop software

BT Syntegra

Project Manager, delivered DiabetesE, a national Java/JSP based web application into 150 Primary Care Trusts and Clinical Practices within the NHS England

Siemens Business Systems

ava Team Leader, developing the Java/Tomcat based client for the Vehicle Inspectorate MOT system.

GE Global Consumer Finance

Java Team Leader for a team of 10 developing a Credit Application System.

Siemens Business Systems

Java Team Leader, developing the Java/Tomcat based client for the Vehicle Inspectorate MOT system.

IBM Global Systems

Implementing a MS IIS/ASP based solution to manage 2800 individual project schedules.