
Work Experience
Greensill Capital
01/12/15
- 01/10/16
Greensill Capital
Building a customer information system from scratch using modern Java technologies such as JSF, PrimeFaces, Spring and Hibernate
Building a Spring Batch application to load various types of files (CSV, XML, MS Excel) into the database
Demonstrating this functionality to senior stakeholders including the CEO, COO, chairman and other board members
Mentoring permanent developers
Shop Direct
01/02/15
- 01/12/15
Working closely with business stakeholders to assess the technical feasibility of their requirements, and provide very high level estimates
Attending 'sprint readiness' meetings, to ensure that stories are ready for development
Conducting code and design reviews to ensure that standards are adhered to
Attending design review forums with Architects and Lead Developers from other Scrum teams to give a high level overview of what we're currently working on, discuss design, and identify potential touch points
Coaching and mentoring junior members of the team
Evaluating new tools that could potentially be of use to the team
Shop Direct
01/06/10
- 01/02/15
Estimation, design and development of user stories/epics
Diagnosing and fixing production problems, when required
Attending and contributing to daily stand ups, as well as biweekly sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective meetings
Arranging out-of-hours standby cover for the team
Shop Direct
01/10/07
- 01/06/10
Information Systems (ETL) Developer
Writing SQL scripts, UNIX shell scripts, and Oracle stored procedures
One of several developers who acted as DBAs for the data warehouse
Administrator for the CRM tool used at Shop Direct (Unica Affinium Campaign)
Acted as 'release manager', seeing every change made by the team through various test environments and into production
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Education and Training
BA
University
2 BA (Hons) Economics
Chesterfield
Levels in Maths, Physics and Chemistry
9 GCSEs including Maths and English Merchant Taylors' School
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