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Work Experience

• Senior Solutions Architect, 

  Nov, 2020 - Present

  Solutions Architect focussed on MongoDB's strategic accounts
  • New application onboarding or refactoring to NoSQL
  • Value realisation for current deployments
  • Cloud migration of data platforms
  • Enterprise-wide software adoption and standardisation

• Solutions Engineer, 

  Jun, 2019 - Nov, 20201 year 5 months

  Working in technical pre-sales with customers across the UK and Ireland in every industry incl. banking, finance, retail, aviation and manufacturing.

  The role includes every technical stage of a sales lifecycle
  • Introductory calls, specialised product demonstrations, technical workshops, scope and licensing
  • Technology to business value mapping, champion building and MEDDIC sales methodology
  • Proof-of-value software deployments to customer production applications in Java, Node.js, .Net, PHP hosted on-premise, AWS & Azure
  • Playback and value presentations to C level executives

• Senior Professional Services Consultant - DevOps, 

  Aug, 2018 - May, 20199 months

  Responsible for efficiently architect and implement products of DevOps domain within the client environment through utilizing CA Services Best Practices.

  • Provide implementation reviews for the Continuous Delivery business
  • Ensure prompt and proper resolutions of technical challenges during implementations
  • Provide technical guidance to partners and customers.
  • Support to increase new business opportunities within the Continuous Delivery business

• Senior Scrum Master and Agile Coach, 

  Jul, 2017 - Jul, 20181 year

  • Continuously assess the AGILE Maturity of my team and our organization.
  • Provide leadership to other geolocated Scrum Masters and their team as their Agile Coach.
  • Support the development teams through a servant leader style approach.
  • Collaborate with the senior leadership team to improve the maturity of our AGILE implementation.
  • Promote an AGILE culture across the broader enterprise

  I also support the release flow from development through to production and help manage the environments used in the product release process as a Release Manager.

  I also make time to prototype innovative new features within the products to keep in pace with Software Engineering.

• Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead, 

  Jun, 2015 - Jul, 20172 years 1 month

  • Introduced agile methodologies
  • Mentored, and trained other team members
  • Worked & visited several customers /partners to develop product roadmap
  • Supported product architecture and development runway
  • Significantly improved the product quality and maturity
  • Began my DevOps journey
    o Configure & Setup CI/CD pipelines for all the products within the team.
    o Work and train developers to integrate maven, ant into CI/CD pipeline.
    o Develop, Design & implemented new (library) in C++ for multiple products.
    o Debug and troubleshoot logging features in docker-ce from source code to build.
    o Manage source controlling for multiple projects using Git
    o Debug and troubleshoot logging features in docker-ce from source code to build.

• Software Engineer, 

  Jun, 2013 - Jul, 20152 years 1 month

  Handling C++ and C# based product development providing cutting edge solutions to the testing industry.

  Grid-Tools are specialists in data creation (or data generation), data masking and test data management. Our experienced personnel have been writing and developing solutions for large companies in both the private and public sectors for nearly 30 years. The Grid-Tools Datamaker™ suite includes a wide range of solutions for test data management with the primary focus on three key methods:

  Database Subsetting: creating secure, cut-down versions of production databases for testing and development - saving disk space and creating more efficient test environments

  Data Masking: (or data obfuscation) de-identifying sensitive data records so they remain compliant to industry standards like HIPAA, the PCI DSS or the DPA

  Data Generation or Data Creation: creating synthetic test data that models the data from production environments - offering the best code coverage techniques

  All methods and techniques always maintain the referential and business integrity of the original environment.

  The Grid-Tools methodology consists of using the “data-centric” approach to testing. Their focus is to ensure the quality of the test data you are using is of the right quality for successful testing and development.

• Software Developer, 

  Feb, 2012 - May, 20131 year 3 months

  • Programming additional functionalities to support different protocols for a Cloud Backup Engine using C++.
  • Developed the GUI for a cloud data backup based project using C# (Windows Forms) to extend the functionality of the already available data backup software.
  • Bug tracking within the data backup software.
  • Created installer scripts using Inno Setup for various software products.
  • Compilation and porting the Borland projects within a new developer environment.
  • Extensive testing (Unit and Acceptance) of the developed engines for client delivery.
  • Developing Web based GUI for the Cloud Backup Engine using ASP.NET
  • Source versioning and revision control using Visual SVN

• Intern, 

  Jan, 2012 - Mar, 20122 months

  • Involved in design and development of an eCommerce website for a future release.

• Application Developer (Temp), 

  Aug, 2011 - Sep, 20111 month

  • Was involved in developing the front end of an iSocial Enterprise System using action scripts.
  • Integration of social network (Facebook) within the enterprise system using Flex and action scripts.

• Information System Analyst, 

  Jun, 2008 - Aug, 20102 years 2 months

  Analysing and evaluating the information system of the company.

  • Worked with a team involved in analysing and evaluating the present information system and drafted the processing needs.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve hardware, software and connectivity problems including the maintenance of the network.
  • Recommend hardware and software purchases within the organization.
  • Initiated an automated billing software project within the company using Java and worked on the initial development phase.

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