Personal profile
I'm an architect with over 30 years' experience in delivering projects.
My background includes retail, finance, heavy engineering and manufacturing. Key project roles include leading teams to deliver software and hardware solutions for clients in utility companies, nuclear industry, financial services and broadcast.
Primary expertise
Architecture and design
I have designed a number of systems, from software systems through to electrical, piping and instrumentation design. Whilst the end deliverables may be different in each case I have learned that the principles of clear design communicated well along with a clear focus on the desired outcome will ensure smooth delivery.
Team leading
I am an experienced team leader, having led teams of developers, engineers, testers, and business analysts over the past ten years. I have a hands-on approach, acting as a technical contributor, tester, prioritising team activities, taking responsibility for delivery and reporting on progress.
Software Engineering
I have designed and delivered software for nuclear safety systems, UK Government, retail, finance, heavy engineering and manufacturing. Key project roles include leading delivery teams, designing systems, taking systems through complex governance processes and delivering software for the pandemic response.
Work experience
Solutions architect - CGI
May 2010 – Present
At present I am a technical architect for BJSS. This involves project work for clients, either entirely CGI to our Leeds offices or providing expertise on site to augment client teams.
Clients have included UK public bodies, retail banks, and major broadcasters.
Projects have included low latency FX trading, healthcare systems, and sport data feed systems
Team lead - Manheim Auctions
August 2009 – May 2010
I managed a small team to support and enhance Manheim's Simulcast product. This was a low latency auction application written in Java. Simulcast allowed internet users to bid live on physical auctions against the audience in the auction hall.
Web team lead - Retail Express
October 2006 – August 2009
At Retail Express I worked on a number of projects to extend their enterprise suite of applications aimed at the retail sector.
Projects included big-data projects to mine retail purchase history and predict what special offers should be made, integration with print media to prevent discrepancies between point-of-sale systems and leaflets and data collection applications allowing stores to obtain intelligence about their competitor's prices.
Developer - Premier Farnell
November 2005 – September 2006
I was part of the team which ported their website from version 5.6 to version 7.1 of ATG Dynamo.
Projects included the detailed product pages, cross page product comparison and PCI compliance—secure messaging of credit card payments from the website to their AS400 mainframe.
Systems Engineer - Siemens Power Generation
April 1996 – November 2005
At Siemens I worked on a number of projects in the power industry.
These included designing the first SIL1 software safety system in the UK, emissions modelling and calculation to allow emitters to meet their obligations under the Kyoto agreement and development of an online purchasing system allowing engineers on site to request and authorise kit online.
Key skills and education
- Solution design and development
- Corporate governance
- Domain model design
- Event driven systems
- Hybrid cloud development
- Security
- Microsoft Azure
- CloudFoundry on premises
- SQL
- AWS
University of Teesside
Instrumentation and Control Engineering (B.Eng Hons 1st Class)
National Vocational Qualification
Purchasing and Supply Chain Management (Level 4)