Who am I?
A brief timeline of my career history is shown below.
Having successfully delivered my targets and finishing my last role at VitalPAC,
I finally have time to enjoy doing the things I want to do such as travel, cooking, DIY and web development.
I also have some spare time to use my brain and help
children to pass their primary school exams (11+) for entrance into selective UK based schools.
Career Timeline
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VitalPAC
Nov 2015 - May 2017
Senior Director of Development
- Responsible for development and delivery of all VitalPAC mobile product lines.
- Transformed organisation so that its products could be delivered to an acceptable level of quality, budget and time.
- Increased product quality through Agile testing methodologies, test automation and Test Driven Development.
- Implemented the SAFe Agile framework
- Introduced new tooling to aid development, testing and product delivery
Decided to leave the business and persue personal goals once above changes were successfully implemented.
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System C Limited
Jun 2014 - Nov 2015
Senior Director of Development
- Responsible for development and delivery of multiple product lines including the Medway Hospital Information system , Maternity, Proxima, and Medway BI.
- Increased productivity, product quality and reduced development cost.
- Implemented the SAFe Agile framework
- Implemented test automation
Due to the success of the changes I implemented, I moved onto leading the VitalPAC to implement the same changes.
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McKesson UK
May 2011 - Jun 2014
Senior Director of Development
- Responsible for development and delivery of multiple product lines including the Medway Hospital Information system , Maternity, Proxima, and Medway BI.
- Doubled the size of the development team to allow globalisation of the Medway product.
- Implemented McKesson's Application Life Cycle management methodology for scaled software delivery
After two years, System C re-aquired the Medway product and customer base from McKesson.
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System C Limited
Aug 2007 - May 2011
Chief Technology Officer
- Responsible for 70 staff spread across Design, Development, QA, Customer Support and IT functions.
- Modernised development tools based on Microsoft Technology stack.
- Managed the architecting, development and subsequent implementation of Medway, the companies flagship Hospital Information system.
- Modernised and standardised developmement working practices across all group of companies to Agile using SCRUM.
May 2001 - August 2007
Systems Development Manager
- Responsible for day to day running of technical teams spanning Design, Development, QA, Customer Support and IT functions.
The success of Medway led to the subsequent sale of System C to McKesson UK.
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Previous Emplyment
ReMass Limited
Jun 1995 - May 2001
Technical manager, lead developer, sales, support, on-site training and software implementation.
ICS Solutions
Aug 1992 - Jun 1995
Software developer, consultant, systems integration, software implementation, network engineer.
Pitney Bowes plc
1988 - 1992
Lead developer, Operations and Support manager.
Woods of Colchester (GEC) Limited
1984 - 1988
Software developer, business analyst.
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Education
1981-1984
Coventry (Lanchester) University
BSc(Hons) degree in Combined Engineering Studies