Profile

• Experienced and versatile Information Technology professional, SMT/SLT/Department/Team/Project Leader and Software Architect
• 30 years in the Software Development industry, over 20 of which have been at a senior/leadership level
• Very accustomed to working on own initiative, onsite and telecommuting in a variety of disciplines, and playing a strong part in teams of diverse sizes
• Good communication skills with a positive and relaxed approach
• A passion for everything that is going on in the Software Development industry, both in the technology space, and development/project management/process ‘best practices’

Key Skills

• Defining Technical Strategies to meet short, medium and long term goals
• Software Architecture of enterprise class distributed systems
• SLT/SMT/Department/Project Leader/Management of different size development streams, both internal and outsourced, often concurrently
• Agile Developments
• Solid hands on development skills with a variety of platforms, languages and environments
• Ability to become proficient in previously unknown areas
• In-depth knowledge of both current and legacy tools, technology and languages
• Solid experience of most major relational databases

Ideology

The best tool and technology for the job based on technical merit and suitably.

Strong views, loosely held.

Methodologies

• Strong Object Analysis, Design, Modelling and Programming Skills
• Agile/SCRUM, XP and DSDM approaches to software development / Product management
• Test Driven Development / Test First Development / Test Automation
• Certified ScrumMaster
• Certified Scrum Product Owner
• Certified Scrum Developer
• ITIL V3 (IT Service Management)
• TOGAF

Skills

• Development Manager
• Agile Software Development - Scrum, Kanban, XP, DSDM
• Continuous Integration - CI Pipelines, Gradle/Maven/ANT, Clover, Crucible, Fisheye, Upsource, Bamboo
• Test Automation - Contract Testing, xUnit, WireMock, MockObjects, Selenium, ArchUnit, SonarQube, SpotBugs, Checkstyle, PMD
• Leadership / Coaching
• Enterprise Software Development
• Software Architecture - arc42, C4, Structurizr
• Jetbrains Intellij
• Java - Spring, JEE (EJB, JMX, JMS, JDBC, JSP, JCA)
• JavaScript - ExtJS, JQuery, Node.js
• Weblogic, Tomcat
• Git - BitBucket, GitHub
• Groovy
• Scala
• MongoDB
• Oracle
• Linux
• MacOS
• Tools and Services - Paw, SOAPUI, JIRA, Confluence, Slack