Providing the following services to small and medium sized businesses:

Software Vendor Selection and Implementation (help with ITT’s and RFI’s)

Feasibility Studies (assessing risks and opportunities)

Requirements Capture and Analysis (business, user, operational and system requirements)

Conceptual, Logical and Physical Design (architecture, behaviour and appearance of each feature of the solution)

Database Design and implementation (SQL Server, Oracle, ODBC compliant databases)

Business Intelligence (generating value from knowledge based assets such as databases)

Project Management (planning, designing, developing and deploying successful solutions)

Software Development (VB, C, C++, C#, .NET)

Documentation (e.g. functional and technical specifications, release notes, lessons learned)

Training (comparing current skill levels to required levels and developing a learning plan)

Testing (formulation and implementation of test plans to validate solutions)

Skywire Software (formerly Docucorp International) – Implementation Manager
(Software Consultancy - E real-time data exchange, business intelligence and Customer Communications Management (CCM)).

Royal Bank of Scotland (Coutts Bank) - Successfully, project managed the implementation of an automated personalised client investment reporting (wealth management system) and ensured that all tasks were completed within deadlines and budget.

HSBC - Project managed the implementation of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) functional requirements for the retail and private Client Investment Reporting operations.

Tasks performed include the following:

· Wrote high-level requirements definition, technical specification documents and project plans.
· Actively contributed to the formulation of RFP (Request for Proposal) response documents, work orders, quotes and commercial contractual agreements.
· Wrote and distributed periodic project status, estimates vs actuals, resource allocation and issues log reports and chaired weekly meetings with senior management to discuss the former.
· Successfully negotiated consultancy fee rate increases with customers on behalf of the company.
· Periodically reviewed the software work packages completed by the technical team to ensure quality and consistency.
· Wrote custom software modules including an investment report email notification system for Private bankers and Fund Managers using C# and C++ to view and analyse performance portfolio reports.
· Continually identified additional service and license revenue opportunities such as the custom implementation of an interface to an EMC Centera Cluster. Also researched and wrote the technical interface specification document.
· Provided user training and support for clients, including customisation and design of training modules as well as actively participating in pre-sales sales presentations.

Generated over a £1/2 million in service revenues through projects managed.

Participated in a number of external client meetings to develop business cases and project descriptions. I then proceeded to write functional and technical specifications on a case by case basis.

Designed and implemented a mobile billing platform that generated over £1million in revenues for one of Cablecom’s customers (Sonera Zed UK Ltd).

This involved writing socket based components that I wrote in C++ to securely establish connectivity to the reverse billing platforms of the UK Mobile Operators.

I was responsible for ensuring, that end product system deliverables performed well, and were delivered on time, within budget constraints and met the requirements of the business with respect to robustness, resilience, performance and security.

Played a key role in assisting senior management in meetings when software integration and network decisions had to be made, often accompanied by business benefit reports and use case (UML) diagrams that I prepared.

Chaired a number of project meetings as well producing functional and technical specification documents.

Reviewed work package deliverables on a one to one basis with team members to ensure that software and quality standards were being adhered to.

Main skills used: RAD, RUP, UML, C/C++, COM, ATL, VB, XML, SQL Server, IIS, ASP

Communicated with non-IT Staff to identify improvement opportunities with respect to internal systems.

Designed and wrote a number of desktop and distributed intranet management information applications that were distributed throughout the group.

Also implemented a two way based mobile based messaging system for members to query tee time availability in real-time.

Planned, coordinated and supervised the roll out of a Point of Sale System to 35 of American Golf’s golf clubs, which significantly reduced administration and added to efficiencies throughout the group.

Installed and Configured DNS, Mail, Web and FTP Services on Linux and Windows 2000 Servers co-located at a Data Centre to facilitate American Golf Corporation’s UK operations.

This was followed by a handover document that I wrote, in addition to training IT personnel who took over the maintenance.

Installed, and deployed a Fortigate firewall which involved adding the necessary antivirus protection, web content filtering, email filtering, network intrusion and detection policies. In addition I configured the necessary port forwarding to allow customers access to web, database and other application services.

Main skills used: Prince2, RAD, UML, C++, COM, ATL, SQL Server, IIS, HTML, ASP, C#, ASP.Net

Reuters (Information Services) Technical Project Manager/Systems Architect: Sep 2000 – Jan 2001
Airserve Ltd (Mobile Wireless Internet) Head of Applications Development: Apr 2000 – Sep 2000
AOL UK Ltd (Internet Service Provider) Systems Development Manager: Aug 1999 – Apr 2000
P&O Properties (Commercial Property) Systems Development Consultant: Feb 1998 – Aug 1999
Citibank (Emerging Markets) Senior Systems Developer: Jul 1997 – Jan 1998
Microsoft UK Limited (Systems Developer Support) Jun 1997 – Jul 1997
State Street Bank (Global Custody) Senior Systems Developer: Feb 1997 – May 1997
Trade Indemnity Plc (Credit Risk Insurance) Systems Developer: Jan 1996 – Jan 1997
Trade Indemnity Plc (Credit Risk Insurance) Consultant Trainer: Apr 1995 – Jan 1996
Object Technology Group Ltd (Software Training) Consultant Trainer: Sep 1994 – Mar 1995
Digital Equipment Services (DEC Capital Markets) Junior Developer: Jun 1994 – Sep 1994