Team LeaderAzure Cloud Specialist

Just Group plc, formerly JRP Group plc and, before that, Just Retirement Group plc, is a British
company specialising in retirement products and services headquartered in Reigate, Surrey.

.NET/Azure Cloud, Microservices and DevOps Technical Lead

I was hired by Just Group to spearhead their efforts to transition into the Cloud, microservices and
DevOps by leading across two greenfield projects, multiple cross-disciplined teams of developers, dba's
and testers. To conclude and deliver several azure cloud based projects. This entailed leading by example
and pragmatic experience, thus helping to untangle the web of conflicting opinions that usually exist in a
highly regulated financial services Enterprise when stepping towards the new world of the Cloud and
DevOps, whilst at the same time ensuring the teams had a clear path forward and the opportunities
required to upskill in the new technologies.

Responsibilities:
* Liaise with all the involved parties to ensure a smooth development process
* Refine and optimize the CI/CD pipeline
* Mentor and coaching for upskilling and cross-skilling
* Introduce TDD and BDD and steer the teams towards an integrated test strategy
* Central communication point between business, operations, architecture, infosec and
development
* "Shielding" the team from business pressure for added focus and productivity
* Guide the teams towards self-sufficiency (make my role redundant)

Achievements:
* Streamlined the ongoing releases operations
* Increased communication efficiency across all involved parties
* Introduced company wide code libraries through NuGet Artifact Feeds
* Assisted in the pioneering of Azure ARM Templates, Powershell, Docker and Kubernetes,
DevOps initiatives
* Led 3 greenfield projects into production
* Upskilled and oiled team with a final code coverage of 75%+ and automated tests integrated
into the pipelines

Technical snapshot:
Visual C# (Standard, .NET 4.6-4.7.2, .Net Core 2.1), Web API, MVC, Razor, Agile Methodologies,
Microsoft Azure (Azure Web Jobs, Azure Azure Event Grid, Azure Service Bus, Web Apps, Azure
Functions, Azure Durable Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Azure SQL Server DB, ARM templates, Azure
Application Security Environment, Azure NSG), SCRUM, MSUnit, Unity, AutoFixture, xUnit, MsTest,
Windows Services, Specflow, Selenium, Gherkin, Task Parallel Library, Multithreading, Azure DevOps
(VSTS/TFS), Docker, Kubernetes, gitflow, git

Demica has been a market leading provider of Working Capital Solutions to large corporates and
financial institutions for over 15 years.

Lead .NET/Angular Fullstack Developer

Reporting directly into the CTO I was asked to take lead in the effort in a new flagship product.

Responsibilities:
* Pickup, refactor and enhance an internal application into a commercial product
* Liaise with all the IT departments and ensure a clear and effective development process
* Liaise directly with business stakeholders to ensure that the product adheres to the product
vision
* Coordinate work efforts of foreign based resources

Achievements:
* Defined the full CI/CD Pipeline using Jenkins, msbuild, git and azure




* Cross trained functional testers into automated UI testers using Selenium, Specflow and NUnit
* Helped refine the Agile processes in place
Technical snapshot:
Visual C#, Web API, MVC, Razor, JavaScript, JQuery, Angularjs 1.6.7, Agile Methodologies, Microsoft
Azure, SCRUM, SQL Server 2012, NUnit, Specflow, Selenium, Gherkin, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Task
Parallel Library, Multithreading

Reed Exhibitions is the world's leading event organiser, with a growing portfolio of 500 events in 41
countries, and a staff of 3000 exhibition specialists.

Lead .NET Developer

Responsibilities:
* Architectural enhancements
* Build pipeline refinement and optimization

Achievements:
* Refactored the overall solution for build time reduction and compartmentalization
* Successfully played a part of a small cross-disciplinary team
* Contributed to improvements of the CI/CD environment
* Introduced a dependency management tree into the build pipeline using Nuget

Technical snapshot:
Visual C#, Entity Framework 6, Web API, ASP.NET MVC, Razor, JavaScript, Angularjs, Agile Methodologies,
AWS, SCRUM, SQL Server 2012, proprietary systems