I am a Skilled Software Development Manager with over 20 years of experience and excellent problem-solving, organisation and decision-making abilities.
Well versed in coordinating project delivery to tight timescales, and managing projects with collocated and off-site teams.
Responsible for the maintenance and development of the in house ERP and EPOS. Responsible for the designed and high level documentation of new development. Worked closely with the IT Director, CFO and CEO on developing the IT Road-map. Managed a distributed team of 7 permanent staff, overseeing the hiring, training, and professional growth of employees. Responsible for interviewing and hiring numerous contractors to facilitate burst development. Managed an off offshore (Poland) development team provided by a 3rd party partner.
Supported a 5 person team developing and maintaining our in-house systems. Conducted interviews for both permanent and contract team members.
Acted as the Lead Developer on the transition of our development language from VB6 to VB.Net and then to C#. Designed and implemented multiple systems for handling all aspects of a Retail business. Designed and lead the development on a complete re-write of our EPOS from scratch using WPF. Responsible for the adoption of new development techniques.
Developed new, efficient code for a variety of line of business applications and retail EPOS. Researched, designed and implemented scalable applications for information identification, extraction, analysis, retrieval and indexing. Developed a full in house garment production and purchasing system.
Worked within a small team creating bespoke EPOS and line of business applications using Visual Basic, MS SQL Server and Access.
TWI's Software Development department had a number of product suites encompassing of a mix of qualification and testing records and knowledge base systems. Working as part of a team I was involved in customising the existing product suites for individual client's needs. When I wasn't working on customisation projects I was assisting the senior developer in the development of the next version of the products. After 6 months with the company I was assigned my own greenfield projects for which I was responsible for the entire life-cycle. Including requirements gathering which included meetings with some high profile companies.