Employment:

Associate Director

     Oversee technical design and deliver solutions by analysing costing and budgeting. Identify and welcome new clients into business by addressing questions / concerns. Schedule and spearhead prospect meetings to discuss potential customer's needs. Facilitate business growth with digital consulting practice whilst serving as a liaison for key accounts in UK, Europe, and Ireland. Administer project scheduling and testing by maintaining quality standards and providing QA Support.

• Supported clients in achieving development goals platforms including Microsoft and a few open-source stacks through a close review of end-to-end development cycle from technical / solution architecture requirements analysis.

• Delivered exceptional assistance to clients / prospects by addressing challenges, collecting requirements, and spearheading workshops and regular review calls throughout cycle of projects.

• Ensured business growth and provided consultancy services while directing digital consultancy practice.

Solution Architect (Contract - SC Cleared)

     Manage public sector projects with government bodies like NHS, Metropolitan Police on top of serving some clients from private sector. Collaborate and communicate with senior stakeholders on other projects within private sector. Execute multiple roles such as Solution Architecture, Design, Infrastructure, and DevOps while dealing with Microsoft technologies.

• Reported directly to Head of Technology while fulfilling role of Solution Architect.

• Created proof of concepts, evaluated third-party tools, and designed / maintained architectures for solutions.

• Participated in all bid/pre-sales activities to win new projects; maintained cloud infrastructures for enterprise-level projects while monitoring performance and analytics.

Technical Architect / Investing Partner

     Monitored project infrastructure and supervised development team, DevOps (Azure), and hands-on coding with azure functions (microservices) and API gateway. Oversaw whole program initiative, both offshore and onshore agile teams. Acted as a Technical Architect Consultant/Investing Partner for a product based on cryptocurrencies and market trends with a trust-based rating mechanism for currencies.

• Utilised Azure infrastructure and Microsoft stack for development and git hub for source control.

• Implemented development practices and deployed complete infrastructure from scratch in Azure Cloud platform.

Sr Technical Architect/Lead (Contract)

     Working as a Senior Technical Architect / Lead for a key player in the logistics sector. As a returning service provider to the client, I have been trusted with redefining and maximizing the London development team’s potential by upgrading to Modern process and methodology to increase productivity and to reduce time spent on DevOps. Some of the changes I have implemented so far are - introduced Agile methodology as a scrum practitioner, switched source control, introduced code review process, continuous integration, automated deployments using visual studio online build services to name a few. Improved sprint planning process to achieve the best of requirements and use of time. With the changes I have made so far, we have achieved an increase in productivity, continuous deliveries, saving time in terms of deployment, integration, support etc. Other duties include training developers in using modern technologies, frameworks & design patterns. Part of my role also involves hands-on coding, in which I push the limits to get the best quality matching the current industry standards. I have upgraded the client’s suite of client-facing applications to current frameworks/standards and using the latest technology like dot net core for their newer products. Mostly Microsoft products and Angular 2.0 were used for some current applications.

Technical Architect (Episerver Contract)

     Worked as a senior Episerver Consultant/Technical Lead for a leading web agency for their range of eCommerce projects. Led a small team of developers and testers to deliver a full-fledged B2B ecommerce solution for a leading client from the food industry. Duties involved sprint planning, requirements gathering, mentoring developers and hands on coding among other developer tasks.

Senior Episerver Developer (Contract)

     Worked as a Senior Developer for a Episerver Gold partner on a short-term contract to help them meet their deadline to deliver the project for one of their key clients.

Senior Episerver Developer (Contract)

     Worked as a freelance Senior Developer for a major publishing house with Episerver as the main CMS technology. The role involved creating an eCommerce platform for the brand website DK.com among other features and BAU's. Created a bespoke web API which is the hub of eCommerce platform, which communicates and provides data with many third parties including payment and fulfilment providers. Also migrated the search provider to using SOLR which improved the usability of the whole website and showed considerable efficiency improvement with better analysis. The process also involved creating a few scheduled jobs to share data back and forth to different clients/API's. Part of the role also involved MSBuild, Deployment, Continuous Integration, Server maintenance, Azure, and few others. Overall the experience was hands on core development (.net/C#) with some regular front end design changes.

Senior Software Consultant

     I was Involved in introducing efficient, client rich, responsive and light weight screen solutions for the existing products alongside working on managing client requests and other back end EDI business solutions. I introduced an open source project management tool and was instrumental in helping the whole organisation migrate their project management and issue tracking process to use Redmine by demonstrating it to multiple regional offices (Europe, USA and Hong Kong) which is proving very successful. Took over complete installation, configuration, deployment process and training people in different regional offices for the products I was working on including Redmine on different environments.

Senior Software Consultant

     Provided software development services to one of the biggest accountancy firms in the finance industry. Duties were to design, plan, develop, deploy and support many applications which were to be used by KPMG's internal clients. Some of the technologies used were VB.net, C#, SQL, ASP.net, Entity Framework, CSS, Java Script, jQuery, TFS, DevExpress, Aspose.

Senior Software Developer

     Senior Software Developer in our Microsoft Shop for Health Sector, using latest technologies (both web and windows), which mainly includes Dot Net Framework 4.0 - WPF (MVVM), MVC3, WCF, Windows Services, Reporting Framework and few others. I was playing a key role in a small team of 3 developers (2 senior developers and a lead developer) in a highly demanding software house with an eagle’s eye for very high quality. I have been involved in large big ticket projects in all stages from scratch till successful delivery. I am currently nearing completion of a big scale Recruitment Partnership Project for Ministry Of Defence (sub - contractors). I took full responsibility for the MOD project for the last 6 months when the lead developer left the company. I was awarded as employee of the month for November 2012.

Senior Software Consultant

    Senior software consultant for variety of products for Macmillan internal clients. The role involved use of different Microsoft technologies like Visual Studio Dot Net (Framework 4.0 [2010], 3.5 [2008]) with ASP.net, C Sharp, VB.net, SQL server (2000/2005). Projects done includes Microsoft Windows Services (using framework 4.0, 3.5), SOAP Clients, Diversified Web applications using Visual Studio 2008/2010 (ASP.net/C#/VB.net/SQL), internal publishing systems that maintains the production process from approval stage till despatch process - the system is done using different technologies like Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Studio 2003/2005 - VB.net, Crystal Reports, SQL Server 2005 & few others.

    I was involved in a windows network application project called ‘What-If Costings’ (An MDI based application) which is proposed to be used by book production personnel’s and book editors to predict the sales figures, margin values in variety of perspectives, of a book even before they are under initial stages of planning. This system also uses Crystal Reports 11 R2 to export the predicted results to other types like excel, PDF, word, RTF & HTML. This system is also designed to work offline, when a user changes content offline the system automatically synchronises the content with the server database when they are back online. I was involved in the complete development life cycle of this project, which involves requirements gathering, implementation, deployment, bug fixing and support to client over the phone. The system is implemented using Visual Studio 2010 (Framework 4.0 used MVC architecture to implement database development, Business objects & Middle functional layer). This project is done completely from scratch by me technically.

    Duties other than ‘What-If Costings’ project include: Adding new functionalities to variety of applications (both web & windows applications), Fixing reported bugs and deploying the work, Configuring IIS and few others like code revisioning using tortoise SVN. I was awarded as the Consultant of the Month (June 2010) by Head of IT (Macmillan Publishers Ltd).

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Dot Net Developer

    Dot net developer for the front end web retail system (Multi currency, Multi channel & Multi language) and administration interface for maintaining the web and back end systems. We as a team of four (3 developers and 1 QA) in an Agile environment started working on enhancing the existing website which was done in ASP and VB6.0 for business objects. As we went on working on the website and the back end web management system initially, we completely learned the system and about how it is implemented to the core. After us taking over the project we moved to Bristol as a new IT team where we spent rest of the time converting the web system and the back end system to Dot net framework 3.5 alongside enhancing and deploying the existing system as per business needs

    The old system was done in Classic ASP and VB6.0 for business objects which were later converted to Dot net platform using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (ASP.net/C#/VB.net Framework 3.5). In conversion process we used different technologies which include ASP.net, C#, VB.net, Microsoft LINQ, XSLT, XML, JQuery, Java Script, VB Script, CSS, SQL Server 2005/2008. The enhancement and maintenance of the existing system includes using technologies like Classic ASP, VB6.0, CSS, HTML, Java Script, VB Script, SQL Server 2005 which includes usage of complex stored procedures, Queries and views. The converted system was developed in a clever way which could swap the content of the total site using XSLT transforms. The web system was able to handle multi currency and different look and feel for each site with a single code base for all the channels. The administration interface was also developed in such a way that it could handle all the currency channels, stock maintenance, product, brand management, orders and parsing services with a single code base. Role also involved procedures like deployment automation (Batch process), Code revisioning, Source repository control (Tortoise SVN), IIS domain/Hosts configuration. The database standardisation was also done to handle all the currencies in a single database and Stock/Domain management. The contract involves starting project from the scratch till complete development and deployment of the project to live with very high standards involving a complete software development life cycle.

Information Analyst

    Information Analyst for a project named NFI (National Fraud Initiative) 2006. Duties as a part of a team includes, logging, data tracking, technical customer services over phone, data processing and standardisation. On top of that I was testing and bug fixing online solution application using ASP.net C# and SQL server for the database. The project saved over 200 million pounds of government money from national frauds. [Packages used: NFI Log 2007, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Visual Studio.net & VB Access (ASP.net, C#), SQL server].

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