Full Stack Developer

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP is the top rated law firm in Europe.  I was brought in to work on the largest matter in the world which required a custom built case management system to handle claims.  I was responsible for defining the architecture of the solution even though I was taken on as a senior developer.  We integrated with bamboo for automated builds, gradually increased test coverage to support the agile/scrum development which was a new way of working for Freshfields.  This process turned around the way projects were delivered and won awards within the firm which I personally received for the team.  I received 4 extensions to my contract.

I came in to work with legacy software in C# ASP.Net with an angular.js front end and gradually refactored it whilst adding new features to introduce proper dependency injection, use of entity framework, unit tests and SOLID design principles. This led to dramatic improvements in the speed and reliability of the existing systems. We introduced sonarqube and a CI/CD pipeline to help us find the most vulnerable parts of the codebase. 

Virgin East Coast Trains work on the new public website for Virgin East Coast, development of unit tests, working with teamcity and agile/jira with scrum methodology. Episerver programming and tying in with CMS.

Doing an angular.js solution with Office 365 and sharepoint api’s to prototype a public sector learning application. 

Three month contract extended twice followed by a nine month contract on an increased rate as part of a team of three to redesign their case management system Working as part of a carefully selected senior team of three to create a new case management system using restful web api, angularJs, twitter bootstrap, SignalR, less css, unit/system tests and EF for a legal firm employing 1600 staff in a secure environment.  Working through the whole software lifecycle through testing and UAT to deploy a live system to the business. Since our solution was replacing an existing one I wrote a series of integration tests to confirm the data delivered was unchanged and to confirm the level of performance enhancement.  One area I worked on was a new document server which replaced an existing word macro solution with a .Net solution using Aspose and a restful api improving the generation of letters from several minutes to around 80ms and therefore permitting generation and preview on click which resulted in considerable business savings improving the efficiency of fee earners. Another main area I was working in was to replace the management information system with a more easily maintainable system.  This was achieved by writing code generators to go through the existing cases alongside automated tests to ensure the data provided was unchanged.  As a result change requests could then be processed in a couple of days compared to the previous system which took a month or two for a change. 

Offered an extension to the Matrix contract when the project was bought out by Masternaut.  Subsequent extension to the contract until they moved the project to South Yorkshire.  TDD, Agile and continuous deployment working as part of a scrum team and involved in all areas of the project. A greenfield insurance telematics project which I was involved in from concept to market in association with Telefonica developing a white label insurance telematics product for the European insurance industry.  It was initially my responsibility to develop the user portal web front end which would enable policy holders to login and view their progress with detailed animated presentation of their journeys, and graphs showing their driving behaviour. This was designed to be deployed to several web farms in multiple languages with a CSS3 based customer template. After the product went live the team expanded and we worked in an agile team so I became involved in all aspects of the software development including windows service, database development, business logic to account for errors in telematics devices, software resets, lack of GPS etc. 

Front and back end development. Carrying out the following projects: o Web service for mobile iPad app and MVC3 admin system for Marshalls plc o Various micro sites and site maintenance for Marshalls plc. 

Technical lead for the website for an initiative by Speedy Hire plc to reinforce relationships with small businesses.  All in .net 4, tie in with internal database layers using soap, bank systems to manage direct debits and workflow for sign up of new customers. 

Technical lead and development of web handlers to drive a flash front end for a new global brand website for the Astra Zeneca Brilinta brand.  This included setting up video streaming and encoding, dynamic arrangement of profiles images to match map layouts, integration with internal AZ authentication and security on the site to AZ standards.  All in ASP.Net 3.5.

My role was to providing IT services to a variety of clients with a strong emphasis on ecommerce systems and content management systems.  I produced and maintained the ecommerce front end with integration to sage, warehouse management and systems with typically several tens of thousands of products in each clients’ system.  I was also responsible for delivering content management systems with versioning, testing and workflow built in and groups of websites with XML communication to enable secure shared data between independent organisations.

This was a senior role which included mentoring junior staff, planning budgets, client requirement capture and business development/sales.

The systems I wrote with Greystone were for total business management including integration with SAGE accounting systems, warehouse management systems, purchasing, sales and CRM systems.