• Establishing coding standards and guidelines and ensuring these are adhered to by development teams.
• Promoting agile methodologies especially XP engineering practices like Test Driven Development, Small Releases, Pair Programming, Refactoring etc.
• Identifying, managing and escalating any issues or risks to the appropriate team well in advance to ensure deadlines are met.
• Actively engaging in and contributing to agile planning and design sessions.
• Regular meetings with project managers and with other teams to ensure the smooth running of projects.

Major Achievements

• Built and delivered APIs for mobile APP in Magento 2 to sell cinema tickets online for one of our corporate clients Affinion
• Managed and delivered JDA warehouse integration with Magento 2 for one of our corporate clients Animed with the following functionality

• • Product Management
  • Inventory Management
  • Order Management
  • Supplier Management
  • Purchase Management
  • Refund / Cancellation Management

• Built the following custom extensions

• • Free Shipping Bar based on amount / customer group / website
  • Image Optimiser based on well-known APIs ReSmush, ImageOptim and Kraken.IO
  • Product Shelf Life to cater for products which have set expiry date and time

• Built and delivered fully functional Magento 2 website for one of our clients Edit
• Currently working on building Prescription Management System using Magento 2 for one of our corporate clients

• Establishing coding standards and guidelines and ensuring these are adhered to by development teams.
• Promoting agile methodologies especially XP engineering practices like Test Driven Development, Small Releases, Pair Programming, Refactoring etc.
• Identifying, managing and escalating any issues or risks to the appropriate team well in advance to ensure deadlines are met.
• Actively engaging in and contributing to agile planning and design sessions.
• Regular meetings with project managers and with other teams to ensure the smooth running of projects.
• Actively engaging in providing estimations for RFPs and work closely with sales and business development teams.
• Working with functional and cross functional teams to promote better communication, visibility and collaboration.
• Acting as a point of escalation to ensure technical barriers are removed.

Managing, motivating and inspiring teams and individuals to deliver high quality products and services.

• Run regular team meetings and 121s to create strong development teams by communicating, motivating and creating a ‘support each other’ culture.
• Ensuring a smooth handover process is in place from development to live service.
• Managing a team of over 20 cross functional technical resources, both on and offshore.

Major Achievements

• Managed and delivered two major client implementations (Barclays and NCB) for the iTravel product.

• Managed and delivered point automation project (Fidelis) for Intel.

• Managing and delivering another major client implementation for the Accor Group and Eurostar using the iRedeem Magento based product.

• Managed and delivered a retail site along with a client implementation for Diners Club International using Airport VIP Magento based product.

• Managed and delivered hosting and infrastructure for the iRedeem platform to meet business requirements regarding high availability, scalability, security and performance.

• Implemented continuous integration for the Airport VIP product using tools such as Vagrant, Puppet, Team City, and Docker. This provided significant business benefits to ensure environments were aligned and drastically cut deployment times from hours and days to minutes.

• Development of the iRedeem product using the MVC based Magento platform which includes Zend Framework, PHP 5, MySQL, XHTML, JQuery, AJAX and CSS.
• Built and delivered two major client implementations (Flying Blue and Cathay Pacific) using the iRedeem product.
• Architected and designed KOINOS which was a widely used middle layer serving multiple clients.
• Built a substantial amount of Magento modules to support the iRedeem product.
• Support and Maintenance of existing websites.
• Leading teams of developers both offshore (Romania) and Onsite.

Major Achievements

• Within 3 months of joining the team, achieved the following:
  • 2 major releases delivered on time and within budget.
  • Developed the iRedeem product to be used as a solution platform for several clients.
  • Created 6 or more custom modules as a part of product development.
• Set up SVN externals to maintain core code efficiently. This allowed core code to be published at different sites.
• Became the core team member in a short span of time.

• Development and maintenance of ecommerce websites using the MVC based Magento platform which includes Zend Framework, PHP 5, MySQL, XHTML, JQuery, AJAX and CSS.
• Development and maintenance of CRM/CMS websites using ASP.net, SQL 2000, XML, XSL, XHTML, CSS, JQuery, AJAX and WSF.

Major Achievements

• Self-taught Drupal.
• Became the core part of the team within 3 months of joining Lablateral Ltd.
• Always met deadlines and delivered projects to high quality standards.
• Introduced a new platform (Magento) to Lablateral to reduce cost and increase revenue.
• Built and delivered 2 websites using the new platform within 4 months.

https://www.animeddirect.co.uk
https://www.maxwellscottbags.com
https://www.mipet.com/shop.html
http://staging.snaintongolf.co.uk