Introduction

An experienced and highly motivate professional software developer. Passionate about producing a quality product that delivers business value by using the patterns and practices used in the agile and XP communities.

With 7 years development experience spanning a wide array of technologies and and working practices varying from time boxed waterfall projects to agile projects using SCRUM and XP practices such as continuous delivery and paired programming.

Experience

Technical Lead Developer - The Hut Group, July 2011 - Present

Senior Java Developer - The Hut Group, November 2010 - July 2011

Working closely with multiple stake holders both technical and commercial to help create a solution that delivers business value and also meets architectural and none functional requirements. I have recently been involved on a project that developed and delivered a web application that was built using Spring MVC 3, Spring Security 3, Spring Core and many other industry standard technologies. The design was in part driven by our tests using TDD and the project its self was run in an agile manor with the whole team and wherever possible stakeholders attending daily scrums. During my time at the hut so far I have been able to work with many technologies . Some of these include Tiles 2, JUnit, Mockito, Maven, Liquibase, MS SQL Server as well as those mentioned above.

Analyst Programmer - Moneysupermarket.com, July 2007 - November 2010

Worked on a wide variety of projects that used many different practices and technologies to drive them including SCRUM, Continuous delivery, TDD etc. Originally working on a team dedicated to designing and developing a reusable controls framework in .net 2 using the C# language. We created AJAX server controls as well as custom server controls that where highly configurable and performant. Later I moved to a team that was responsible for delivering the 'vouchers' channel, here we created a web application that allowed users to search for discount voucher code, technologies used in the project include C#, ASP.NET 3.5, MVC.NET, Spring.NET, nHibernate, NUnit, Rhino Mock, Lucine, Solr, MSMQ, MS SQL Server, IIS 7, Nant.

Web Developer - Mortgage2000, May 2003 - July 2007

Working on both greenfield projects and small changes to legacy systems, I worked on Classic ASP and ASP.NET 1 applications in VB and C#. Created reports using Crystal Reports 8. Created HTML emails that were designed to work in multiple client readers