An NHS Third Party Services Supplier

Home based

January 2007 – Present

Consultant

The Netfysh

York, North Yorkshire

September 2006 – December 2006
& part time since October 1997

Internet Instant Pet and Toy mail order retailer

Owner

• Managing cost effective redesigning of the company's website with a solution that includes stock control and VAT invoice production freeing up man-hours through automation.

Constellation Europe

Guildford, Surrey

February 2006 – September 2006

UK division of the largest wine & drinks company in the world and a leading producer and exporter of wine

Analyst and Trainer – Finance Department

• Adapted working practises through simplified solutions and templates to minimise handover period to non-technical and allow design changes to be shared within a pool of developers.

• Simplified working practises cut month end workload for one analyst from 2 days to 2 hours.

• Directly assisted with the creation of a handful of stand-alone MS Access applications that provide off-line management of promotion sales data from live Enterprise Resource Planning system (JD Edwards).

• Allowed Financial Analysts to quickly take ownership of solutions through flexibility and rapid application design.

• Increased department's overall knowledge of MS Access by mentoring and formal classroom training sessions

An NHS Third Party Services Supplier

Home based

September 1999 – February 2006

Product Development Manager

Originally the sole developer of renal patient software application, progressing to managing the development of the product. Also the Technical lead; instrumental in take-up of the product by other NHS hospitals whilst compliance of the application for the NHS Connecting for Health project.

• Presented/demonstrated and held question/answer sessions on the application for medical and technical personnel during the tendering process that have resulted in three additional NHS Trusts taking up the application.

• Trained new members of staff through a series of 'away day' seminars, one-to-one sessions and concise documentation in technical, clinical and sector knowledge.

• Managed an overseas outsource team of .NET developers quickly identifying during prototyping stage that they were not up to the task saving time/money as the full contract was not given to the outsourcing team.

• Guided product developments to be compliant with newly published NHS clinical guidelines so that product was 94% compliant without any additional cost to the software house.

• Implemented the first third party data extract to the Renal Registry.

• Reduced the company's tendency to rely upon the latest technology 'fads' as solutions by showing that less complicated methods were often more cost effective, supportable and sustainable.

• Established working relationship with Renal Consultants to implement medical paper theories and formulas into functionality which greatly reduces the amount of time a patient must spend on dialysis; not only an obvious benefit to the patient but also increases capacity of the unit so that more patients can be treated with existing resources.

• Initiated and enforced a change request regime to document system changes so that third party supplier could accurately charge and signed off changes. This also produced a clinical audit trail of application functionality and implemented best practises within the hospital and satellite units.

• Contingency system taken on as long term solution as it was considered to have greater functionality than the market leader's product.

• Created a clinician led solution by working in partnership with NHS healthcare professionals.

• In four months, developed and implemented year 2000 contingency application for management of Kidney Dialysis Patients at a cost of 10% of legacy application (Di-Proton) upgrade price.

Celebrity Speakers Associates

Burnham, Buckinghamshire

November 2001 – December 2001

Agency providing after-dinner and corporate speakers

Consultant

• To a tight deadline, devised solution for the lost communications to their worldwide offices which would have resulted in inaccurate year end financial data.

Equant (now Orange Business Services )

Paris, France (Home Based)

December 1999

Was part of the SITA group providing network services to the air transport industry

Consultant

• Developed Millennium Incident bulletin system that kept all departments aware of any compliance issues , actions and resolutions over Y2K.

Hertfordshire County Council

Hertford, Hertfordshire

January 1999 – August 1999

IT Consultant

• Analysed, specified and implemented tool which ensured County Council's legal responsibility was met regarding the Rights of Way within Hertfordshire.

• Directly involved in the full development cycle of Driver Training Course (Scheduling, Environmental Pledge (Data Storage) and Heritage Site (historical data maintenance) projects which streamlined communications within the department.

Tetra Pak UK

Stockley Park, Middlesex

February 1999 – June 1999

Worlds largest and leading provider of carton packaging

Consultant

• Technical Lead in a three man team that successfully developed and demonstrated to Tetra Pak a mobile timesheet collection solution for their engineering workforce.

MW Kellogg Limited

Greenford, Middlesex

October 1997 – December 1998

JGC Corp/Halliburton owned engineering contractor serving the oil and gas markets

Analyst Programmer

• Created an application to estimate the total cost, material quantities and man-hours involved in large scale construction project enabling them to bid, plan and project costs

• Developed solutions for cost tracking, material distribution, overall project erection and fabrication hours

Date of Birth: 17 November 1970 (Age 36)

Driving License: Full