Project: Migration of ********/flowers – “Flowers web site” to the Direct platform (single basket).
Responsibility:
• Investigated and designed the migration for the new ******** web site for flowers.
• Helped the business to develop the customer offer and scale operations by streamlining the process of adding new fulfillers to the website.
• The customer experience was improved with the “single basket, single checkout” process.
• Communicated solutions internally to stake-holders, the project team and to external partners.
• Helped implement the final solution using .NET 2.0, WebServices,SQL Server 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006.
• Co-written and delivered a course on “Patterns and Practices for Enterprise Architecture” and “Security”.
Key Achievements: Develop my mindset from a department vision to an Enterprise vision.
Skills developed: Increase communication and presentation skills with customers. Improving my enterprise architectural skills to a greater depth and gaining experience within the retail area.
Projects: Designing the new Integration Service Layer to support future ******** future partnerships.
Responsibility:
• Part of the MS-Technical Adoption Program (TAP) for BizTalk Server 2006, building the next generation of Integration Services Layer for ********
• Designed the infrastructure for a reliable and scalable BizTalk Server 2006 group and get it rolled-out across all environments (Dev=>Build=>Test=>Production)
• I was the communication link between Operations, Development and the Infrastructure teams.
• Supported and documented the Integration Service Layer for “Tesco Direct” (********)
IVIS Group is a retail consultancy employing 75 people in the UK
Role: Project IT Architect Lead from April 2007 to 10/01/2008
Project: Migration of ******** - “Wine Club” to a new “Multi-Channel Architecture” (MCA)
Responsibility:
• Managed a team of 3 Designers and researched and designed the MCA for ******** web site.
• Investigated and designed the migration of ********/wine web site to a new platform.
• Managed the overall IT architecture for the programme. This included designs for product setup functionality, warehouse management systems, finance systems, website, order management systems and an after sales support system.
• Coordinated and communicated the technical solution internally to stake-holders, project managers, project team and to external partners.
• Implemented using
Projects: Evolving Grocery and National Store web sites. Part of the “Dynamic Scheduling” project.
Responsibility:
• Designed, developed, tested and supported web applications in the production environment, front end and back end. Use of .NET, C#, COM+, IIS, ASP.NET, XML, XSL, MSMQ, SQL Server.
• Use of XP methodology and “test-first” approach. Use also of waterfall methodology. Use of UML.
• Worked on Food web site (Grocery) and non-food web site (Direct, Flowers, Wine, and Entertainments), helping the business to develop the customer offer and grow the business (********)..
• Looked after the build server for the entire web site. Documented the process and successfully handed it over to the development team.
Other Roles
Senior IT consultant – BizTalk Team Leader (team of 4 people) – Since Aug 2006
• Appraisals, Holidays/Absences, Timesheets, and expenses management.
• Helped recruiting new talent for the “professional services” team.
• Initiated a dinner event, “Piz’ Talk”, for the team (every 5 weeks) to talk about BizTalk et al.
Reuters is an International news agency employing 16,000 people world-wide
Project: Part of the first integration project using BusinessWorks in France, “Front to back office”, EfiPoste (today “La Banque Postale”).
Responsibility: (part of a team of 6 people)
• As part of a major Integration project, front to back office, I helped to develop and deploy the EAI solution using TIBCO BusinessWorks.
• Helped Sales Solutions Team to build Proof-Of-Concept projects for French banks.
• Gave "BusinessWorks" training (two days course).
• Support to clients on TIBCO Products (BusinessWorks, ActiveEnterprise, and SDK).
Key Achievements: Quick learning of new products and shared my knowledge through Trainings.
Skills developed: Developing communication and presentation skills with the customer. Improving my enterprise software architectural skills to greater depth and gaining experience within the financial area.