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Peter Hitchmough
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Stockport, United Kingdom
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I'm offering
Design, deploy, develop, manage and support. Peter is an excellent multi-platform experience with can-do attitude.
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United Kingdom
Language
English
Fluently
French
Good
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Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
Full time contractor
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My experience
2019 - ?
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Head of Information Technology
Eversmart Energy.
• Successfully took on an expanded IT Infrastructure role
• Delivered outsourcing of Web and Salesforce Development
• Rapidly delivered the IT for "overnight" company expansion.
• Delivered self-hosted Energy Industry solutions for DTN, AFMS, Work Management.
• Delivered technical Smart Meter (incl. SMETS2) IoT solution with 1000's meters deployed.
• Worked with Operations, Sales, Customer Service leadership.
• Proposed and set up the IT Support function, and partnered with external desktop support supplier.
• Implemented Jira Service Desk for incident and problem management.
• Influenced a culture change for improved change management, security, compliance and data protection in a regulated industry.
• Further Salesforce development and consultancy: Apex, Aura and LWC, functional design.
• Delivered outsourcing of Web and Salesforce Development
• Rapidly delivered the IT for "overnight" company expansion.
• Delivered self-hosted Energy Industry solutions for DTN, AFMS, Work Management.
• Delivered technical Smart Meter (incl. SMETS2) IoT solution with 1000's meters deployed.
• Worked with Operations, Sales, Customer Service leadership.
• Proposed and set up the IT Support function, and partnered with external desktop support supplier.
• Implemented Jira Service Desk for incident and problem management.
• Influenced a culture change for improved change management, security, compliance and data protection in a regulated industry.
• Further Salesforce development and consultancy: Apex, Aura and LWC, functional design.
Compliance, UP, Energy, Energy, Web, Development, Infrastructure, Support, Outsourcing, It, Security, Technology, Design, Service, Sales, Customer service, Iot, Management, Leadership, It infrastructure, Salesforce, Jira, It support, Change management
2015 - 2017
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Senior Salesforce Developer
Sequre Property Investment.
• Platform Lead for Sales Cloud and Service Cloud bespoke systems. Apex specialist.
• Developed API frameworks for inbound and outbound REST APIs.
• Integration with payment gateways, New Voice Media, web-to-lead, web-to-case.
• Business Analysis, reports, dashboards, integration with Power-BI.
• Mentored junior developers.
• Developed API frameworks for inbound and outbound REST APIs.
• Integration with payment gateways, New Voice Media, web-to-lead, web-to-case.
• Business Analysis, reports, dashboards, integration with Power-BI.
• Mentored junior developers.
API, Business Analysis, REST, Cloud, Salesforce, Integration, Sales, Service, Developer, Salesforce developer, BEE, Web, Power
2014 - 2015
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e-Commerce + IT Manager
Quality Part Solutions.
• Specification of new website and connectivity with eBay and Amazon. Consultancy to directors.
• Responsible for data management for 1.4 million product lines with reactive pricing and warehousing.
• Data Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) using Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle), MySQL, text tools, Mozenda web scraping and other tools.
• De-duplication of data and improved data quality to answer changes in eBay policies. So avoided a £100k sales channel.
• New project work in PHP, Python, and IT services.
• Ongoing production support.
• Responsible for data management for 1.4 million product lines with reactive pricing and warehousing.
• Data Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) using Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle), MySQL, text tools, Mozenda web scraping and other tools.
• De-duplication of data and improved data quality to answer changes in eBay policies. So avoided a £100k sales channel.
• New project work in PHP, Python, and IT services.
• Ongoing production support.
Website, Manager, Production, Ebay, Web, Amazon, Transformation, Support, Data quality, It, Php, Sales, Integration, Management, ETL, Data management, E-commerce, Python, Mysql
2010 - 2014
freelance
Freelance Web Developer
Twokan Ltd.
Development of commercial and charity websites. This has helped fund me while I worked at the night shelter (see below). I re-engineer existing sites, producing customised, reliable, scalable sites, mostly using PHP with or without Zend Framework.
• I realise the benefits of agile techniques including: early and continuous delivery, cycles of refactoring and re-engineering, use of DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) and YAGNI (You Aren't Going to Need It). This has paid benefits in collaborative and solo working. I utilise OOP (Object Oriented Programming) and appropriate Design Patterns to deliver successful products.
• My toolset includes: HTML 5, PHP, CSS, MySQL, WordPress theme customisation, JavaScript, jQuery, RESTful applications. My recent work uses responsive design to maximise the benefits of mobile.
• Frameworks I use (in order of expertise): Zend Framework 1&2, jQuery, backbone.js, WordPress as a CMS, others including Drupal, Joomla, Python, and Django.
• I have integrated third party data sources and e-commerce solutions including payment gateways.
• Solid experience of building Linux (Ubuntu) servers, setting up development environments and databases, Unix/Linux system management and software configuration management.
• Basic Photoshop skills, PSD to HTML/CSS, Adobe Creative Suite, etc. Basic SEO.
• I realise the benefits of agile techniques including: early and continuous delivery, cycles of refactoring and re-engineering, use of DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) and YAGNI (You Aren't Going to Need It). This has paid benefits in collaborative and solo working. I utilise OOP (Object Oriented Programming) and appropriate Design Patterns to deliver successful products.
• My toolset includes: HTML 5, PHP, CSS, MySQL, WordPress theme customisation, JavaScript, jQuery, RESTful applications. My recent work uses responsive design to maximise the benefits of mobile.
• Frameworks I use (in order of expertise): Zend Framework 1&2, jQuery, backbone.js, WordPress as a CMS, others including Drupal, Joomla, Python, and Django.
• I have integrated third party data sources and e-commerce solutions including payment gateways.
• Solid experience of building Linux (Ubuntu) servers, setting up development environments and databases, Unix/Linux system management and software configuration management.
• Basic Photoshop skills, PSD to HTML/CSS, Adobe Creative Suite, etc. Basic SEO.
SOLID, Management, Oop, Ubuntu, Engineering, It, Developer, Restful, Adobe, Development, Software, Joomla, Configuration Management, Web, Responsive, Patterns, PSD, Framework, Backbone, UP, Basic, ME, HTML/CSS/Javascript, Javascript, Css, Php, Design, Html, Mysql, Seo, Jquery, Python, Linux, Wordpress, Websites, CMS, Agile, E-commerce, Django, Drupal, Responsive design, Unix, Design Patterns, PSD to html
2012 - 2013
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Team Leader
Narrowgate Night Shelter.
For over 12 months I have held the position as Team Leader in a Homeless Shelter. This has been a challenging and rewarding time. It was my way to contribute something back to society and something I had wanted to do for a long time.
• Delivered accommodation and related services in a high pressure environment.
• Managed a team of volunteers, coaching and training them, and monitoring performance.
• Offered listening and personal support to our service users and mentored volunteers in this.
• Worked with challenging and vulnerable people in a complex social situation.
• Worked with external agencies, e.g. Housing Depts., Refugee Agencies, Police, and Hospitals.
• Delivered accommodation and related services in a high pressure environment.
• Managed a team of volunteers, coaching and training them, and monitoring performance.
• Offered listening and personal support to our service users and mentored volunteers in this.
• Worked with challenging and vulnerable people in a complex social situation.
• Worked with external agencies, e.g. Housing Depts., Refugee Agencies, Police, and Hospitals.
Coaching, Training, Service, It, Support, Monitoring, Social
2002 - 2009
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Technical Architect/Snr Tech Specialist
AstraZeneca plc.
I was an Infrastructure Architect and Delivery Manager, specialising in global databases and replication. Responsible for databases, their servers, and coaching development teams in SQL. And was selected as delivery manager for Enterprise Software Configuration Management.
• Created and ran a successful team of replication specialists. This comprised of some persistent Stakeholder Management, team building and coaching individuals. We achieved the transformation of a business-critical experimental results search service using a distributed database model. My biggest achievement was getting faults under control and demonstrating the benefits realised by the stable system.
• Strategic delivery of enterprise databases including Oracle 10g, Oracle 10i, SQL, PL/SQL, Shareplex, replication, data pump, RMAN, backup and recovery. Responsible for hands-on database build, management and performance tuning. Championed the progressive roll-out of Oracle Security patches and database upgrades, and persuaded stakeholders to adopt an adaptive risk mitigation approach to testing in a highly regulated environment.
• Led technical projects using multi-platform solutions including UNIX (Solaris), Red Hat Linux, MySQL, SOA, XML, Infomatica Datamanager ETL, Business Objects, Oracle Apex, OEM, Dataguard. LIMS, Document Management.
• Collaborated with technicians and managed stakeholders on 11 sites in North America and Europe, and did supplier management for our SCM product.
• Responsible for global Software Configuration Management - delivering a new product on 11 sites and led a team of configuration management specialists. Tools include Borland Starteam, RCS, CVS, Clearcase, and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS). Development teams used Microsoft C#, Java, PL/SQL and Visual Basic on Windows, IBM UNIX and Solaris. Build environments included Eclipse/Ant/Maven and Visual Studio.
• Configuration items included software source, binaries and external binaries e.g. Microsoft DLLs.
• Key member of the release management team meeting regularly to control application roll-out.
• Designed and delivered a number of training initiatives for SQL, replication and configuration management. Helped set up a grass-roots training, mentoring and collaboration network.
• Created and ran a successful team of replication specialists. This comprised of some persistent Stakeholder Management, team building and coaching individuals. We achieved the transformation of a business-critical experimental results search service using a distributed database model. My biggest achievement was getting faults under control and demonstrating the benefits realised by the stable system.
• Strategic delivery of enterprise databases including Oracle 10g, Oracle 10i, SQL, PL/SQL, Shareplex, replication, data pump, RMAN, backup and recovery. Responsible for hands-on database build, management and performance tuning. Championed the progressive roll-out of Oracle Security patches and database upgrades, and persuaded stakeholders to adopt an adaptive risk mitigation approach to testing in a highly regulated environment.
• Led technical projects using multi-platform solutions including UNIX (Solaris), Red Hat Linux, MySQL, SOA, XML, Infomatica Datamanager ETL, Business Objects, Oracle Apex, OEM, Dataguard. LIMS, Document Management.
• Collaborated with technicians and managed stakeholders on 11 sites in North America and Europe, and did supplier management for our SCM product.
• Responsible for global Software Configuration Management - delivering a new product on 11 sites and led a team of configuration management specialists. Tools include Borland Starteam, RCS, CVS, Clearcase, and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS). Development teams used Microsoft C#, Java, PL/SQL and Visual Basic on Windows, IBM UNIX and Solaris. Build environments included Eclipse/Ant/Maven and Visual Studio.
• Configuration items included software source, binaries and external binaries e.g. Microsoft DLLs.
• Key member of the release management team meeting regularly to control application roll-out.
• Designed and delivered a number of training initiatives for SQL, replication and configuration management. Helped set up a grass-roots training, mentoring and collaboration network.
Software, Network, Security, SOA, Transformation, Infrastructure, Testing, Backup, Development, Oracle APEX, Service, Configuration Management, SCM, Search, Enterprise, Tuning, UP, LED, Manager, Basic, C, Sql, Java, Linux, Coaching, Oracle, XML, Training, Database, SoMe, Mysql, ETL, Mentoring, Unix, Stakeholder Management, Visual Studio, Pl/sql, Management, Windows, Eclipse
1999 - 2002
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Senior Database Designer/DBA
Infonet Inc.
Designer for development SQL and Databases, Operational DBA in busy telecoms environment, I was one of a team of three DBAs responsible for database design, database build and operational systems management. Using techniques such as partitioning and data warehousing, we managed high transaction rates and developed processes for cloning running production databases.
• This was the beginning for agile development methodologies which we experimented with. Used Rapid Application Development to deliver considerable benefits, being quick to market with new solutions.
• Saved around 100k EUR per year by combining or virtualising 12 database services into 4 or 5.
• Created reliable in-house backup processes using Unix Shell Scripts (ksh).
• Platforms: Oracle RDBMS, MySQL, SQL, PL/SQL.
• This was the beginning for agile development methodologies which we experimented with. Used Rapid Application Development to deliver considerable benefits, being quick to market with new solutions.
• Saved around 100k EUR per year by combining or virtualising 12 database services into 4 or 5.
• Created reliable in-house backup processes using Unix Shell Scripts (ksh).
• Platforms: Oracle RDBMS, MySQL, SQL, PL/SQL.
Design, Mysql, Sql, Oracle, Agile development, Agile, Database, Unix, Database design, Pl/sql, Management, Backup, Development, Production, Processes
1997 - 1999
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New Technology Manager
Environment Agency.
A member of the Agency's national ICT management board, I was responsible for the evaluation and selection of software used at the enterprise level, including File and Print Services, Geographic Information Services, Email. I delegated most of this responsibility but performed much technical evaluation myself. I led the Year 2000 team which processed over 500 applications. Some applications were tested; others were replaced by known Y2K compliant solutions.
• Comprehensive strategy planning in product selection.
• Agency's technical authority on vendors' software.
• Accountable for budget management (c.£4m), and product roll-out project management.
• Comprehensive strategy planning in product selection.
• Agency's technical authority on vendors' software.
• Accountable for budget management (c.£4m), and product roll-out project management.
Project Management, Budget, SoMe, C, Print, Management, Technology, Software, Enterprise, LED, Manager
1995 - 1997
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Software Team Leader
ICL Airline Systems.
I was responsible for the technical lead of a development team of 5 along with a project/account manager. The team developed a customised solution for an airline services company, updating and customising ICL's aircrew scheduling software.
• Platform used: X11 Windows, UNIX, Oracle, Oracle Forms 3, Oracle Forms 4, C, and PL/SQL.
• Responsible for line management and agreeing the scope of work with the client.
• Platform used: X11 Windows, UNIX, Oracle, Oracle Forms 3, Oracle Forms 4, C, and PL/SQL.
• Responsible for line management and agreeing the scope of work with the client.
Sql, Oracle, C, Account Manager, Unix, Pl/sql, Management, Windows, Development, Software, Tech lead, Manager
1988 - 1997
freelance
Freelance
Sharp (UK) Retail Systems.
• For 12 years, I worked as a freelance software developer. I specialised in industrial and process control systems, Oracle databases, distributed microprocessor systems and supervisory mini-systems. Here are some examples of assignments:
• Sharp (UK) Retail Systems - project leader, selection and customisation of EPOS operating system.
• British Nuclear Fuels Ltd - integration of PeopleSoft HR module.
• United Utilities - Oracle and Geographic Information System specialist.
• IT Services plc - Oracle DBA.
• Digital Equipment Corporation - development of communications software to bridge networks.
• An instrumentation company (Chesterfield) - development of steel rolling mill simulator software.
• Sharp (UK) Retail Systems - project leader, selection and customisation of EPOS operating system.
• British Nuclear Fuels Ltd - integration of PeopleSoft HR module.
• United Utilities - Oracle and Geographic Information System specialist.
• IT Services plc - Oracle DBA.
• Digital Equipment Corporation - development of communications software to bridge networks.
• An instrumentation company (Chesterfield) - development of steel rolling mill simulator software.
Oracle, Retail, SoMe, Integration, PLC, It, Developer, Development, Software, Utilities, Oracle dba
1985 - 1988
job
Senior Software Engineer
Pirelli Focom Networks.
Lead developer on an Ethernet bridge product and an Ethernet Network Analyser.
Network, Developer, Lead developer, Analyzes, Software
1983 - 1985
freelance
Software Consultant
SD Scicon plc / SPL Ltd.
• Rolled out and commissioned process control software at BNFL Sellafield on DEC PDP-11 hardware.
• Developed communication software for an industrial control system based on PDP-11 and Tandem.
• Consultant at Philips TV display factory in Eindhoven, NL.
• Developed communication software for an industrial control system based on PDP-11 and Tandem.
• Consultant at Philips TV display factory in Eindhoven, NL.
TV, Hardware, Software
1982 - 1983
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Graduate Software Engineer
SpectraTek Ltd.
Programmed a distributed microprocessor system to detect leaks in a gas pipeline, and developed general monitoring software including device drivers.
Monitoring, Software
My education
1979
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1982
University of York
BSc, Computer Science
BSc, Computer Science
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