Stuart Smith

Software Development Team Lead & Management for a team of ten Software Developers, Product Specialists and Product Owners. Responsibilities include appraisals, employee/team development, recruitment, planning, resource allocation, problem solving, reporting & general operation of the team to ensure that company goals are met. ScrumMaster and Project Lead in a globally distributed environment for several key projects within the company’s portfolio, with a focus on the PDMS and E3D products. A major contributor to internal development process improvements, focusing on Agile methodologies including Scrum and Kanban, and expanding these practices into other functional areas within the company. An active promotor and implementer of DevOps tools, technologies and processes to support the continual evolution and improvement of the development department and beyond. Currently working with the following technologies: C#, NUnit, Amazon Web Services (S3, EC2, Appstream), Team Foundation Server (TFS) Jenkins, Git, Clearcase, Powershell.

Software Engineering Lead, Team Manager and Project Lead. Responsible for Recruitment, Appraisals, Performance Reviews, Roadmap Planning, Career Development of Staff. Technologies I worked with include PHP, MySQL, Apache, Linux, Git, Jenkins, PHPUnit. Lead delivery of 80MB Fibre, Unlimited broadband products, Fibre broadband for BT Business Customers and ISP Integrations to the Plusnet platform.

Project and technical team leader. Project and sprint planning, reviews, roadmap planning, staff development, progress reporting. C#, C++, Java.

Developing multi-tier client/server applications and translation plug-ins for third party applications. C#, C++, COM, DCOM, Java, Javascript, WCF, WPF/WinForms, WIX, TFS Administration & MSBuild.

Developing applications and components for 3D rendering software using C, C++, C++/CLI, C# along with .NET, Windows Forms, XML and MFC.

Developing an Asset Management System for the Water Industry using C#, .NET Environment, Windows Forms and XML.

Java, JSP, SQL, PHP, HTML, Javascript. Building and maintaining websites (mainly e-commerce). Server administration (Apache/Tomcat).

Skills and and languages used included Java, C++, Protel, HTML, VB, TCP/IP, MGCP, NCP, UNIX, Perl, Javascript, Various Software Testing Methods. It involved working as part of a lines team designing, building and testing next generation telecom systems for deployment in Australia and India.