Technical Lead for Alphacourt Limited, an IBM Partner
- Provided technical leadership to Alphacourt sales, marketing, directors and field consultants
- Represented Alphacourt to IBM, under Premier Partner Relationship, as Technical Lead
- Provided guidance to clients on architecture (specifically SOA), project organisation and ways of working
- Conducted architecture health checks
- Line managed field consultants, specifically in areas of personal development, certification and training
- Interviewing and selection of new staff
- Provided point of escalation for technical issues encountered by clients and Alphacourt staff
- Provided trusted third party QA and governance on a large Integration project (M&S)
- Performed Service Delivery Manager role to support new areas of the business; specifically interface development and operational support (Aviva Investors)
- Defined best practice for implementing WebSphere MQ and Message Broker
- Provided specialised consulting in WebSphere architectures to client’s own Enterprise Architects (Lloyds TSB)
- Defined end-to-end Integration Patterns (Lloyds TSB)
- Defined and overseeing the development of a number of key assets to underpin client engagements; including best practice guidelines, installation guides and quick starts
- Reviewed and assessed client implementations of SOA; including design, life cycle management, and operational procedures