Specialties: Full-stack agile developer, solutions architect, tech lead, technical BA. Java, Spock, Groovy, Grails, Gradle, Geb. BDD. MongoDB, RDBMS. AngularJS, Karma, Grunt, Node. CSS, Less, Sass. Linux, AWS.

Senior Software Developer (Contract) @ working at O2 client site From February 2012 to Present (3 years 11 months) Director @ From April 2011 to Present (4 years 9 months) Software Developer (Contract) @ From April 2011 to February 2012 (11 months) Senior Developer @ From January 2011 to April 2011 (4 months) Technical Lead, This Is Network @ From September 2009 to January 2011 (1 year 5 months) Senior Developer @ From May 2009 to September 2009 (5 months) Senior Software Developer @ From 2001 to May 2009 (8 years) Software Engineer @ From 1998 to 2001 (3 years) Systems Engineer @ From 1997 to 1998 (1 year)

MA, Information Technology @ University of Nottingham From 1996 to 1997 BA(Hons), Philosophy @ University of Nottingham From 1992 to 1995 Ben Avery is skilled in: Agile Methodologies, Spring, Scrum, Groovy, Hibernate, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Grails, XP, REST, TDD, Maven, Subversion, Tomcat, Design Patterns