An experienced team leader, line manager and engineer with over eleven years of industry experience which includes working with the high-profile titles of major Hollywood studios and media industries. Able to use knowledge and experience of the latest technologies, creative thinking and a wide variety of skills across many disciplines to create and support entire tool stacks for infrastructure automation and management. Self-motivated and hard-working with experience of all aspects of software development. Well-organised, with excellent attention to detail and the competence to run multiple projects concurrently and efficiently. Able to use initiative and work not only as part of a team but also perform as a confident leader. Proven line management skills and the ability to motivate other staff to achieve company objectives whilst being able to put in place new procedures to improve a team’s efficiency and quality of output. An effective, confident and personable communicator at all levels both inside and outside of the organisation. Good analytical ability and problem solver. Able to make crucial and accurate decisions whilst under pressure and time constraints.
Site Reliability Engineer @ From September 2015 to Present (4 months) Development Infrastructure Operations Engineer @ From October 2013 to August 2015 (1 year 11 months) Sheffield, United KingdomSenior .Net / Web Developer @ Leading a team responsible for designing, developing and maintaining print and data processing systems as well as a customer-facing web portal to track print job, billing and production status. Utilising C#, ASP.NET MCV 4, WCF, IIS 7 and SQL Server; multiple systems import, sort and process millions of new mailing database records per day for major global industries, ensuring that data is stored securely, printed accurately and mailed efficiently. From February 2013 to October 2013 (9 months) Lead Software Engineer @ Responsible for the line management of a team of highly-skilled developers as well as the design and agile development of desktop and web-based applications for major Hollywood film studios and other media industries. Extensive customer facing experience and periods of international business travel.
Presently, specialising in DVD and Blu-ray authoring in the desktop products DVD-Extra Studio, TAS and BDX. Web application specialisation is undertaken with ZOOsubs; a Cloud-based solution for originating, ingesting and generating subtitles for leading media platforms, including DVD, Blu-ray and Apple's iTunes.
Technology skills of note:
• C++, C#, WPF and Python object oriented desktop product development.
• Knowledge and understanding of web product development platforms (LAMP stack).
• Considerable use of Amazon Web Services, writing functionality to utilise the services provided.
• Ubuntu server deployment, configuration and maintenance.
• Designing and maintaining Django web applications with extensive use of front-end web technologies (HTML 5, CSS 3, Javascript, jQuery).
• Automated compiling of desktop applications and deployment of web services with TeamCity, Ant, Fabric and Puppet. From September 2006 to February 2013 (6 years 6 months) Senior DVD Games Developer @ Senior developer and designer for award-winning and multi-platinum selling interactive DVD titles. These include: Telly Addicts 1 & 2, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, Manchester United – The Interactive DVD and Test the Nation. From March 2004 to September 2006 (2 years 7 months) Pastoral Tutor @ The care of 200 students living in halls of residence, on a pastoral, domestic and academic level. Duties include rota shifts for all-night and weekend duties, fire drills, first aid and fire training. From 2002 to 2003 (1 year) Hull, United KingdomSoftware Designer and Developer @ Meeting production deadlines for customers, creating flawless applications / products designed to the customer’s specification, resulting in customer satisfaction. Design and creation of applications / products, liaising with customers and front-end users of the application. Web page design and creation. From 1997 to 1999 (2 years)
Master of Science (MSc), Games Programming, Graduated top of class (see Awards) @ The University of Hull From 2002 to 2003 Bachelor of Science (BSc Hons), Software Engineering @ The University of Hull From 1999 to 2002 A-level and City & Guilds, Computing, Mathematics, Physics, Programming in C, General Studies @ Selby College From 1997 to 1999 David Noyes is skilled in: Team Management, Agile Methodologies, DevOps, LXC, Docker, Server Administration, Cloud Computing, High Availability, Virtualization, Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Puppet, Fabric, Ansible