I am currently employed as a Software Development Manager at Nomad Digital, the leading global provider of wireless solutions to the transportation sector. I manage a team of talented software developers working on a range of innovative solutions for customers that include some of the biggest names in the transportation and technology sectors.
I have over 3 years experience managing and leading software development teams. During this time I have managed the development of complex solutions in diverse areas including business intelligence, data integration and mobile applications for customers in the banking, transportation and technology sectors.
I have over 10 years experience working as a software developer, designer and architect. During this time I specialised in designing and developing middleware solutions in the banking sector using Java Enterprise technologies.
Software Development Manager @ My responsibilities include:
- Managing a team of software developers building solutions for internal and external customers
- Working with the quality assurance and project delivery teams to ensure software is delivered to high standards and demanding timescales in a fast-paced technical environment
- Defining technical and feature roadmaps for web-based applications in the core product suite
- Working directly with customers that include some of the biggest transportation and technology companies in the world to ensure that software is delivered to meet requirements From June 2012 to Present (3 years 7 months) Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomLead Developer @ My responsibilities included:
- Leading a team of developers on a project for a client that is a major US investment bank; the project was to build a new asset management website and web-based system for managing the layout and content of the site
- Leading the analysis, design, and development of the web-based system for maintaining the layout and content of the new website
- Managing the day-to-day work of my team to ensure timely delivery of key project milestones
- Working with technical teams based in London and New York to coordinate development effort
Key technologies used on the project included:
Java, HTML, CSS, JSON, Ext JS, Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, Apache Velocity From September 2011 to May 2012 (9 months) Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomIT Specialist @ My responsibilities included:
- Defining software architecture for large projects using JEE technologies and SOA principles
- Designing system specifications using UML
- Implementing technical infrastructure
- Testing system performance
- Mentoring junior developers and quality assuring code
As a member of the Technical Design Authority, I was part of a select group responsible for ensuring solutions across IT conformed to corporate IT strategy.
Developed software using a range of technologies including:
Java, JMS, Web Services (JAX-WS), WebLogic, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle RDBMS, SQL, Ant, Maven, XML, XPath, XQuery, Apache JMeter, ASP.NET MVC framework, VB.NET, JQuery, SQL Server RDBMS From July 2003 to August 2011 (8 years 2 months) Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomSoftware Developer @ My responsibilities included:
- Developing a management solution for a suite of CORBA services using JMX and SNMP
- Maintaining JacORB, a CORBA ORB implemented in Java From June 2000 to May 2002 (2 years) Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Honours Bachelor of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science @ University of Waterloo From 1995 to 2001 Jason Courage is skilled in: Weblogic, Java Enterprise Edition, EJB, JUnit, Integration, Spring, JMS, Ant, Web Services, Maven, SOA, Middleware, SQL, UML, JBoss Application Server