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I am an experienced Architect and Development Manager with over 16 years’ experience working in Software and IT. I have a passion for improvement of systems, people and processes. The teams I manage are given clear guidance on code quality and correct use of source control. I transform software and the development life cycle by approaching problems with a clear mind and a re-engineering approach that focuses on the possibilities rather than limitations.Cloud Architect, CIO Center of Excellence @ From August 2015 to Present (5 months) Solutions Architect (Liquidity) @ • Defined and delivered Dovetail Liquidity Dashboard; a system giving real-time management of intra-day liquidity for Treasury Back Office services. Clients include major European commercial banks and securities settlement firms • Complete lifecycle - from onboarding of new clients and SDLC walkthrough through to testing and production support • Management and optimisation of the application; performance tuning and monitoring of high-throughput concurrency components and in-memory OLAP data store From November 2013 to July 2015 (1 year 9 months) London, United KingdomProcess Engineer @ • Analysed and implemented workflows for Dovetail’s internal processes • Used Business Process Modelling to capture processes and identify opportunities to optimise From February 2013 to November 2013 (10 months) London, United KingdomSoftware Development Manager, Europe @ • Line management and mentoring of Java EE architects and developers in a matrix environment • Creation and ownership of coding standards based on existing industry standards and customised to Dovetail's methodology, delivering improvements on code quality, readability and support time. Rolled out Atlassian Crucible to allow code reviewers to document and communicate defects in the code • Responsibility for recruitment of UK development team, from one developer to a team of 12 developers and architects within a year. Initially working directly with recruiters, delivered roles and specifications • Line management of developers, giving feedback, performance evaluations and career guidance, with promotion and disciplinary action where needed • Co-ordination and rollout of new business processes using JIRA and Confluence. I ran a team of developers specialised in the Atlassian suite • Instigation of Test Support Manager role, working onsite with clients to significantly reduce the number of defects raised • Worked with Executive team and business sponsors to raise and solve company-wide issues and their impact on Development execution, leading to faster turnaround of tasks From March 2011 to January 2013 (1 year 11 months) London, United KingdomSolutions Architect (Technical Manager) @ • Acted as an interface between the client and the development team. Working together with a functional manager, I was responsible for the traceability of requirements through to the architectural documentation • Production of high level design documents, showing technical architects the parts of the system that required updates • Supervision of architects and tracing requirements through to the detailed design. I developed this approach and immediately tracked many missed requirements • Working with architects in my team, coalesced the areas of common function into a single architecture document allowing reduction of development effort • Transformed the format of architecture documents New template for architecture document • Technical presence for several successful sales bids worth over £1m, I participated in RFA responses and visits From April 2010 to March 2011 (1 year) Technical Architect @ • Lead a team of four Java EE developers and a portal developer, reporting to Trinity Mirror’s chief software architect • Evaluation and purchasing decision of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Business Process Management (BPM) software • Mentoring and assessment of developers • Designed and developed clustered JEE architecture for hosting applications • Practiced Scrum and Test Driven Development using Rational Team Concert to manage development lifecycle and as a code repository • Full release lifecycle on WebSphere 7.0 ND and Portal Server, including monitoring and tuning • Applications developed using EJB 3.0, JAX-WS, JMS, JPA, WS-BPEL 2.0 and JSR 286 Portlets From October 2008 to April 2010 (1 year 7 months) Technical Architect @ • Fulfilling the role of lead technical authority and designer, I took business requirements and created specifications for developers to work from • By looking at the processes used internally to release software, I improved the quality of the development department. I introduced a formal release procedure and testing environment to assist with this • Led development of 3-tier architecture comprising J2EE application exposed as Web Services, SQL Server data • Template for Technical Specification using design patterns and UML to guide developers to a common standard for structure • Senior Java J2EE Developer – May to December 2006 • Created instant notification system to email new analysis articles straight into subscribers’ inboxes using SQL Server, Java and Velocity • AXIS Web Service for data loading. By preparing data using J2EE and Velocity, then using stored procedures to load ensured that service was fast, robust and accurate • SQL Server performance tuning across whole application From March 2006 to October 2008 (2 years 8 months) XML Developer @ From October 2005 to April 2006 (7 months) Software Development Manager @ From August 2004 to September 2005 (1 year 2 months) GIS Developer @ From May 2003 to August 2004 (1 year 4 months) J2EE Developer @ From May 2002 to February 2003 (10 months) Web Developer @ From May 2001 to April 2002 (1 year) C++ Developer @ From October 2000 to May 2001 (8 months) Consultant Analyst @ From October 1999 to October 2000 (1 year 1 month) Analyst @ From October 1997 to October 1999 (2 years 1 month) Bachelor of Science (BSc), Applied Mathematics @ Durham University From 1992 to 1995 Norm Dunning is skilled in: Scrum, Java Enterprise Edition, Software Development, Java, EJB, UML, Weblogic, Architecture, Microsoft SQL Server, Web Services, JMS, Hibernate, SDLC, IT Recruitment, JavaScript