Alexander Burch

Experience

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  JP Morgan Chase

  Jul 2010 - Sept 2010

  Technology Intern

  Project managed fellow interns, to redesign and standardise an internal document repository webspace. This included gathering and managing changes in requirements from key stakeholders, meeting with the project team to address any issues and agree deadlines, and presenting the final result to executive directors and business technologists. Created Excel formulas and macros for project managers. This reduced the amount of time needed to manually sift through large scale spreadsheets.

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  Intouch Business LLP

  Sept 2011 - Aug 2014

  .NET / C# / SQL Developer

  .NET / C# / SQL developer, who worked on web hosted management systems.Designed, implemented and tested enhancements to several products, within a relatively small company. My objective was to create tidy, logical, robust and attractive user experiences.Highlights were:- Being a joint primary developer on a successful bespoke financial management tool. Created the look and feel of the application, as well as implementing a significant proportion of the final build- Designing and implementing a CRM module- Designing and implementing a user configurable roles and permissions module- Implementing an ad rotation module inside a bespoke eProcurement system- Implementing a complex auditing module- Implementing SEO, including Google Analytics- Researching, implementing, and administering an internal company forum, and wiki- Providing first line support- Being involved in the full system lifecycle Show less

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  Lloyds Banking Group

  Aug 2014 - now

  SQL Data Engineer

  SQL data engineer (additional .NET and C# experience), who works on risk applications. Role includes:- Taking full ownership of Kanban driven tasks from start to finish (requirements elicitation, solution design, SQL development, GIT source control, test, and support)- Stakeholder management, including communicating with senior grade colleagues- Conforming to processes and governance- Providing subject matter expertise for supported applications - Technical analysis and documentation- Developing to a high standard- Unit testing, and working alongside dedicated test teams to resolve issues- 2nd line technical supportSome career highlights at Lloyds include: - Single responsibility for the SQL processing logic of two of our most complex and time critical systems. I ensure they interface with our ETL framework, and are maintained and improved without introducing errors. Over my stewardship, both these applications have never missed a day of processing.- Creating a business case to travel to our offshore helpdesk and testing teams. This was to coach the team with full application overviews, answer specific questions, and improve documentation and processes. The empowerment of the helpdesk team created a measurable increase in support tickets that were fully handled offshore, without requiring further onshore escalation.- Presenting a successful future-focussed technical demo to a member of the board of directors, along with their direct team. - After taking development ownership of a tool which processes circa 40k rows of data per day, I created a robust QC framework to provide insight into processing quantities and timeframes. This data was then fed into Tableau and Power BI, providing accessible high level insight into processing trends. These trends can then be used to make important and timely control decisions with confidence.- The complete front end rework of a key application, applying "Bootstrap" to ensure a modern, responsive UI design. Show less