Jim Gildea

Experience

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  Logica

  Sept 1988 - Feb 1997

  Various roles, including Project Manger, Technical Manager and Operations Manager for various clients in the telecommunications industry. Various roles for programmer through analyst programmer, both based in the office and on client sites

  • Project Manager

    Nov 1993 - Feb 1997

  • Analyst Programmer

    Sept 1988 - Nov 1993
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  Vodafone

  Jan 1997 - Jan 2003

  Project Leader

  Ran the Rating and Billing development team and helped initiate a large scale replacement program for these.

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  TelstraClear

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2004

  Consultant

  Consulting on a range of topics including:Data Migration of Intelligent Network informationBusiness Process Definition and Re-engineering (use 6 Sigma)Project Management

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  Finzsoft Solutions Limited

  Nov 2004 - Nov 2008

  Development Manager: Web and Windows

  Managed two development team, one Java based and on VB based who provided loan origination and funding support for teh non bank financial industry.This was done throug defining and documenting robust processes, introducing change and improving the overall product by reducing bug counts for each release and stabilising the product.

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  Fraedom

  Nov 2008 - Mar 2012

  Development Manager

  Managing a team of highly dedicated and skilled software developers who make expense management, requisition management and phone bill handling very easy.I have successfully introduced the scrum methodology to the teams to improve the throughput from initial conception to the delivery of working solutions.Also involved is setting business strategy using the Balanced Scorecard methodology and aligning internal work with the themes and pillars.

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  TOMRA Food

  Jul 2012 - Mar 2014

  InVision

  Leading a team of developers and testers to supply world leading fruit and vegetable sorting solutions in both the software and hardware.The InVision team supplies cutting edge solutions to maximise returns for growers, pack-houses and marketers by increasing the accuracy and throughput of the pack-houses. This is done using a highly multi-threaded, real time integrated hardware and software solution.Key achievements include - Introducing Scrum to the team to allow for rapid feedback from customers to be Incorporated into the product - Enhancing technical skills in the development team to allow for better quality code and to reduce maintenance costs - Management of developers who went to customers site throughout the world (Australia, Spain, USA, etc) Show less

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  WEX

  Mar 2014 - Jan 2016

  Platform Development Manager

  Managing a large team of developers to deliver a world leading fuel card solution (IFCS) to the major industry corporations. IFCS is written in Java and supports both prepay and on account cards for customers in a number of regions worldwide.This includes:General Management - Member of the senior management team, reporting to the United States - Governance - Production and management of a technology roadmap - Budget management and financial planning - Writing business cases - Responding to bidsDevelopment Management and the introduction of new processes and procedures - Scrum replacing a waterfall methodology - Re-architecting the core product to allow for multiple product streams - Increasing transparency across business analysis (stories vs requirements, development and testing/QA) - Technical Excellence - software architecture, TDD, SOLID, DRY, reduction of technical debt, etc - Continuous Integration - Continuous Deployment/Delivery - Migrated CI/CD Pipeline from Hudson to Jenkins and evntually to Bamboo - DevOps - Support team to handle customer related issuesHR Management of the team - Resource management and forecasting to meet project and product needs - One on Ones - Individual Development Plans - Performance Management including pay reviewsProject and Programme Management - Planning and agile planning - Resource planning - Solutions design and implementation - Collaboration Show less

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  Suncorp Group

  Mar 2016 - Sept 2016

  Agile Delivery Coach

  Agile Delivery Coach covering the Asteron, Vero, AA Insurance and Suncorp Business Services both from a business point of view and a technology one.Covering: - Agile in general - Scrum - Kanban - Lean - User Understanding through Personas, User Stories, Requirements, etc - Agile Planning techniques

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  WhereScape Data Automation

  Sept 2016 - Feb 2018

  Software Development Manager

  In charge of the development team extending and maintaining the world's leading Data Warehouse Automation software.Achievements include: - Introducing more collaborative ways of working based on the Scrum methodology - Re-architecting the application to improve delivery speed - Creating technical and product roadmaps - Improving product and code quality - Managing the team, including regular one on ones, performance reviews, etc - Training and mentoring of staff - Increasing major release frequency and stability from once per year to four times per year - Rapid turnaround time for customer critical issues Show less

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  Tower Insurance

  Dec 2018 - Mar 2020

  Managed a team of Scrum Masters and Project Mangers to help bring agile ways of working to the technology department and introducing other departments to lean and agile techniques Managed the department while a permanent head of department was recruited. - Represented department at Senior Leadership meetings - Communicated necessary information to all parties Managed a team of C# and React developers while a new development manager was recruited- Regular one on one meetings with developers- Brought in a cloud based CI/CD stack to deploy code to a Kubernetes environment (AKS)- Oversaw developers building microservices - Brought in collaboration techniques such as peer programming, TDD, etc

  • Manager - Agile Practices

    Jul 2018 - Mar 2020

  • Acting Head of Solutions

    Sept 2019 - Dec 2019

  • Software Engineering Manager

    Dec 2018 - Aug 2019
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  Practiv

  Sept 2020 - Jul 2021

  Technical Consultant

  Working at a tier one client, I am part of the creation of a new, highly secure, business focused web platform.In my role I:- Specified DevOps functionality to be included in CI/CD pipelines- Part of the technical design team implementing micro-services built on top of Kubernetes hosted on AWS- Reviewed code looking for adherence to modern design paradigms such as SOLID- Was scrum master for the Features, Design and DevOps teams- Member of the governance of the project Show less

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  Auckland Council

  Jul 2021 - Nov 2021

  Scrum Master
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  Starshipit

  Jan 2022 - Oct 2022

  Engineering Manager

  Looking after a team of software developers who are responsible for providing software that allows individuals and companies to ship and track the products with a wider variety of couriers.The software is written in C# and runs on AzureResponsibilities include:Management and line reportingCoaching the team in - Agile - Software Development practices including TDD and the SLOID principles - Code Reviews

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  Foster Moore - The registry people ®

  Nov 2022 - Mar 2024

  Director of Software Development

  Managing a team of 17 software developers in a scrum based environment using a mixture of an inhouse XML based configuration language, groovy and Java, This is based in AWS.Responsibilities include - Assigning people to projects - Coaching in agile practices - Training - Liaising with the product team - Trouble shooting

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  Vector Technology Solutions Ltd

  Apr 2024 - now

  Engineering Manager