Gary Jones

Experience

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  STRUM AND DRUM LIMITED

  Oct 2006 - Sept 2008

  Territory Manager

  • Generated £150,000 annual income for business.• Managed staff throughout numerous schools, including performance development through targeted observation and mentorship.

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  Hertfordshire Music Service

  Sept 2008 - Sept 2012

  Peripatetic Music Teacher

  • Built and coordinated effective relationships with schools, music departments, heads of service, pupils, and parents, to facilitate the extensive range of activities required to deliver a well-rounded musical education.

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  Conwy County Borough Council

  Sept 2012 - Apr 2022

  Peripatetic Music Teacher

  • Demanding schedule requiring excellent organisational skills to plan and deliver lessons to 180 pupils per week, in schools and online.• Facilitated, organised and led numerous guitar ensemble groups.• Commitment to pupil development through exam coaching and support for national competitions.

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  ProAct International Ltd

  Apr 2022 - now

  • Joint Lead on company Android development, working with key stakeholders to deliver business-critical customer requirements to time and budget.• Jointly led the development of a React Native mobile application to meet the product-market need, from a high-profile customer, for a new cross platform application. • Led the transformation of a manual paper-based logistics verification system into an efficient digital solution, addressing an urgent customer requirement. This initiative yielded substantial business enhancement and significant risk reduction for the client.• Optimised database and refined business logic code to gain a 75% performance enhancement on frequently used API requests, resulting in a vastly improved customer experience.• Delivering code in regular iterations to enable testing of products in their beta phase, attaining valuable customer feedback to add into final releases. Show less • Added an electronic data interchange (EDI) component to the web app to enable the import and export of documents for increased speed and efficiency, both internally and externally via JAXB.• Android development, culminating in a lead role in managing the company’s legacy Android application.• Improved and developed APIs to cater for new features added to the mobile app and to improve performance.• Effective collaboration with cross functional teams in both remote and office-based environments, including overseas colleagues.• Adopted agile methodologies, working in sprints and contributing to periodic retrospectives to enhance product development processes. Show less

  • Java Developer

    Apr 2023 - now

  • Junior Software Developer

    Sept 2022 - Apr 2023

  • Trainee Java Developer

    Apr 2022 - Sept 2022