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After several years working as a management consultant on technology implementation projects (mainly at banks, but some public sector work too), I decided to take the leap into software development and joined the Makers Academy bootcamp in September 2021. I enjoyed delivering value by being the interface between the business and the development teams I have worked with, but felt a longing to be able to be actually building the things people want and need to use, as well as teasing out the requirements for them.

Being able to build things to improve the way people interact with their world and do the things they need to do really excites me, and I am someone that likes to continually learn and test the limits of my abilities.

BCS Consulting (May 2019 - August 2021)
Consultant/Product Owner

• Implementing BCS' low-code operational risk software, BCS controlcentre as a Product Owner within the SAFe methodology.
• Gathering requirements and managing the backlog, communicating code enhancements to the development team and configuring and delivering those that did not require changes to the codebase.
• Direct management of junior members of the team, providing guidance to non-technical members of the team.
• Ad-hoc data requests and report building using Oracle SQL & Microsoft SSRS.
• Awarded Rising Star in 2020 - peer-nominated, senior-management-decided award for the best employee that has joined within the last 3 years.

IBM (August 2017 to May 2019)
Business Consultant

• Technology/Business Consultant working on a variety of banking and public sector clients.
• Business/Process analysis for a large retail bank on remediation of data to comply with GDPR.
• Business Analyst on a project to replace the core banking system of a large retail bank.
• Process analysis and workshops to assist in the RFP process of a large government department to digitise their time recording function (inc. vendor analysis).
• Awarded Manager's Choice Award for outstanding delivery on a project.

Communication - Having worked as a management consultant on technical implementations, I have plenty of experience tailoring the delivery of a message to the relative technical knowledge of the audience. From senior business stakeholders who want to know the 'so what?' without being burdened with the technical detail, down to needing to communicate the minutae of processes to development teams.

Empathy - Without the ability to put myself in others' shoes, I wouldn't have been able to succeed as a consultant gathering requirements from business stakeholders and working in diverse teams. Most recently manifested in the Rising Star Award at BCS as evidence of my ability to perform at a high level.

Resilience - Working at the coal-face with sometimes difficult clients breeds a necessity for a thick skin and I pride myself on my ability to roll with the punches but most importantly take constructive criticism and adapt my ways of working to continually improve.

Adaptability - From being a client, to business analysis and product ownership at IBM and BCS Consulting, now to software development. My experience across the spectrum of technology projects has made me well-suited to drop into any project and be able to quickly

-STAR -What was the situation/task? (ST)

-How was the skill used?

-What did you do? (action)

-What was the result?

• Experience
• Achievements
• Evidence (STAR)

Descriptive paragraph of how capable you are at this skill and, if relevant, how it has developed (again use STAR for this)

• I achieved A during my work at B (job, or otherwise)
• I contributed to the growth of X while doing Y (job, or otherwise)
• I built this, made this, broke this, fixed this, etc.
• A link to some on-line evidence (blogs, videos, articles, etc.)

• Use short descriptions of what you did and a skill you used. (Similar to format from the 'Work Experience' section above)
• e.g Frequently used paring in order to problemsolve effeciently, requiring teamwork and communication.
• you might also mention aspects some other skills/knowledge listed below:
• OOP, TDD, MVC, DDD
• Agile/XP
• Ruby, Rails, JavaScript
• RSpec, Jasmine

• Economics with a Year in Industry
• Focus on econometrics and statistics, placement year spent working for Grant Thornton in insolvency
• First
• Dissertation on 'Is Bitcoin Money?', received the highest mark in my cohort.

That in some arguable way make you a better software developer or well-rounded person

• Keen snowboarder (organising my friends to enable this every year!)
• Guitar player
• Amateur chess geek