Bollington InsuranceContract Senior Software Engineer / Technical Architect
Feb. 2011 - Nov. 2017Bollington, England, United Kingdom · HybridLead Technical Architect and Developer for the Smarter online insurance quotation engine, written in Java 6 and written using Struts2, MySQL, JAX-WS/Metro RESTful webservices communicating in JSON and XML formats. Smarter produces real-time insurance quotations for professional indemnity, public liability, motor trade and taxi insurance policies and allows the customer to buy online. Lead Technical Architect and Developer for the Compuquote Courier, Horsebox and Self Drive Hire insurance products written in VB.NET / C#.NET 2008/2010/2012, SQL Server 2008/2012. Pioneered the software development approach by introducing an agile / test driven development paradigm using tools and frameworks such as JUnit, Hudson, Struts2, Git, SVN, JaxWS/Metro, Shiro, Ant, Maven, Trac Wiki. Introduced and implemented the software development lifecycle and tools, introducing UML2, change control, development and testing procedures and sign off procedures to the business. Leading a team of 10 software and testing engineers in across the two main company sites Bollington Insurance (Adlington) plus an additional team in CompuQuote (Mildenhall).