A consultancy track record built through repeat delivery in demanding environments.

Complete chronology

Roles and delivery from 2009 to 2026

Every role, organisation, date range, public location or contract label, and useful achievement from the former Experience page is retained below.

1. 2022–2026

   Higher education | Finance | Technical leadership

   Senior Java Technical Lead Consultant · Manchester Metropolitan University

   Remote · Freelance contract

   Led the end-to-end modernisation of seven major SAP and Java financial applications within 12 months across procurement, accommodation, tuition-fee billing, invoicing, fines, and online payments.

   • Played a key role in Flywire payment-gateway integration into Pay Online, alongside the separately recorded PaperCut print-payment journey.
   • Supported discovery, design, development, testing, release, implementation, production support, security remediation, and governance artefacts.
   • Coordinated application, infrastructure, database, cybersecurity, SAP, Oracle, business, and internal platform stakeholders.

   • Java
   • ColdFusion
   • SAP
   • Oracle
   • Payments
2. 2021–2022

   Automotive | Marketplace | Data feeds

   Consultant Software Developer · eBay / Motors Group UK

   Contract

   Maintained and enhanced the syndicated feed system for used-vehicle listings across the UK and supported associated B2B applications in a fast-moving commercial marketplace environment.

   • Syndicated feeds
   • B2B applications
   • Marketplace systems
3. 2021

   Higher education | Enterprise applications

   Consultant Senior Java Developer · Manchester Metropolitan University

   Contract

   Delivered enterprise application work in a higher education environment, contributing to the ongoing transformation and support of key university services.

   • Java
   • Enterprise applications
   • University services
4. 2020

   Critical infrastructure | Product delivery

   Java Developer · Ovarro

   Sheffield · Contract

   Worked within the product team responsible for resilient enterprise SCADA solutions serving critical national infrastructure, contributing to SCOPE software used to configure, control, monitor, trend, and visualise assets in real time.

   • Java
   • SCADA
   • SCOPE
   • Product team
5. 2019–2020

   Critical infrastructure | Modernisation | CI

   Java Developer · Ovarro

   Greater Sheffield Area · Contract

   Helped Dockerise a legacy application, supported GitLab CI strategy, and upgraded a standalone Java application for integration into Ovarro's SCOPE platform used by a major UK utility client.

   • Java
   • Docker
   • GitLab CI
   • SCOPE
6. 2018

   Retail technology | APIs | Application uplift

   Software Developer · Zonal Retail Data Systems

   Stafford · Contract

   Upgraded and maintained applications across the Zonal ecosystem, working with RESTful web services, APIs, ColdFusion, PHP, JavaScript, and SQL in a commercial retail technology environment.

   • REST APIs
   • ColdFusion
   • PHP
   • JavaScript
   • SQL
7. 2017–2018

   Enterprise tax | Architecture | Integration

   Consultant Solutions Architect · PwC

   Greater Leeds Area · Contract via CXC Global

   Delivered enterprise tax software solutions while contributing architecture and integration thinking across a suite of Java, ColdFusion, JavaScript, and Oracle-based applications.

   • Solution architecture
   • Java
   • ColdFusion
   • JavaScript
   • Oracle
8. 2017

   Enterprise tax | Software delivery

   Senior Software Developer · PwC

   Greater Leeds Area · Contract via Badenoch and Clark

   Helped deliver global enterprise tax software solutions across Java, ColdFusion, JavaScript, and Oracle-based applications in a business-critical international environment.

   • Java
   • ColdFusion
   • JavaScript
   • Oracle
9. 2013–2017

   Enterprise tax | Full-stack delivery

   ColdFusion Consultant International Tax Software Developer · GE

   Greater Leeds Area · Contract

   Worked as a full-stack delivery consultant across enterprise applications built with Java, JavaScript, CSS, ColdFusion, and Oracle, deepening expertise in stable enterprise delivery and specialist tax platforms.

   • Java
   • ColdFusion
   • JavaScript
   • CSS
   • Oracle
10. 2011–2012

    Global VAT and GST | Tax metrics

    Global VAT/GST Systems and Tax Metrics Consultant Software Developer · GE

    Greater Leeds Area · Contract

    Developed global corporate-tax systems used across more than 180 countries, working with Java, ColdFusion, ColdBox, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, and Oracle inside Agile Kanban and Scrum teams.

    • Java
    • ColdFusion
    • ColdBox
    • Oracle
    • Agile delivery
11. 2010–2011

    Automotive | CRM | Customer journey

    ColdFusion Consultant · Manheim

    Greater Leeds Area · Contract

    Worked on an end-to-end automotive lead-management and customer-relationship platform built with ColdFusion, JavaScript, CSS, and Microsoft SQL Server, supporting multiple stages of the car-buying cycle.

    • ColdFusion
    • JavaScript
    • CSS
    • Microsoft SQL Server
12. 2010

    Consumer research | Search | Data tagging

    ColdFusion, SQL and JavaScript Consultant · Which?

    Contract

    Improved intranet and research systems used by legal, research, and adviser teams. Designed and implemented a data-tagging management capability and a more user-friendly search experience for the Consumer Information Database.

    • ColdFusion
    • SQL
    • JavaScript
    • Search
13. 2009–2010

    Media | Platform migration

    Senior Software Developer · Associated Newspapers

    London Area · Contract

    Supported the migration of four large dating websites from a ColdFusion and Microsoft SQL Server platform in the UK to a PHP and MySQL platform in Ukraine in a commercially sensitive migration environment.

    • ColdFusion
    • Microsoft SQL Server
    • PHP
    • MySQL
    • Migration