Andre e. Pageot, BEng (Hons) Mech
DOB: 16th Jan 1978
Nationality: British
Personal Profile
Leader by example…pragmatic development and infrastructure solutions…vision and foresight to drive technical success
Needs focused, commercially astute and innovative Senior Technical Analyst and ASP.Net Developer with a verifiable track record of driving solution development, delivery and support—expertise gained from 9+ years’ dedication to cutting edge, technology driven organisations, including positions with Fujitsu Siemens Business Services and Low Carbon Economy Limited. Versatile trouble-shooter, adept at closing the gap between business requirements and new technology with optimum, cost controlled plans, practical direction and intuitive improvisation. Ideally positioned to leverage technical talents, team empowerment capabilities and zero tolerance for downtime into a role for a global services organisation seeking to maximise IT performance, quality and efficiency—critical areas to sustaining business reputations.
~ Open to international relocation and travel. ~
Project & Technical Skills
§ Technical Acumen: Tapped into the cutting edge of technology, especially clean technology arenas. Emphasise quality driven end-to-end development; expert at migrating legacy systems to .NET technology stacks and enhancing the platform after migration with the design and implementation of testable, achievable coding standards. Align user requirements with solutions release, reducing development and support costs whilst increasing user satisfaction.
§ Core Skills and Operating Systems: Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET, VB.NET, ASP.NET • Microsoft SQL Server • LinqtoSQL, Linq to Entity Framework 4, Linq • JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, XHTML, jQuery • Web Services, XML, SOAP, XSLT, XPath • Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services • Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services • Windows Server • Exchange Server • Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 • Forefront TMG, formerly ISA Server • Server Virtualisation (VMWare, MS Virtual Server).
§ Business Analysis & User Specifications: ’Hard wired’ for results-focused brainstorming, excel at learning and understanding systems and business requirements quickly to develop a standardised technical roadmap, taking into account risks and support to ensure better, faster and higher quality infrastructure. Possess a commanding track record of anticipating and meeting end user needs.
§ Troubleshooting & Project Management: Deliver strong technical frameworks against demanding timelines. Implement agreed standards of how to drill down into the application being tested, what level of risk is thus assessed and defined. Work from a requirements traceability matrix, giving clarity to development teams in the level of quality required at all times. Innate ability to quickly pinpoint root causes that others miss—the key to optimum efficiency, business continuity and risk management.
Personal & Management Skills
§ Strategy & Planning: Use strategic forecasting to define future needs early and secure resources to adapt and re-engineer accordingly, continually future-proofing technology solutions. Possess a commanding track record of anticipating and meeting future user demand and providing architecture, bandwidths and storage to position against user needs.
§ Leadership: Front line team leader, adept at rallying technical development teams into high gear when delivering a solution and maintenance for global user groups; focused on building upward trends in employee engagement and performance through training and team empowerment. Proactive approach to representing software engineering best practices, emphasising knowledge sharing to drive team performance.
§ Change Management: Highly effective as technical lead, executing highly complex and successful transformation; delivering on promises with resilience, reliability and a structured approach to pre-defined business models. Adept at influencing positive change through previous sales and marketing experience.
§ Stakeholder Management: Trouble shooter and solutions driver, focused on technology leadership and accustomed to working extensively on the stakeholder side; manage diversified client expectations and dependencies, mitigate risks and develop strategies that guarantee the highest standards in customer critical environments.
§ Communication: Consummate people person with outstanding communications skills; adept at multicultural interface with an insight to international business protocol. Ensure clear and concise translation of complex technical terminology to non-technical audiences. Proponent of knowledge transfer, for teams under personal management as well as the global IT community via personal blog.
Career Highlights
LOW CARBON ECONOMY LIMITED (TLCE) (SEC Industrial Battery Ltd, Fuel Cell Markets Ltd)
The Low Carbon Economy, founded in October 2006, is a FREE platform designed to facilitate the transition to a low carbon economy by connecting people and businesses with relevant information, solutions and opportunities.
Aug 2007–Present: IT Director
Recruited by managing director (MD) of this continuous research and development project with remit to create from scratch an IT and telecommunications (Telco) infrastructure for a web based platform, overseeing all systems installations. Transformed the development agenda to Agile (SCRUM) environment by defining a .NET build and implementation process, leading, training and mentoring 3 member team.
§ Migrated out-dated legacy systems to newest hardware and Microsoft applications (backup, disaster recovery, virus protection, software update services, network security, remote access, remote services).
§ Implemented bonded ADSL and blackberry enterprise server professional across all business units.
§ Delivered notable cost savings by negotiating purchase and support contract for telephone support with third party vendor.
§ Realised ca. £16k+ savings by registering the organisation as Microsoft partners on the BizSpark programme.
§ Restored group wide customer relationship management (CRM) across 3 companies by incorporating Dynamics CRM 4 into online e-commerce site.
§ Designed self-supporting online platform to help green technology businesses and consumers with the following key on-going development efforts:
ü Delivered north of £200k net profit within 2 years with the creation of bespoke pay-per-click (PPC) system (used as a statistics only engine) prior to leadership decision to go non-profit.
ü Fuelled platform growth 50% (calculated by member registrations and new content) with the introduction of a Google style search engine (based on global familiarity and popularity) into clean technology sector.
ü Cut tens of thousands on annual payroll costs, creating new credit card storage and automated billing system for the online platform, from registration through to monthly billing.
ü Other development efforts span: human/robot traffic detection, MSSRS reporting on revenue streams from e-commerce website; enterprise level email messaging system, tailored roles-based content management mechanisms used widely across the website, end-to-end error detection and reporting, intelligent environment detection.
FUJITSU SIEMENS BUSINESS SERVICES (formerly Siemens Business Services)
Oct 2005–Aug 2007: Senior ASP.NET Developer/Team Leader
Initially hired as .NET specialist, challenged to transfer several mission critical databases into new hardware stack at another onsite location. Having successfully averted potential revenue loss due to system downtime, quickly entrusted to manage more complex projects with increased responsibility and leadership, managing an 8 member development team.
§ Influenced core infrastructure design as key member of migration team during Fujitsu’s acquisition of Siemens Business Services, functioning subject matter expert; migrated and integrated 300 user accounts, mailboxes, databases and software to new head office as part of 3 tier email system.
§ Spearheaded full scale legacy system migration of work order management system (WOMS) from planned stages to authoring a best practice migration manual to simplify the user journey; delivered migration 2 hours ahead of time with zero faults.
§ Enabled company to secure multi-million pound contract with a leading UK bank by finishing a development project within 6 short months; as lead designer, produced an automated, Windows based application for order processing and another multi-threaded service solution that monitors mailboxes for client orders.
Dec 2002–Oct 2005: Head of Systems & Technology, VARIOUS COMPANIES
Retained by former MD at Mentor Direct Marketing (upon company liquidation) to project manage a myriad of greenfield projects involving technology and Telco management for 3 of his other businesses.
§ Personally designed and deployed group wide IT and Telco infrastructures, installing and configuring networks, software as well as migrating legacy data to new platform.
§ Developed and launched an online greenfield recruitment website with caching database tier and content management capabilities.
§ Orchestrated complete office migration, replete with new hardware implementations, software updates, network security, backup capabilities and disaster recovery strategies.
2001–2002: Mentor Direct Marketing LTD
Call centre operation offering telemarketing services to various businesses with teams of up to 8 people telephoning targeted companies in the interests of promoting client business.
Jan 2002–Oct 2002: Applications Developer
Promoted after only 3 months to lead the software engineering team on campaign call flow development projects based on keen technical and business insight.
§ Previous to any existing industry software capabilities, pioneered failover broadband connectivity and developed an automated windows update batch via specific user login to ensure network security.
§ Prevented thousands of pounds in lost revenue due to operational downtime by writing a company database recover solution that automatically detected database corruption before an impending crash occurred.
Nov 2001–Jan 2002: Telemarketer
Hired to expand the client base via aggressive telephone lead qualifying whilst promoting business services. Earned reputation as one of the highest lead generators on various technical marketing campaigns.
Aug 2000–Feb 2001: Software Developer, GLOBE ENERGY
Company specialises in industrial space heating, developing industry revolutionising designs and techniques.
Acquired full development lifecycle exposure during final year university dissertation/project holding full accountability for application design, development, roll out and user training.
§ Reduced fuel costs 70% for client and delivered highest customer accolades by designing and benchmarking real time software and temperature heating control system. Facilitated training for heating control user groups.
Aug 1999–Aug 2000: Work Placement Year, BRITISH AIRWAYS (BA), Weight and Balance Office—Heathrow
Served on a 5 member software engineering team tasked with outlining and implementing technology solutions to save on costs and improve efficiency as well as maintain control of empty weight and centre of gravity for all aircraft.
§ Team saved BA thousands per annum, resolved over fuelling issues and increased aircraft flight service times by writing software (still used today) that enabled ground engineers to precisely calculate fuel requirements during engine run testing for each aircraft in BA fleet.
§ Collaboratively architected solution that produced weight & balance certificates for Boeing 737 & 747 fleet.
§ Co-organised rewrite of 737 manual by collaborating with other internal departments and international aircraft manufacturers, integrating changes to original publications and converting documents from A4 to A5.
Earlier Career
Gained keen insight to leadership, team building and camaraderie while serving in Prince of Wales Royal Regiment as a TA infantry soldier and marksman, School Lead at Her Majesty’s Horse Guards Parade, School Prefect and Head of House at boarding school.
Qualifications
§ BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering, Kingston University (2001)
Additional Information
Interests: Current and future technology, improving IT skills in development and infrastructure; music, keeping fit.
References: Available upon request
