Impressed by my project management skills; ability to coach and mentor people and infuse morale and energy to motivate them and with more members joining the team to help spread the increasing work load I was offered the position of Team Leader. In October 2006 I successfully completed my ILM 2 certification and began taking on more project managerial tasks and conducting regular meetings and scrums with the team to discuss and prioritise our tasks. Not being a believer in micro-management and also wa

At the start of 2006 the development of the companies MIS grew with the requirement of more detailed MI from Rolls-Royce. To assist me in providing these enhancements in a very short turn-around a new developer was employed and I moved up into a senior developers role. This enabled me to develop new skills in people and project management and also gave me chance to start applying these newly obtained traits by mentoring and coaching the new developer. All though the role was still heavily ‘hands-on’ w

During my time in a Technical Support role I was given the chance to show my development skills by creating an electronic solution for the companies Purchase Order process. This proved very successful and so I was elevated into a more system development role. My first real task in this new role was to design and build the companies MIS system to record, track, and bill our services to provide key MI on all jobs processed for Rolls-Royce by Océ (UK) Ltd. This was an extremely challenging task for a jun

I started working for Océ (UK) Ltd at Rolls-Royce in October 2003, as a gap year placement before conducting my degree, providing IT Support (both Hardware and Software) to all Océ/Rolls-Royce sites in the UK. My main responsibilities included the general maintenance of the Hardware and Network. This including backups of the Servers, System re-builds and replacements for old PCs. Within this time I also helped in developing a new service line for the company to provide e-publication solutions to Rolls