johncrocker
John Crocker
Oxford, United Kingdom

Experienced Head of Development with 20 years experience in the Software and IT Industry. Managing Agile teams across multiple countries delivering Products and solutions to meet customer needs and business expectations using Agile SCRUM and NEXUS frameworks as a basis for best-practice policies and procedures. Have experience in designing and delivering major projects based on Microsoft .Net Framework, .Net Core and Open source NodeJS, LAMP based technology stacks. Coaching and empowering teams of Developers and Quality Assurance Engineers in a philosophy of self improvement and instil a passion to deliver the best and highest quality of work to the best of their abilities.

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Achilles Information Ltd
5 years 7 months
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Head Of Development
Apr 2021 - Jan 2022 (9 months)
Managing and strategic planning of software development direction across multiple development teams globally in different time zones working to deliver agile product releases on a regular cadence. Process governance, Quality assurance and SDLC management to ensure highest quality is maintained.
Software Development Manager
Mar 2019 - May 2021 (2 years 2 months)
Managing Agile teams across multiple countries and Product and business expectations using the SCRUM and NEXUS frameworks.

Styled as a Servant-Leader serving the needs of the team and providing technical direction and advise when needed to facilitate successful completion of project goals.

Key in developing processes to ensure Projects are delivered in a timely fashion, to the best quality possible using standard industry practices and techniques.
Scrum Master
Jun 2016 - Mar 2019 (2 years 9 months)
Lead Developer as part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering solutions based on the companies products and services.

Mentored and supported Junior Developers and other developers within the business, providing knowledge, advice and best practice support for software development and testing.

Technical lead on multiple projects, delivered successfully on time, fulfilling business requirements providing an interface between the business and development teams while managing the projects using SCRUM Agile techniques to ensure a quality product is delivered with minimal defects. Actively encouraged the use of Test driven development and defect management conventions to ensure high software quality. Technologies used to support this include Team Foundation Server, Jenkins, Web API, C#, Sandcastle

Scrum Master and facilitator of daily stand-up's across multiple teams in different countries and time zones, working to ensure impediments are identified and resolved in a timely fashion to ensure team velocity is maintained. Undertaken using the Nexus Scrum Framework.
C#
M3 (EU) Ltd
Jan 2012 - Jun 2016 (4 years 5 months)
Abingdon, London
Senior Developer
Working with the Product team to design, implement and support the roll out of a new European targeted medical website hosted on Amazon EC2 infrastructure as part of an Agile team. Written on a Micro service based architecture using technologies like Postgres, NodeJS, Java and Docker to implement the controllers and services to present a RESTful API.

During this period have also implemented services and provided Application Support for the existing Doctors.net.uk Microsoft ASP.Net based Web site supported by a SQL Server datastore.

Also worked with and provided support to International partners in Brazil, Italy, Germany and France to provide technical support and consultancy services for implementation of a Content Syndication service.
Docker Java NodeJS PostgreSQL
Doctors.net.uk
Jan 2001 - Jan 2004 (3 years)
Didcot
Developer
Worked as one of a team of developers migrating the Public Web site away from a Lotus Notes Solution to a Coldfusion/SQL System. Had major influences on the design and development of the project and was instrumental in the start of the process to migrate to a more efficent ASP.Net Web CMS System.

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My Achilles
Mar 2018 - Present
Project to migrate and consolidate multiple separate global platforms into one single global platform powered by Microservices and Graph
Doctors.net.uk
Jan 2012 - Present
Doctors.net.uk is an exciting and vibrant organisation serving the Medical Community in the UK and Europe. The emphasis is on leading edge technical solutions to meet client requirements to offer a unique method of reaching the medical community.
M3Medical
Jun 2014 - Present
Worked as part of an Agile team to implement and support the roll out of a new European Medical Community website. My position in this team involved picking up and using new technologies and concepts including: Java, NodeJS, Postgres, Docker, Amazon EC2, Mesos, Marathon, Microservices based Architecture to achieve the objective of implementing a bilingual european targeted medical community.
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University of Portsmouth
Bsc (Hons), Business Information Systems
Jan 1994 - Jan 1999
Purchasing Foundations
Feb 2021
Becoming an Agile Coach
Nov 2020
Balancing Multiple Roles as a Leader
Oct 2020

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