CV
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Steve John Morgan
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| Self-motivated, team-player, professional with a varied portfolio of skills and experiences. A can-do attitude, capable of learning new skills and processes quickly. Seeking a career that stretches ability and allows professional development. | |
Work Experience
[Company Name on Request] – Gr. Manchester
Project Manager – Full Time June ‘07 – Present
Started as a Consultant and was promoted into a Project Management role managing a team of up to five developers. Successfully completed projects include designing and building a theatre break packaging system to provide live prices to a website querying many different suppliers, including flights and rail, for a multi-million pound customer. Project was delivered on-time and to specification accommodating customer and technical changes. System based on an existing web-based, travel reservation system (MS-SQL / C# / ASP) and webservice. Other projects have included designing CMS powered website solutions using Umbraco for package holiday operators and migrating and identifying and fulfilling requirements for new customers onto the standard reservation platform.
Automotive Services Europe – Stockport, Cheshire
Senior IT Developer – Full Time Feb. ‘06 – June ‘07
Created and supported applications to collect and collate data to produce financial reports for European automotive companies from franchisees. Primary technologies used VB / VBA, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Access, ASP in website development / support (IIS). Key role in successfully delivering two major projects for new customers. Liaised with partners, customers and relevant IT departments to acquire requirements. Automated application of foreign translations to applications, created bespoke solutions and processes to resolve data issues.
QinetiQ – Malvern, Worcestershire – SC level UK Security Clearance
Graduate Requirements Engineer – Full Time Aug ‘05 – Feb. ‘06
Recruited as a graduate into an expanding team of system engineers. Based at a former MoD site, and worked on both commercial and defence projects. Role involved meeting customers to capture and document their requirements, produce user and system requirements documents (URD and SRD), using DOORS and the DXL programming language.
Temporary Contracts (Various) – London & Milton Keynes
Data Input, Contracts Administrator Jan ‘05 – Aug ‘05
Created bespoke MS-Office VBA macros where inefficient processes could be improved at the RNIB. Worked at Daimler Chrysler and created an automated system to query customer details from a bespoke database and interface with an embosser machine to produce membership cards – saving man-hours and removing costly errors.
Overseas Working Holiday Employment / Travel July ‘03 – Dec. ‘04
Network Rail – West Coast Management Unit (Midlands), Milton Keynes
Area Trend and Reports Engineer – Full Time Sept. ‘02 – July ‘03
Recruited into Change Control to provide support in reporting and trending against a budget of £1.5bn of route modernisation works. Recognised the need for a database to help track the process of trends (change requests) for the midlands area. Created an Access database, utilising VBA, to produce MS-Office reports (e.g. populating Word templates and creating Excel reports) meeting the approved procedures and collected additional requirements from colleagues. The solution was subsequently rolled out across the other regions of the programme.
Education History
The Open University (Part Time) Feb. ‘06 – Ongoing
Degree in progress: BA / BSc (Honours) Economics and Mathematical Sciences
Modules taken: Maths (MST121) – 86% Pass, You and Your Money (DB123) – 84% Pass
The University of Manchester (formerly UMIST) Sept. ‘99 – July ‘02
Degree: BSc. (Hons) Computing Science – 2:(i)
Modules include: C, C++ Programming, O.O. Programming and Windows API, Concurrent and Real-time Systems, Project Management, Software Engineering, Speech and Language Processing, Final Yr. Project (using Visual Basic, Win32 API, DirectX)
Milton Keynes College, Buckinghamshire Sept. ‘96 – Jun. ‘98
A-Levels: Business & Economics (A), Physics (C), Maths (D)
The Lord Grey School, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire Sept. ‘92 – Sept. ‘96
GCSEs: 8 Subjects inc. Maths (A), English (A) and Science (A, A)
Other IT Experience / Courses
- Owner / Creator of DateAlt.com, a music themed dating site (Smarty, PHP5 & MySQL)
- Owner / Creator of Mr-Takeaway.co.uk, an Umbraco & .NET powered takeaway directory
- Courses completed include PRINCE2 Practitioner, ZEND PHP 5 Certification, Access VBA, Requirements Analysis using UML, Introduction to DOORS, and Customising DOORS with DXL.
- Created a website for our Ultimate Frisbee team which processes tournament registrations complete with online payments, www.duffa.org (PHP 5 and MySQL).
- Set up a successful website giving advice on travelling and cycle touring which has received many positive and encouraging comments, www.stevemorgan.me.uk
Personal Achievements
- Completed a self-supported cycle tour of over 3,600 miles across New Zealand in three-months in spring 2004.
- Organised a team of walkers, including myself, to take part in the longest sponsored walk in the country (55 miles). Our team raised over £1000 for good causes and I finished 9th from over 150 walkers.
- Came in the top ten in street charity collectors for the UMIST RAG (Raise and Give), raising money for various charities through collections in local town centres on Saturdays, marshalling a sponsored walk and serving behind a bar at a beer festival!
Skills / Interests
- Ultimate Frisbee – Secretary & Executive Committee member helped establish club, co-event organiser for an annual tournament – 2009 had over 190 players from Europe!
- Overseas Travel – independently travelled USA, SE Asia and New Zealand
- Fitness – a keen touring cyclist, Ultimate and circuit training
- Literature – especially enjoy modern novels
- Attending live musical events with peers
- Clean, UK Driving Licence.
Email: – steve.morgan2006@yahoo.co.uk Web: - www.stevemorgan.me.uk
Mobile: – 07968 694745 Address: - East Didsbury, Manchester, UK
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