Tarsus Group Ltd
London, UK
Feb'10 – Oct'10
Dev/Test Manager
Managing a team of 10 people I was responsible for defining and implementing controls and processes across both development and design activities. In addition, I project managed several website and infrastructure projects. The key project I was recruited for was the migration of a legacy Windows/IIS/SQL-based CMS system developed in-house over 5+ years in ASP/VBScript. On this key project, I defined, evaluated and acquired external hosting services (managing the migration from in-house servers) with Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP stacks, load-balancing, and SVN; migrated development from ASP to PHP and Drupal; migrated development and test tools, and their environments and processes; introduced new planning and estimating tools; evaluated, planned and scheduled staff re-training; and evaluated and acquired support consultancy and resources. On an ongoing basis I managed infrastructure projects to extend and enhance the base platform, and deliver websites and applications for Tarsus Group. I also contributed some Drupal and PHP coding.