Mark Beckerling

Software development manager, also doing business development, process improvement and people management. Teams organized in an agile fashion using an assortment of agile principles. Big Data platform technology stack is open source based and targeted at AWS using a containerised, microservices based architecture. Current focus is enablement of data for a group of companies focused on people centric data in AWS. This is to allow the group to build new products and services on consolidated data.

Consolidate and converge development of similar products into a single entity. Evaluations of purchased companies software platforms for viability, and scoping and strategy for future roadmap. Provide high level support for new business units in terms of structure and approach to software and product development life cycle. This included aspects of Scrum, Kanban, and automation in build, testing and deployment.

Software development management and programme management across a variety of projects. Primary task was running a multi disciplined team for the development and support of existing and new enterprise applications deployed in Europe which were focussed on customs management for the import and export of goods and cargo. This included customer relationship management covering long term strategy and prioritisation, ongoing operational support and contract management.

Responsible for the leadership of various software development teams focussed on medical software products rolled out to over 9000 clients. Activities covering everything from analysis of market requirements, strategy formulation and implementation, technical presales support and technical consultant for business discussions. Program/project management across a variety of internal and external projects. Performance management, team leadership and developing people to reach their full potential.

Software Development Manager coordinating development teams across multiple clients. Java based software development spanning JSE and JEE in the finance domain Activities included hiring for best fit for team, software development lifecycle processes and mentoring junior software developers. Assisting in the architecture and design on JEE based implementations and workflow frameworks.

Started as junior software developer on Ideal/Datacom on Mainframe using CICS/MVS. Included JCL for batch. Expanded job to cover networking on Novell and Windows NT for 300 seat call centre Added support for call centre switch hardware and software on Rockwell Spectrum ACD Additional programming using Visual Basic and SQL Server

Intensive programming course for 5 months. Cobol based, teaching core programming principles to enter programming job market.