Jane Dallaway

Current

Development Manager at Madgex
Founder, Developer and Administrator at BrightonBloggers.com

Past

Development Team Leader at Madgex
Senior Software Developer at Madgex
Lead Developer at EurotaxGlass

Developer at Glass's Information Services
Developer at Northern Atlas
Developer at Aspect Internet
Developer at GlaxoWellcome
Consultant at Speedwing Logica

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Education

University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

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Information Technology and Services

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Jane Dallaway’s Summary

Currently working at Madgex as one of a pair of Development Managers reporting to the CTO.

My current project sees me being actively involved in delivering a new version of an extended product into the marketplace. This involves focussing on the day to day technical management of the team, improving processes and communication within the rest of the business, communication with the client and being hands on to fix and analyse issues.

Additionally currently working on achieving the NVQ level 3 qualification in Management

Jane Dallaway’s Specialties:

Technical: SQL Server, .Net, C#, database design

Soft skills: Time Management, communication, leadership

Jane Dallaway’s Experience

Development Manager

Madgex

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

March 2010 — Present (1 month)

One of 2 Development Managers responsible for the day to day running of the development team and reporting in to the CTO.

My headline responsibilities are Processes and People. With accountabilities of :
- Development team people management
- Best practice, process implementation, monitoring and documentation
- Bespoke project overview
- Technical community management
Founder, Developer and Administrator

BrightonBloggers.com

(Information Services industry)

June 2003 — Present (6 years 10 months)

A private project born during the Brighton Virtual Festival in 2003, BrightonBloggers.com hosts a lists of active blogs within the Brighton and Hove area.

Design work was produced by Jeremy Keith, and implemented in PHP making use of the Blogger.com blogging engine, and a home-grown mySQL/PHP commenting system.

During the years of its existence have organised numerous meetups, as well as written for its own blog

Technologies: HTML, PHP, mySQL
Development Team Leader

Madgex

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

May 2008 — March 2010 (1 year 11 months)

Promoted from Senior Software Developer to Development team leader within Madgex.

My normal role involved line management responsibility for up to 9 developers, consultation and costing on pre-sales activities ranging from highly customised bespoke job board offerings, to small enhancements on existing systems, as well as remaining hands-on with active development on our code bases.

Whilst in this role, I was actively involved in a number of projects, mainly making use of the combination of my organisation skills and technical skills to "steer" a project roll-out to completion.

The most recent of these involved working alongside a Project Manager to oversee the second delivery of a new version of an extended product into the marketplace. This involved focussing on the day to day technical management of the team, improving processes and communication within the rest of the business, communication with the client and being hands on to fix and analyse issues.

Previous projects whilst in this role have included helping out with the delivery of a number of job boards - often at a bug-fixing and/or support stage for clients such as Axel Springer and GMG Regional, analysing the technical requirements for an international system, working with other departments to try and streamline processes and communication mechanisms, representing Madgex within the technical community and working on the new CV Search & Match product initially launched for the Guardian, but now rolled out across Centaur and UBM.

Technologies: SQL Server 2005, ASP.NET, C#
Soft skills: analysis, presentation skills, time management, leadership
Senior Software Developer

Madgex

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

May 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 1 month)

Software developer enhancing and implementing instances of the Madgex Job Board for major publishing clients, including a localised version for a client in the Netherlands, and a suite of job boards for Haymarket. Additionally worked with the platform team to enhance the product offering.

Technologies: SQL Server 2005, ASP.NET, C#
Lead Developer

EurotaxGlass

(Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2004 — May 2007 (2 years 6 months)

Promoted from developer to lead developer within Glass's Information Services/EurotaxGlass.

Lead developer for a team of developers working across 3 product areas, on client/server using SQL Server 2000, VB COM, .NET and C#, and web based solutions using ASP.NET with C#. Responsible for both developing and reviewing code, design, XML and DB schemas and technical architectures, leading design workshops and performing line management tasks to ensure timely, quality deliverables to the business by a motivated and supported development team. Attended a series of 6 internal one-day management training courses covering topics such as recruitment, selection, development, motivation, employment law and leadership.

Led the design and development of an eBay data export process using SQL Server Integration Services to export xml data with images in Zip files via HTTP POST.

Technologies: SQL Server 2000, SSIS, Windows.NET, ASP.NET, C#
Soft skills: analysis, time management, leadership
Developer

Glass's Information Services

(Computer Software industry)

August 2003 — December 2004 (1 year 5 months)

Worked on the BodyMaster for Windows product to stabilise and enhance an acquired solution and make it a saleable Bodyshop Management System. Stability projects have involved upsizing the database to SQL Server 2000 from Access 2000 and introducing the concept of locking to prevent multiple users editing the same data. Enhancements have involved producing a consistent set of standard documents in a C# windows form based application launching crystal reports, producing a suite of management reports designed to answer typical bodyshop questions using crystal reports and VB COM and implementing a calculation engine written in VB COM, TSQL and DTS to calculate times for vehicle panel repairs using the Thatcham Times System.

Introduced the concept of automated unit testing for both TSQL and COM Components to the BodyMaster project, and the IT department in general to ensure better quality code.

Technologies: SQL Server 2000, VB 6, Access 2000, VBA
Developer

Northern Atlas

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2002 — July 2003 (1 year 7 months)

Worked as an Implementation Project Manager for a client based part time on their site. This project involved liasing with key business areas, as well as managing an outsourced development team based in Pune, India to successfully move the project from a long development cycle through user testing and into the business.

Worked as technical architect and lead developer on a web deployed product focused on the retail industry to reduce the overheads of producing retail Point of Sale promotional material. This was written using VB Components, interfacing with SQL Server stored procedures, and utilising ASP, HTML and JavaScript.

Acted as technical authority, overseeing design decisions on other projects within the Northern Atlas portfolio.

Technologies: SQL Server 7/2000, VB COM, ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, IIS
Developer

Aspect Internet

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 1999 — December 2001 (2 years 3 months)

Worked in a development team of senior developers to produce a new content management system to be used as the basis for the next generation of Aspect websites. This comprises of a framework and a set of expandable modules. This has been written using VB components outputting XML. XSLT is then applied to produce the presentation layer. I was responsible for the design, development and delivery of 3 of the more-involved modules.

Was one of a team of 4 Technical Consultants for a period of 6 months. My responsibilities were internal and I spent time mentoring less-experienced developers, reviewing code of developers across Aspect, helping lead developers to make more informed decisions and also doing Post Implementation Reviews on 2 projects to try and identify common downfalls.

Note: Aspect Internet is now part of LB Icon.

Technologies: SQL Server 7/2000, VB COM, XML, XSLT, ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, IIS
Developer

GlaxoWellcome

(Public Company; GSK; Pharmaceuticals industry)

September 1996 — October 1999 (3 years 2 months)

Worked on a system to manage the authorisations for the more than 1000 products GlaxoWellcome produce allowing visibility to over 1000 users in 140 countries. During the initial phase of this project I authored a functional design document and prototyped the data entry (VB5) and browsing (HTML) modules. As the project developed, I designed and implemented the Intranet solution to allow access to the database from any of the GlaxoWellcome Operating Companies. Additionally I implemented the reporting environment using the Business Objects product WebIntelligence.

Worked on the implementation of the Maximo asset management project into both the overall maintenance and laboratory equipment maintenance systems. During these projects I migrated the data from an existing system into the Maximo Oracle data structure. I analysed business processes and tailored current processes to work within the boundaries of the chosen product. Additionally I produced a suite of reports using SQR

Technologies: Oracle 7, PL/SQL, Oracle Objects for OLE, Visual Basic 5, ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, Business Objects, SQR Reporting
Consultant

Speedwing Logica

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1993 — September 1996 (3 years 1 month)

Worked on site in a development team for Airport Coordination Limited. This entailed working mostly within a support environment using C, Oracle 7, Pro*C, SQL*Forms. My main responsibility was as build manager using MMS and CMS to control releases.

Worked on the development team for a Cargo Revenue Accounting System. This project involved maintaining the existing software and also developing the first phase of a replacement using Visual Basic 3, Crystal Reports and Access.

Assisted in the functional specification preparation, producing data flow diagrams and capturing data for the initiation phase of a Passenger Revenue Accounting system.

Technologies: Oracle 7, PL/SQL, C, Pro*C, SQL*Forms, MMS, CMS, CA-OpenROAD, VB3, Crystal Reports, Access