SHOUT FOR SHAUN

Currently enjoying my career as a full-stack developer. But having grown up in South Yorkshire I studied for a degree in Manufacturing Engineering fully intending to follow a sensible career in industry. Graduation took me to a post as a Teaching Company Associate with the University of Surrey and they assigned me to a small manufacturing plant. Here that I took my first steps into programming when I worked on the creation of a just-in-time production control system... Over time roles at Renault and BUPA followed, giving me opportunities to get into databases and virtual data warehousing for product launches and marketing campaigns. A spell at IBM on a hotel reservation system and one at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries on accounting software followed. By now, I'd packed up factory management and my shirt and ties for good... The dotcom boom swept in and sparked my move into financial applications and Java. Not only was I the lead programmer on software for some of the..

Primary location: United Kingdom