CV Brooke Katie Martin-full-v3

Brooke Katie Martin Agile Professional. C#, Agile , Scrum, XP , Lean, Azure, PaaS, Delivery Lead, Director, Senior Manager, Architect, Agent for change, Team Empowerment

CV Brooke Katie Martin – Agile Professional

“I think the most interesting thing is what happens next” – Marissa Mayer

CONTACT DETAILS

BLOG: http://katiejaye.wordpress.com/LINKEDIN: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/becca-martin/23/834/881EMAIL: [email protected]: @martindotnetPHONE: 07872652987SKYPE: katiejayemartin

Note: Name and Gender Change Document: https://www.box.com/s/0gx973kokcduoi640r39Previous Names: ~Willow, Katie, Elizabeth (Beth) Rebecca Martin, Jay Martin, Neil Martin, Deed poll documents, Passport etc. available on request.

PROFESSIONAL STATEMENTS

I am passionate about good quality software.

I love to code in C#, OOJS, Functional Programing when appropriate.

I believe that the most important asset within a software project is the team and I love helping and empowering and being part of modern fast moving software teams.

My Favourite books are Clean Code by Bob Martin (Uncle Bob) and Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck

I leverage practises from Scrum, XP, Lean and other disciplines to provide an evolving agile pallet for teams.

I practise and teach technical skills such as: Emergent Architecture, Enterprise Architecture including: AGM, Patterns and Practises, B/A/TDD, DDD, OO, SOA and SOLID.

I have specialist enterprise skills in distributed and cloud computing for the enterprise including: Enterprise messaging, Load tolerant and horizontal and vertical scalable architecture, PaaS, IaaS, Service Bus and Queues, Competitive worker patterns, NoSQL and Scalable storage.

I love to deliver top qualitysoftware.

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mailto:[email protected]

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/becca-martin/23/834/881

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Agile Play Book

http://katiejaye.wordpress.com/agile-concepts-and-tools-an-introduction/

Agile Case Study

http://katiejaye.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/gorilla-agile-a-case-study/

MAIN TECHNICAL PACKAGES

C#, .Net Framework (1, 2, 3.5, 4, 4.5), ASP.net, ASP MVC ( 1, 2, 3 , 4+ Contrib) + Web API, Visual Studio 2010,12,13,15, Resharper, Cerebrata Tools (CSS, DM) + CmdLets, TFS, Team City, Cruise Control, Mingle, Codespaces, Target Process, NHibernate, Entity Framework – Model and code first, Sql Server, DB4 Objects, HTML 3/4/5, JQuery, WCF, REST, WPF, Winforms, BDD, TDD, SOA, Command Pattern, Patterns, Scrum, XP, IOC, MEF, Unity, Prism, Fiddler, Firebug, Azure (Tables , Roles, Queues, Service Bus, Emulator) ,CSS, StoryQ, NBehave, NUnit Fluent Assertions, Telerik, Infragistics, SpecFlow, Balsamiq Mocks, Web API, Azure Storage, Azure SDK, IAAS, PaaS, Azure SQL, Specflow, Postman, Visual Studio Online, TFS, fiddler , Rackspace cloud, Rackspace message queue, Rackspace File store, RequireJS, AngularJS, Git, Git Flow, Source Tree, Webstorm, Sublime, Spring IOC, MongoDB, MongoLabs, Postmen, Visio, XML Spy, EA, AGM, Jira, Jquery, SpecFlow, StoryQ, NBehave, Cucumber, Gherkin, Balsamiq Mocks, Fluent Assertions, NUnit, HTML ,XML, OOJS, OOD, DDD, TDD, BDD.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Presentations

http://www.box.com/s/aedfdd97dbd0d861568b

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Blogs I Contribute to

http://martinsharp.wordpress.com

http://katiejaye.wordpress.com/

http://blog.elastacloud.com/?s=beth

Speaking Engagements

Baton Rouge, USA - dot Net Developer group Seattle, USA - Microsoft Azure SDR – User conference London, UK - Azure User Group Manchester, UK – Azure User Group Multiple Companies – Brown bags, Kata’s, Dojo’s, presentations, User

groups. Contributed to many community forums, open source projects, peer

reviewed papers etc. DB4Objects Awarded me DVP two years running 2009/2010

http://blog.elastacloud.com/?s=beth

http://katiejaye.wordpress.com/

http://martinsharp.wordpress.com/

https://www.box.com/shared/4b495f0l14

http://www.box.com/s/aedfdd97dbd0d861568b

http://katiejaye.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/gorilla-agile-a-case-study/

http://katiejaye.wordpress.com/agile-concepts-and-tools-an-introduction/



ROLES

MADGEX

Senior Developer

February 2015 – June 2015

Project Description

Helping finish a new iteration on an older product, the product was a white label job board. Single tenanted, multiple deployments.

Technologies

SQL Server, .net 4.0/4.5, NUnit, fluent assertions, IaaS (Rackspace), Web API, ASP MVC, SOLID, TDD, Emergent Design, Resharper, Visual Studio 2013

Architecture Responsibilities

Defining a new architecture to implement Queues, NoSql storage for media, Word conversion by worker roles – High load, competitive worker role pattern, correlation by ID, Vertical and horizontal scaling.

Defining and proving an architecture to allow fast conversion of word documents to PDF with keyword and pattern anatomization.

Worked with the Product owner and the CTO to understand and define requirements

Built and documented the solution – AGM, UML, Epics, Features, Stories Defining hosting and architecture model to support high load (Rackspace

cloud) Presented detailed hosting presentations between Rackspace and Azure –

Lead discussion to find the correct option for the company for this solution.

Working with CTO + Rackspace to provision and cost hosting options

Senior Developer Responsibilities

Developed reusable code, covering advanced error handling, Logging, document transformation.

Implemented Elastic search queries in Nest and C# Delivered defined functionality in a Scrum style process flow Worked with team and product manager to help define and cost

requirements Scrum team member. Facilitated technical discussions Onboarded new team members Unblocked team by solving cross cutting problems

Agent for Change Achievements

Worked with the business to look at requirement definition Lead and empowered team process- Retrospectives, Requirement

gathering, Requirement definition, Client engagement e.g. Workshops, show cases.

Lead cross business workshops on how to write good requirements (Ghekin)


Trained developers on TDD and BDD Trained developers on SOLID (Ran Kata’s, DoJo, produced Knowledge base

articles, helped with architectural and coding standards) Trained developers on principals of YAGNI and DRY and KISS Lead workshops on coding standards and patterns Presented across the company – training on Resharper and lead adoption

of tool

FAMILY INVESTMENTS, BRIGHTON

Contract developer / team lead

November 2014 – January 2015

Technologies

SQL Server, .net 4.0/4.5, NUnit, fluent assertions, Web API, ASP MVC, SOLID, TDD, Emergent Design, Resharper, Visual Studio 2013, vb6, COM, WCF

Project Description

Rebuilding an old code base (Vb,WCF,.Net) for a core product to be multi- Tenanted and support dynamic branding based on the inbound URL.

Architecture Responsibilities

Defining a new architecture model two allow a product to become Multi-Tenanted

Defining and proving an architecture to allow dynamic branding of ASP MVC site

Defining hosting and architecture model to support high load

Team Lead Responsibilities

Lead a team of 4 developers to implement ASP MVC , Multi-tenanted solution

Setup and maintained a Kanban board Digital and physical Responsible for segmented delivery of solution Defined using Gherkin and architectural diagrams –AGM, the business and

technical requirements for the solution breaking them down into deliverable stories.

Agent for Change Achievements

Worked with the business to look at requirement definition Lead cross business workshops on how to write good requirements Presented on Agile tooling Trained developers on TDD and BDD Trained developers on SOLID Trained developers on principals of YAGNI and DRY and KISS Lead workshops on coding standards and patterns

Development Responsibilities

Pair programed with the team , against agreed requirements Developed production code , against requirements


Lead code reviews Refactored old code Produced adapter code to interface with older VB6 COM.

WHEN FRESH, WOKING

Contract Developer / Data Analyst

0ctober 2014 - November 2014

Developer Responsibilities

Writing code (C#, Cavity) to slice and dice (X) million row record sets from disparate and quite often tangled data dumps, across a number of formats including JSON TSB, CSV.

Apply varied data sets to base data to provide business enrichment. Investigating and applying distinct data items as keys between the

datasets to provide enriched data pictures for further analysis. Protecting sensitive and PID data by elimination form the final product. Perform statistical and trend analysis to the enriched data sets to asses

and provide value from the data set. Support clients day to day on rackspace architecture and hosting

environments. (24x7 availability)

AVANADE, LONDON, NATIONALLY

Manager / Technical Developer

July 2013 – October 2014

I am employed as a manager, at Avanade this includes roles such as:

Delivery Management Technical Architecture Pre-sales Project Planning Technical Delivery Software Development

Client Highlights:

Client Skype / Microsoft- TDD Developer

Worked on sections of the new Skype client and service infrastructure in a Scrum , TDD environment – deployment target Azure.


Client Blinkbox- Senior Developer, Architecture, Project Planning

Senior developer on a payment services team, deploying to Azure. Project management and source control via Git and VSO. TDD , Scrum environment, emergent architecture full cross team ownership. ASP MVC + ASP MVC Web API, Azure PaaS.

Client: Regus- Delivery management, Architecture, Senior Developer

ASP MVC application talking to a Web API solution.

SOLIDSOFT , BASINGSTOKE

Contract Lead Architect – Reference Charles Young

12th December 2012 – 18 January 2013

I was employed as a Lead architect, my duties and responsibilities included:

Introducing Agile Process – across the wider team with limited adoption

Leading a team of 4 elements to produce a full enterprise solution document

Explaining, Architecting and leading a dev group to build an implementation of Azure Topics and subscriptions paired with windows workflow and reliable sessions.

Conversations with Microsoft product teams, around Azure AD and storage options, including making decisions on their use and documenting approach.

Conversations with CTO , CEO about direction

Architecting and explanations around Windows 8 store App and HTTP Client use in a distributed system.

General Team Empowerment and management duties

Architectural delivery ownership

The first stage of the project is now completed and I am now back on the market having empowered the team to move on to the decision and product phases.


TOWERS WATSON – RETIREMENT SOFTWARE DIVISION, REIGATE – REFERENCE PHILIP TAYLOR.

Technical Team Lead – promoted to Project Lead

July 2012 - 8th October 2012

Identified new delivery goals Worked with the board to expand the team and establish realistic

delivery dates Took over leadership of all delivery aspects of the project including:

BA, QA, Operations and development Re-motivated the team Re-trained the team in BDD , TDD and Emergent Design Recruited new members of the team Delivered functionality and releases that had been pending for 2 years Worked with the board to define realistic delivery goals and schedules Introduced Agile / Scrum / XP Had overall responsible for all project elements inc : Development , UAT / QA ,

BA / Requirements, Delivery and Release

INTEGRITY SOFTWARE – SALON AND SPA DIVISION , GATWICK

Contract Lead Developer and Architect – Reference Steve Baxter

December 2011 – 1st June 2012

Established the architecture Wrote proof of architectural model Worked with the PO/ Product board to govern delivery dates and goals Recruited a team of developers Managed team of developers Reported to the CEO

I produced the architecture and infrastructure code for the new Salon and Spa Azure cloud offering, she was also heavily involved in all aspects of Project Management and Requirement gathering. Azure, Visual Studio 2010, Resharper


6/6.1, ASP MVC 3, Entity Framework 4.1, TDD, BDD, Watin, StoryQ, NUnit, Unity, WCF.

I was also responsible for code quality and product delivery across the wider technical team.

WINDOWS AZURE INSIDE SOLUTION GROUP [N3 / MICROSOFT CORP.], ATLANTA / LONDON

Contract Consultant / Recruiter / Manager / Technical Expert

September 16th to October 2011

-Conducted meetings with recruitment agents to identify requirements both in Europe and the USA

- Flew to the USA regularly to recruit and train consultants in Atlanta - Managed the EU team in London- Reported direct to Microsoft and N3 company ownership

I was engaged to recruit and technically test a number of consultants to work in the USA and London to provide 1 through to 3rd line support for Windows Azure.

I also ran in conjunction with Richard Conway a number of Azure boot camps to bring the consultants up to speed on the platform Rebecca then managed the first month of business though the bedding in period.

During this period I was in the USA for a number of visits.

I greatly enjoyed this engagement and found it highly challenging and rewarding.

AKQA, FARRINGDON LONDON

Technical Delivery Manager and Platform Architect

March 9th to September 2011


Lead requirement workshops to turn visual screen flows into Agile stories and scenarios

Ran prioritization sessions Ran team planning sessions / Planning game / Planning poker Ran daily stand up meetings Reported to head of technology Designed Architecture for solution Performed training sessions in TDD and Emergent Development Worked with traditional project management assets to provide a hybrid

Agile/ waterfall environment for the project.

I engaged with AKQA and led a team to produce the British Army new Recruitment site as well as providing Agile expertise across other project and teams.

I was 70% hands on developing most of the infrastructure code and performing a lot of the technical heavy lifting. The technologies she used where : ASP MVC 2, Visual studio 2010, NUnit, WCF, TDD, SpecFlow, Balsamiq Mocks.

Rebecca also introduced the company to SpecFlow and several other tools that changed the way the company thought about requirements and customer engagements.

DOT NET SOLUTIONS, WINDSOR

Contract Agile Developer / Consultant

November 2010 to January 2011

I worked with a team of 2 developers producing applications for the Windows Azure platform using ASP MVC, Winforms, WPF, WCF, TDD, BDD, I also assisted in recruitment and technical vetting, and in addition I was dealing directly with the clients and running workshops and leading story production sessions.

During my time at DNS I helped to introduce Agile practices and TDD and BDD to the team.


ENTA GROUP, LONDON / BR – LOUISIANA, USA

Technical Manager / Architect Developer

July 2009 to October 2010

London Role

Acting CTO Worked with team to deliver fast paced releases Worked with board to rebuild team Worked with Clients to reestablish confidence in the product Worked with team to train agile principals and techniques Delivered

USA [Contract]

Established a new team Trained team Equipped team Managed Team Day to Day Lead team to deliver new version of product and a WPF kiosk

offering

The first stage of this engagement during which I was permanent member of staff my main responsibility was to bring a team back together after organization fragmentation within the London office. I then led the team to produce a high through put payment system using WCF and pluggable architecture.

This then led to the production of a SOA based set of services my team then gradually replaced the old code base with more service offerings. This section of the group was sold and the parent company took me to the USA on contract.

Once I had established the team in the UK and the architecture and took care of the initial deliverables. The company moved me to Baton Rouge in the USA to recruit, build and train a USA based team to work with their UK counterparts, and this was on a contract basis I returned to the UK at the expiry of my temp work visa and once the team was established and the team had delivered the WPF kiosk app.

ELATERAL, FARNHAM

[Initially contract then fixed term] Technical Manager / Senior Developer


July 2008 to May 2009

Restructured product team Took responsibility for technical delivery across a number of big accounts

including – Coca Cola , Toyota, New Balance Managed 3 product teams

I started with the company as a contract senior developer to help with some services. I was rapidly taken on perm to help implement Agile. I then played a mixed role as Agile Coach and senior developer and Technical Manager – during this time I also developed a high performance service bus to replace their business logic with a SOA architecture which could be load balanced.

The technologies included: C#, SOA, Windsor, Monorail, NBehave, TDD, BDD, Agile Scrum / Hybrid, High performance services, WCF

I was also responsible for all technical recruitment and I managed the Technical and the Relationships surrounding Coca-Cola and new balance accounts.

CLICK STREAM TECHNOLOGIES, LONDON

Contract Senior Developer

Feb 2008 to July 2008

Working on a web front end for a web traffic monitoring solution

DRS SOLUTIONS, MILTON KEYNES

Contract Developer

December 2007 to February 2008

Working on an interface for a set of Java web services

THOUGHTWORKS, LONDON

Agile Developer

September 2007 to December 2007

Working on client solutions, Java E4 Web site , Diamond Trading Company

MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT LTD (OSTARA SYSTEMS), MILTON KEYNES

Contract September 2006 to September 2007

Developer


Rewrote their client maintenance systems

ULTIMEDIA SOLUTIONS, MANCHESTER

Contract Senior Developer

August 2005 to July 2006

Build new Extranet for Carbon Trust

SSI SOLUTIONS, WILTSHIRE

[Buyout agreement (Ionsoftware), fixed term] Senior Developer

June 2004 to August 2005

Introduced .net to the company and rebuilt several of their products.

IONSOFTWARE, BARROW-IN-FURNESS

Joint Managing Director

August 2003 to March 2004

Rebuilt and sold their KPI management solution to Cheshire, Mid and North West Wales and Merseyside Fire services. Rebecca was also instrumental in empowered a technology and Corporate sale to SSI.

London

SMALL TECHNOLOGY STARTUPS AND MIXED CONTRACTING

2001 to 2003 [Contract / Consultancy]

C++, Vb6, ASP, COM, DCOM

Global

SECURITY CONTRACTING

1993 to 2001 [Consultant]

RECOMMENDATIONS

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Co-Founder & Technical Director at When Fresh Ltd

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I trust Katie to deliver the technical solutions I need with a minimum of fuss and to the highest standards. She has the complete package of skills I need: experienced, agile and totally competent. I cannot recommend her highly enough.

CRAIG LAWES

Product Manager at Madgex

Willow is an expert in Agile working practices and has been instrumental in enabling Madgex to introduce a wide range of new processes, tools and techniques. I have found Willow to be very proactive in driving forward change and a great ambassador when promoting best practice in all areas of the development process. Willow is also an excellent trainer and presenter of technical and non-technical information and is able adapt the message she delivers specifically to suit her the target audience.less

JONATHAN BAGGALEY

Professional Agile Contract Developer

It has been an enormous privilege to work with Katie over the last couple of months. Katie has an amazing knowledge of Agile and test based coding and she has mentored me in these areas. Despite having a significant number of years in the IT industry; my skill set has improved due to the support that Katie has given me during the short time she has worked with me. Katie has thrown a notable amount of energy into her role. Combined with her larger than life personality she makes for a formidable package that will be a positive benefit to any company.

Katie’s adheres to quality, best practice and the teachings of Uncle Bob. As demonstrated by the various blogs that Katie writes, she doesn't compromise from her beliefs; this makes her a very special person to work with.Katie is a team leader and a team player. She will listen to the comments of the rest of the team and she will guide. She always has an eye on best practice and she consistently endeavours to work with and represent all viewpoints.

I look forward to working with Katie in another contract in the future


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Philip Taylor – Towers Watson

Thanks for your efforts over the last 3 months or so – the team is now significantly stronger than when you joined, and has benefited greatly from your efforts and leadership in that time.

Best wishes and good luck for the future.

Philip

London Azure User Group: http://www.lwaug.net/

The tip of the month was presented by Becca Martin and John Mitchell, a was a fantastic presentation showing how to run an Agile project in Azure, test first with CI and good practice. Becca commented that several people had wrongly assumed that Agile and Azure were strange bedfellows. They’re not! The full talk will be given at a conference we’re running in May/June. Definitely not one to miss!

Manchester Azure User group: http://www.shapingcloud.com/blog/2012/4/5/manchester-windows-azure-user-group-first-meeting/

Next to speak was Becca Martin and John Mitchell form Blush Packages, who gave a fantastically slick demo of how you can follow the Agile Manifesto when building Azure applications. They introduced some tools I hadn’t heard of before such as StoryQ, Watin and Mingle and the whole thing left me really enthused about implementin some of their processes into our own development approach.

“Rebecca is brimming with energy which is played out in an unparalleled desire to mentor more junior developers beyond the mandate of her job. She is without doubt a fantastic technologist who brings first rate management and technical experience to any team.” November 28, 2011

Richard Conway, Owner, The Clarendon Groupworked directly with Becca at Niche cubed / Microsoft

“Working with Rebecca Martin on Microsoft campaign was a great experience. She is a truly knowledgeable, inspiring and dedicated person who can address the most important aspects of the project and provide ready answers on the spot. Good leader with excellent


communication skills, easily adapts to new environments. Her presentations made an enormous impact on all team members and having such great Azure mentor made this challenging campaign much easier to deal with. I am grateful for her support and motivation, definitely recommend to work with.” November 28, 2011

Sandra Matysiak, Windows Azure Inside Solution Group, CBS Interactive (UK)was with another company when working with Becca at Niche cubed / Microsoft

To whom it may concern.

I have worked with Rebecca for 6 months and in that time I have found her to be knowledgeable and able to explain complicated agile TDD / BDD concepts in terms that are easy to grasp, Also her ability to motivate and empower individuals within her team is literally amazing and as such was able to take a non-agile disenchanted team and make them agile and attacking tasks with a new invigorated zeal driving the team and the project forward.

If you wish to contact me then please do not hesitate on the number below or 07577 487414 or the email [email protected]

Theresa Forster

Other References

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To whom it may concern:

I’ve been a close working colleague and friend to Rebecca Martin for some time now, who has aided me in the understanding of the best CI and testing mechanisms and methodologies with respect to Windows Azure.

Our company Elastacloud is a Microsoft Partner, at the cutting edge of HPC and Hadoop enablement. We work closely with Microsoft UK and Microsoft Corp to evangelise and teach Azure to ISV’s and our knowledge and intent stretches back to the era of “red dog”.

Becky combines a strong and sensible use of agile with a coherent understanding of Windows Azure. Like us, her practical use of Azure goes back more than two years and as such she, to my mind is a true early adopter.

At N(3) we worked together as two of three Microsoft vetted Azure L400s (the highest professional ranking) to immerse junior staff in Windows Azure. Becky worked tirelessly to develop protocols and example training applications for the first pan-European and US helpdesk. Her problem solving skills are exemplary and she applied a large working body of azure knowledge to answering post-sales support queries which entailed replicating complicated development environments to get to the bottom of customer issues.

She has a fantastic tenacity in getting to the nub of the problem and can white board solutions which will work from the outset which end up being production ready within a few months. She is meticulous in her planning and research before committing a technological solution to a particular architectural response which has stood her in good stead.

Her knowledge of Azure is extremely rounded and she has a high level of experience across the board of the core platform and AppFabric. Her knowledge of CI and Azure is most-likely unmatched in the UK.

Becky is an integral part of our community; a community which she has been part of since its inception. She has spoken regularly on real world working models for our UK Windows Azure Users Group in both London and Manchester and has been a sounding board to answer problems for younger developers who attend meetings. She will be speaking for us again on June 22nd at an international Microsoft sponsored conference, run by our community, on the new TFS Build Service, CI and Azure, sharing the stage with other fantastic first class Microsoft and community speakers from the UK and abroad. On the run up to the conference she will be sharing her experiences with a chapter on CI, Service Management and Autoscaling in an MSDN-serialised book intended for a Microsoft Enterprise Developer audience.

Becky would be the strongest of assets to any team.

Best Regards,

Richard Conway


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