DANIEL FORRESTER

Software developer on a team working on a Spring Boot Application written in Java which ingested JSON data and displayed it in an Entity-Relationship model, using an Accumulo store and an Elastic index. The UI was written in React. The team used Bamboo for CI/CD, Bitbucket, SonarQube, Jira, Hipchat, Confluence and the agile methodologies to organise its work.

Application Support Engineer. This role was part of the Support Team for a major and critically important app. This involved: • Problem solving - dealing with incidents and service requests as and when they arrived • Understanding database issues with the app • Writing in SQL, Batch and PowerShell to resolve incidents and improve processes • Communication with different teams in order to resolve issues at source

Project Nelson, Data Analyst. A data analysis team, writing code in Python and JavaScript that aided the Project Nelson team to analyse shipping data, such as to look at anomalies in data and to display the data on a map.

British Army. Working with different teams and team members, creating and delivering a course in Business modelling with Excel. This involved: • Delivering 10 2-hour training sessions, including to a 2 Star Major General. • Creating a Computer-Based training pack and an business model template • Assisting other team members with their work packages FCO PMO. This role involved writing code in VBA and introducing new and streamlined processes into the Project .

Prior to University and right out of School, I worked as a Capability Acquisition and Management Systems Engineer. This involved: • Managing a project that dealt with the traceability of the parts manufactured onsite. • Working on a project to acquire machinery to analyse defects in the parts manufactured. • Communicating with different teams to co-ordinate work and carry out smaller tasks

Cosmology, Astrophysics, Atmospheric physics