Sam Noble

As Director of IT Development, I was responsible for selecting a near-shoring provider through which to establish a development team, migrating from the current outsourced team. Once up and running, I was responsible for managing the team and coordinating between the business and IT operations, reporting directly to the C-suite. I was directly responsible for architecting and the development of the PayMe platform and third party integrations, enabling the company to place on the Forbes FinTech 50 for 2016.

I designed and architected a best in class PaaS supply chain finance solution, capable of integrating seamlessly with large corporate ERP systems and e-invoicing vendors, able to process billions of dollars in invoice transactions. Integrations were handled over AS2, REST and SOAP interfaces. I worked closely with teams in India and global consultants. I implemented industry standard processes and standards to ensure the platform passed audits by parties such as the World Bank IFC and global partners.

A short-term engagement with an incredibly tight deadline: one week to create a taxi booking application using Xamarin, working against an existing in-house API and a third-party API. The time constraints required me to be up and running on the project within hours with the first delivery successfully being handed over after just one week.

I was responsible for putting in place the tools, services and partnerships that enabled the company to not only meet their own vision of becoming the market leader in mobile health solutions, but to exceed it by meeting the demands of their customers and partners. During my tenure, I talked at a series of conferences and investor events across the US, Europe and the Middle East, taking home the award for the m-Health category at the HIMSS Middle East Integrated Health Innovation Awards in Dubai, 2014.

A short-term engagement to help close out two time-sensitive projects. Tasks included: - Quickly getting up to speed with the code base for two large, complex websites. One website was for a start-up in the film industry and the second, an existing website for a tabloid with millions of users - Completing incomplete functionality and implementing new features - Fixing existing bugs - Collaborating with DBA, design, CSS and test teams

Developed a ground-breaking reporting tool for the BBC’s coverage of Formula 1 races, later expanded to cover several real-time sporting events. - Developed a Java Applet built on Processing.js to visualise high volumes of data delivered over a WCF service - Pixel-perfect UI implementation displaying data containing sentiment metadata, allowing the user to aggregate and drill down in to large data sets using a variety of visualisations, offering a powerful yet novel approach to analysing data

- Initially tasked with giving training to the Norwegian and Vietnamese development teams in WPF and Silverlight. - Designed and delivered a streaming report client using Silverlight and WCF for a large client in the oil and gas sector. The solution factored in support for intermittent connections when used offshore to ensure large volumes of data could still be reported on.

I joined a new team formed specifically to create the next generation financial analysis platform using WPF and WCF, working in partnership with Microsoft. - Creating custom charting components for WPF, before their general availability - Architected and implemented an Excel-style formula engine and underpinning maths engine to process calculations throughout the system - Lead the UI architecture to seamlessly support large volumes of time-based data streams - Added support for internationalisation

Initially I was tasked with supporting a legacy application written in Object Pascal (Borland Delphi). My main tasks were: - Bug fixing. - Developing new features based on client feedback. - Attend client meetings to determine requirements. - Introduced new features in to an antiquated architecture e.g. retrofitting support for alternate simulation and forecasting methodologies, such as Monte Carlo analysis.