Case studies and experience
Four commercial experience snapshots show work I carried out within multidisciplinary teams through clearly identified contracting routes. Across them I worked with business analysts, stakeholders and other developers, often alongside external suppliers; the later Specsavers and Virgin Media engagements used agile delivery, while at Arcadia I also reported to senior management. They predate my current AI-assisted method. Dragon Lords is a Seismic Technology product and provides evidence of that current, human-reviewed method.
Contracted commercial experience
These examples show that work in practice: leading risky platform change, modernising legacy PHP and recovering critical retail integrations when knowledge was missing.
Over three and a half years, maintained and extended international Drupal and Symfony platforms, became a subject matter expert for two important subsystems, gave presentations on those areas and led high-risk work in them.
See the Specsavers experienceOver two and a half years, contributed within an agile team to legacy PHP migration and extension, including an IP address-management system moved toward Symfony 4.
See the Virgin Media experienceDuring a fifteen-month engagement, recovered missing interface information, wrote Retail-J XML middleware for a new EPOS system and supported the test team.
See the Dunelm experienceOver six years, led middleware designed around disparate brand rules, oversaw live implementation, solved cross-solution issues, and recruited, trained and built tools for the technical implementation team.
See the Arcadia experienceCurrent AI-assisted method
Dragon Lords had fragmented versions, missing source and no established PHPUnit environment. I recovered the system, introduced tests and completed an AI-assisted PHP 5.6 to 8.2 conversion in 14 days, using human-reviewed batches and an automated quality gate.
Start with the valuable change, why it matters and what makes the current system difficult to trust.