Jonathan Craven
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Professional experience
Organizational Consultant
Atos - Lille - France(Permanent contract - Since October 2011)
- Process optimisation and strategy implementation on organizational projects for a financial services company.
MBA candidate
Oxford University - Oxford - United Kingdom(September 2010 - September 2011)
- One year MBA program with broad business education in a multi-cultural setting. My academic focus was on technology strategy, managing complexity, and on project valuation.
Development Manager
Atos - Lille - France(Permanent contract - October 2008 - August 2010)
- Introduced new testing methodologies to improve the quality of deliverables.
- Specification and implementation of improvements to the website of a financial services company, including monitoring of developer progress.
- Assisted management in the specification and development of B2B web services to communicate with partner sites, in cooperation with partner development teams in France, Germany, and Australia. Accompanied partner companies through the integration phase.
- Participated in partner relationship management for a financial services company, in a four-way international relationship (USA, Sweden, India, France) for electronic payment processing. Responsibilities included participation in regular conference calls, and investigation and resolution of anomalies.
Software Engineer
Atos Origin - Lille - France(Permanent contract - October 2007 - September 2008)
- Helped draft winning bid and implemented a project to survey prices in client's competitors' stores using mobile PDAs.
- Technical conception and development of a project that computerised the taking of inventories in a major chain of retail stores.
Software Engineer
Osiatis Ingenierie - Lille - France(Permanent contract - January 2006 - October 2007)
- For a major retailer, wrote specifications and developed the greater part of a project to enhance PDA software for cataloguing stock in Eastern European store locations.
- For a major railroad, primary developer on a J2EE application for the conception and management of catenary work sites. My technical recommendations led to an AJAX solution being implemented instead of the slower applet technology that was originally planned.
- For a major railroad, worked on the improvement of an internal application for tracking stock. Found and corrected a major bug in the program and improved performance.
