About Mark Ian Holland

Experience

Verco Global

Senior Developer, 01/2023 - Present

• Building sustainable software to help businesses achieve netzero🌎
  • Development of new products to pursue netzero
  • Maintenance and management of existing industry leading monitoring and tracking platforms

Sputnik Digital

11/2021 - 12/2022

• Lead developer of the rescue mission of S-Craft's customer Portal. A complex legacy application written in a proprietary framework for .NET Core 3.1.
  • Gradually escaping thorough vendor lock-in from previous developers
  • Migrating to .NET 6
  • Migrating to new AWS infrastructure
  • Refactoring to reduce platform incompatibility and allow scaling-out.
  • Building new CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and AWS Code Pipeline
• Full-stack development on My Axelos, the subscription content platform from the company behind PRINCE2.
  • A .NET 5 Web API with a React and Typescript front-end application.
  • Azure infrastructure including Azure Service Bus and Active Directory B2c.
  • ChargeBee and Braintree integration for payment processing and subscription management.

Code and Create

Studio Manager,04/2021 - 11/2021

• Managing the team with agile project management techniques and Clickup.
• Weekly 1:1 meetings with junior team members
• Aerocloud Systems, a NextJs React app with a Strapi CMS. Built as a static site with the capability to expand into a dynamic platform after hand-over.

Senior Full Stack Developer, 10/2018 - 04/2021

• Building React based PWAs with third-party API integrations for diverse audiences. Including LFC eAcademy and LFC Koprun.
• Leading the development of bespoke .NET Core web applications. Including an IR35 contractor auditing system for the Champion Group.
• Developed modern WordPress themes, like Walton Hall and Gardens. With bespoke Eventbrite integration, Stripe facilitated payments, and Gutenberg blocks.
• Headless WordPress CMS with React + Gatsby static site generation to maximize page speed and efficiency E.g. Branch Tech Recruitment

HM Prison and Probation Service CFO, 2015 - 2018

Network and development administration (Part-time)

I am immensely proud to have worked at HMPPS CFO. This amazing group of people worked very hard to facilitate critical support and deliver a second chance to those who need it.

• Website and Leaflet.js maps to visualise regional support for veterans. A partnership project between HM Prison and Probation Service, Royal British Legion Industries and Anglia Ruskin University.
• Managed and Modernised the company website, including archive versions of all previous web presence.
• Built, maintained and documented three secure local networks, complying with Govn requirements.

Education

PhD Computer Science, 2015 - 2020

University Of Chester

• Interactive Three Dimensional Simulation and Visualisation of Real Time Blood Flow in Patient Specific Vascular Networks.
• Application built with C++, CUDA and OpenGL.
• On the organisational committee for the first PGR student symposium and the first IEEE YP symposium.

BSc Computer Science - 1st Class Honours, 2014 - 2015

University Of Chester

FdSc Applied Computing - Distinction, 2012 - 2014

St Helens College, Sheffield Hallam University