Mark Saunders

Current

• Technical Solutions Architect at Amaze Europe
• Technical Solutions Architect at Amaze

Past

• CMS / Database Developer at Kudos
• Teaching Company Associate at Sheffield Hallam University
• User-support Technician at European University Institute (Florence)

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Education

• Sheffield Hallam University
• The University of Huddersfield

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Industry

Computer Software

Mark Saunders’s Summary

An enthusiastic and highly motivated IT specialist with first class client service skills. Strong analytical skills in researching complex problems, breaking them down and solving them efficiently.

Highly motivated team player with good written and oral communication and interpersonal skills. Strong desire to learn constantly and the ability to learn quickly and creatively with a consistent record of achieving and exceeding targets.

Mark Saunders’s Specialties:

CMS implementation / development
CMS / technical architecture
.Net and related technologies
User interaction
SQL2005 Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist

Mark Saunders’s Experience

• Technical Solutions Architect

  Amaze Europe

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  2005 — Present (4 years )

  - Responsible for development and assist in planning of rollout of new (v8) websites for large, premium car manufacturer across 35 European sites with over 75 dealer sites. Implementation of a new infrastructure in the Content Management System and Code-base resulted in additional license savings for the client
  - Retain responsibility for the technical solutions implemented on any of the 35 European websites and each country's' dealer satellite sites
  - Responsible for technical communications between Agency and client architects, webmasters and developers in all elements regarding hosting and development of relevant on-site applications
  - Involvement in requirements elicitation/clarification, design validation and also QA/test planning
  - Responsible for provision and of and allocation of work packages to relevant resources in co-ordination with Project Managers

• Technical Solutions Architect

  Amaze

  (Computer Software industry)

  2005 — Present (4 years )

• CMS / Database Developer

  Kudos

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2001 — 2005 (4 years )

  - Undertaking general and technical consultancy exercises regarding the use of Content Management Systems
  - Responsible for implementation, development and training in various Content Management Systems including Tridion, SiteServer, CommonSpot, Microsoft CMS, Stellent and TeamWare
  - Dealing directly with technical and non-technical members of Government organisations such as the EOC, Westminster City Council, The Office for National Statistics and also commercial organisations such as Virgin Atlantic Airlines.
  - Negotiating Functional Requirement Specifications and writing Technical Specifications for various IT solutions (using various technologies including ASP, CF, JS, VB, SQL, XML, XSLT and .Net)
  - Design, development, implementation and support of internal web based systems including Project Management/Timesheet application (using ColdFusion)

• Teaching Company Associate

  Sheffield Hallam University

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  1999 — 2001 (2 years )

  Working with Integrated Manufacturing Ltd in Rotherham
  - Responsible for 2-year project to facilitate the introduction of a framework for the preparation of interface screens for a COBOL enterprise resource planning set of modules in accordance with Object Oriented principles
  - Preparation of GUI standards
  - Introduction of UML modelling techniques to the software engineering process
  - Initial user investigations into the requirements of a browser based set of options

• User-support Technician

  European University Institute (Florence)

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)

  1997 — 1998 (1 year )

  This was part of my University sandwich degree for which I received an A+
  - Installations of software and hardware peripherals
  - Trouble-shooting problems on networked and stand-alone PCs and peripheral devices
  - Training in using standard application software

Mark Saunders’s Education

• Sheffield Hallam University

  MPhil , An evaluation of the application of the Unified Modelling Language for User Interaction Design , 1999 — 2001

  Completed 18 months of study whilst in the position of Teaching Company Associate working for the University. Unfortunately I was unable to dedicate time to complete the studies due to a change of work-place and work commitments

• The University of Huddersfield

  BA(Hons.) , Computing in Business , 1995 — 1999

  Won the Ford prize for best acheivements in first year

  Activities and Societies:

  Was a member of the Staff/Student Liason Committee during my 2nd and final years