Jim Barron
Solution Architect (Contract, Multiple Renewals Assignments) @Vodafone
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WORK HISTORY
Solution Architect (Contract, Multiple Renewals Assignments) @Vodafone
Providing solutions architect services working within Vodafone Group, on the group\'s various identity of products.• Ensured connectivity/integration for Vodafone companies adopting the product, triaging issues. • Produced technical requirements, designs and test plan specifications for the Vodafone Cloud product, most of which involved negotiation with the platform vendor regarding customisation• Produced designs for adoption of new vendor API framework• Produced HLDs for design changes to client and vendor APIs due to functional changes• Produced process documentation and tools for translation, and implemented the processes• Specified reporting (both usage and operational alerting) requirements
EDUCATION
Basingstoke College of Technology
'A' Levels, Maths, Physics, Chemistry
SKILLS
ABOUT JIM BARRON
A highly motivated and positive professional with over 30 years\' experience of providing solutions and multi-system designs within a number of industry sectors, most recently helping small and medium businesses leverage AI.Analysis - Particularly of business requirements and designs to enable effective, testable design; root-cause analysis during defect resolution; impact analysis, specifying how one or more systems and/or processes would need to change for any proposed project or product. Refinement of user requirements to be specific and testableArchitecture: TOGAF 9 Certified (v9.1). Production of blueprints, documenting how change managed across multiple platforms can be implemented to provide graduated service improvement over time. Solutions Design: Provision of ROMs, use cases, pageflows and technical high-level designs.Quality Assurance – Ensuring adherence to client and regulatory standards, such as Sarbanes Oxley, and that documents are provided for use by support and testing teams to the required specification. Production of test scenarios as part of the design process.Organisational skills – Typically ensuring that development teams complete the work to the required specification and timeline, and that relevant documentation is produced by them to the required standardPresentation skills – Able to present to both business and technical audiences and also at various levels within the an organisationSpecialties: Enterprise Architecture: TOGAF 9 Certified (Version 9.1)ISEB qualification: Design and Implementation Techniques User Experience: Axure RP Pro, use cases, user stories, epicsTechnical Design: RESTful API design, UML, MVC, design patterns, architecture patternsDevelopment methods: Agile, Waterfall Technologies: n8n, Claude code, ElevenLabs, VAPI, AirTable, framer, Loveable, Java, OpenSSL, Python, MVCProductivity tools: Confluence, Jira, soapUI, CURL, Cygwin, OpenSSL, Python, Bash, Splunk, Microsoft Office
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