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Nigel Belham

Nigel Belham

Solution Architect and integrations specialist
Stamford,Lincolnshire

Summary

Senior management professional, bringing strategic leadership and operational excellence to drive organisational success. I am skilled in project management, team collaboration, and process optimization with keen focus on achieving results. Adept at navigating complex challenges, fostering a culture of accountability, and adapting to evolving business needs. Known for strong decision-making, effective communication, and building high-performing teams.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Manager of Integrations, IT Centre of Excellence

Gate Gourmet, London Limited (gategroup GmbH)
London, Surrey
06.2021 - Current
  • Part of the IT Senior Leadership team, with management of four full-time integration engineers, nine contracted integration resources, contract and MSA relationships with multiple IT partners and engagement with IT members of external customer organisations.
  • Responsible for leading an integrations team to manage technical debt, engage with business with new IT demands, engagement with other key IT teams (Security, Networking, Infrastructure, EA, Data Protection) and operational support of 90 global integration systems running on iPaaS and IaaS cloud platforms.
  • Management and evolution of all integration platforms and integration design, documentation, QA, change control, deployment (Change Control), and support processes.
  • Coordinate with external parties and internal IT teams to design, provide and implement new/changed integration systems into production.
  • Consolidation of 200 public domain names spanning multiple public registrars into one registrar.
  • Provision of supporting management information system.
  • KT and handover to IT Operations.
  • Integration with corporate communications team and digital design agencies on group public websites provisioning, hosting.
  • Working with internal legal team constructing multiple external vendor contract document, monthly account manager meetings, along with annual renewal.
  • Use of Service Now for IT demand and project management, support, documentation, management information dashboards and reports.

Solution Architect, Corporate Applications

Gate Gourmet, London Limited (gategroup GmbH)
London, Surrey
01.2013 - 06.2021
  • Multi Leg Tool – Stakeholder interaction, requirements capture, analysis, design, development and third line support of PaaS product which accepts an Airline IATA data feed and provides the Operations Teams with a tool to minimise the number of aircraft approaches, thus reducing service loading and associated charges on outbound flights.
  • GateOPEX – Stakeholder interaction, requirements capture, analysis, design, development and third line support of a SharePoint 2010 Farm solution, based around a Document Centre site template, providing users with the capability to collaborate and share program documents and metadata to support a global program initiative.
  • Custom Content Types and Document Templates all deployed via Solution Features.
  • OPRS – Continuation of providing third-line solution support and other Project engagement as required to a globally used solution; 800 plus users and in use 22 hours of each weekday.
  • Mobile Data Collector - Stakeholder interaction, requirements capture, analysis, design, development of a SharePoint 2010 Farm solution that allows end-users to request a mobile device form be deployed to a mobile device via a Nintex Workflow and vendor API.

Senior SharePoint Developer

Gate Gourmet, London Limited (gategroup GmbH)
London, Surrey
04.2012 - 12.2012
  • OPRS – Stakeholder interaction, requirements capture, analysis, design, development and third-line support of a custom SharePoint 2010 Farm solution, Operational Planning and Reporting System, which is used in 70+ international airports with several hundred users.
  • The solution required a custom data aggregation engine to feed the solution’s dashboard charts and received batch data from SAP via WCF Service endpoint methods.
  • HRED – Stakeholder interaction, requirements capture, analysis, design, development and third-line support of a SharePoint 2010 Farm solution, Human Resources Employee Database, which provides specific business users with the capability to perform ad-hoc, uploads of locally held employee and compensation data held in Office Productivity Applications and third-party systems, resulting in providing the business with a global, centralised capability of monitoring and managing employee, salary and bonus awards and the supporting information.

SharePoint Solution Developer

McDonald’s IT Department
North London
12.2011 - 02.2012
  • Company Overview: http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/
  • Business Requests – Modification of an existing custom MOSS Forms and Workflow solution enabling part of the Workflow to be bypassed under certain conditions.
  • Modification of the UI using HTML, JavaScript, XSLT and the SPServices JavaScript Library.
  • Budget Sheet - Computation, display and management of financial information hosted in various SharePoint lists across a number of sites using a mixture of Display Form Web Parts and XSLT, JavaScript and SPServices JavaScript Library.
  • Scorecard Report - Implementation and development of a new SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Service report and its Data Source; SQL Server Stored Procedure.
  • Http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/

.NET Solution Developer

Infonetica Research Solutions
Newark upon Trent
09.2011 - 12.2011
  • Company Overview: http://infonetica.net/
  • ELearning System - Engaged to further develop an eLearning system application API and its data-store; the API, which used the MVC software design pattern and integrates with an Orchard CMS.
  • This required me to develop custom MVC Views, Controllers and Models as required along with the development of SQL Server data storage entities.
  • To support Continuous Integration, the application database and reference data was scripted.
  • Development of the Entity Framework Model as required.
  • Http://infonetica.net/

.NET Solution Developer and SharePoint Consultant

DELL Global Infrastructure Consulting Services
London
08.2010 - 09.2011
  • Company Overview: http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/04/by-service-type-it-consulting
  • PLATO - Engaged to design, develop, implement and support and on-site Intranet tool to provide the Program Team and migration engineers with a centralised resource to help them with the task of migrating in-scope customer solution to a new Active-Active Data Centre.
  • Design and development of a custom application database accessed via ASP.NET LINQ to SQL.
  • Design and development of customer ASP.NET pages to closely resemble stock WSS List and Form pages using JQuery UI where appropriate.
  • The application used ASP.NET Forms Authentication with a self-service capability.
  • Windows SharePoint Services - Design and development of an ASP.NET intranet tool.
  • Installation configuration and support of a WSS 3.0 Site Collection.
  • Creation of custom lists and Management Dashboards as required.
  • Site Collection backup and recovery.
  • ICP - Development of a complex Word Work Package Document Template to assist in the process of cataloguing information on 97 in-scope customer software solutions.
  • WSS Site List and Management Information Views to support the same.
  • Coordination of ten Technical Consultants and technical lead for the migration of 97 in-scope customer software solutions Quality Assurance lead.
  • Http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/04/by-service-type-it-consulting

.NET Solution Developer

Indigo, London at SpicerHaart, Colchester and London
11.2009 - 08.2010
  • Company Overview: http://www.isold.com/
  • ISold - Engaged to assist in the development of core IT solutions to support a new on-line Estate Agent business initiative.
  • Development of a data-model, object model and UI to support:
  • Activity System –feature to allow a generic Activity to be created and optionally associated with another Entity.
  • History System – feature to allow specified Entity Data Change event to be recorded and viewed.
  • Audit Log – feature to silently record Entity changes and a cradle to grave view of the same.
  • Development of SQL Server 2008 R2 Reports and integration of the same in the Customer Relationship Management system using the Report Viewer control.
  • Establishment of subversion Branching, Tagging and Merging with the development team.
  • Http://www.isold.com/

Technical Product Manager

Infonetica Research Solutions
Newark upon Trent
02.2009 - 10.2009
  • Company Overview: http://infonetica.net/
  • Engaged as the Technical Product Manager to further develop Infonetica’s web-based product suite.
  • Research Ethics Database – Development of UI controls and Management Information Systems as required.
  • Pre-canned report widgets (graphical charts) can be placed into a user defined Dashboard Page using docking zones, each with the capability to export report data to Excel.
  • Tissue Auditor – Complete technical overhaul of the codebase.
  • Manage customer relationships, on-line customer demos and practice sites.
  • First and Second-line technical support.
  • Production of technical and client-facing documentation.
  • Full website management including DNS and SSL certificates.
  • Technical management of one offshore developer.
  • Http://infonetica.net/

Skills

    MuleSoft 4x Cloud Platform

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Custom Section

  • MuleSoft 4.x, 3.x, To date, Intermediate, 1 year
  • SharePoint Online and prior, To date, Advanced, 5 years
  • C#.NET, To date, Advanced, 10 years

Personal Information

Available from 1 Aug 2025

References

References available upon request.

Software

Software Architecture

Full project lifecycle

C#, PowerShell

Interests

Motorcycles

Science

Accomplishments

  • Re-instatement of integrations platform and integration systems following a cyber event in 2023-Q1. ~80% business as usual within 30 days and full recovery within 90 days.

Work Preference

Work Type

Full TimeContract Work

Work Location

RemoteHybrid

Important To Me

Work-life balanceWork from home optionHealthcare benefitsCompany Culture

Timeline

Senior Manager of Integrations, IT Centre of Excellence

Gate Gourmet, London Limited (gategroup GmbH)
06.2021 - Current

Solution Architect, Corporate Applications

Gate Gourmet, London Limited (gategroup GmbH)
01.2013 - 06.2021

Senior SharePoint Developer

Gate Gourmet, London Limited (gategroup GmbH)
04.2012 - 12.2012

SharePoint Solution Developer

McDonald’s IT Department
12.2011 - 02.2012

.NET Solution Developer

Infonetica Research Solutions
09.2011 - 12.2011

.NET Solution Developer and SharePoint Consultant

DELL Global Infrastructure Consulting Services
08.2010 - 09.2011

.NET Solution Developer

Indigo, London at SpicerHaart, Colchester and London
11.2009 - 08.2010

Technical Product Manager

Infonetica Research Solutions
02.2009 - 10.2009
Nigel BelhamSolution Architect and integrations specialist