SITS Developer

University of Northampton · 26/Jan/2026 26th January 2026 to present

Delivered development, system enhancements and technical support during a major platform upgrade, working across admissions, assessments, progression, finance and student records. Supported upgrade stabilisation across multiple environments, resolved permissions, access and data issues, enhanced progression and assessment logic and developed new functionality to streamline condensed-course administration and other operational processes. Also enhanced an existing operational report to support academic-year selection and resolved severe performance problems, reducing execution from timing out to returning around 1,900 records within a few seconds. Contributed to graduation configuration; improvements to portal layout, navigation and interface consistency; and knowledge transfer to permanent staff.

Designed and delivered a complex new reporting solution from the ground up, combining Oracle SQL, SITS and JavaScript to integrate and process data from multiple sources. During development I identified significant performance constraints in the initial approach and redesigned the architecture, separating core and intensive data retrieval and moving substantial processing and presentation logic into JavaScript. Developed efficient client-side data structures, reusable processing functions, complex module and credit calculations, data cleansing and dynamic reporting functionality, successfully delivering a robust new solution within the constraints of the SITS platform.