CPO Staff Profiles

is an online trading platform which connects brokers with insurers to transact fleet and other commercial insurance. The primary language is PHP, with some Perl scripts for automated jobs and a MySQL database for storage.

I joined the company as the Technical Manager in March 2009, was promoted to IT Director in October 2010, and left in November 2013. I came back as a freelance consultant in July 2015.

Projects I have worked on include:

• Full cycle accounts system which automatically produces invoices when a transaction is processed on the site, as well as logging all incoming and outgoing premium payments and handling credit control. Includes support for multiple currencies and automatic calculation of month-end creditor and debtor figures for reconciliation with external accounting packages.
• Claims system which takes data from Excel spreadsheets and automatically produces year-end claims experience for policies.
• Functionality to produce on-demand PDF versions of a range of documents, re-using the same base HTML templates with different stylesheets.
• Automated generation of reports in a variety of formats, including Excel spreadsheets and CSV files.
• Commercial insurance quotation platform, with a dynamic question set based on level of cover required.
• Full cycle breakdown cover system, from automated quotation to invoicing and handling of mid-term adjustments.

I have also taken underwriting criteria from several insurers and turned them into web services which take information about a risk (vehicle type, driver’s licence, No Claims Bonus etc.) and produce an automated quotation. These web services are used for providing the insurance component of a leased private car scheme used by a number of large UK companies, and produce in excess of 100,000 quotation responses each year.

On the business side, I instigated and oversaw the transfer of the site from one hosting provider to another, which resulted in a 25% reduction in monthly hosting costs.