Christopher Law (BSc Hons)

• Since joining this project I have been asked to lead the modernisation and transformation of one of the largest enterprise applications on the NHS Scotland account. This involves redirecting the solution and addressing significant technical debt, improving engineering practices, and establishing a modern delivery approach.
• Oversee both Workforce Systems and SSTS technical direction, including tooling, DevOps, Git, CI/CD and application architecture, ensuring the technical roadmap supports long-term modernisation.
• Workforce Systems is a payroll and expenses suite of applications. SSTS is a national time and rostering system. These are some of the largest and most business-critical enterprise applications on the account.
• Lead modern engineering adoption such as automated pipelines, release management improvements, improved branching strategies, and platform approaches.
• Manage development teams and provide a joined-up approach between Workforce and SSTS systems, ensuring alignment and reuse where possible across platform services, tooling and technical patterns.

• Managed a team of developers for the NHS Scotland Payroll system, a highly complex suite of applications processing payroll nationally across Scotland.
• Involved in modernisation and transformation with a view to establish future strategic direction and improve quality gates and delivery practices.
• Moved legacy areas toward modern architecture patterns and improved tooling and CI/CD pipelines to increase delivery confidence and throughput.

• Phased migration of on-premise data centre to Azure cloud for this utilities company.
• Responsible for producing the solution and migration approach from on-premise to Azure.

• Produced architecture, design documentation and work packages to feed into the development process, including critical infrastructure design for GP and Pharmacy infrastructure and supporting applications.
• Responsible for producing the architecture and design for two national medical systems written in C# MVC with code analysis, automated testing and recognised patterns such as dependency injection and Entity Framework.
• Designed and delivered changes to large scale medical systems with parallel work streams, multiple deployments and branch / merge strategies.

• Designed and developed national medical cloud applications built on C# .NET Core App Services.
• This involved PaaS and IaaS services, including Azure SQL, Azure DNS, Azure AD and VM / network provisioning.
• Used Azure deployment slots and configuration management to enable zero downtime deployments and environment switching between Live, Test and Staging.
• Involved in initial setup of Azure subscriptions and infrastructure including vNets, VMs, VPNs and DNS.

• Produced AdoScope, a simple and flexible solution for managing ADO.NET connections and transactions.
• It draws inspiration from DbContextScope by Mehdime El Gueddari, adapting the pattern for lightweight Dapper-based systems while supporting scoped transactions and clean separation of concerns.

• Designed, deployed and run Proxmox based virtualisation platforms including clustered compute, shared storage and mixed VM and container workloads.
• Worked extensively with GPU and PCI passthrough, vGPU style workload patterns and nested virtualisation experimentation across lab and client style environments.

• Involved in configuring and testing graphics card passthrough and nested virtualisation for the Xen Project.
• Heavy Xen user for many years, running Linux Xen hypervisors with LVM, RAID and distributed storage through DRBD, hosting multiple paravirtualised VMs with containerised applications and Windows CAD VMs.
• The combination of Xen and DRBD allows for high availability and failover.

• Designed, built and contributed to several open source Docker container projects.
• WatchPage - an MVC C# .NET Core application designed and built for posting and monitoring changes to various web pages.
• BitWallet - a Bitcoin wallet application where I contributed by improving security to the VNC UI through various code changes.

Further to my comments when I saw you in Livingston a few weeks ago, I would like to put on record my appreciation for all of Chris Law's efforts throughout the eOphthalmic project. It is fair to say that he has been central to the successful delivery of this project. He has always been extremely helpful and willing to go the extra mile to get things done. He has been a pleasure to work with.

Chris has been vital to Iain's eOphthalmic project and it is down to his expertise and customer focus that result in Atos being given more business.

eOphthalmic, eDental and next eOrtho are regarded within the NHSS account as important and successful projects. My feedback to you is that this is largely down to the efforts of one person, Chris, who has worked tirelessly over the last 3.5 years on this series of projects.