Nimalan Kirubakaran

I'm a Junior Software Developer on the Software Developer Accelerated Apprenticeship (SDAA) scheme at the Government Digital Service (GDS).

Skills

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Teaching

In my role as an IT Trainer at the Cabinet Office I taught and trained Civil Servants in using Google's productivity platform (G Suite). I did this primarily through online webinars as well as face-to-face and group sessions. I also responded to user enquiries regarding particular problems with the G Suite through our shared inbox. Before this I was a secondary school teacher.

• I have led group training sessions as well as 1-1 training sessions for Deputy Directors and Senior Civil Servants (SCS)
• I designed and created an induction session for new starters joining our team which is now still in use.
• I designed course materials to use in giving face-to-face training on the new Gmail UI which I then delivered at our regional offices

Line Management

I had been in my role as an IT Trainer in the Cabinet Office for 3 months when my line manager went on extended annual leave and I was required to manage all the training and successfully onboard a new starter by her return.

• I designed and created all the materials needed to successfully onboard our new starter. These materials are now used in my team whenever new starters are onboarded
• I arranged a User Research Lab visit to GDS for my new starter
• I also attended Line Manager Training (LMT) to consolidate my skills and knowledge

Deployments

In addition to my daily responsibilities I also voluntarily contributed to a system upgrade project.

• I successfully built laptops for use in the system upgrade project
• I successfully deployed users and ensured they were confident in using their new laptop
• I designed and created a deployment guide and trained other teams to deploy new starters
• I analysed our user records and discovered that the user list was inaccurate by ~80 users. I then identified these users which allowed teams in which these users were from which allowed the team to successfully deploy them.

Education

Makers Academy (October 2018 to February 2019)

• Curious and passionate about code.

• Fast, independent learner

• Great collaborator

• OOP, TDD, MVC, DDD

• HTML, CSS, SQL

• Agile/XP

• Ruby, Rails, JavaScript

• RSpec, Jasmine

• Java

King's College London (September 2016 - July 2017)

• PGCE (Secondary) in Religious Education

Heythrop College (University of London) (September 2014 - September 2016)

• MA Philosophy (Merit)

Heythrop College (University of London) (September 2010 - June 2013)

• BA Philosophy and Theology (2:2)

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Experience

Cabinet Office (January 2018-)
IT Trainer in the Digital and Technology Team (DATT)
A Star Tuition (September 2015 - July 2016)
A Level Maths and English Tutor Heythrop College (September 2014 - June 2016)
Student Librarian CBS (September 2013 - June 2014)
Telemarketer Mothercare (September 2009 - April 2011)
Customer Service Advisor