Profile

I work as a software engineer for a company called Boeing. Boeing build aeroplanes and helicopters for all sorts of uses, including passenger planes, cargo aircraft and radar planes.

As a software engineer, I build computer programmes and applications which help other people do their jobs. As project lead, I have to work with the people who will be using the software to understand their requirements, and the write an estimate of how much time and effort I think it will take to build it.

Once the customer is happy with the estimate and the proposed solution, the team will build the application. We have daily meetings to keep each other updated on progress and every two weeks we have a deeper look into how the project is going and I provide feedback to the customer. Part of the development process is to carefully review each other’s work, to ensure that bugs are not added to the system.

Finally, when the application is ready, we release it to the customer and I work with them to make sure they are happy with the result.