SERN_Stack_FM_Gateway
> CLASSIFICATION: SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
> STATUS: ARCHIVED
>_ SYSTEM_STATUS: ARCHIVED
>_ IDENTIFIER: SERN_STACK_FM_GATEWAY
>_ CLASSIFICATION: SYSTEM_ARCHITECTURE
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TIMESTAMP: 2014-12-01
USER_CLEARANCE: ROOT
ACTION: EXPORT_MISSION_REPORT
>_ OVERVIEW
[SYS_MSG] INITIATING FACILITIES GRID RECONNAISSANCE...
[STATUS] GATEWAY OPERATIONAL
Four years embedded with Cloudfm Group, one of the UK's leading facilities management operators. The core mission: design and build the client gateway — a SERN stack (SQL Server, Express, React, Node.js) system giving customers a live window into their estates — while shipping continuous iterations of the engineer-facing mobile app used by field teams on site. Facilities management is logistics at scale: thousands of jobs, engineers, and sites moving daily, with clients demanding absolute spend control and visibility.
>_ GATEWAY_PLATFORM
[MODULE_LOAD] NODE.JS // EXPRESS // REACT // SQL_SERVER
[STATUS] JOB TRACKING LIVE...
- CLIENT_GATEWAY: Architected and built the gateway system from the ground up — clients log new FM jobs, track engineer progress in real time, and monitor expenditure across their entire estate from a single interface.
- EXPENDITURE_CONTROL: Delivered the spend-tracking and reporting tooling that became the platform's signature — per-job cost visibility, approvals, and audit trails that held up to enterprise procurement scrutiny.
- FULL_STACK_OWNERSHIP: Owned the vertical slice end to end: SQL Server schemas and queries, Express/Node.js service layer with Bookshelf ORM and MongoDB where the data demanded it, and a React/Mobx front end — with BackboneJS, jQuery, and Bootstrap maintained across the legacy surface area.
- EDGE_INFRASTRUCTURE: Configured NGINX routing and worked alongside ASP.net services in the wider estate, keeping the hybrid stack coherent.
>_ MOBILE_DEPLOYMENT
[MODULE_LOAD] CORDOVA // HTML5 // CSS3 // SASS
[STATUS] FIELD APP SYNCED...
- ENGINEER_MOBILE_APP: Delivered continuous iterations of the Cloudfm engineer's app — the tool field engineers live in for job pickup, site check-in, evidence capture, and completion sign-off.
- HYBRID_DISTRIBUTION: Packaged with Cordova for cross-platform deployment, squeezing native-grade performance out of a shared HTML5/CSS3/JS codebase.
>_ VISUAL_RECORD
[SYS_MSG] EXHIBIT RETRIEVED: ROYAL RECOGNITION...
The technology-led platform built during this tour went on to win Cloudfm the Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation — the first time a maintenance company had been credited for innovation in a decade.

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