- Initiated and drove forward transformation of the organisation's goals and objectives that saw a repositioning of our proposition to market as a leading independent payment gateway.- Oversaw the design, development and launch of our payment gateway and orchestration offerings.- Successfully implemented a programme of an ISO27001 compliant information security management system.- Engaging with key stakeholders, including customers, partners, and internal teams, to understand their needs and ensure the organization's technology strategy and products align with their requirements.- Building and leading high-performing technical teams, including recruiting and developing talent, establishing performance metrics, and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.- Ensuring the organization's technology infrastructure is scalable, secure, and reliable. This includes overseeing the design and implementation of technology systems, networks, and infrastructure.- Ensuring the organization's technology systems and processes comply with relevant regulatory and legal requirements and industry best practise.- Ensuring the organization has the right data management and analytics capabilities to drive insights and inform decision-making.

- Led the development of dozens of products and hundreds of bespoke solutions and third-party integrations from conception, through development, testing, deployment and ongoing support.- Provided one-to-one mentoring, support, motivation and formal appraisal to all technical staff.- Oversaw the company’s implementation of a PCI DSS Compliance programme, resulting in the highest achievable level (Level 1) of compliance.- Planned and implemented an extensive update to the company's development and delivery pipelines, providing training and support to other members of the technical team and across the business throughout the transition.- Worked closely with company directors to set short and long-term goals and strategies, and to develop and enhance policies, procedures and product roadmaps to achieve them.- Coordinated with the operations team to oversee the procurement, configuration, management and maintenance of a highly-available, highly-secure multi-site environment.- Advocated best-practise development and delivery principles within both the technical team and across the business as a whole - including promoting DevOps, agile methodologies, “one click releases”.- Promoted and fostered a culture of trust, responsibility and “success as a team”.