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Headbourne Worthy, Gb

Andover, England, United Kingdom

Platform Ownership: Lead Simplyhealth’s critical digital platforms - the mobile app and customer web portal - overseeing the full development lifecycle and app store management. These platforms serve as essential entry points for our digitally focused business, and I ensure they meet high standards for performance, scalability, and user experience.Squad Leadership: Serve as team lead for cross-functional squads, aligning technical and Product teams with a customer-centered approach. Facilitate collaboration across departments like Marketing and Customer Support to ensure alignment with broader business goals.Driving Technical Excellence: Champion best practices in architecture, code quality, security, and API design to deliver scalable, high-quality products.Business Alignment: Strategically align technical initiatives with business objectives, driving on-time project delivery through effective prioritisation, roadmap development, and proactive stakeholder engagement.Data-Driven Decisions: Leverage metrics to guide platform improvements, optimise performance, and enhance customer experience, making decisions grounded in data and feedback.Innovation & Future-Proofing: Foster continuous improvement and innovation within mobile and web platforms by implementing emerging technologies and scalable architectures for long-term adaptability.Team Management & Mentorship: Manage and mentor developers, building future leaders and fostering a high-performing, innovative team culture.Stakeholder Engagement: Maintain strong communication with stakeholders to ensure alignment and support for strategic initiatives.Advancing Standards through Guild Leadership: Led cross-functional guilds and forums, including Chairing the React Guild, to drive knowledge sharing and elevate full-stack engineering standards, strengthening engineering culture and enhancing technical consistency.

Andover, England, United Kingdom

Team Leadership and Setup: Established and led a new internal mobile application development function at Simplyhealth, taking charge of both third-party development partners and setting up and leading an internal development team.Line Management of Software Developers: Provided effective line management to software developers within the team, fostering their growth and productivity.Customer-Centric Solutions: Innovated and crafted customer-focused solutions that simplify healthcare access and management for all.Technological Excellence: Pioneered the adoption of industry best practices and cutting-edge technologies to ensure the rapid delivery of high-quality, secure mobile applications.Creating customer focused solutions that simplify access to and management of healthcare for all.Driving the use of industry best practices and modern technologies to deliver quality, secure solutions at pace.

Andover, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Winchester

Technical Management: Led a versatile development team responsible for maintaining and developing the business's two primary content-managed websites and several supporting applications.Line Management: Managed a team of four developers, overseeing their general management, providing coaching and guidance, and fostering their professional development.Strategic Technical Leadership: Acted as the technical lead and architectural consultant for the company's strategically vital "platform of the future." This role involved making strategic decisions, planning at program and project levels, conducting high-level estimations, forming team structures, and proposing technical solutions to meet business objectives.Technical Lead Scrum Member: Contributed as a member of the "Technical Lead Scrum," a group comprising senior technical experts responsible for coordinating system development, upholding standards, designing features, ensuring adherence to architectural principles, managing technical debt, and enhancing delivery speed.

Winchester

A senior developer and technical advisor to the business’ development function, spanning both feature development and systems support within the web programme and BAU. Point of contact for two major third party accounts; Google and Sitecore. Technical lead for the business’ digital team. Champion of technology, coach and mentor to the development team.Key achievements:• Established as a respected source of technical guidance and mentorship for the development team• Software architectural design• Continues delivery pipeline configuration• Advanced Sitecore CMS developer certification

Winchester

One of two permanent developers working within a project team dedicated to the re-write of the business’ content management solution. The solution was responsible for delivering the business’ two websites including content editable brochure-ware and transactional functionality. The development also included a rebrand of the site at the same time.Key achievements:• Rapid mastery of the bespoke and complex Sitecore CMS platform• Development of both the .Net application layer and the front end UI layer• Adoption and refinement of an agile delivery methodology

Eastleigh

Sole senior developer within the councils IT department. Responsible for the development of small internal applications and standalone support to critical systems including the revenues and benefits system and the general ledger system. Database administration for Microsoft SQL, Oracle and Ingres databases.

Documentary Photography, 2:2 With Honours

Media Studies, Photography

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