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London, Gb

incard is the world's first payment solution designed exclusively for e-commerce, entrepreneurs, dropshippers and influencers. Faster payments, higher limits, and 24/7 support worldwide.*****************************************************************************************Enterprising and results focused CTO, working with the CEO to raise investment funding of circa £1.5m to support business growth and scaling-up goals.➤ Responsible for the delivery of all technology milestones, directing the technical strategy execution to successfully build, scale and maintain digital solutions up to par with industry leading practises.➤ Represented the technology elements of the business, encompassing product technology & product features, informing mobile app, web app and all platform integrations for the business.➤ Built and retained a high-performing product and technology team to enable delivery in a competitive hiring environment, with the team distributed across the UK, Ukraine and Armenia.➤ Championed a ‘customer-first’ culture and approach across both product and technology areas, ensuring that the customer experience is seamless, scalable and efficient.➤ Made the decision to internalise development, taking back control for new product launch in Q-4.

London, Gb

By Appointment is a global solution that enhances the shopping experience and gives retailers and shoppers the confidence to connect. Created in the wake of Covid-19 it is an evolving solution for tomorrow's retail world.➤ The app allows customers to avoid physical queues by booking appointments or joining 'virtual' queues facilitating a fast and seamless shopping experience. ➤ It also allows retailers to better manage and elevate their customer's experience.

Talistar provides a workforce management platform for the recruitment, onboarding, scheduling and management of talent within the hospitality and leisure industries.*****************************************************************************************Responsible for leading technology decisions, diving end-to-end software development, quality assurance, product implementations and delivery within a provider of ERP software solutions.➤ Full remit for overseeing a £1.5m R&D budget, supported by a development team of 25+ staff. Recruitment and management of an in-house and nearshore (Poland) development operation. ➤ Promoted the use of best practice to secure high-quality results and efficiency gains, supporting customers with a user base of over 100,000 people across 6 countries with 5 different languages.➤ Leveraged an opportunity to turn a highly-complex workforce management technology solution into a product that could be licensed to hospitality management companies and staffing agencies worldwide.➤ Pitched concept to existing stakeholders and co-founded the product ‘spin-out’ company, securing executive-level ‘buy in’ and raising funds from the parent company. Managed all R&D tax claims & issues.➤ Successfully re-architected the platform to fully upgrade to ASP.NET CORE and reworked processes, including machine learning, saving a projected 50% customer headcount.

Oxford, England, Gb

Responsible for all aspects of IT leadership across the business, overseeing all technical project delivery, new product development and the alignment of IT with evolving business needs.➤ Full remit for the end-to-end IT environment, including managing internal IT systems, infrastructure, netowkr security, technology evaluation, vendor selection and solutions delivery into the BAU.➤ Developed, implemented and maintained best practices for facilitating technology-led business transformation, change, project management and performance improvement.➤ Developed and implemeted a workforce-management system that efficiently managed 500+ staff, and led integration with HMRC’s Real-Time information system, gaining competitive advantage.➤ Implemented a highly-complex automated payroll, accounting and pension enrolment systems, enabling business efficiencies and productivity gains, automating internal processes.

Oxford, England, Gb

Responsible for uccessfully developing technology strategies and managing the delivery of associated technical services, architectures and technologies, driving service improvements to customers.➤ Accountable for the day to day IT service operations and support, managing technology change programmes and projects, with a proven track record in large scale integrated systems delivery.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computing

Management, Essential Management Programme

A-Levels, Maths, Further Maths, English Language And Literature, Chemistry, General Studies