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London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

Helping regulated organisations securely deliver software systems at pace and scale through deep-expertise consulting, strategic advisory, and proven training in modern application security thinking, practices and tooling.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Successfully coordinated and refined agile working practices across 20 teams, achieving full compliance with Shell Group's Binding Corporate Rules, enhancing team cohesion and process efficiency. Spearheaded the development of self-reporting mechanisms for secure practices, significantly contributing to the attainment of ISO27001 accreditation. Launched and managed application security program initiatives, tailoring to individual product needs, thereby bolstering customer trust and meeting specific security requirements.

London, England, United Kingdom

Formulated and executed eSynergy's consulting strategy, significantly enhancing client engagement and delivery outcomes. Achieved an increase in delivery margins through innovative client engagement strategies linked to business outcomes. Managed diverse client engagements in both private and public sectors, consistently delivering high standards of resource allocation and project execution.

London, England, United Kingdom

Advised, architected and implemented new AWS accounts via AWS Organisations to simplify security, management and control of cloud resources via Terraform. Provided EKS infrastructure to enable migration of core workloads from GCP. Worked with migrating teams to ensure ownership of design and provide any support required to self operate and manage new platforms in the future.Liaised with technical stakeholders to balance unique operating requirements and Kubernetes configurations to provide parity with GCP approaches. Performed costing and feasibility planning of candidate systems for budgeting and executive confidence.Worked closely with operations and development teams to plan verify and test migrating systems to ensure confidence and control of moving services. All changes managed via Terraform and orchestrated via chosen CI platform Circle CI.

London, United Kingdom

Worked with Global Application Security to measure and train ~25k developers across HSBC businesses. Developed Vision and strategy for outreach to each community with associated measures, outcomes and execution strategy. Worked with central policy teams to incorporate >140 changes to their development standards that conflicted with modern ways of working. Developed Secure Development Handbook to ensure clear, executable guidance was available to everyone and established a collaborative community of developers to translate, maintain and update it. Defined Application Security data aggregation and created executive reporting to monitor and track progress at senior levels.

London, United Kingdom

Established new London Development Hub, executing hiring strategy for pilot development team.Worked together with technical leadership to quantify technical debt and target effective, incremental recovery of legacy .net platform to more agile infrastructure.Evaluated and steered Azure cloud strategy to better align with business goals and enable continued product delivery. Collaborated on cloud automation with Terraform

London, United Kingdom

Grew Contino's engineering capability to >200 skilled engineers and consultants across UK, New York and Australia. Provided senior leadership to our global engineering community. Led delivery function to ensure appropriate skills were hired and projects resourced correctly to meet utilisation targets. As one of the first to join Contino, acted as Principal Consultant across a variety of Financial Services and Telco clients. Working together with senior stakeholders to define tangible business outcomes with clear approach and ROI. Led and executed with delivery teams both co-located and remote to deliver above expectations growing client trust and commitment to account.Worked alongside our clients to up-skilling existing employees in modern technology and approaches. Involved in multiple cloud (AWS, GCP, and Azure), micro-service, re-platforming and big-data projects.

London, United Kingdom

Provided focus on the needs of product development to help existing internal teams recognise the issues at hand and work more closely with us to solve them, laying the technical foundations for continuous delivery and improvement. Supported the installation and commissioning of private cloud capability utilising OpenStack, Packer, Puppet and Docker to provide consistency, flexibility and capacity for existing, overburdened development platform. Automated the provision and maintenance of developer (OS X) workstations utilising Puppet and Serf while developing the processes required to assure compliance with internal governance.

London, United Kingdom

[ c#; css; ffmpeg; hls; html; javascript; mongo; mono; node.js; redis ]Explored the application of open source standards and technologies to traditional broadcast business models. Providing applications and processes that enable the delivery of high quality and low cost interactive, multi-platform, broadcast experiences.

London, United Kingdom

Recruited new associate teams and advised on technical strategy both during engagements and as a part of the companies expanding vision. Main duties were to lead development of new Barclays retail banking properties, including the prototyping of new concepts and development of new delivery processes and business operations tooling. Used iterative development and real user testing to bring the Barclays retail banking site into compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act.

London, United Kingdom

Join SAM is a financial education and learning product for children that aims to simplify the banking experience and raise awareness of the value of personal information. Taking a lean approach while working with the founders we identified core propositions and novel business models that required validation that generated a series of experiments to test assumptions.Produced domain and interaction models compliant with financial codes which allowed technical stack and team shape to be defined and recruited for. Enabled rapid delivery, experimentation and validation of features and approaches with automated deployment to linode.com based infrastructure.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for the architecture, design and implementation of itv.com, and ITVPlayer attracting 11 million unique visitors and > 30 million video views per month. Led tooling and process workshops to identify inefficiencies and streamline disparate tool chains across front-end, flash and design teams. Utilised Ruby/Rake for cross discipline build, test and deploy processes. Reduced deployment times across all core applications from 1/2 day to 10 minutes. Reduced knowledge silos and increased test driven design skills through the use of promiscuous pairing, workshops and specification frameworks supplemented by contract specialists. Combined Puppet and Microsoft SCCM to enable the operations team to rapidly provision and upgrade both Linux and Microsoft server deployments in test, stage and production environments.

Croydon, United Kingdom

Provided consultancy, training, design, implementation and deployment of Microsoft Sharepoint and supporting application services to clients. Consultancy and then implementation of first UK MS Sharepoint 2007 public facing web site. Including English & German translations. Design of a public extranet site using Sharepoint 2007, Forms Server and InfoPath.