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Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Founding member of the Centre-of-Excellence team.
• Led the on-time and to-budget delivery of many Waterfall and Agile projects.
• Liaised between Business Departments and IT Delivery to deliver regulatory-compliant solutions.
• Partnered with ProSci ADKAR Change Management practitioners to drive real business change.
• Pioneered the introduction of many modern techniques such as wireframe-driven requirements.
• Globally recognised as an evangelist of Low Code development using… Show more

Glasgow, United Kingdom

• Providing lean, efficient, and focussed IT solutions to the utility, financial and public sectors, working in both a contract and fixed-price basis.I'm grateful to be a trusted advisor to several digital agencies and.
• Bespoke native iPhone / iPad app development (in Objective-C and Swift)
• Microsoft.NET MVC C#, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, Umbraco
• Azure and Amazon Web Services cloud systems
• SQL Server, Oracle,… Show more Providing lean, efficient, and focussed IT solutions to the utility, financial and public sectors, working in both a contract and fixed-price basis.I'm grateful to be a trusted advisor to.
• SQL Server, Oracle, NoSQL (Firebase) Show less

• A ‘lockdown project’ to expand the skills of all 3 founders.
• Engineered an online competitions platform using Azure / C# tech.
• Ran as a ‘break-even’ concept to spread some joy during dark times.
• Live prize-draw shows designed to support comedians UK-wide.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Inherited a proof-of-concept platform from overseas developers.
• Constructed a plan to resolve system issues in an affordable, prioritised manner.
• Facilitated the ongoing growth of the business while avoiding the “total rewrite” mentality.
• Interfaced with technical integration partners to deliver visually compelling solutions.
• Engineered a native iPad app with unique video effects engine (Objective-C, CoreImage).
• Developed a highly-scalable web front-end (ASP.NET MVC… Show more

• Communicated technical challenges to Board and Investor level.
• Developed native iPhone, iPad and Watch apps in Swift / Objective-C.
• Brokered consensus between engineering teams over API changes.

United Kingdom

• Led all aspects of Technical Delivery as a Founder and CTO of this startup.
• Developed “online-style analytics” for the real world using heat maps and visual reporting.
• Transformed business from early prototype to a shipped and profitable platform.
• Engineered using Python, Azure, SQL Reporting Services, ASP.NET MVC.
• Explained technical concepts in simple jargon-free presentations (Cisco BIG Awards, Wired magazine)

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Constructed a Wine Cellar Management System for this unusual investment organisation.
• Utilised the fluctuating values of the "En Primeur" wine market to deliver RoI to investors.
• Each investor had a clear inventory of their current wine portfolio.Although not my "typical" client, this was a highly enjoyable and challenging project to deliver. With their clients mostly being "high-net-worth.
• Each investor had a clear inventory of their current wine portfolio.Although not my "typical" client, this was a highly enjoyable and challenging project to deliver. With their clients mostly being "high-net-worth.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Brought in by a post-liquidation recovery director to oversee all aspects of Technical function.
• Resolved "burning platform" issues regarding software quality and system support.
• Consolidated technical expertise into two technology streams (Umbraco and Immediacy CMS).
• Managed the migration / sunsetting of other platforms across the business.
• Delivered a real change in team mentality and capabilities through relentless and unending enthusiasm.After several years… Show more
• Delivered a real change in team mentality and capabilities through relentless and unending enthusiasm.After several years developing in-depth and highly complex solutions within the Enterprise IT sphere, it was an.

As Development Manager, I was in charge of all development activity in this Microsoft Gold Partner agency. Heading a diverse and multi-talented team, we supplied innovative, competitively-priced IT systems using cutting-edge Microsoft technologies.On 2 separate occasions our products were demonstrated to Microsoft Global Directors as we built solutions on.

Worked within a highly-technical quality-driven organisation, developing public sector and the airport security solutions in Microsoft.Net.I learned a great deal at Real Time from their exceptionally-talented technical leads (you know how you are!), and although I was sad to leave, I felt it was time to implement what I'd learned in a fresh.

As a senior application developer, I was involved in designing and developing their enterprise-level Content Management System, built in C#, ASP.NET and SQL Server, which went on to be used by several large public & private sector organisations.As the technical authority within the company, I was involved in the full tender/proposal process. This ranged.

I was employee #2 in the company, and gained a vast amount of experience from the directors and the development manager during my summer placement.At the end of my placement, I was awarded a generous "no-strings-attached" bursary for my Honours year, and an extremely competitive full-time job offer for after graduation.... which I accepted. I was then able.