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London, Gb

London / Remote, Gb

Cerbos is a self-hosted, open source authorization layer that separates your authorization logic from your core application code.

Chelmsford, Gb

Over my career thus far I have been engaged on short term projects helping foundersbootstrap their technical and product teams. Selected clients have included:• A knowledge management platform being developed by external contractors. Icoached the founder of the business on how to develop the product strategy andcreated technical roadmap for the team to execute on. I supported the developersfor a couple of months on how to scope out projects, plan sprints and performedcode reviews to ensure best practices were being followed.• Consumer-facing retail and restaurant based offers application based in the UAE andThailand. This was a hands-on engagement where created the technical roadmapbuilding on an initial version created by an outsourced firm, and developed a newversion on a more modern tech stack using Kubernetes, React-Native and GraphQLbefore handing it off to the team to keep developing.• A services company with ambitions of creating a software division tosolve key workflow challenges in the sector. I worked with the management team onhow to structure the product organisation, ran workshops with the initial set ofdevelopers to perform a skills-gap analysis and trained the team on productdiscovery, agile best practices and introduced a modern tech stack (Kubernetes,React, Node, GraphQL).

To simplify travel by enabling anyone to discover and organise unique trips, inspired by a community they trust.

London, Gb

Zencargo is a digital freight forwarder. Our customers are any company with cargo to move, and our platform gives them visibility into where their shipment is, allows them to collaborate seamlessly with the parties involved in their supply chain and gives them insights into their data to help them make more informed choices.At Zencargo, I work to define what we should build, act as the spokesperson of the customer when we scope features to ensure they meet demand and communicate the product vision and strategy to the business and our customers.

London, Us

After building out the Global Client Engineering team I was asked by the CTO to move to a Product Management role owning the underlying data systems and overall systems architecture of Qubit. This has been an immense learning experience with exposure across the full business.- Ownership of the core tech platform with personal responsibility for attributed ARR (Qubit’s enterprise product line owner)- Led the system design, PaaS vendor selection and migration of the entire Qubit platform onto Google Cloud to keep ahead of the industry and unlock future roadmap- Brought Qubit into GDPR, Privacy Sheild, ISO 27001 compliance from a tech perspective- Directly involved with negotiating procurement process for over a dozen enterprise deals multiple multi-year, multi-million USD contracts- Took part in the Series B & C fundraising (demo building and tech due-diligence) raising $74.9m total from Goldman Sachs, Sapphire Ventures, Accel Partners, Salesforce Ventures and Balderton Capital- Negotiation with vendors including a multi-million USD deal with Google- Product Sponsor on Enterprise accounts (Staples, Emirates, River Island, SkyBet, Ladbrokes, Inditex (Zara), Privalia, Arcadia Group) - building relationships with key stakeholders within the business, being the escalation point and being a trusted advisor for future developments and business challenges- Main technical point of contact for CTO/CDO/CSO/Solution Architect for the book of business- Worked with offshore teams across 4 engineering offices (and handled all the data protection implications of working outside EU)- Extensive onsite engagements across the UK, US, Europe and the Middle East- Worked with tech vendors on product development including input on requirements, testing, and GTM including being the public launch customer and case study for multiple flagship product offerings utilised by Qubit

London, Us

Took on a leadership position managing the team of customer-facing developers.- Responsibilities including hiring, training and performance monitoring- Running weekly 1:1s ensuring the team was enabled to do their roles and providing career coaching in order to progress and be successful at Qubit- Grew team from 4 to 16 globally across 5 offices- Resource planning based upon sales projections- The ultimate point of escalation for all technical issues for customers- Set up a mentoring programme between engineering roles to ensure the progression of the team from both a technical and personal standpoint

London, Us

After returning from the US I was asked to take on the Sales Engineering role due to an influx of deals in the pipeline which required technical stakeholder engagement & management. During this time I worked closely on multi-million USD deals including Staples & Emirates Airlines, building technical demos, fielding architecture and integration questions and negotiating service levels commitments.

London, Us

After proving myself in the UK I was asked to move to New York to be part of the initial team setting up Qubit’s US operation. This was a great learning experience for how to do business in the US, getting involved in the biz-dev side of the company and hiring a team as we bootstrapped the New York, San Franciso and LA offices. I have also seen what to do and not do when it comes to replicating a corporate culture to the first set of remote offices.

London, Us

Started out as a customer facing developer building experiences in HTML/CSS/JS and leading technical discussions for brands such as Arcadia Group, Monsoon & Accessorise and Farfetch.

Alameda, California, Us

An app and platform for therapist's which supports children with behavioural disorders continue their therapy beyond the hospital.We were selected to be part of the Innovation Lab at UC Denver Children's Hospital and haveadvisors from UCLA and TechStars. My responsibilities included owning the product roadmap, undertaking discovery and building out the platform.At the end of 2018, the direction of the business evolved and there was a requirement for a fully US-based team. As a result, I had to step away from the project but continue to act as an advisor.

As well as running and building the website, I also manage a small team of writers and produce & present event coverage:Recent Event Coverage:Sunshine on Leith - VIP Screening Coverage - David Tennant, Samantha Barks, Jonathan Rosshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrMYc_OPdTM2013 Video Game BAFTAs Coveragehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dBAlRY95RQ2012 Children's BAFTAshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzr2YTh2C2k2012 Empire Film Awardshttp://vimeo.com/392927142011 Children's BAFTAshttp://vimeo.com/328130882011 Harry Potter World Premièrehttp://vimeo.com/26240910

Redmond, Washington, Us

Working with Microsoft's customers in Europe and around the world, I resolved critical technical issues involving Microsoft's web development technologies. My main focus areas were ASP.NET, Microsoft .NET Framework and Internet Information Services (IIS).

Redmond, Washington, Us

The UK’s largest Harry Potter fan site with an international team, winning multiple awards, recognised by Warner Brothers and receiving over 1 million visits a month (Dec 09)

Leciestershire, East Midlands, Gb