As the Head of Engineering at RSA, I oversaw the technical strategy, people leadership, and operational efficiency for the entire engineering department. I operated as the technical thought leader across RSA's extensive portfolio.Provided engineering leadership and technical oversight across all RSA operations.Worked closely with all of RSA’s Portfolio Directors to influence product roadmaps, providing technology support to all strategic initiativesHired, scaled, and inspired a large, cross-functional, distributed Engineering organisation , with a particular focus on agility, performance, and quality.Coached and nurtured a team of senior engineering managers and Heads-of, fostering a strong leadership culture.Drove a culture of learning and continuous improvement by introducing a modern tech stack and new ways of working, including Agile methodologies and DevSecOps.Focused on the simplification and modernisation of RSA systems, driving a roadmap to reduce complexity and inefficiencies.

Technical leadership and oversight across the Experian Digital Team in London - part of the Data Business Unit. Worked closely with senior leaders to align business and technology strategies. Provided direction to technical managers with an enterprise-level view of activities, focusing on maximising value and driving efficiency. Oversaw the Architecture, Business Analysis, Quality, DevOps, Release, App Support and IT functions. Drove adoption of best practices and processes across the organization, supporting new areas of the business to accelerate delivery of enterprise ready products. Leveraged modern principles to develop an engineering culture focused on efficiency and scalability. Continuously balanced the needs of business, technology, customers and employees.

Managed a distributed delivery team with cross-functional agile squads that had ownership over global products across the Mortgages, Personal Finance Management, Affordability (Open Banking), Credit and Comparison areas of the business; taking strategies from concept to full market release.Championed and drove best-in-class engineering practices across the team and the wider engineering organisation.Hired, mentored, and developed tech leaders to maintain a culture of trust and collaboration that emphasises quality, continuous improvement, personal development and high performance.

Leadership and oversight across all web development at Runpath.Worked closely with the CTO to define and implement best practices associated with technical architectures, capacity planning, automation and overall development processes.Led multiple teams of software engineers across the full range of products.Worked together with product and project management teams to ensure seamless product development and to deliver against project plans and program commitments.Continuously building and coaching a best-in-class engineering team.

As engineering manager at Runpath, I led and mentored an in-house team of talented and passionate front end engineers on a wide range of high traffic commercial projects.I architected and led the development of cutting edge web applications for big brands in media, retail and financial services; key clients include Yahoo, Msn, Go Compare, Aol, GiffGaff and BT.As part of the oversight team, I worked closely with other directors to define and implement processes and best practices so that the team could deliver high quality products on budget and on time. I managed resources within the front end team and played a key role in recruitment of new hires to ensure that we built a cohesive and highly effective team.

Provided technical direction in a fast-paced environment where client delivery is key.Worked with the client to understand the business requirements and architected the software solutions for each project.Provided technical consultancy for clients and ensured the effective development and delivery of cutting edge digital solutions.

Responsible for the overall technical vision, planning and delivery of solid infrastructure and web solutions to clients in the ecommerce and marketplace space.Maintained overall ownership of technology selection, project budgeting, planning, and resource management as well as tracking, analysing and monitoring technology performance metrics of managed products.Focused on building strong trusted client relationships leading to significant upsell and cross-sell opportunities.

Worked as Full stack developer across multiple project teams, I was focused on delivering software solutions for small business in the retail and travel markets. As the most experienced member of the development team I designed and built complex systems and products from the ground up. Ranging from command line tools and desktop clients to web sites and e-commerce apps. Responsible for supporting the other programmers to solve business problems, analyse project requirements, develop plans and get approvals for the finalised design of applications.