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Hemel Hempstead, Gb

Oxford, England, Gb

Leading the Engineering team at DiffBlue I drive operational excellence as an engineer's engineer. I also head up Customer Success and help drive forward the Diffblue product as a whole.Diffblue is changing the way software is developed. We build products that have the potential to be used by every software developer in the world. We are automating a lot of repetitive coding tasks in order to make code safer, better, and cheaper to produce, letting developers concentrate on the real challenges.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Responsible for EMEA Product Engineering for the investor side of CBRE's business - Valuations, Asset Services, Global Investors - and the EMEA Enterprise Data Platform, joining CBRE's systems and customers together through data.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Driving technological change through the valuations business at CBRE.

Reading, Gb

Responsible for technology development and strategy at Push a middleware software provider linking live data with the edge.In my time at Push I have turned the technology side of the business around - hiring key staff, implementing key engineering procedures and approaches, including a more more Agile approach, DevOps automation (Ansible, Docker, Jenkins), code review (Fisheye, Crucible), Continuous Integration (Jenkins) and Continuous Deployment (Ansible). As well as drastically improving operational delivery I engineered Push's move from on-premise middleware to a cloud-based SaaS offering (reappt.io) leveraging open source technology (jclouds, Ansible, Docker, Brooklyn and others). I lead by example - paving the technical path for others to pick up and run with, doing the jobs that no-one else wants to, shielding my team from distractions - but also delegate heavily, requiring my team to learn and think for themselves providing an environment where innovation can flourish.I represent technology to the Board and work with other executives withing the Push team - always staying focused on acquiring and retaining customers.

Austin, Texas, Us

Built the Oracle Complex Event Processing product - a Java-based e-Commerce platform for in-memory processing of high volume, low-latency temporal data - from a niche player to a multi-million dollar revenue asset in a variety of technical and management rolesArchitect & Tech Lead, Oracle Complex Event Processing (2010 to 2012)Responsible for leading development of product architecture, software, integration and testing. Lead the OCEP engineering team, ensuring timely delivery of business appropriate functionality. Support field teams in the deployment of the product at different customer locations. Evangelize the product at conferences, user groups, sales engagements, field training and internally within Oracle. Develop product strategy based on customer requirements and overall business context. Collaborate with sales and consulting to enable local market penetration. Oversee team training, recruitment, development, deliverables and cohesion. Frequently travel internationally to build relationships with offshore team members (US, India, Russia). Architect, Oracle Complex Event Processing (2008 to 2010)Served as architect within the OCEP team responsible for architectural development of the Java-based platform and High Availability strategy

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Event Server ArchitectArchitect for WebLogic Event Server - a real-time, Java-based complex event processing (CEP) engine aimed at capital markets Key Accomplishments:• Liaised with the UK field team enabling them to sell the product appropriately in their target markets• Developed the BEA-SpringSource and other open source relationships through meetings, dinners and on-line interactions allowing for the successful incorporation of Spring products within BEA offerings• Represented BEA within several standards setting groups (JCP, OMG, OSGi), arguing for policies and implementations that were in BEA’s interest• Undertook various strategic analyses of BEA business units as part of MBA program and presented these to senior management resulting in various positive strategy changes within the product

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Open Source ArchitectOverall architect for development of BEA's open source strategy and responsible for the design and implementation of the associated Java application server Key Accomplishments:• Generated business and technical proposals for several innovative open source based ideas for BEA senior management - "Spring Server", Open JPA, "SCA Server" – all of which were further pursued by the company• Coached and advised additional off-shore China-based development team resulting in higher quality, focused software deliverables• Developed strategy for Open Source SCA-Spring integration and the certification process of Spring on WebLogic Server, fostering close business ties between BEA and Interface21 (now SpringSource)• Accepted as a committer on the Spring and Spring-DM open source projectsTeam lead and architect for WebLogic Server core in San Francisco, responsible for overall delivery of WebLogic Server coreKey Accomplishments:• Responsible for proposing, specifying and implementing many key WebLogic Server implementations – the core protocol stack, ORB, High Availability, tracing enhancements and interoperability – all of which are in-use today by thousands of customers• Led and project managed a team of 6 engineers leading and coordinating architectural discussions with other development teams resulting in high-quality on-time delivery of customer focused features• BEA representative for several standards setting groups (OMG, JCP)• Thought leader in the WebLogic group generating healthy, interactive group discussion which propelled innovation forward• Bootstrapped a project to develop an in-memory caching solution for BEA enabling the eventual adoption of the technology within WebLogic server

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Managing consultant for UK Professional Services "Object" team of 12 responsible for delivering and supporting high-quality consulting engagements – technical, strategic, management - with various international companiesKey Accomplishments:• Built the object-oriented side of the services business, hiring, coaching and mentoring new and existing consultants• Technical account manager for British Telcom - and instrumental in making it BEA's biggest single-sale customer of the time ($17m)

Rocklin, Ca, Us

Chief technical architect for Parallax - an SME systems integrator – responsible for project management, architecture and technical evaluation of pre-sales bid work as well as project implementation. Also responsible for technical strategy evolution for the company engaging in outbound marketing and technical presentations. Technical lead for two of Parallax’s most complex projectsKey Accomplishments:• Turned around an ongoing project from an over-designed, impractical paper exercise to an award-winning ObjectStore (C++ OODB) "Best Implementation" of the year• Technical architect for a multi-million pound implementation of a new retail finance application

Ph. D, Computer Science

Mba, Business

Ba (Hons), Engineering