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Surbiton, GB

London, London, GB

With overall responsibility for delivery, engineering, architecture, support, operations and cybersecurity, I have;* Collaboratively defined business strategy, as the most senior member of the Senior Leadership Team outside of the company founders.* Set up and managed relationships across the organisation internally and externally with both service.

I’ve taken a year out from helping other teams deliver and improve to focus on my own improvement and enjoyment. Studying for a graduate diploma in Mechatronics at Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec) has been a rewarding experience and an unexpectedly interesting insight into how tertiary education looks from a “mature student’s” perspective. It’s.

Wellington, NZ

As part of the senior leadership team, I mentored staff, provided thought leadership in DevOps, Lean, Agile and associated management consulting spaces, established knowledge sharing mechanisms such as Lean Coffees and company-wide presentations, and ran projects.Externally, I solved problems for private and public sector clients from start-ups to global.

Wellington, Wgtn, NZ

Responsible for all software development and the provision of Level 3 support for the New Zealand Customs Service, reporting to the CIO. During this time, I:* Managed and grew a team of 40+ developers, testers, architects, line managers, scrum masters, sys admins and coaches;* Successfully rolled out an agile delivery model;* Designed and delivered an.

New York, NY, US

Responsible for product design, delivery, operations and direction for BATS, the Barclays’ Foreign Exchange high frequency, low latency, algorithmic trading and pricing platform. This involved:* Successful Project and Development Management of multiple concurrent projects. * Maintaining healthy relationships with stakeholders, both internal teams from.

London, GB

Designed, led development and managed implementation and operations of high throughput real-time trading platforms and financial data processing systems for prices, news, trades and positions. Projects delivered for external clients included:* Barclays Stockbroker real-time research platform for Active Traders;* CMC Market Maker Web Front End Trading.

London, London, GB

Same as above - CMC acquired Digital Look in September 2007

Southampton, Hampshire, GB

Lead developer and researcher on a number of Inter-varsity collaborative projects such as myGrid, a Bioinformatics research platform. This included design and development of prototype applications and presenting at UK and International Conferences.

While working for Excel Consultants I was responsible for VHDL Design and Testing for client ASIC projects. While most of my time was spent designing, modelling and testing a hardware implementation of a communications protocol I also had the opportunity to use some early FPGAs and the ARC custom CPU design system.

Bsc, Computer Science With Distributed Systems And Networks

Graduate Diploma, Engineering (Mechatronics)

Education record