Technical and people leadership covering consumer and retailer products for Auto Trader. Helping to create Auto Traders digital retailing products to allow consumers to fully complete the car buying journey online. Creating and evolving the structure of over 100 engineers in order to meet the strategic goals of Auto Trader.

Building on previous responsibilities to now include various Customer facing tools such as Portal the tool used by Auto Trader customers to manage stock and adverts on site and the Managing suite of products.All products are developed in an agile fashion by multiple streams of developers releasing into production multiple times a day. Technologies in use include. Java, RESTful services, Kafka, Angular, Redux, Oracle, MongoDB

Helping set and lead the technical direction across numerous teams responsible for our billing system and custom built CRM platform.Helping to set the technical and operational direction of internal systems and process. Coordinating with multiple stakeholder across the business to help meet the commercial and operational plan. Leading multi disciplined teams which are made up of developers, testers, UX and working closely product leads to shape and deliver the internal and external customer experience.

Leading the technical direction for numerous operationally critical systems including the custom CRM tool used by all internal staff and the convergent billing engine solution responsible for billing £200m+ annually. Part of the tribe leadership team responsible for setting and delivering the direction across numerous squads responsible for the customer experience and operations with in Auto Trader. Managing and developing multiple teams of developers, ux and testers to deliver robust scalable solutions delivered in a continuous fashion into the production environment. Working with other leads across the organisation to deliver a unified scalable solution for the organisation.

Leading a team of four architects and the innovation function within Morrisons online multichannel program. Assist with solution designs of WebSphere Commerce. Integrations with Oracle Endeca search engine, Navision ERP inventory and order management, IBM UNICA and Coremetrics, Salesforce, Web Content Management systems, OrderGroove subscription services, Cybersource payment gateways and other 3rd party systems.Key Achievments:Lead and delivered Morrisons first online transactional site MorrisonsCellar.com on time and to plan. Introduced Agile methodologies to service integration partners to speed up delivery and ensure quality.Lead Architect on Kiddicare.com / MorrisonsCellar.com / Morrisons.com.Created the overall solution design for the transactional platform and how we integrate with third party supplier. Responsible for all technical descisons across the multi-­‐layered solution. Driving solutions which offer a mixture of strategic and tactical solutions to meet the business needs.Member of the Morrisons Multi-­‐Channel Techincal Design Authority. Providing leadership, governance and decisions across all projects currently running inside Morrisons Multi Channel IT Provides recommendations to the Business Design Authority and the Multi Channel board on technical solutions.

Research and Development of new technologies to be utilised though out TMG. How these technologies can help Trader Media Group remain the number one classified advert site in the UK.Looking at how the company can leverage social networks to improve brand recognition.

Working as the Senior Developer on a project to re-platform the UK's number one automotive classified advert site. Helping the team deliver regular releases and to a high technical standard. Evangelising the use TDD to deliver a code base which has a high level of automated tests allowing the company to have confidence making changes in the future without introducing regressions.Working closely with the Architecture team to deliver a solution which will be both robust and scalable.

Internet Developer: Writing bespoke XML based solutions for client and the Classic system to deliver real time pricing to insurance brokers.Application Server Developer: Working in EJB2/3 on the Strata server team. Took ownership of the Real Time Pricing module and developed futher to meet clients needs.Lead developer on a project to integrate both the Classic and Strata systems with 3rd Party Insurance systems using SOAP and XSLT. Leading a team of 4 developers and managing client expectation and general project management duties.

Developed bespoke management systems for online procurment solutions. I was also the administrator of the Oracle databases which were used across multiple applications.