Barry Wood Email & Phone Number

Manchester, Gb

Manchester, Uk

Our solutions are used by more than 40,000 teachers and educators across more than 45 countries around the world, assisting educators, administrators and leaders with formative assessment, curriculum planning and the documenting and sharing of learner profiles and other reports. Our flagship product, Evidence for Learning allows educators to effortlessly gather and assess learning observations on their phone or tablet anywhere and at any time. The app works with ANY curriculum, learning outcomes and assessment criteria in ANY setting or stage of education - from Early Years (pre-K) through to work-based professional learning. In addition to capturing and managing the evidence to support learning and assessment, the app enables one-touch, documentation and report generation. With optional cloud-based features, learner records and reports can be quickly and easily shared between staff, parents and the learner - any or all stakeholders.Our customers include schools, colleges, training providers, nurseries and childcare providers.http://www.evidenceforlearning.netKey day-to-day challenges:- Strategy- Capacity- Product Development, Continuous Integration (CI) & Release Management- APIs- Engagement- Support- Compliance

Melbourne, Australia

Technical Lead and Programme Manager for the Canberra/Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Learning Platform (VLE) project. Specifically looking at Architecture, Deployment, SIFAU and Systems Integrations/Interoperability.

London & Reading

I am a co-founder of UniServity and was CTO for almost 11 years, faced many challenges, a very rewarding role, responsibilities included: Global Technology Strategy, Solution Architecture & Resilience (including load-balancing, MSSQL Clustering and NAS/SAN), Instrumentation, Analytics, Capacity Planning, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery, Procurement, Software Engineering, Testing/QA, Pre & Post Sales Support (including bid-writing, presentations, integration solutions), Technology Partnerships, Service Desk & SupportSignificant Successes include:- Technology lead during growth from startup to revenues of £6M- Software and infrastructure hardware architecture lead with 100% service uptime for over 5 years to over 750k education users- Becta Learning Platform Framework Accreditation Award- ISO 20000 Accreditation implementing IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) - ISO 27001 Accreditation implementing Information Security Management Systems (ISMS)- ISO 9001 Accreditation implementing Quality Management and Quality Assurance- Development and Deployment of several Local Authority-wide integrations with existing Local Authority systems including Learning Platforms, Email, MIS, Identity Management and Single-Sign-On (SSO) Authentication protocols

Freelance Software Engineer and Web Application Developer at several Financial Institutions and Insurance Houses in the Financial District of London.