Byron Rees Email & Phone Number

Crymych, Wales, Gb

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

-Led the architecture, development, and delivery of a next-generation e-commerce platform, guiding the team from design to deployment, ensuring performance and scalability.-Defined product roadmap and prioritised features to align with business goals, facilitating successful on-time delivery while enhancing existing platform functionality.-Collaborated with a team of 7 engineers, driving sprint planning, backlog management, and retrospectives, ensuring alignment with technical requirements and business objectives.-Provided technical leadership in enhancing the functionality of legacy systems, ensuring seamless integration with the new platform and improving overall operational efficiency.-Developed and refined solution architecture to optimise existing workflows and address key operational pain points, resulting in streamlined processes and improved system performance.-Led the end-to-end testing process, including unit, integration, and user acceptance testing (UAT), ensuring robust functionality and minimising defects.-Worked closely with stakeholders to translate complex business needs into detailed technical specifications, ensuring effective communication and timely delivery of solutions.-Oversaw continuous platform improvements, introducing iterative enhancements based on user feedback and operational insights, contributing to increased customer satisfaction and system reliability.-Supported the development team in troubleshooting and optimising existing solutions, driving the implementation of new features while maintaining high-quality code standards.-Facilitated operational teams' transition to the new platform, ensuring smooth adoption and alignment with day-to-day business processes.At Push, I led several complex integration projects, including the development of a core B2B and B2C platform for Pinarello UK. I worked closely with external partners and the client to deliver a seamless and intricate system integration.

Wales, United Kingdom

West Coast Collab, operating as GRAIN, is a lively collaboration between Ben Washbrook, Byron Rees, and Bluestone Brewing. This venture brings a fusion of inventive pizza dishes and unique craft beers to its buzzing locations in St David's, Pembrokeshire, and Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire. It's a culinary hotspot where tradition meets innovation, offering a vibrant dining experience with each pizza and craft beer telling its own story of local flavours and creative flair. GRAIN is more than just a place to eat; it's a destination for memorable experiences and taste adventures.

Newport, Pembrokeshire.

Owner and operator of a small pizzeria based in Newport, Pembrokeshire

Newport, Pembrokeshire

As a Solutions Architect, I collaborate with critical departments and managerial levels across the organisation, providing comprehensive support. Key activities include:- Defining project scopes, deliverables, and technical requirements in collaboration with clients and business development teams. Assisting in resource estimation for each department involved.- Assisting colleagues in diagnosing and resolving technical challenges, and aligning client expectations with suitable solutions through active participation in calls and meetings.- Supporting Project Managers and Delivery Teams in interpreting client requirements and delivering solutions for WordPress, Umbraco, and Laravel projects of varying complexity.- Guiding the technical implementation of solutions I have architected and modelled, providing support to developers and ensuring adherence to client requirements.- Creating high-quality technical and functional documents as project references, including wireframes, diagrams, process flows and detailed information on deliverables and the proposed approaches to aid the delivery teams' understanding of the project.- Implemented a streamlined pricing and estimation approach, improving the quality of detail provided in project quotations and enhancing the client experience with an improved quoting process.- Conducting Technical and Functional exploration workshop sessions with clients as part of website and solution discoveries. Critically analyzing existing websites and solutions, and proposing positive improvements. -Delivering detailed write-ups for new website and bespoke systems projects which help to provide detailed quotations for clients.Collaborating with esteemed clients such as NHS England, Triumph, Harley Davidson, Nuaire, Estyn, Notting Hill Genesis, Hodge Bank, and more.Overall, my role as a Solutions Architect involves collaborating with stakeholders, guiding technical implementation, and ensuring successful project outcomes.

Newport, Pembrokeshire

United Studios have been building strikingly eye-catching and swift-functioning websites for over a decade, helping a multitude of fabulous businesses unlock their online potential. For all that time, our stupendously talented team have linked their uber-creative brains packed with all things web design and development with client ideas, creating actionable ‘light bulb moments’ and generating ace results.Whether it be websites, apps or software, our passion boosts us to always be on the lookout for a new project to get our teeth into.During my time as MD and owner of United Studios, I've worked with clients such as Pinarello, CRWST, Dairypower, Public Health Wales, Menter a Busnes, Vale of Glamorgan Council, Pembrokeshire County Council and PLANED.After 14 years of amazing business, United Studios was acquired by Spindogs Ltd in October 2022. The clients, team and experience were all merged into the award-winning agency.

Newport, United Kingdom

NinjaHosts was a brand of United Studios Ltd. Created to offer website hosting solutions to the clients of United Studios it offered everything from website hosting, to anti-virus protection through to backup and cloud server solutions. The brand excelled at delivering quality affordable cloud products with excellent support services for our clients.The brand maintained a 99.99% uptime across all client network systems year on year as well as retaining 98% of our clients throughout every year period. We helped clients execute and maximise their website performance with robust solutions that delivered the hardware and software needed to effectively execute their hosting solutions.In March 2018 the brand was acquired by 1 Click Services Limited who continue to offer the same support and services as NinjaHosts did, we continue to work with 1 Click Cloud who continue to supply our customer base with the best hosting services around.