Interim and portfolio web development and technical management consultancy. Bringing over 20 years senior development and project experience. Professional Membership of the British Computer Society, fully insured and certified.

My experience in working with disparate, low quality, heterogeneous data as well as building successful, scalable technology solutions for startups and fast growth technology companies will be very beneficial for this challenging growth phase that Melos is beginning.Melos provides the first global solution to successfully maximise revenue for a Brand’s music royalties. Our unique data platform scans through hundreds of millions of rows of data every month to produce accurate, reliable and evidence based royalty claims for our clients.I have been providing a very bespoke web-based software solution that encompasses a data lake, data pipeline and custom report building to enable the complicated business processes to scale.In 2024 MELOS joined forces with ProTunes to form Verifyyed. In December 2024 it was announced that Verifyyed is to be acquired by Acceler8 Ventures Plc for a total consideration of £96.8 million. The entire MELOS technology stack was designed by me and I'm delighted to see such an impressive valuation on our collective hard work.

HARNESS is a commercial real estate data science company. Launched in early 2017, receiving a record amount of seed funding for a “proptech” company, it enables a diverse range of businesses to unlock value from commercial property data through advanced data science modelling and machine learning capabilities.At HARNESS I was responsible for all aspects of our product development and technical governance. As a board member and co-founder I help oversee the direction of the company and assist in defining and supporting the company governance overall.HARNESS has developed a range of capabilities that help businesses boost the depth and breadth of their commercial property insight. Our services have been benchmarked against the industry leading comparable products and any of the team would be happy to discuss your requirements including providing demonstrations.

Providing boutique management consultancy to various SME's and blue-chips to aide in strategic and tactical requirements: • Development/Engineering process analysis and improvements • Governance advice • Best practice implementation • BYOD advice • Product development support

A social gaming disruptor employing the latest development technologies and methodologies to create innovative new solutions for the online cash and freemium model casino games. Our products sit on a central, extensible, cloud-based platform for maximum performance and scalability. We are perfectly positioned to deploy white-label brands with a quick turnaround and a quality, enjoyable player experience.Since starting at Gamesko I have delivered huge cost savings of over 70% at infrastructure level. Through acquisition we have acquired strong gaming brands and have created new technology platforms to power the established brands into a new generation of gamers. The social gaming industry has stagnated and is unable to adapt to the new generation of social gamers - we have bucked this trend. Our best-of-breed platform is paving the way for more enjoyable, more social, more engaging poker and other casino games across all devices.Headline Responsibilities: - Ownership of all products including legacy and second generation - Architecture design, deployment and management - Management of technical team, contractors and out-sourced (near-shored) projects - Global gaming compliance - On-boarding of new partnerships - Consolidation of disparate, legacy platforms - Preparation and creation of documents for successful exit

Through my consultancy for Starfish 360 I successfully engaged on broad and deep mobile strategies for major UK businesses, including:- The Co-Operative Group- Barclays Bank (BYOD project)- JD WilliamsMy role was to parachute into existing teams and help create new strategic roadmaps for IT services. As an experienced, senior-level consultant my goals included reviving business confidence and mentoring existing IT teams to build scalable, new technologies capable of delivering multi-channel customer focused services in a challenging commercial environment. Each project ran for several months and resulted in additional contracts for Starfish 360 running over several years.

In a very short space of time MOFILM became the worldwide leader in user generated content sourcing. Working with over 60 global brands including PepsiCo, Coca Cola, Visa, Nokia, AT&T, Unilever, General Motors and many more.As one of the founding team I designed, created & managed the entire technical environment and team. My role spilled heavily into operations management and saw me managing teams & infrastructure across 3 continents. I helped build the business model; grow & nurture the community; account manage; compliance generation and offered up innovation & KPI driven growth.I built the platform still used by MOFILM today to service their huge network of tier 1 brands. I was entirely responsible for the product development - conceptualising the design, user experience and architecture as well as coding. As the company grew and secured funding I recruited a small team based in UK, North America and India.The platform processes thousands of video submissions every day as well as engaging with the social networks, YouTube and complying with strict brand restrictions.MOFILM was acquired by The Brandtech Group (formerly You & Mr Jones).

Revolutionising the digital music world. Find music, get music, listen to music - keep it forever!Datz jumped to the pinnacle of the music world with their revolutionary and unique Datz Music Lounge. Unlimited, high-quality MP3 downloads at only £99.99 for 12 months - no DRM, keep the music forever.I developed the back-end platform to ingest and manage the music. I also designed and built the Windows client software that made it simple for users to find and download their MP3 music files from over 2 million tracks.

Overseeing all technical aspects of the group from budgetary management to acquisition to implementation and reporting to the board. The group is growing rapidly even through the current economic climate and expect a turnover approaching £30m at year end.The Group manages promotions, advertising and commercialisation within the UK's top shopping centres, retailers and city centres.In addition to implementing wide-reaching policies and procedures to deal with the rapid growth of the business, I project managed and designed their bespoke, in-house CRM system. The software was built in C# .net with a MySQL back-end.

I was headhunted by the DX3 board to provide insight and advice on their existing digital platform. I was subsequently asked to design and launch the development of a new mobile music platform - delivering digital music and original artist ringtones to mobile handsets leveraging mcommerce and ecommerce payment mechanisms.As well as helping to restructure their engineering team and processes I designed and led the development of their new mobile platform. It was the world's first agnostic, DRM enabled music to mobile platform - capable of managing millions of mobile music tracks, ringtones and other mobile content. It complied with the strict requirements of the mobile regulators along with the demands of the major and independent music labels.The project was hugely successful adding millions of pounds of value to DX3 who were subsequently acquired by the major Indian technology company - IMI

Start-up business eventually sold to Global Edge Limited. Provided mobile phone entertainment products and services via B2B and B2C channels.Clients included:Vue CinemasOdeon CinemasCoinStarEmap

Responsible for all technical and operational implementations including the development of the acclaimed "MobServ" technical platform for managing all mobile content, services, reporting and web/wap sites. I was the founding technologist for the company from the infancy through rapid growth, IPO and flotation in 2003.I subsequently managed a large team in the UK and oversaw technology implementation around the globe during a period of massive change in the world of mobile content & entertainment.Took the company through technical due diligance prior to flotation on AIM for over £250m

Implemented a new web advertising platform as well as upgrading their IT infrastructure for massive growth.

I worked all around the country designing, installing and operating sound equipment for live theatre, bands, concerts, cabaret, pantomimes, etc.High points of my career were:- Number 1 sound on "Oh! What A Night" in Blackpool, Manchester and London- Number 1 sound on "Summer Holiday"- Sound Designer for Raymond Blondell tour- Number 1 sound on Lily Savage show featuring Russell Watson- Number 1 sound on numerous big budget pantomimes