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London, Gb

Leicester, Leicester, Gb

Hands-on specialist role involving architecture, strategy and implementation working across clients such as Selfridges, Kingfisher and other retail companies. Focus on digital transformation in digital retail by aiding businesses to transition to MACH & Composable commerce architectures with tools such as Commercetools, Apollo GraphQL Federation to name a few.

London, Gb

Senior operational and strategic role at multibrand ecommerce startup Torque Brands (TM Lewin, Prevayl, others)Role involved planning, recruitment & build of a multi-brand omnichannel retail platform from ground up which could scale to $1Billion in annual revenue. Achieved using AWS, automation, infrastructure as code, event driven microservices, CI/CD and fast agile teams deploying to production hundreds of times a day.

Technical founder, lead developer and CTO for this startup in the realtime auction space operating within the aviation industry.Responsible for developing and implementing the entire technical stack and also producing investor facing documents such as Functional Specification, Technical Specification, Process diagrams, UX & user journeys etc.Also perform soft duties such as technical representation at investor and industry partnership meetings.From technical standpoint, stack is NodeJS backend running in AWS (across EC2, Lambda, API Gateway), with Angular 2 single page app frontend. Implementation includes healthy dose of Devops, with fully automated continuous delivery using Teamcity, AWS Cloudformation and direct resource manipulation using AWS SDK.

London, Gb

Senior operational role leading the build of Burberry’s next generation global online Commerce platform. The new platform replaces a monolithic application (ATG) with Commercetools along with a suite of serverless (AWS Lambda) microservices in a regionally redundant highly available configuration. Direct responsibilities included engineering leadership across multiple teams, work prioritisation, engineering quality & principles, recruitment/management/mentoring of a near-shore dev team as well as senior stakeholder management.

Cayman Islands, Ky

Senior engineering role involving software development, cloud architecture, security & operational planning for the rollout of a new crypto currency: Kinesis.

London, England, Gb

Senior hands on engineering role working within the FT building corporate backed startup ScoutAsia; a SaaS application providing financial and corporate data for Asian companies, along with analytics and insights derived from news coverage extracted using machine learning processing.

London, England, Gb

Senior operational & hands on role managing the London based development team and nearshore development teams.Responsibilities include resource/staff planning, client facing pitch, technical strategy, departmental admin, line management (including performance reviews & goal setting), devops, hands on coding as well as serving as senior technical escalation point across all clients, including ecommerce projects in regulated environments such as transport and financial services.

Senior operational role that began as Head of Front End development and co-department manager. After 7 months, promoted to Head of Technology for all digital projects in London.The role oversaw all technical aspects of digital project delivery for JWT London, including resource planning, project cost scoping, delivery, QA, support, system administration, client liaison. Additionally carried out departmental duties such as staff line management, personal development planning, JWT senior stakeholder management, department liaison etc.

Bath, England, Gb

Joined the team at Moresoda Design Ltd as Lead Developer. Oversaw all web projects and instituted new company development practices such as the use of Git version control, automated deployment and the use of roll back strategies.A selection of projects developed during my time at Moresoda:• A mystery shopping web application for handling assignment invitation & distribution, mystery shopper recruitment, mystery shopper vetting, assignment ranking & analysis as well as a client reporting system. The system includes a bespoke questionnaire builder, area manager analysis tools as well as a unique mobile assignment acceptance mechanism. Built on Dojo & CodeIgniter.• iOS Apps for both iPhone and iPad. Fully customised look and feel as well as integration with custom web API service for supplying updated product data, news and latest blogs. Built on jQuery Mobile, Backbone, RequireJS, Custom JS Framework & Phonegap.• Web product viewer and customiser that is touch enabled and allows for the viewing & layering of some 150,000 product images. Built with a bespoke TouchJS library & jQuery.• Bespoke E-commerce checkout system for Whoooz! Media in order to sell & allocate tickets for conferences. In use for three different yearly conferences and the system supports 3 different currencies. as well as integration with Whoooz! Media invoicing systems. • Mobile web app for conference delegates to capture & validate leads. Built with jQuery Mobile & CodeIgniter• Selling custom EE software• CMS integrated mapping & route plotting tool for publishing adventure holiday trek routes and points of interest. Built with CodeIgniter, Google Maps, jQuery & RequireJS.# ClientsDel Monte, Um Bongo, Bisque Radiators, Clip Displays, Pomegreat, The Foodie Bugle.

Founded web development company based in Bath focused at providing web & design services to media agencies. Specialities were in web sites & print media that represented the ethos and spirit of the clients business.The company developed many PHP technology solutions for clients, such as a powerful, scalable & transportable Content Management System built on the CodeIgniter PHP framework, a bespoke Email marketing system (also PHP) as well as many bespoke extensions and modules for many mainstream web publishing solutions such as ExpressionEngine, Wordpress, Magento etc.The company also expanded into providing white label web development services for various media agencies throughout the south west of England. This encompasses HTML & CSS conversion of mockups, custom PHP development, AJAX, E-commerce and Content Management System integration.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Aerospace Engineering

International Baccalaureate (37 Points)