I am an experienced software engineering senior leader, having established many efficient teams and engineering functions. I have set up appropriate management and functional groups (such as QA, 1st line support, development and infrastructure teams), established vision and long term strategy, risk management, good governance, security, development and reporting practices. This included information security, business continuity and the necessary change management to ensure successful transitions.I've built teams around 'Agile' principles introducing practices (such as stand-ups for cross function communication or playbacks for customer communication), and techniques (such as continuous integration, automation of build & deployment and XUnit & Test Driven Development) to make them efficient and productive groups.I have led, delivered or used a diverse mix of systems from engineering packages, financial systems, research into medical artificial intelligence and data warehousing - giving me a wide range of skills and experience to draw on when solving problems.As a developer, I've built web-based applications using open-source software and the Java J2EE tools and have considerable experience of database development - defining the architecture and databases for several financial and data-warehousing tools.My experience is as follows:* Senior Leadership;* Management of in-house and off-shore remote teams;* Financial control and budget management;* Change management;* Business Continuity Planning;* Performance and Skills management;* Risk profiling and management;* Building stakeholder relationships;* Team management and software development (including scrum-master);* Technical and System Architecture;* Agile project management;* ILM Level 3 Line Management;* PRINCE2 Practitioner;* Certified Scrum Master;* Java J2EE and open source development;* Numerous RDBMSs (e.g. MySQL, SQLServer);* Spring, REST and web-development;