We help businesses in the food and beverage hospitality industry to create mobile apps to extend their brand and engage with customers.Our platform enables restaurants, bars and cafes to provide mobile services that include loyalty programmes, content engagement and the ability to order and pay.We are currently working in stealth mode with a number of clients in London.

A hands-on consultant for a boutique consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia.Consultant for clients in start-up mode to corporations wanting to innovate. Emphasis on agile and lean strategies with strong engineering practices.Post-Haste: Full stack web development and dev-ops. AWS, microservices, continuous delivery, Ruby, Rails & Angular.js.REA Group: Consultant at realestate.com.au developing agent platform. AWS, Chef, Rails, Backbone, Knockout.DigitalMailbox: Corporate Start-up for Australia Post. Consultant for advice on lean practices, architecture, tech stack, agile development & continuous delivery. Performed various spikes to prove the proposed architecture and reduce risk.ANZ: Consultant for iPhone development of GoMoney app & continuous delivery.Taylor: Start up requiring development of iPhone app. Titanium, Rails.Open Universities: Consultant at open.edu.au for SSO and student enrolment using Groovy, Java, Spring, Google apps for education and Opensso.Australia Post: Full stack development for various Java based projects.

Responsible for the launch of the Mailonline and bespoke CMS. Managed a team of twenty software professionals. Client facing role working closely with the editorial and commercial teams. Architecture based on open source technologies (Spring, Hibernate, XFire, EXT.js). Strong emphasis on minimising end user response times. CMS specically designed for editorial team to publish articles in realtime.Introduced agile with daily scrums, fortnightly sprints, storyboards, burn downs and sprint planning. Setup a culture of quality with CI, unit test coverage, automated regression testing and load testing. Helped in designing the infrastructure and system governance.

The role was a technical manager of a R&D department at Associated Newspapers. Managed a small in-house team and 4 remote developers in India. Responsible for the architecture and launch of a 'beta' website for comparing used and new cars in the UK. Provided evaluation of Ruby on Rails as a technology for prototyping and reducing time to market. The team also developed a prototype website which was an aggregator of real estate.Development Team LeaderResponsible for launch of thisistravel.co.uk and thisisflights.co.uk. The websites supported over 500k unique visitors per month. Defined the candidate architecture for Associated Newspapers. Role combined mentoring developers from procedural PL/SQL to Java. Researched and implemented SEO practices and documented guidelines. Supported the project manager in delivering projects, identifying and mitigating technical and business risks. Managed deployment to operational and test environments.

Supported and developed a B2B funds supermarket for the European markets. Designed and implemented an asynchronous messaging platform based on web-services. Analysed and tuned the real time trading platform. Benchmarking, load testing, analysis, refactoring, decoupling the architectural layers and tuning the JVM, Weblogic and Oracle. Defined, documented and communicated the development process methodology, best practices, system governance and development standards. Managed risk identification and risk mitigation strategies associated with the architecture during inception and elaboration phases.

Java developer, responsible for the ongoing development of BBC websites (Top of the Pops, Radio Times, Holiday, Good Homes and Top Gear). Developed a price and product comparison-shopping engine for products ranging from books to cds. Lead the relaunch of the websites into the beeb.com shopping portal utilising the ATG platform. Architecture supported 8.8 million page impressions and 400,000+ unique users per month. Provided technical due diligence of new technologies, tools and processes. Defined software specifications based on requirements, defining timescales.

A consultant working for a range of clients from local government, banking and media.

Software developer at Deutsche Bank working with Microstrategy on a European brokerage website.