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Lichfield, West Midlands

• Caudata Technologies is a start-up using Machine Learning techniques to deliver a disruptive investment platform in order to democratise access to advanced investment techniques.
• Implemented a Scrum-based process to organise day-to-day workloads.
• Provided analysis of the requirements to form the backlog, grooming the user stories into prioritised themes and epics – with increasing levels of detail for nearby sprints.
• Established items necessary for a Minimum Viable Product, and later refined this still further to form the scope of the ‘proof of concept’.
• Contributed key strategic marketing and product positioning analysis for inclusion in the Investment Memorandum being used to seek funding for Caudata’s next stage growth.
• Initial iterations completed successfully, creating a prototype Python-based data pipeline collecting and analysing market data as proof of concept.

Solihull

• From March 2015 (in addition to duties described in the prior item), this role also took complete operational responsibility for two of iTradeNetwork Europe’s e-commerce products - processing over £700M annually in.
• Provided leadership and governance to each of the technical teams: - Software Engineering - Service Delivery and database administration - Quality Assurance
• Oversaw delivery of technical commitments to a wide programme of projects, including working with teams in the US and India as part of distributed AGILE software development teams.
• Chaired the ‘Capacity Planning Group’ responsible for allocating all UK resource across ITN’s portfolio of internal and external projects - allocating circa 1,700 hours per fortnightly planning cycle. Reduced man-hours.
• Introduced infrastructure hosting and maintenance changes identifying savings of over £215k per annum.
• Supervised transition of core applications from traditional hosting to Microsoft Azure cloud, and wholesale upgrade of legacy Biztalk platform to up-to-date versions.

Solihull

• Responsible for the entire UK-based e-commerce products and services, setting the product strategy and owning the roadmap, this role is client facing from pre-sales, through consultative involvement in developing.
• Created an independent Project Management team (4 PMs and 2 analysts) as a nexus for delivery across all parts of the business, reducing project cycle time, and increasing capacity by 40%.
• Designed and implemented global support processes supporting iTradeNetwork’s introduction of its flagship US product into Europe, meeting contractual SLAs for clients in Germany and Spain.
• Acted as ‘Product Owner’ for a major upgrade of iTradeNetwork’s Storefront and Multiple Operator Portal products, seeing the platform upgraded to.NET4.5, and EPiServer 6.0, delivering a plethora of roadmap enhancements.

Burton-On-Trent

Designed and implemented the formation of the Client Services department to unify and rationalise processes across multiple office locations. Introduced new support processes and working practises; including migrating first-line support to a single location, and redeploying the liberated resources through upskilling to specialist roles.o As Project.

Burton-On-Trent

Consolidated the marketing function across the UK following iTradeNetwork acquiring both Amphire and barbox in the summer of 2008, implementing a consolidated strategic marketing plan in light of new company strategy and direction, and against a backdrop of fast-paced organisational change.o Delivered a wide spread of marketing campaigns to generate leads.

Burton-on-Trent

Achieved double-digit year-on-year customer growth by refocusing marketing effort on specific, measurable direct marketing activities, peaking at 31% growth in unique customers for 2007. In 2008, this growth directly contributed to the company achieving overall break-even for the first time, a critical milestone for barbox.o Set up an Internal.

Post-Graduate Certificate In Management

Ba Hons., French & Philosophy