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Brussels, Be

Brussels, Be

Brussels, Belgium

Nairobi, Kenya

Ran commercial and financial operations, in addition to engineering and product work. Maintained revenue with a reduced team. Led hiring for a new CEO.

Nairobi, Kenya

Led product strategy and engineering at Echo Mobile. I greatly increased platform stability, introduced a new focus on design, and delivered significant new features.* Product management & planning — led product strategy, and set product priorities with the CEO and commercial teams. Mapped customer needs through to product goals, engineering plans and implementation.* Design — obtained design training for the team. Led internal design teams from user needs gathering to prototyping, testing and final implementation.* New features — guided engineering team in development of customer-facing data analysis tools, a reworked user interface and public website, new integrations with external providers.* Developer — UI prototyping and development, billing calculations and reporting. All forms of testing (unit, integration, soak), code reviews.- JavaScript, Python, Java, SQL- React, Styled Components, Mobx- Google Cloud App Engine, BigQuery, Elasticsearch, telco (SMS, IVR, USSD)* Line management — led and line-managed an engineering team of 4 developers and 1 contractor, and was the line manager for the customer success / support team. Training and career development for all engineers.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Senior then Principal Software Developer (from December 2015)Team-lead and architect on a transformational project to move the technology base of Smallworld geographical information system from proprietary technology onto the Java ecosystem. Smallworld is a world-leading GIS with a product line with USD tens of millions of revenue per annum.* Team-lead: mentoring and training of new team members, represented team to local and senior management, selected and hired contractors for the team. Ran intellectual property, security, and licensing reviews* Scrum-master: drove improvements such as the introduction of continuous deployment; ran planning and retrospectives; story development, estimation and scheduling; Scrum, Kanban* Architecture: set overall project design goals in conjunction with the Smallworld chief architect, drove key architectural decisions. * Developer: Java, C, JavaScript (Node/browser)Presentations* JVM Language Summit at Oracle, Santa Clara, USA, July 2012* JavaOne, Sao Paulo, Brazil, December 2012

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Team lead for the Smallworld web solution, Smallworld Internet Application Server. Technical liaison for an outsourced development team based in Germany. Mentored a new remote development team based in India. Designer and initial implementor of extensions including a sketching tool written in C# / Silverlight.In 2005 I prototyped an early single-page web application which reproduced the functionality of the existing, much more complicated, and less flexible application. Also carried out server-side development in Java.Technologies: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML, C#, Java

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Solution architect on a major Smallworld project for EdF/GdF (French national utilities). Input into the entire project lifecycle: requirements, specifications, development and testing processes, system architecture, build and installation scripts.Team-lead on a web-based project for Global Crossing. Design of user functionality and system architecture.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Engineer on the Product Support group answering in-depth technical questions from customer-facing support groups on all aspects of the Smallworld product.

Farnham, Surrey

Technical team lead for a group of 5 developers working an electricity sales system for East Midlands Electricity. Later, founder member of the central product team working on libraries and frameworks for all applications at ABB Forstar.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Set up college alumnus database and wrote software to maintain it. Migrated database to commercial product.

Diploma, Computer Science, Distinction

Ba, Mathematics, 2Nd