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Nantwich, England, United Kingdom

Manchester, United Kingdom

THG has grown from a start-up to a global digital commerce group, fast becoming one of the world’s leading beauty and wellbeing online retail organisations. Founded in 2004, THG operates more than 160 websites that sell premium products across 140 markets. Our digital commerce success stems from developing our own industry-leading and award-winning technology, THG Ingenuity. It powers THG’s own brands, including lookfantastic, Myprotein, ESPA and GLOSSYBOX, as well as international giants such as Gillette, Nintendo and Honda. December 2019 – DateBuilding THG’s brand new self-service eCommerce platform for SME market – Ingenuity LITE (https://www.ingenuitylite.com/)Working like a start-up to offer an end-to-end fulfilment service for Quality Street, 50+ POD stores like Rare Games, acting as Chief Product Owner overseeing all aspects of development.June 2017 – December 2019Managing various teams across the group, including:Mobile Apps – responsible for all THG native mobile apps (iOS and Android)Static Sites – build and maintenance of non-transactional corporate sites, e,g THG.comBlogs Platform – rich content platform based off WordPressSite Improvements – teams delivering incremental improvements on the platformSite Builds - team building Ingenuity and internal e-commerce sitesAlso, significant time working with new THG Ingenuity customers such as P&G, Nestle, J&J as technical consultant on new customer acquisition.

Knutsford, Uk

Managing a team of 18 Developers, QE, KM, UX, POs and Interns on a wide variety of projects using the Scrum Framework for agile development. Meeting regular delivery deadlines to satisfy the ever changing requirements from customers and stakeholders. Removing blockers and insulating the team from distractions and politics to maximise productivity. Transformed approach to quality through mandatory unit testing, peer review, test and build automation to support Continuous Integration and the transition from On-Premise to Cloud.Development Manager | LoB Digital Assets & Internet of ThingsApril 2016 - Present - SAP Smart Connected BusinessCollaboration with teams in Palo Alto, Bangalore and the UK to deliver the first IoT application deployed on the new SAP HANA Cloud Platform to optimise the management of devices such as beverage coolers, freezers, coffee makers and vending machines. Integration of device data with business processes and backend systems in real time, to improve efficiency, automation and replenishment. Installed by Red Bull in Q1 2017, rolling out over 32,000 coolers in 2017.● Technology○ SAP HANA Cloud Platform, AWS, Cloud Foundry, Kafka○ Java, SAPUI5, HTML5/JavaScript○ Git/GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, Selenium Development Manager | Customer Innovation and Strategic ProjectsJanuary 2013 - April 2016 – SAP Total Margin Management (TMM) and Total Delivered Cost Analytics (TDCA)As part of SAP’s Co-Innovation team our remit was to work with strategic customers with a specific problem that was not addressed in SAP’s existing portfolio. The intention would be to work very closely with the customer and create a generic solution that could be re-sold to other customers with similar issues. ConAgra Brands, a large US CPG Company approached SAP looking to replace their in-house planning and forecasting solution.February 2015 – Present● Conversion of TDCA onto TMM, a framework for Planning and Forecasting on SAP HANA

Knutsford

Senior Developer | Scrum Master | Enterprise Performance Management● Certified Scrum Master trained by Jeff Sutherland● Led the development in conversion of Profitability and Cost Management from Delphi to .NET● Continued maintenance, enhancement and support of PCM application.

Knutsford, Uk

As a Senior Developer in this small start-up I worked on several of the companies Activity Based Costing accountancy products including Metify ABM and Enterprise Performance Optimization. Multiple iterations of the products from file based, to client-server, to enterprise scale. Developed with C++/Delphi/SQL Server/Oracle.Currently actively being sold with > 200 Blue Chip customers such as Barclays, BT, BA, and Nestle.

The main role of the Manufacturing Systems and Engineering department is to improve manufacturing efficiency in Pirelli manufacturing units throughout Europe. This is achieved by the development and implementation of generic integrated manufacturing systems, thus providing standard solutions and technology transfer across the organisation.As departmental Technical Leader and Project Manager the business has seen major benefits from the development and implementation of component based Delphi/C++ applications to integrate the shop floor through to the business system.

Ph. D., Electrical Engineering

Optical Fibre Communications

M.Sc., Applied Optics, Distinction

B.Sc (Hons), Applied Physics And Electronics, 1St Class

First Class (Hons)