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Witney

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Oxford, United Kingdom

Technical Product Owner responsible for the development of the content production and management tool chain within Pearson UK Schools.• Led development teams through business-critical projects using agile methodologies such as Scrum and SAFe.• Provided thought leadership on next generation digital content to meet new modes of consumption• Developed strategies to ensure that new products are optimised to work across multiple devices• Harnessed metadata and taxonomies to enable digital content to be located and interrelated• Explored ways in which digital content can be interlinked and aggregated to suit individual learners• Steered and aligned the development roadmaps for the whole production and management tool chain• Established and propagated effective governance of current core production capabilities• Evaluated and contributed to the development of global content management solutions• Acted as the decision making authority on the roll out of global CMS solutions into UK schools• Exposed digital content services for authorised use in Pearson, third party and public online services

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Managed the development of several key Pearson products which utilised technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript and .NET.

• Personally proposed and championed changes to the SIF UK specification* in three of its public releases.• Made a member of the SIF Association UK Technical Board as a result of my contributions.• Voted onto the SIF Association International Technical Board by my peer engineers.* an e-learning standard based on XML and web services.

• Development Lead of several, multi-million, regional and national projects.• Created white papers and key design decision documents as part of driving forward RM's e-learning standards strategy.• Developed .NET prototypes including the integration of 3rd party services such as Google Apps for Education, Live@edu, Microsoft Office Web Apps, Moodle and YouTube with RM products.• Provided third line support for critical customer issues.• Built and maintained the virtualized server environment owned by the Technical Architects Group.

• Wrote .NET software components for a SharePoint site used by over a million customers.

• Technical responsibility for building rich, engaging, interactive, digital content for RM software and services.

2-1, Computer Science

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