Wayne Taylor

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Director, Software Engineering at iHeartMedia @ iHeartMedia
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Round Rock, Texas, United States, United States
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Experienced Technical Leader, Mentor and Cloud EngineerStrategic and results-oriented Director of Software Engineering with 20 years of progressive experience leading high-performing teams in the design, development, and delivery of complex software solutions. Proven ability to translate business goals into innovative technical strategies, driving growth and exceeding expectations. Demonstrated expertise in Cloud Engineering, Software Delivery, Mentoring and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Wayne Taylor's Current Company Details
iHeartMedia

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Director, Software Engineering at iHeartMedia
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Wayne Taylor Work Experience Details
  • Iheartmedia
    Director, Software Engineering
    Iheartmedia Jan 2021 - Present
    New York, Ny, Us
    Building the next generation of Cloud based programming and playout systems for iHeartmedia's 1000s of radio stations, serving a quarter of a billion monthly listeners.Managing multiple onshore and offshore teams building Microservice and Serverless applications to help the production, generation, and orchestration of broadcast content to deliver audio continuously and uninterrupted 24x7, 365.I have been the driving force behind improvement of quality of systems, stability of platforms and our ability to withstand AWS outages. I mentor, coach and lead from the front.I have re-architected back end systems, replaced entire core messaging patterns and improved general compute stability, reducing our reliance on out of hours support teams.I have built new CI/CD flows, automated nearly everything, standardized the way we build software and introduced AI assisted tooling. We deliver more frequently and reliably.
  • Siemens Via Tek Systems
    Contract Lead Cloud Engineer
    Siemens Via Tek Systems Jun 2020 - Jan 2021
    Munich, De
    Contract resource for Siemens, building Smart Building Management IoT Analytics, data management and fault detection systems. Took over a failing project, effectively turned the design on its head and we delivered a highly performant solution which was previously practically unusable.I improved DevOps, application response times, data ingestion, data processing speeds, usability and maintainability, whilst managing and leading a team of developers.Directly responsible for huge improvement in performance and scalability both in front end applications and back end servicesRe-architected several portions of the systemImproved dev-ops, CI/CD and introduced AWS best practicesImproved developers skills, code quality and development practicesSpearheaded adoption of AWS CDK
  • Epam Systems
    Contract Cloud Engineer
    Epam Systems Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
    Newtown, Pa, Us
    Developed Angular Applications running on Google Cloud Platform for Google as part of the Google Applications Team. Enhancing customer portals for Google, adding new functionality and workflows for legal, compliance and error reporting in GMail, Google Drive and Google Docs.
  • Capita
    Consultant Cloud Architect
    Capita Apr 2019 - Jan 2020
    London, England, Gb
    A Consultant Cloud Architect on a greenfield project to build a new web application for a subsidiary of Capita.Azure ecosystem, CosmosDB, AzureAD, NodeJs microservices, React application, GraphQL apis. This was a fast delivery consultant project.
  • Centrica
    Consultant Cloud Architect
    Centrica Jun 2017 - Apr 2019
    Windsor, Berkshire, Gb
    Continuing on from the Front End migration, I lead the back end transformation to AWS Cloud services from the legacy data centers. The rebuild was a combination of Java and Node serverless AWS architecture. Massive cost savings, huge performance improvements.My contribution was that of a consultant leading on-shore and off-shore resources to deliver a more reliable, cutting edge collection of customer management, billing and service management applications for British Gas. Working with AWS directly, pioneering serverless and lambda.
  • Centrica
    Consultant Frontend Lead
    Centrica May 2016 - Jun 2017
    Windsor, Berkshire, Gb
    Lead the front end redevelopment of the British Gas customer website.A greenfield rebuild for British Gas. Moving from J2EE to modern web technologies to improve performance and customer satisfaction.Off-shore team management, collaborative development, agile cross functional teams.
  • Boots Uk
    Consultant Fullstack Developer
    Boots Uk Jan 2016 - May 2016
    Nottingham, Gb
    Delivering a project for Boots Walgreens, helping the UK nation to reverse T2 Diabetes, in cooperation with Accenture.A massive popup team rapidly building diabetes management software to help customers of the UK's most prominent drug store.My small contribution to this ambitious project, was both back and front end, building out Angular applications as well as Spring Boot Java microservice backends.I was proud to contribute to this project.
  • Hitachi Consulting ( Formerly Information Management Group)
    Consultant Cloud Engineer
    Hitachi Consulting ( Formerly Information Management Group) Jul 2015 - Dec 2015
    London, Gb
    Senior Consultant developer for Dominos Pizza Group Ltd, adding new features to Domino's EU web applications. I helped roll out new features including a new order system and pizza delivery tracker.Acted as a resource for other developers to consult with, performed reviews and helped upskill the permanent staff.High traffic web sites receiving thousands of orders a day across the EUAgile, full stack development on Angular based web applicationsMicrosoft backend ecosystem CI/CD
  • James Hay Partnership
    Senior Consultant
    James Hay Partnership Mar 2014 - Jul 2015
    Salisbury, Wiltshire, Gb
    Leading development on Angular/.Net rewrite of legacy fund management systemAngular Web.Net Framework TechnologiesAgile development
  • Experian
    Technical Enterprise Billing Consultant
    Experian Sep 2013 - Mar 2014
    Costa Mesa, Ca, Us
    As a direct consultant to Experian, I helped bring to completion a project to deliver a new EU billing system.Managing several teams of on-shore and off-shore developers, I acted as a technical manager with experience in delivering projects, ensuring the successful delivery of the multi-million pound project.
  • Inclarity
    Head Of Engineering, Research And Development
    Inclarity Sep 2011 - Sep 2013
    London, England, Gb
  • Inclarity
    Senior Architect
    Inclarity Sep 2010 - Sep 2011
    London, England, Gb
    Quickly progressing to Senior Architect leading a team of developers building and maintaining enterprise telephony products on a variety of appliance and SaaS applications, augmented with in house management software, SaaS applications supporting the resale of millions of VOIP lines in the EU.
  • Inclarity
    Lead Software Developer
    Inclarity Sep 2008 - Sep 2010
    London, England, Gb
    Lead developer and architect building and maintaining BSS and OSS services on several class 5 enterprise soft switches including Broadsoft.
  • Inclarity
    Senior Developer
    Inclarity May 2006 - Sep 2008
    London, England, Gb
    As a senior developer, I helped build management applications for Enterprise Telephony management systems delivering VOIP based telephony products to the VOIP resale market in the UK
  • Financial Software Ltd
    Lead Technical Architect
    Financial Software Ltd Jun 2003 - May 2006
    London, England, Gb
    As the technical leader of the primary specialist investment tax solution in the UK, I helped FSL develop their product from a fledgling desktop application to an Enterprise SaaS application. Leading a team of developers, I drove adoption of new technologies, improved application performance, ensured industrial security standards in the most regulated market in the world.
  • Financial Software Ltd
    Senior Developer
    Financial Software Ltd May 2000 - May 2003
    London, England, Gb
    As a young senior developer, I quickly demonstrated my ability to think outside the box, being the driving force behind FSL's technical change, leading the move to .NET, web based applications and opening the doors to new customers within the London Banking System

Wayne Taylor Skills

Spa Angularjs Bootstrap Web Development Bdd Enterprise Architecture Enterprise Development Asp.net Web Api Asp.net Mvc Java C# 4.5 Cloud Computing Agile Application Development Agile Methodologies Solution Architecture Saas Rabbitmq Msmq Oracle Pl/sql Development Multithreading Microsoft Technologies C# Mysql Wcf Microsoft Sql Server Middleware Integration Php Mysql Cluster Managed Services Vmware Requirements Analysis Software Design Telecommunications Billing Data Center Infrastructure Network Security Virtualization Tcp/ip Network Design Telecommunications Unified Communications Web Services Linux Software Development Windows Communication Foundation Telephony Sip Voip

Wayne Taylor Education Details

  • Anglia Ruskin University
    Anglia Ruskin University
    Computer Science

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Wayne Taylor attended Anglia Ruskin University.

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