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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Mountain View, CA, US

A UX Engineer is a experienced engineer embedded in a UX design team. I have worked in the Ads and “Trust and Safety” teams, concentrating particularly on how to integrate generative AI into products and the design process.- A critical priority for Google is preserving the health of the open web, I am creating an LLM based system for measuring that health.

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

Five AI is Europe’s leading autonomous driving company. The company pivoted from developing their own autonomous vehicles to providing a development platform to other AV and robotics companies. I led 3D visualisation and other front-end development for the new platform, visualising vehicle planning algorithms and simulation run results.Five was acquired.

Seattle, WA, US

Technical lead building future-focused systems for Prime Video.- Working with Design, Product and Engineering teams to architect the UX for the next generation of Prime Video on "living room" devices (Apple TV, Xbox One, smart TVs) and corresponding second-screen devices (iOS)- Built reference implementation of a next generation Prime Video application on.

Redmond, Washington, US

Lead engineer working on one of the most popular messaging apps in the App Store. Responsible for setting technical direction, implementation and oversight of features. releasing to the App Store and monitoring key metrics.- Technical lead on one of the most popular messaging apps in the app store with 4.5 million active users per day.- Led an engineering.

Redmond, Washington, US

Senior engineer on Skype’s second most popular platform.- Built video messaging, contact management functionality and integrations with the latest iOS features.- Worked closely with Stockholm engineering team to get up to speed with complex codebase and deliver cross-office features.- Introduced and evangelised Origami prototyping in the feature concepting.

Redmond, Washington, US

Built key video conferencing functionality on Surface Hub, a new, strategically important device in the Windows 10 wave of releases.- Worked with a brand new OS and hardware platform alongside multiple teams in Redmond to deliver a tightly integrated product with aggressive deadlines.- Built immersive full screen video calling experiences on 84” and 52”.

Redmond, Washington, US

Brought up a brand new Skype client on a completely new platform in a key strategic area for Microsoft.- Built audio, video and group calling UI.- Built group video calling UI in snap mode.- Designed, prototyped and built NUI driven interactions for the "10ft" Skype experience.- Delivered on time for the launch of Xbox One despite acute time pressure: "the.

This very early stage start-up was developing a cloud-based appointment management system. I was their first engineering hire and was responsible for full-stack development of the web client.

Worked with the Computational Ecology group creating a probabilistic environmental simulator and companion programming environment.- Built massively parallel ecological simulation kernel in F# that enabled ecologists to model large, potentially global, ecological systems.- Created consumer programming API: a CLR framework for ecologists to easily create.

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

Evi created a general purpose expert system to understand natural language questions and deliver meaningful answers. I managed user experience in the early stages of the company, which was subsequently bought by Amazon to form a basis for their Alexa products.- Successfully re-launched trueknowledge.comWithin 24 hours the re-design I led had doubled.

Paris, FR

Designed and developed a suite of internal web-based tools

US

XenSource was a startup company commercializing the Xen hypervisor from Cambridge University: Citrix Systems acquired it in 2007. I created graphical tools to manage the hypervisor.- Designed and implemented user-interface for XenEnterpriseEncapsulated a complex technology in an approachable interface. I did all the interaction, graphic design and.

Redmond, Washington, US

Created advanced prototypes with a focus on academic publication and tech transfer.- Researched multi-synchronous collaborationHow do we make applications for collaborative groups characterized by rapid changes in connectivity and synchrony? I created prototype applications exploring mobility, communication, consistency, and user-interface.- Created Joyce.