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London Area, United Kingdom

- Led the app development team, managing workloads and ensuring efficient task distribution.- Drove technical direction and decision-making for projects utilising Laravel, React, React Native and AWS with the Serverless framework.- Architected and implemented scalable, high-performance applications to enhance userexperience and functionality.- Mentored and supported team members, fostering a collaborative and growth-orientedenvironment.- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with businessobjectives.- Monitored application logs and proactively addressed issues, ensuring high availability andreliability.

- Led development of Ascential's NodeJS with TypeScript central payments platform, which integrates into numerous payment service providers whilst providing a single set of REST APIs for Ascential's brands. The payments service matches a brand to the optimal payment service provider based country, fee and active partnerships.- Designed and delivered a React Typescript dashboard, enabling improved payments management and reporting for the finance team.- Worked with finance analysts to create custom reports and data pipelines between systems.- Managed microservices within AWS.

London, England, United Kingdom

- Built Python backend services, integrating with simulation models and providing REST APIs to run, configure and view results from the simulation model service.- Designed and delivered custom React web apps that visualised data and insights from the simulation models using powerful third party tools such as Plotly and Cesium.- Apps were developed multilingual, with a dark theme option and with role-based access / authentication as standard.- Web app lead on client projects. Drove development, managed client expectaGons and allocated work to a team of developers.- Supported the development, design and deployment of cloud services in Azure and AWS.- Balanced workload across several client projects, pitches, and internal projects.

London, England, United Kingdom

Integration- Developed and deployed Python apps - integrating systems and automating processes.- Built REST APIs and integrated with 3rd party APIs.- Refactored legacy code to improve performance, structure and reusability.Data Engineering- Used SQL to create views and stored procedures which transformed, cleansed and providied relevant data to other departments.- Created SSIS packages to transfer large data sets between systems. - Designed well-structured database objects and created SQL scripts to transform andnormalise data.Other- Worked directly with stakeholders and ran projects autonomously.- Contributed to developing and improving team processes.- Scoped tickets to a high standard with enough detail to be picked up by anyone within the team.- Code reviewed peers' tickets and provided timely feedback.- Managed services in Azure.

London, United Kingdom

Notable projects:- Implemented Sky Sports’ custom-built comprehensive planning and production software to the golf team. Quickly developed a thorough understanding of the software and effectively helped the team to understand its capabilities. Identified how best it could be adapted and rolled out to fit the distinctive mechanisms of the department. Due to this, golf was the first sport fully up and running on Planit. All production processes were integrated into one digital space, allowing for a more streamlined planning process and a central, easily accessible online database containing all necessary information for each event.- Co-planned and managed the 2018 Ryder Cup and The Open, Sky Sports’ two biggest broadcast events (250+ crew members).Production management:- End-to-end supervision of the production process for golf sporting events coveredby Sky Sports.- Worked closely with the Head of Golf to accommodate for up to four golf tournaments perweek, determining the scale of production and facilitating the delivery of live coverage tocustomers whether from site or Sky Studios.- Managing diverse production teams in Europe and the United States with crew numbersranging from 20 to 250 people depending on the tier of production. Having an in-depth knowledge of everyone’s roles and all resources available in order to counter unexpected problems with fast solutions within dynamic, live television environments. - Testing the latest technologies, such as virtual reality, and adapting them to Sky’s sports coverage to enhance the viewer experience.- Effectively managing the deadlines and expectations of overlapping production events of different scales and priorities, to ensure all events run smoothly.Forward planning:- Analysing previous annual spending to assist in forecasting future production costs.- Identifying where production methods can be modified to achieve cost reductions beforeplanning and implementing these changes within the teams.

London, United Kingdom

- Developed close relationships with all departments and service-providing companies as the primary production contact, internally and externally.- Countered unexpected problems during production with both instant and longer-term solutions to resume filming immediately but also to prevent recurrence.- Recruited and effectively managed runners, being approachable and understanding in providing support.

London, United Kingdom

- Organised ideas sessions and drafted thoroughly researched reports on potential new areas of interest.- Produced, filmed and edited short videos that showcased new ideas.- Managed the work schedules of three busy executives and the development team. Organisedimportant internal and external meetings and managed correspondence.- Ensured the efficient running of the office by centrally supporting all ongoing productions.

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Bachelor Of Science, Biology/Biological Sciences, 2.1