Experienced technology leader with a strong hands-on software engineering background, delivering solutions with innovation and flexibility whilst improving team performance. • 25 years of experience as a hands-on developer across many different verticals; C# and other MS technologies.• Adept at leading development projects beginning to successful completion within budget and on time. • Skilled in product establishment, planning, service delivery, stakeholder engagement, solutions delivery, risk management and negotiating strategic business plans.• Technically minded with extensive experience in systems engineering, development, analysis, optimization, and delivery. • Expertise in conducting training, development programmes, building and managing cross-functional teams across time zones using a transparent servant style to achieve shared visions and goals with minimal attrition.• Managed large budgets.• Dynamic approach adopting tech to align with business outcomes to increase the bottom line.• Delivered technical perspective to build a customer legal case for product ownership saving client £7M. • Saved £2M annually by on-boarding Aviate Systems on to the Northern Trust infrastructure.• Saved £100K+ per year, by fine tuning the Morgan Stanley SEM trading system to enable up to 20,000 messages to be processed every second.• Refactored an IoT / Big Data platform to turn batch-processing into real-time processing saving £160K per year.• Saved millions annually by on-boarding new acquisitions and replacing third-party software with in-house software.• Rescued underperforming development departments.• Grew Engineering teams from 15 to 50+• Reduced developer attrition to near zero by boosting team morale, productivity and rebuilding trust between the business and IT• Built high quality, performant, scalable systems.• Managed teams across several global time zones. UK, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Tokyo, Minsk, Chicago, and New York.