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London, Gb

London, Gb

Zürich, Zürich, Ch

Hired to help pivot a vacation rental business from a consumer-focussed marketplace to a supply-side marketplace leveraging Online Travel Agents (OTAs) for distribution.Product-led Growth:Improved growth by 5x over two years driven by integrations with OTAs and leveraging AI to build a highly effective pricing model that significantly improved occupancy rates. Strategic Leadership: Helped the product, technology, and data teams (50 FTEs across four core businesses). Consolidated several acquisitions and aligned our teams around the business priorities.Technological Ownership: Responsible for the tech/product roadmap, internal IT infrastructure, and platform security, substantially improving product metrics and stability while eliminating single points of failure.

Addressing the challenges of hiring and retaining talent in overheated tech centres.

London, England, Gb

Hired to stabilise a tech team and consolidate the technology platforms during a period of leadership and strategic change.Team Transformation: Recruited during a challenging period to stabilise the tech team, scaling from 20 to 50 full-time employees within the first year and driving improvements in product delivery, support and maintenance through the initiation of DevOps processes.Cultural Re-engineering: Re-energised the engineering culture, fostering better collaboration with other departments and markedly improved the work environment and morale.Delivery Management: Led the team to create new processes and delivered a tech simplification strategy which reduced complexity while increasing predictability, visibility and confidence.Tech Acquisition and Integration: Owned the business acquisition of YPlan, integrating the YPlan team and platform to the rest of the business.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Led the team who transformed the initial ordering and returning customer ordering experiences. In 12 months we increased overall website conversion by 6% and increased repeat ordering through a combination of data-driven, hypothesis led experiments and strategic bets. Specific highlights:- Led creation of an industry-first restaurant discovery app screen - now adopted by Deliveroo and UberEats- Increased first time user ordering significantly through improved homepage experience- Created a highly optimised repeat-customer reordering experience on the app, driving up repeat order conversion- Delivered optimised voucher delivery to relatively new users, converting them to regular customers- Revamped menu experience which increased conversion, especially for first-time users- Reduced signup friction for new users which drove first time user conversionWe achieved great things. I'm proud we built an amazing team, moved some significant numbers and had lots of fun. :)

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Operational Platform Management: Responsible for the operation of the Just Eat platform and apps across 10 fast-growing countries. Maintained stability whilst increasing release frequency and confidence through a migration to AWS and the implementation of a devops culture. Notably, we served 2% of Denmark’s population on New Year’s Day 2015. Amazon Web Services’ Biggest .NET customer in Europe.Platform Consolidation: Migrated and integrated multiple platforms into the core Just Eat Platform whilst maintaining the business services.Platform Stability and Automation: Increased the production deployment cadence by 6x over 12 months through the introduction of devops principles, automation and significant reduction in manual QA.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Shortlisted and selected nearshore partner, built an onshore / offshore team of 18 from scratch.Responsible for migrations and internationalisation of functionality across 7 countries: backlog, analysis, development, QA.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Overall responsibility for the QA processes, capability and strategy across Just Eat, responsible for evolution of the test framework. Used various tools including Cucumber, Capybara, Selenium, Jira, Confluence, SVNActing Head of Information Security; responsible for the technical efforts required to achieve PCI Compliance alongside a number of other information security improvements.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Set up and managed QA team of 9. At that time Just Eat was a little-known series A. Valued approx £150m.

Manchester, Manchester, Gb

Short term freelance project; responsible for coordinating UAT of a CMS migration on behalf of the Co-Op - www.co-operative.coop

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Contract: involved in multiple concurrent projects across various technologies on a large integrated platform. Devised test strategies, executed manual and automated testing, coordinated UAT.

Responsible for defining processes, recruitment and line management of 4 testers. Highlights include introducing automated testing + performance testing.Portfolio creates high traffic web applications for major automotive clients including Audi, Volkswagen, Toyota, Lexus, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, etc etc.

Manchester, Greater Manchester, Gb

Specialist testing consultant; responsible for test process improvement consultancy, test project management and specialist funcitonal and non functional testing of projects for a number of high profile clients including Vodafone.

Dublin 2, Ie

(outsourced from RSA) Tech Lead for the Management Information work stream of a large insurance claims / policy software integration project. The team was based in India and 2 locations in the UK.

Various developer roles using a range of languages, development methodologies etc. Provided a broad foundation for a career in software engineering.