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London, London, Gb

London, London, Gb

Led the development and execution of a digital transformation growth strategy, expanding the team to a peak of approximately 230 engineers worldwide; responsible for building, maintaining and supporting secure platforms and services for a wide portfolio of products, including live match data collection (i.e., both manual and computer vision) and distribution, live match video stream capture and distribution, pricing feed distribution, ML/AI fan engagement applications, award winning sport visualisation applications, data insights, media/rightsholder products and data integrity products.

London, London, Gb

The UK's most loved price comparison site.Accountable for CtM’s London and Minsk based agile product engineering delivery centers as well as heading up the London site; responsibilities included:• Transforming the London site from 20 to over 100 people in little over a year; with a focus on permanent employee recruitment and always prioritising quality over quantity.• Creating a nearshore delivery capability to compliment both the London and Peterborough delivery centers.• Establish London as a delivery center of excellence.• Establish London as a center of good agile and technical practices through the hosting of events and meetups, including creating a culture of internal speakers to evangelise the great work that we do (e.g. creating the first AMP meet-up group).• Ensuring that our people enjoy not only coming to work, but that they also take pride in the work that they produce.• Core technologies and architecture included microservices, internal open source, node.js, React and AWS.

Middlesex, England, Gb

Responsible for the departmental transformation of over c.1500 people across Europe; defining and rolling out strategic improvements across four key employee focused areas, attract, recruit, grow and retain, including:• The creation and coaching of over 20 empowered “Communities of Practice”.• Launching an external technology website to showcase our people, our achievements and our challenges.• Streamlining and standardising the recruitment process.• Definition of standard job families and career pathways.• Maximising our return on our training investment.• Evangelising the great work that we do through external events.• Introducing regular hack days and regular internal engineering conferences.• Recognising achievement through regular reward and recognition events.• Reviewing progress across the department through quarterly ‘Health Check’ retrospectives.• Establishing an “Internal Open Source” delivery philosophy.• Providing direction and cascade through regular leadership and ‘All-Hands’ events.

Milton Keynes, Gb

UK's number one property website for properties for sale and to rent.Responsible for the London technology organisation, delivering features across the entire Rightmove estate (desktop, mobile and native applications).

Middlesex, England, Gb

Responsible for defining and building the technology department of c.80 people that built and launched NOWTV across multiple platforms (i.e. xBox, PC/Mac, iOS, Android, YouView and others).Having built the entire team from scratch in less than 6 months, my responsibilities covered people management, coaching, recruitment, career development, budgeting, governance, technical delivery, reporting, and stakeholder management.Adopting Lean and Agile principles, I ensured that we followed a quality driven approach to delivery and that the teams felt energised and empowered to make the right decisions.

Middlesex, England, Gb

Following on from the success of re-platforming sky.com and utilitising the same Agile/XP principles, I was asked to lead the majority of the key content site teams (c.60 people), sky.com, news.sky.com, the Entertainment platform (i.e. movies, skyatlantic, skyliving, skyarts and tv), Custom Projects, Search and Video; my role involved the overseeing of budgets, contract negotiations, recruitment, career development, governance, stakeholder management, technical direction and delivery.

Middlesex, England, Gb

Led various Agile/XP focused teams in the replatforming and ongoing delivery of the flagship sky.com website and supporting content management system.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

As a Technical Team Lead I was responsible for both the people and project management activities associated to the applications that I owned. I was responsible for determining, estimating, planning and monitoring the project activities, producing subsequent work packages and ensuring that deliverables were met on time and with quality. Once delivered into the production environment, my duties also extended to include application support and maintenance; ensuring that issues were resolved quickly and that downtime was kept to a minimum. I was frequently required to attend meetings with other members of the project, business and support teams, provide status reports and respond/react to project direction change.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

London, Gb

At BAE Systems (formally British Aerospace), I was required to work on a variety of projects, utilising my all round strengths as a software engineer, requirement gathering, analysis, design, and development.