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Dundee, Dundee City, Gb

Middlesex, England, Gb

Leading Engineering and Software development for Sky’s Global OTT Platforms encompassing all IP delivered services. Bring the best content to Sky’s 20m+ customers at the highest reliability and quality levels. Also delivering the NBCU Peacock Platform in 1 year from inception to customer launch in the USA reaching 22m+ customers shortly after launch.Responsible from engineering and DevOps for all Video, Content, Identity Realtime Data Analytics and Personalisation Platforms. Additional responsible for establishing full service reliability and security culture for all platforms with SRE(System Reliability Engineering) and DevSecOps groups.Evangelised the establishment foundational engineering principles throughout the organisation building from my team of 800+ FTEs.Developed and implemented a cloud first strategy changing deploys from every few months to daily, while maintaining reliability.

Middlesex, England, Gb

- Agile Coaching/Consulting- DevOps Consulting- Web technology design and implementation, everything from Responsive design to build of APIs.- Machine Learning and high transaction systems.- Web connected hardware design and prototyping, including firmware development.- Continuous Integration and Deployment Methodologies

Houston, Texas, Us

Leading software development teams focused on providing enterprise grade cloud services. Development areas include:Platform as a Service(PaaS)Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS)Unified Communications as a ServiceMobility

Lead a small team of development engineers and system admins, focused on DevOps. Developing processes and systems to facilitate continuous deployment, continuous integration. The primary aim and achievements were around achieving 99.999% availablity in tandem with the ability to deploy every day of the week.

Emeryville, Ca, Us

Led the product development organization focused on delivery a fully integrated online marketing suite, I was specifically engaged to changing the overall technical culture of the company. As part of the CEO staff my primary goals were to improve the delivery of product to customers, demonstrate improvements in development practices and product quality. In less than 1 year I achieved significant improvements in all of these areas and had set up a structure that introduced continuous improvement in the mid term to long term. As a member of the executive team I presented these results and plans regularly to the Board, translating the challenges and achievements into metrics.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Managing a globally dispersed team (US West & East, India and China) of about 100 software development, QA and IT staff. Completed an implementation of Agile development practices and a realignment of product QA, Release Engineering and Production Engineering. These changes have resulted in a 300% improvement in development effectiveness.Key experience:• Strategic reorganization of a global team• In-depth knowledge of Agile (SCRUM) development practices and their implementation• Building cohesion and trust across a global team• Alignment of development group to an agreed product directionAchievements:• Significant increase in productivity for Maintenance and Product release processes.• Agile practices adopted within development team and to an initial degree on the broader group level.• Brought in a culture of learning and growth to an engineering team.• Encouraged and drove the introduction of quality throughout the development cycle.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Director of Operations for CPM On-demand service.Responsible for Operations, Customer Care and Emerging Markets for the Software as a Service products under the Collaborative Project Management products. This involves technology, customer and business management in my areas of responsibility. • Global business responsibility for a product line targeted at Emerging Markets, particular focus on China resulted in significant increases in adoption and revenue. Established a long term strategy for the Collaborative products in China.• Responsibility for business liaison into the Asia Pacific region, in particular the Japanese market for Collaborative products.• International experience in evangelising Collaborative products delivery as SaaS (Software as a Service).

San Francisco, Ca, Us

In this role I continued and expanded my responsibilities following the acquisition of Buzzsaw by Autodesk. My primary role involved maintaining the overall architecture of the data centres for the SaaS product lines and to investigate best practices that could impact the efficiency of our overall operations

In this role I was responsible for a number of teams and functions within this start up, which was primarily funded by Autodesk Inc. I managed teams of NT, Unix and DBAs with the aim of delivering the necessary infrastructure to meet the needs of the product development teams. This involved interfacing with multiple groups on multiple projects with extremely aggressive delivery timelines. My ability to convey the operational requirements and impacts across these multiple projects help steer groups to adjust or modify their needs to make projects ultimately achievable.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

EDS Ltd, Inland Revenue, System Designer SAIC Ltd, Messaging Specialist \Aberdeen –Support Analyst, Vietnam – Technical Leader, Hull – MS Exchange Technical Leader, South Wales – Technical Leader

Brought into the organization to revamp their Information systems with the intent of expanding the groups distribution and sales. Also to develop business applications in C and RDBMS.

Rapidly moved from a single contributor to the manager for group wide Information Services, primarily served the technology needs for 3 major Oil & Gas Offshore module redesigns. Built a solid understanding of the Offshore engineering and design needs and supporting technology.Developed Project Planning systems and BOM systems using RDBMS.

Contractor 1989 – 1990Midland Bank plc., Sheffield, UKGained knowledge of how major service industries worked and the types of systems required too meet their internal needs. Developed in branch and cash centre systems. Analyst Programmer - Contractor 1987 – 1989Thorn EMI Micrologic, Shefford, UKContinued to grow experience in Software Development implementing Electronic Point of Sales systems, this was my initial introduction to client server technology.

Master'S Degree, Computing For Commerce And Industry

Post Graduate, Computing For Commerce & Industry

Hnc, Electronics

Tec 3, Electrical & Electronics Engineering