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I have more than 25 years experience founding, leading and selling successful technology businesses in both the UK and New Zealand, in a variety of roles covering software development, architecture, user experience, game design, sales and consulting.- Founder and CEO of mobile application and game development company Marker Metro which sold in 2016 as part of a NZ $30m dealhttp://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11682211- Designed, developed and sold the popular and award-winning Xbox Live Windows Phone word game AlphaJax to Microsoft Studios in 2011, which led to the birth of Marker Metro as an app and game creation studio. At its peak, it had 3.5 million active players. - Designer and Executive Producer of award-winning cross-platform Samsara puzzle game, millions of downloads and 5* rating to date.- As GM Of Development, Led a global migration and modernization journey to Azure Cloud for Bidfood, (https://www.bidcorpgroup.com/) between 2018 and 2021. https://www.azkanda.com/post/monolith-to-the-moon- Working with New Zealand Olympic Committee and The Association of Multisport Organisations on the technical and commercial strategy for their Plus1% software product. Led a global migration to Azure PAAS and have taken the product through extensive 3rd party security testing and data protection work to improve regulatory compliance. Delivered live schedule and results integration for the Commonwealth Games Federation for Birmingham 2022 Games.- Working with Vista Entertainment as Cloud Architect to support architects and engineers with design, mentoring and development work centered around migrations to cloud and cloud native product development.- Working with Serko as a Senior Principal Engineer for Cloud and Platform Services, a critical and highly influential technology leadership role to create alignment and enable the wider engineering group to build reliable, scalable, and commercially viable software. - Currently founder and CTO of Vivara - Personalised wellness guidance for everyone.Specialties: Technical and Business Leadership, Operational Excellence, Strategic Innovation and an obsessional determination and focus to achieve goals.

Listed skills include Software Development, Windows Phone, Mobile Applications, Silverlight, and 35 others.