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Newbury, England, United Kingdom

Founded BioCap Ltd with two like-minded business partners.With burgeoning opportunities created by the confluence of the climate crisis, Brexit, and growing public consciousness of environmental concerns, the business has been created to connect landowners with funding opportunities for intelligence led land usage adjustments. Creation of an opportunity map through innovative GIS-based technologies which arms landowners with the information required to identify suitable alternative land uses at an extremely granular level, and to identify external funding sources to introduce new land usage.Steered BioCap through requirements to achieve Registered Charity status with the Charities Commission.Identified, directed, reviewed and approved approaches to funding the business.Engagement with significant local landowners to identify project opportunities for carbon capture, re-wilding and enhancement of biodiversity.Engagement with technology businesses to assist with aspects of GIS opportunity map creation.

Hungerford, Berkshire

Manager of software R & D activities across development centres in 6 international locations.-Led several projects to re-work the departmental structure and development practices of the department.-Introduced aspects of SAFe to product development.-Undertook significant re-engineering project for the software development, release and delivery pipeline culminating in a successful outcome with zero disruption to business clients.-Re-structured and concentrated engineering effort in 3 centres of excellence.-Facilitated career enhancement, growth opportunities and career change for staff.

Newbury, Berkshire

Development Manager for a high-profile £7M product development involving over 40 staff.- Determined and developed the strategy for development.- Recruited, formed, managed and led the team necessary to deliver the programme objectives.- Introduced rigourous Agile development practices and oversaw their institutionalisation and ongoing effectiveness and improvement.- Oversaw the architecting of the solution using an n-tier approach to achieving a service-oriented architecture.- Managed the outsourcing of front-end development.- Began the process of off-shoring the development including recruitment of senior staff.- Led the introduction of tooling and software frameworks to support the management of development and the software development.- Technologies and tools included: .Jira for Agile planning, tracking, and defect management. .MS Project for management and communication of broader milestone tracking and communication of time-lines. .Back-end using MS-Sequel Server (SQL) and Progress OpenEdge RDBMS, with business logic in Progress ABL. .Front-end using HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Angular, Kendo UI, Bootstrap and supporting technologies. .Testing approaches were developed considering n-unit approaches for unit testing, Telerik Test Studio and Selenium Web Driver for test automation, and HP Quality Centre for test maangement.

Leader of a number of teams developing software in the embedded product domain, linux and Windows server domains, and Windows desktop domains.- Led team of embedded developers through a cycle of reform in work practices, introducing Agile development techniques to a waterfall team, providing new tooling to support and improving speed and quality of code production.- Built a cross-functional outsourced team working closely with permanent staff providing 30% of software development effort at 15% of the cost.- Introduced rigourous dev't practices to a team of test tool developers to improve the quality of test tools.- Managed a selection of projects delivering milti-million pound benefits to the organisation.- Reformed and recovered a Windows product development team during a difficult product birth and beyond.

Team leader for group of design engineers developing applications and user interfaces for mobile phones.Led global intiative for the introduction of standardised user interface guidelines for all mobile phone products developed within the PMC group of companies.Led the development of various mobile phone features, notably SIM Application Toolkit (STK) solution which was re-used in a series of products shipping multiple millions of devices.

Embedded Application developer.User Interface designer for embedded products.

User Interface designer for radio pager embedded products.Software engineer, developer of embedded software for radio pager products.

Developing device driver software in assembler and C, and i/o hardware, for telephone exchange rack monitoring products based on Motorola 68000 architecture.