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Southport, Gb

I Co-founded MyOpNotes, a cutting-edge technology that reshapes the landscape of surgical documentation. Our platform is instrumental in redefining best practices, enhancing operational efficiency in hospitals, and driving improved outcomes for patients.• Engineered the foundational design and development of the platform, establishing a solid digital strategy that aligns with our mission steering the product from concept to market-ready.• Handpicked and pioneered a modern tech stack, utilising Flutter and Serverpod to construct our core versions from the ground up.• Recruited, inspired, and led a team of exceptional talent, nurturing a collaborative environment that thrives on diversity and expertise.• Acted as a catalyst in strategic planning and execution, significantly influencing the product roadmap and company direction from the start. • Drove research initiatives and helped forge key partnerships, notably contributing to our collaboration with the NHS.• Showcased our pioneering solutions at numerous trade exhibitions, engaging with a broad spectrum of stakeholders.• Conducted extensive research on NHS operations, with a focused analysis of the clinical coding process, leading to the design of a proprietary algorithm that automates the coding of operation notes, thereby minimising errors, expediting the coding process, and enhancing hospital reimbursement.• Innovated a systematic approach for the prioritisation, development, clinical validation, and dissemination of surgical templates.• Championed a strategic shift in the company’s trajectory, broadening our scope to encompass more of the surgical process, thereby enriching our value proposition for both NHS and private healthcare providers of all sizes.

Kiwi Corp, inspired by my childhood nickname "Kiwi", Is a technology venture that delivers innovative digital services. Our flagship offering, a "CTO for hire" service, exemplifies my commitment to guiding tech strategy and development for a diverse clientele. I've pioneered numerous projects and collaborated with experts across sectors to foster groundbreaking advancements such as:• Designed, built, and hosted numerous client websites including The Care Worker Agency website• Designed and developed RAMS (Recruitment Agency Management Software), a cutting-edge tool revolutionising the recruitment landscape, especially for temp agencies allowing integration with the burgeoning gig economy and automating the vast majority of a recruitment agency's process.• Provided UX Design services for Stitcht, a platform built for collecting and incentivising fan-generated video content for company marketing.• Novarca's digital partner, working on a vast number of cutting-edge research and development projects involving everything from blockchain technology to generative AI (before chatGPT), turning nascent ideas into viable products and services building functional prototypes for each.• MyOpNotes digital partner, designed, developed, and maintained a transformative software that digitises and standardises surgical documentation, enhancing patient care and hospital efficiency within the NHS.

I Co-founded Novarca, an R&D hub for several in-house startups with myself and Kiwi Corp bringing the innovation, and my Co-founder providing connections and funds. I drew inspiration from the tale of Noah's Ark when naming the company blending the Latin 'nova' (new) and 'arca' (ark), symbolising our mission to navigate through the flood of substandard trendy digital offerings to deliver transformative solutions.Our most notable achievement was MyOpNotes, originally a research project started at Novarca before flourishing into its own separate business and ultimately taking up our full resources leading to the end of Novarca. My personal passion project, and the one I still wish to revisit was Terranova. An entire universe I conceived with an extensive animated series script, vast amounts of concept art in a unique and quite frankly beautiful style, an interactive website for fans to explore the various characters, creatures, planets, and other universal lore, a unique collectable card game that brought real-world value to in-game assets, and much much more...

Ormskirk, Lancashire, Gb

Promoted to Solutions Architect after excelling as Development Manager, In addition to my existing responsibilities, I focused more on the technological strategising and architectural design of innovative solutions to enhance our software's capabilities.• Pioneered the development of the UK's inaugural automated holiday and absences management system tailored for irregular working hours, which also catered to statutory staff entitlements. This required meticulous research into UK and EU holiday regulations to ensure comprehensive compliance.• Orchestrated a collaborative project to integrate pharmacies with the OnePlan platform, introducing a real-time medication management system that mitigated risk and eradicated prevalent errors within the industry.• Initiated and led the integration of AI-driven, non-invasive sensors within home care settings, enhancing patient welfare monitoring and contributing to the digital transformation of home healthcare.

Ormskirk, Lancashire, Gb

Returned to lead the new software development team brought in after a brief interlude, bringing in strategic enhancements and process optimisations to cope with the escalating demands of our growing client base.• Trained and mentored the development team, fostering an environment of continuous improvement and adherence to best practices in software development.• Developed and implemented a semi-automated system for managing a high volume of development requests, ensuring a focused and value-driven approach to project prioritisation and execution.• Revamped our project management processes by integrating agile methodologies, which bolstered team efficiency and product delivery times.• Took on full accountability for the development and progress of the OnePlan software suite, ensuring regular and detailed reporting to the senior leadership team, thus maintaining transparency and strategic alignment.

Southport, England, Gb

During a four-month tenure at Perfect Portal UK, a dynamic team of six developers and I contributed to the company's significant growth by enhancing our legal software solution. Our efforts equipped legal firms with bespoke, white-labeled applications and a versatile back-end management system that streamlined client onboarding, case updates, communication, and financial transactions, all integrated seamlessly with existing case management software.• Spearheaded the development and rollout of an innovative customisable dashboard, tailored by default to user profiles and their roles, which significantly improved user experience.• Engineered a scalable demoing platform, simulating real-world usage, which enabled the sales team to present bespoke, size-adjusted demos, directly influencing sales revenue.• Played a pivotal role in the continuous enhancement of the Perfect Portal System, ensuring robust feature development and system maintenance.

Ormskirk, Lancashire, Gb

Elevated to Senior Software Developer at OnePlan Software, I was entrusted with the helm of new development initiatives, refining our approach to bug prioritisation, feature enhancements, and training for subsequent rollouts.• Led the design and development of key system features and initiated a major refactoring effort, enhancing maintainability and scalability.• Conducted white hat security assessments, identifying and rectifying critical vulnerabilities, reinforcing system integrity.• Oversaw a period of rapid growth where our codebase expanded threefold, feature deployments increased, and revenue surged by over 150%.Independently engineered and deployed an in-house system that is currently used by the development and support teams to process incoming support requests, bug reports, and user feedback; track and book customer support and training; add new customers to the system; produce reports, etc.

Ormskirk, Lancashire, Gb

Promoted to Software Developer after proving my mettle, I was tasked with more complex duties, directly influencing the productivity and direction of the development team.• Championed UX design integration, incorporating Adobe XD prototypes into our workflow.• Built a custom front-end framework (Ajax) for rapid front-end development of complex features• Introduced Object-Oriented Programming and asynchronous single page design, database concepts such as normalisation, time estimation & tracking techniques, agile project management (SCRUM), and various bug tracking techniques.• Initiated and managed research and development of new features, some of which evolved from concept prototypes to integral system components. For example, In my spare time, I built an offline desktop app version of the system using Node.js + Electron.

Ormskirk, Lancashire, Gb

Oneplan Software, then co-owned by Reactive Studios Ltd and Oneplan Business Solutions Ltd (OPBS), is a SaaS system for domiciliary care, developed in PHP, MySQL, JQuery and Bootstrap. Reactive Studios also offered web services to a handful of other clients in the form of website development, hosting, app development, etc. I joined Reactive Studios in 2018 as a junior software developer starting as the first employee, I quickly became integral to the team, contributing across all stages of development from concept to deployment.• Represented the company at the Care Show, engaging with industry stakeholders and gathering valuable feedback.• Responsible for the continuous development and maintenance of the Oneplan software and was in charge of multiple smaller features within the system from concept to delivery. • Due to the small company size, in addition to my role in development, I also attended all leadership meetings with the sister company and advised on both business and technical strategy.• I designed, developed and managed 8 websites, 6 of which are completely custom, 1 requiring a large custom back-end admin area. The other 2 being WordPress. I have also run successful SEO campaigns on all sites, the majority of which are now top in search rankings. This includes both the website for OnePlan and Reactive Studios.

Preston, Lancashire, Gb

iBridge Solutions Ltd was a 4 person web development studio and IT management company that also developed and maintained a warehouse & logistics system called “BOB” using PHP, MySQL & Crystal Reports for a large automotive company. • Orchestrated version control as the lead for all Git repositories, ensuring robust code management and team collaboration.• Automated project setup on our Ubuntu server with bespoke Bash scripts, enhancing our development workflow efficiency.• Spearheaded the update of all company sites and systems for GDPR compliance, guaranteeing legal conformity and data protection.• Managed a suite of 8 e-commerce customer websites, driving over £20 million in annual sales through meticulous site and system oversight.• Curated and maintained critical product data for our premier client, PALM AUTOMOTIVE, leveraging phpMyAdmin and integrating eBay's REST API for seamless data import processes.• Conducted regular on-site visits for technical maintenance, including server repairs and hardware upgrades, ensuring optimal operational uptime.

Preston, Lancashire, Gb

Datafile Software Solutions Ltd consisted of 10 staff and developed a business management & accounting system called Datafile using Delphi.• Pioneered the testing and co-led the design of Datafile’s web-based JQuery platform, enhancing user experience and system reliability.• Engineered sophisticated Excel reporting tools tailored for executive insights, directly supporting decision-making processes for company leadership, specifically the CEO.• Managed an intensive support workload, addressing over 20 customer queries daily, which significantly boosted our customer service satisfaction metrics.• Crafted intuitive landing pages, dashboards, and mobile application interfaces, utilising advanced form builders and Lua scripting to improve user engagement.• As an account manager for over 90 clients, I orchestrated onsite support and new system installations, solidifying client trust and fostering long-term partnerships.

Maths, Further Maths, Computer Science, Physics

Nvq Level 3, It Professional

Maths, Statistics, Science, Additional Science, Computing, Business Studies