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Sunderland, England, United Kingdom

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

• Led, managed and shaped multiple internal and external facing digital teams (30+ members) within Arup to digitally transform a traditional organisation.• Setup and managed globally dispersed teams with a remote first approach• Recruited technical staff globally for own teams as well as assisting others in hiring process for other teams.• Setup agile processes and development practices from scratch coaching multiple development teams and the wider organisation on industry standard development practices.• Collaborated with Product teams to develop roadmaps and requirements with a particular focus on reducing technical debt and setting architectural direction.• Provided career development and coaching from Junior Developers through to Architects and Product Managers.• Helped set up and coach non-development teams such as QA Teams and Customer Engagement and Success Teams.• Worked with key stakeholders to help them understand how software development works and the modes of interaction with the wider business.• Developed budgets for teams and projects for multiyear strategic digital initiatives.• Help members of staff navigate organisational reshapes and changes in structure. • Delivered training and learning to technical and the wider organisation on various tech related topics, particularly around technical leadership and agile development.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Management responsibility for multiple agile development teams including remote workers in different time zones working on a mix of SaaS web, mobile and server software products.• Responsible for setting new architectural patterns and practices in innovative new areas of the platforms, along with providing strategies to improve legacy architecture.• Successfully delivered multiple £multi-million R&D Projects involving external partners and financial sources• Formed new teams, adjusted team structures and ‘rightsized’ teams as business requirements changed • Coached teams on agile processes and worked with Scrum Masters to continuously improve and introduce new methodologies such as Kanban• Built links with local universities to ensure a good talent pipeline• Worked with team leaders, senior developers and architects to provide career development opportunities including coaching those who were themselves mentoring junior staff• Managed the blend of product, architectural and maintenance stories for different platforms taking account of their individual product lifecycles• Managed and coordinated with project teams located in US East and West Coast time zones.• Communicated delivery progress and risks to key cross-functional stakeholders globally• Drove the organisation in moving towards Continuous Delivery and Deployment best practices• Provided training to teams on topics such as Agile Methodology, TDD, Best Practices, Source Control Systems and Branching/Merging strategies• Assisted in pulling together departmental budgets, particularly around growth in staffing levels• Pushed teams to innovate outside of their normal technology toolbox resulting in the provision a multi-tenant CassandraDB NoSQL deployment to capture and store large volumes of building related information

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Management responsibility for founding and growing a new team working with external partners on a 2 year innovation roadmap.Introduced agile processes and practices based on Scrum.Assisted CTO in sourcing and hiring developersCoached and mentored more junior developers to provide career development opportunitiesResponsible for key architectural decisions in innovative new areas of the platformsEnsured quality of team's outputResponsible for evangelising team's product, technical strategy and ethos to wider Viewpoint organisation to bring about cultural change in the wider development organisationManaged the relationship with strategic educational and open source partners critical to the roadmap

Responsible for all Software Development and IT.Lead a small development team from multi-disciplinary backgrounds.Responsible for ensuring adherence of software development to ISO9001:2000 standard including auditing and procedure development.Plan for technological trends to maintain competitive advantages.Project manage using various development methodologies.Gather project requirements and create specifications.Create test plans and manage validation efforts. Produce and adhere to schedules and cost analysis.Balance resources across multiple projects.

Mba, Masters In Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Student Representative on Staff-Student Consultative Committee

Bsc, Games Computing (Software Development)

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