Leading 4 multi-disciplined teams, cultivating Devops culture in Leeds and Amsterdam. Engineering leader, mentor and coach through line management of over 30 line reports. Alignment of multi-site programs, roadmaps with software deliverables across multiple teams. Ownership of Leeds dev centre, mentorship of new leaders, managing of budgets for teams. Created an efficient hiring process in a high-growth environment, hiring the best talent. Stakeholder management, offering guidance to senior leaders in Product, Architecture & SRE. Influencer of engineering culture and tooling across locations.

Principal Engineer owning the engineering practice for the 'Digital Trading' tribe of 110 people across 11 teams, providing technical leadership and architectural strategy.Technical product owner of the Sky.com sales platform offering guidance to senior leadership and C level stakeholdersDrove complete re-architecture and re-platform using micro-services, messaging and GraphQL, which upon launch worked flawlessly and performantly, beating our old legacy problems. Trained the teams in the development of frameworks to create beautifully written, well engineered code at scale across the whole stack. (Our front-end tooling is world leading) Oversaw and provided solutions architecture design to the new Sky Mobile sales website launching Sky as a mobile carrier and ensuring a robust end-to-end sales platform. Established and owned hiring process where we have hired some of the best talent in Leeds.

Agile software development and testing coaching in a team delivering a successful project. Full stack JavaScript development with Node.js, Angular.js and React.js.Was instrumental in bringing Product, Test, BA's together using BDD techniques. Introduction of Hypermedia (HAL) as a data transport mechanism.

Provided leadership and direction to BBC's 'Live' experience team on a radical new BBC product. Introduction real time push messaging scaling to millions using Node.js and Socket.io. Oversaw integration of 'Live' experience product into BBC News, Glastonbury sites and more.JS development of BBC iPlayer adding new features to XBox One on a very tight deadline.App development on BBC Olympics 2012 app using native and hybrid technologies.Full app lifecycle of BBC Olympics app overseen with 0 to 2 million users and back in 6 weeks. API authoring and sport pages produced on BBC's PHP/Java based Forge Platform.Together with the BA's & testers matured the Analysis->Development->Test delivery lifecycle.

I have been largely responsible introducing technologies and establishing a versatile software based platform for Mamas and Papas' ambitious plans for a larger more comprehensive E-Commerce offering. The team has been predominantly PHP 5.3 / MSSQL based.Accomplishments* Architected new Symfony 2 based platform* Created secure API for 'Click and Collect' in Silex* Created 'Click and Collect' and 'Api Client' services using Symfony 2's DI Model* Setup Redmine ticketing system that connects with GIt & SVN Repositories* Setup Behat/Mink testing environments* Introduced strong TDD based workflow and architecture* Set coding standards* Set up logging and graphing system using Monolog, Logstash and Kibana* Greatly improved site's performance using opcode cache and full page caching* TDD based development using 'dependency injection'* Created a CMS from an off the shelf PyroCMS (Code Igniter) install with custom plugins to provide overrides for CMS functionality and integrate with our own Symfony based architecture

I have been working at BBC Mobile Core Engineering as part of the official BBC Olympics App for iPhone and Android team. The project made extensive use of Cordova (Phone gap) of which I was heavily involved in the front-end Javascript and back-end PHP Zend-Framework based Forge platform development.I have then gone onto BBC Future Media Sport where I have been involved in the development of the BBC Sport Mobile website.Engineering excellence, TDD, BDD and Agile software development are values and practices held at the BBC which have made the projects a real pleasure and honour to be involved with.

Union of Rad are a group of software craftsmen which together have developed and created the excellent PHP 5.3+ Lithium Framework. Most projects were social media based websites and API's interfacing with API services offered by Facebook and Twitter.Adhering to great software engineering principles like TDD, Agile and using design patterns my time at UOR enabled me to work with some amazing world class programmers.