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Reading, GB

Technology and Product advisor with a focus on climate and energy technology and lots of experience in two-sided marketplace development.

Portsmouth, Hampshire, GB

Checkatrade is the UK's number one website for consumers seeking a quality tradesperson. Significantly reshaped the Engineering function to improve productivity, delivery and quality across the board. Organisation leadership of all workstreams to build our a new internal developer platform for backend service development as well as development and delivery.

London, England, GB

Depop is the fashion marketplace application and social shopping platform where the next generation buy, sell and get inspired. Organisation leadership for development and delivery of multiple Product Innovation initiatives including Depop Ads, Resale as a Service (RaaS) and livestream shopping.

London, England, GB

At Karhoo, we’re working on the future of urban transport by helping fleets and brands develop mobility services through an open and fair marketplace. We are an independent business contributing to Groupe Renault’s sustainable mobility‑as‑a‑service strategy, which covers connected, autonomous, shared and electric vehicles. Our Engineering teams are located.

London, London, GB

The modern world is filled with billions of machines. But only 1% of 1% of us can open them up, and change them. We create computers you make and code yourself. Kano aims to demystify technology and make it simple, fun and accessible to everyone with great products like the Harry Potter Coding Kit, the Computer Kit Touch and the Windows 10 based Kano PC.

Seattle, WA, US

Senior Software Development Manager heading up the Amazon Video Distribution Engineering teams working with home entertainment manufacturers like Sony, Samsung and LG to bring Amazon Video to the latest and greatest home entertainment devices. Helped to hire and develop the best growing the engineering base considerably during my tenure.

Church Crookham, Hampshire, GB

Joined Vertu when it was part of Nokia developing luxury mobile phones using Nokia technology including the S40 and S60 platforms. It is now a privately owned business manufacturing high end Android phones. Key responsibilities: * Strategic and operational management of all Vertu Software Engineering resources covering concepting/specification, system.

GB

CTO at LiMo Foundation, an industry consortium dedicated to creating an open, hardware-independent, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices. Key responsibilities:* Chair of LiMo Architecture Council working with representatives from Samsung, Vodafone, Telefonica, DoCoMo, LG and other consortium representatives.* Chief Information Officer.

San Jose, CA, US

Areas of special interest within Mobile and Devices unit:* Mobile advertising - ad server integration, analytics, reporting.* End to end mobile architecture - Flash Cast, J2EE, Jython* Interfacing with grid/cloud computing services - acrobat.com* Rapid service prototyping with AS3/Flex/AIR and Python

Responsibilities included:* Growing Symsource's IP portfolio.* Business development and Professional Services* Technical consultancyProjects:* http://www.motxt.com - Text Messaging 2.0* Mobile VOIP/IM (SIP/SIMPLE/XMPP) * Bulk SMS gateway backend integration

Cupertino, California, US

* Software Consultant specialising on Symbian OS wireless connectivity, device management and synchronisation with Mac OS X (iSync)

GB

* Worked on a range of projects within the CTO team on a range of platforms (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, Symbian OS) including the mrix platform, an attempt to bring the Unix philosophy of small specialist tools to the idiosyncratic world of mobile.

GB

* Founding member of Symbian System Management Group (SMG) where I was responsible for leading a number of refactoring initiatives. These focussed on platform security (requirements surfacing for Symbian v9.0 security architecture), platform connectivity (move away from the old Psion proprietory protocols) and interface management (initial development of.

GB

* Built and led the PAN (Personal Area Networking) team that implemented the Symbian OS Bluetooth architecture.* Responsible for helping evolve the early iterations of Symbian's first formal engineering process + project model. My focus was on the format of architectural/software deliverables for the key project milestones.

Mississauga, Ontario, CA

* Member of the original EPOC32 Engineering Team, responsible for developing the core IrDA communications stack in the eventual Symbian OS platform.* Co-developed the IP network interface (NIF) architecture for EPOC with an implementation of ARP, IEEE802.3 and the IrDA IrLAN protocol.* Implemented the first iteration of EPOC Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

Recording studio manager including electronics and studio equipment maintenance including Studer A800 24 track tape machines and SSL mixing consoles.

Recording studio maintenance engineer. Helped build and wire a new recording studio when I started.

Bachelor'S Degree, Natural Sciences

Msc, Computing Science