As an engineering a manager at CreateFuture I have gained the following experience:• Expanded xLabs: Grew the in-house innovation team xLabs by 600% in six months, managing 60+ people across ten projects.• Fanduel Project: Led a successful project team for Flutter’s Fanduel the largest betting exchange in the US, that launched a new payment vendor in a new country, that is expected to process over a 100 million+ dollars in the first year.• Full Product Lifecycle: Experienced the entire product lifecycle from discovery to delivery.• Diverse Team Leadership: Led teams with multiple disciplines, including Java, Python, Cloud, .NET, React, automation, BA, and QA.• People Development: Fostered growth and performance in 20+ engineers (EM, FE, BE, Automation) through coaching and mentoring.• Agile Adaptability: Thrived in a consultancy environment with frequent pivots and rapidly changing requirements. Used Scrum and Kanban methodologies to achieve success.• Trust-Based Leadership: Cultivated trust and psychological safety through transparency and integrity. This included team, wider program team members and stakeholders.• Senior engineering manager: I successfully completed the promotion process to senior engineering manager in the second half of 2023 but was unable to secure an internal position.• Leaders book club: Leaders book club: Established a monthly book club with over 100 members, which was rated 9/10 by attendees for its contribution to personal development.

Vero Screening is the largest independent employment screening company in the UK with a significant international service capability. Working directly with the CTO my main duties and key achievements in the role were:• Scrum Implementation: Established effective Scrum processes for software and product teams. Evangelised the benefits of better product and technology practises.• Team Building: Recruited and managed a team of 18, including Scrum Master, developers, product managers, and infrastructure roles.• Client Integration: Rebuilt the client integration platform for more flexible and user-friendly integrations, working with directly with internal and client stakeholders.• IT Strategy: Collaborated with CTO on IT strategy and department OKRs.• Operations Improvement: Led the IT operations team to enhance practices, prioritisation, define SLAs and raised service levels.• Operations Integration: Unified operations and software development teams for better collaboration.• Team Restructuring: Restructured software teams for improved focus and productivity, resulting in a 25% productivity increase, less cognitive overload and happier teams.

TSR (The Student Room) Group is the company behind the world's largest student social media website network, with more than 6 million unique visitors every month. My main duties and achievements were:• Continuous Improvement: Led continuous improvement initiatives and developed the company's technical strategy.• Technical Excellence: Promoted best practices in security, scalability, visibility, and speed.• Third-Party Management: Managed third-party software and SAS suppliers.• Infrastructure Reliability: Ensured reliable, effective, and 24/7 support for critical servers and monitoring.• Team Leadership: Created, hired, and managed DevOps and engineering teams.• Cloud Migration: Migrated business-critical services to the Cloud and micro-service architecture.• Tax Savings: Secured over £500,000 in R&D tax relief over two years.• Flexible Working: Implemented a flexible working practices for production teams.• Community Engagement: Championed and co-ran the Brighton PHP group for 3 years.

Working with the Technical Director my main duties and key achievements were:• Managed the development team, ensuring the team was working effectively and efficiently.• Mentored the development team; provided support and training to ensure the team were developed and productive.• Owned development life cycle, using Agile and Lean methodologies. • Lead TSR’s drive for technical excellence, ensuring solutions were robust and scalable.• Worked with product marketing to scope, design and deliver all new projects.• Project managed all development activity, including estimates, specifications, builds, deliveries and deployments.• Championed quality assurance throughout the production lifecycle. Maintained coding standards; instilled excellence and right-first-time mentality in the team.• Kept close to TSR’s code bases, running team and individual code reviews.

In 2009 I saw an opportunity for Epic to meet a new market trend towards mobile learning. I pitched the idea to the CEO and presented a business case to senior management. From this, Epic’s Mobile Learning division was founded at the end of 2009. My role was to create a ‘business within a business’ with it’s own staff, budgets and projects. I conceptualised Epic’s mobile authoring environment ‘gomo learning’, which was the first mobile learning authoring tool in the market. I designed and managed the production of the first iteration of the tool, and oversaw the roll out of over 30 mobile projects on the Apple and Android platforms. ‘gomo’ has gone on to become it’s own successful business, as part of the Learning Technologies Group.

The main purpose of my role was to own a portfolio of eLearning projects and ensure they were delivered to client satisfaction, on schedule and to budget, whilst maintaining quality control at all times. I also successfully managed a cross-functional team, delivering over £1 million in projects annually, with an average margin of 60%.My main duties were:• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with customers, gaining acceptance to proposals and changes. Support and advise customers on the benefits and implications of proposed solutions.• Ensure effective handover of project from Sales and Marketing to Production.• Responsibility for the production of the Project Initiation Document.• Identify and allocate roles and responsibilities within the project team.• Liaising with the Resource Manager to identify and manage resource requirements in the project team.• Facilitate the collaboration of Lead Designer, Lead Developer, Art Director and Lead Tester to develop solutions that were fit for purpose and achievable within the budget and schedule.• Agree, internally and externally, budgets, schedules and deliverables, and manage financial performance.• Monitor and control the critical path ensuring quality processes were followed.• Ensure effective communication within the project team, with the wider business and the project team.

• Production of project proposals, client-facing technical specifications, driving client meetings to identify requirements and the outline of available solutions.• Production of e-learning material, from the initial concept through to implementation to strict deadlines into client infrastructures.• Managing the development of the company’s learning tracking portal and e-learning LMS integration, involving creating a generic means of communication between Flash and JavaScript.• Setting up project plans, estimating time-scales of project stages and managing what projects all team members are booked on day-to-day. Deciding who to allocate to what projects according to availability and skills.• Running external training courses, teaching companies how to develop e-learning and which authoring tools and technologies they could utilise.• Management of the DHTML development team, which had three levels of developers. Duties included general people management and running team meetings and documenting appraisals. The team contained between 6 and 11 permanent staff and I have run interviews for new team members at all levels.• Leading a number of out-sourced projects, which included function specification of the requirements and reviewing the quality of the work that came back.• Development of internal HTML/JS coding standards.

• Development of websites, CMSs, e-commerce sites and web front-ends for back office database applications.• Production of project proposals, design specifications, running client meetings to identify requirements and the outline of available solutions.• The design and development of the company’s recruitment web-application Evolve. I designed and integrated a number of parts of the system, including the document management, mail merge facility, web portal interface, CV generation tool, template management and many other parts of the system.• Management of the development team, making sure people knew what they were doing on a day-to-day basis. I also designed the professional development/appraisal process for the company.

Responsibilities included:• Production of e-learning material and performance software from the initial concept through to implementation to strict deadlines.• Managing the development of the company’s products, including e-commerce web portals, ACT’s content management systems, various CPD Planners and ACT’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), and Database systems.• Working with sales staff, amending proposals and the production demo materials for future clients.• Setting up project plans, estimate time-scales of project stages with the aid of the Project Managers.• Helping to allocate correct resources and skill base to projects.• Analysis & Design for all database required by sites and products.• Carrying out the specification, design and development stages of many types of products, including performance software.• Providing consultancy in accessibility in client-side software (looking at the different ways web content can be made more effective for screen readers and people with learning difficulties).• Production of learning material in a number of different media formats.• Providing solutions for clients individual delivery needs.• Working on Internet, intranet and client based software. • Networking infrastructure knowledge, and database design / development. • Working on a number of custom server-side learner management systems.• Researching IMS learning standards for interopibility within learning, specifically content packaging, meta-data and SCORM inter-working.

As a chef in an Army medical unit, which contained about 200 personnel, our team was responsible for feeding and watering all the troops. I also did other general Army training, and took part in a number of military competitions.In my basic training I was awarded best recruit in my squad.