Marcus Griffith-Boyes Email & Phone Number

Brighton, GB

Edinburgh, GB

• 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.
• 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.

Brighton And Hove, GB

• 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.

Brighton, GB

• 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.

Brighton, GB

• 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.

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.

• 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.
• 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.

• 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.

• 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.
• 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.

GB

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.

Bsc (Hons), Computer Science

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