I lead Atvero in its development and delivery of a drawing, document and project information system aimed at the Construction industry, primarily Architects and Engineers.My responsibilities include the design of the technical architecture, choice of development systems, maintaining high quality in our development, systems and processes. I also manage the company day to day, providing guidance to the marketing and customer success teams, managing the finances and payroll and HR too.

As a company director, I was involved in the day to day running of the business, HR issues, team development and mentoring, staff recruitment, business development. I led the software applications team in development and deployment of our Atvero project information management system built on the Microsoft 365 and Azure platforms. Web based front end developed in ReasonML and Javascript with React Framework calling SharePoint and MS Graph APIs, backed up with Azure serverless functions developed in C# and .net core.As the 4th line / technical backstop for Nittygritty IT engineers, I provided help and advice in resolving customer issues on all platforms (Windows server, desktop, networking, storage systems).I researched, investigated and tested emerging technologies for their potential for Nittygritty’s customer base. Past examples are Exchange Online and Office 365, DataCore software SAN, Azure services.Led the IT recovery of a 150 strong architectural practice that had failed servers, email systems and inter-site connectivity. Worked on a team delivering a successful pass of IT due diligence during an acquisition of the practice and subsequent integration of the practice into the IT teams and systems of the global acquiring company.Delivered consultancy taking over the IT leadership of a 300 strong multi-site architectural practice weeks before the planned move of staff and IT systems from the London HQ to new premises.Developed Nittygritty’s internal information management systems, primarily an integrated IT helpdesk, staff time worksheet and customer billing system.Developed BigFilebox, a SaaS solution for information exchange targeting the architectural and creative sectors. Developed as a cloud solution on the Joyent platform before moving to the newly developing AWS S3 and EC2 services. Still running today, 14 years later.

Engaged to establish best practices for the software development team. Led efforts to modernise the application platform from a text file based system to a database backed one, allowing for integrated content management systems for the internal production team and teaching management systems for delivery of content to customers. Led the development of the next generation of the software delivered to customers via CDROM media and an online platform.

I took on three roles - internal IT, web hosting and software development.Migrated a workgroup based Mac studio to a multisystem one capable of producing software for the emerging platforms of the dotcom boom. Introduced Windows desktops, servers, LAN, leased line internet connectivity, firewalls, internal email hosting and led a 3 strong IT team to provide IT support as the company grew to 60 employees.Established a co-located web hosting environment with failover Windows clusters, Linux hosts for Internet services (DNS hosting, DNS registrar, SMTP) for clients ranging from small businesses to websites hosted for ITV.When a customer’s platform requirements fell outside of the scope of the internal software team I would develop the backend software. Examples are a database backend for a Tracy Beaker learning system for the BBC internet platform and an Oracle database and Java API for a Channel 4 game series.

A member of European computer science research project investigating application of distributed systems to construction software to allow collaborative real time editing of CAD models. Specialism was applied cryptography for distributed system security.