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London, GB

London, London, GB

Smartology's SmartMatch Demand Side Platform is the first contextually targeted advertising solution, pioneering the cookieless future. Using Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Models (LLM) to match advertiser content with articles on the world's leading premium publishers our Real Time Bidding (RTB) platform provides scale and reaches engaged.

London, England, GB

Financial Publishing is a division of Financial Times comprising four commercial units and 16 digital brands. I was accountable for the following areas: programme delivery, operational support, performance targets, budget planning and team management.Highlights:- Agile adoption, resulting in improved satisfaction and trust- Mobile first approach to product.

London, England, GB

As a member of the IT Executive team I was responsible for managing departmental budgets, technology strategy, reporting to the board, commercial and legal negotiations as part of vendor selection.Highlights:- 80% reduction in outages to FT's subscription system- Expanded development and test staff from 30 to 80- Global team: London, Manila and New York.

London, England, GB

My Responsibilities in this role expanded to include technical leadership of the development and QA team, data migration, agile coaching and release planning.Highlights:- Solutions architecture for FT's award winning subscription platform a model which is now widely duplicated in the publishing sector- Integration of FT.com’s digital advertising system.

London, England, GB

In this role I worked on most of FT.com's core applications, gaining broad experience in analysis, design, development, deployment and support. Highlights:- Introduced agile practices leading to broad adoption across FT- Worked closely with non-technical colleagues in defining requirements- Third party integrations including: Verity (search technologies).

London, England, GB

Team Leader for the Lotus Notes Development Team, managing three developers. Primary responsibility being the development and support FT.com Content Management System.

Joined L&G as a COBOL developer on the Future Product Framework (FPF) programme and later joining the Lotus Notes Development Team, gaining experience of both analysis and design.