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Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

London, GB

"We build neo banks" is the Ikigai Digital mission, in this role I lead the creation of Data capabilities for these new banks to ensure regulatory compliance and approval through to launch and beyond to success in highly competitive markets.Building a new bank is a challenge few will experience, in the Data space it's an opportunity to create the strategy.

Liverpool Street, England, GB

• Heading up the EMEA Data Practice for a startup with rapid growth and during the 2 consecutive years it was voted a Linkedin hottest 25 startup. In October 2019 Contino was acquired by Cognizant; retaining autonomy the.
• (Big) Data Platforms
• Data Strategy
• Data Governance
• DataOps & Operating Models
• Business Intelligence

Leeds, GB

• Joining as part of the senior team with a remit to govern and expand the technical team across both product and consultancy areas. Projects include:
• Industry leading single view of customer democratising data for SME marketing functions
• Real time operational insights at large scale in the logistics industry
• Backend credit application, approval and collection for household lender

Leeds, West Yorkshire, GB

• Managing Engineering across the multiple scrum teams of the central data tribe which has responsibility for the marketing and reporting function of a data-intensive business. Including:
• The successful transition to a Hadoop based data warehouse and the decommission of legacy systems.
• Implementing a real-time marketing decision platform enabling personalised offers to be delivered in-play utilising Kafka and Scala.
• Exploiting the big data abilities via a data science team
• Governance and implementation of Security standards to PCI-DSS.
• Data centre migration and the implementation of full disaster recovery abilities.

Leeds, West Yorkshire, GB

Leading multiple agile squads that manage and innovate on top of a leading big data platform and tool set.Responsible for Development, DevOps and Test across the tribe.

Leeds, West Yorkshire, GB

Responsible for planning, opening and staffing a new office in Sheffield to build and launch new products into new International markets from a greenfield start. Reporting directly to C-level on budgets of £millions Starting with the selection of office and being the first dedicated employee within it I was given a brief to disrupt accepted ways of working.

Twickenham, London, GB

Added responsibility for the 'Internet Operations' DevOps team, bringing around 140 sites and multiple suppliers under my remit.

Twickenham, London, GB

Leading development and agile management, strategy and architecture. Re-engineering legacy platforms, adding new functionality and business as usual with multiple multi-functional, agile teams for the UK's largest independent publisher as it pivoted the majority of it's revenue online.

Twickenham, London, GB

Managing multiple agile engineering teams serving the needs of 20+ B2B brands, their web presence and online revenue streams

London, GB

With a brief to recruit a web development team and work with commercial and editorial teams to research, specify and launch new products using a mix of internal and external resources this was a position at the forefront of the Press Association’s digital strategy. Project Management was a key part of this role which saw many websites launched and many.

London, GB

• Working within the Entertainment division of the Press Association alongside the departmental heads, commercial managers, group IT and clients to manage a varied portfolio of projects. Projects included product.
• Assisting in the sales process internally and meeting with clients.
• Assisting in strategy planning, keeping decision makers aware of new technology
• Analysing business opportunities
• Assisting in the preparation of customer contracts and rate cards
• Innovation of products and processes

London, GB

• Working within the data applications R&D department progressing to senior member of a team of six providing bespoke software solutions for data-based products. A mix of platforms, databases and languages, including.
• Requirements elicitation and analysis
• All aspects of the Software Lifecycle
• Technical architecture
• Database Administration
• Mentoring of junior team membersProjects:

Bsc, Computer Science

Mba