Coach and mentor to engineering managers and engineers at all experience levelsManaging data technology team, whom develop the analytics platform and data lakeHired new data technology team in collaboration with recruitment teamManaging entry-level engineering programme - Guardian FellowshipContribute to unconscious bias training in the departmentCollaborating in a cross functional team to deliver integration with new campaign management system (Braze)Maintaining product backlog with our product manager both short and long term viewProviding continuous feedback to engineers, managers and stakeholdersBuilding a culture of continuous improvement and ownership within the team Balancing delivery with future development needs and sustainabilityFostering an environment which is positive, creative, collaborative, inclusive and where individuals can be themselves

Launched the innovative reader revenue platform as part of contribution teamManaged contributions team then later Identity, and web teamLed diversity review of engineering recruitment processCoach and mentor to junior engineersPartnered with Google on Smart Lock for Passwords beta implementationCollaborated with Product to form cross functional team for launch of contribution platform

Tech lead on the Identity teamLed development of a new admin tool and migration of project into AWSAttained Vulnerability Rewards Program - Hall of Fame status, for finding a bug in a Google productMentored engineers both within and outside the teamPresented at European Identity & Cloud Conference 2015Solved technical and resourcing issues in the teamBuilt relationships with other teams and third parties using the Identity platform

Tech lead of Identity implementation as part of personalisation programmeDeveloped technical direction of IdentityImproved performance and scalability to support major UK television events including online voting for Strictly Come Dancing scaling to millions of usersDesigned and developed a new OAuth Provider using Spring Security and Amazon web servicesHelped the team balance quick delivery against sustainability and longer term projects

Developed new product features using Java, Spring, MySQL including Federated Identity.Improved performance and scalability to support major UK television events including recent online votes for Strictly Come Dancing and Sports Personality. I achieved this goal by utilising my load testing knowledge combined with my expert knowledge of MySQL and hardware including analysis I/O through iostat and sar logging.

Lead team of five developers to design and build a social networking and personalisation platform based on the OpenSocial framework using Google Guice, Jersey and MySQL.Integrated social API into major BBC products including iPlayer, Food and Radio One homepage.Scaled system using database sharding to millions of users.

Developed the BBC's software development platform using Java, MySQL and PHP. I also provided consultation on products moving to this environment.Developed the BBC’s Identity System using Java, Spring, MySQL.

Developed the BBC's central web content management system, using Documentum, Java, Protégé, RDF and XSLT.Worked closely with Information Architects, Designers and Web Developers I tailored the application to the given requirements.

Developed TV listings and entertainment products using Java, Perl and C. Clients included: BBC, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, News International, Sky.

This role involved support the IT requirements for a small business. This included setting up back-up, installing software, creating networks, advising on software and hardware procurement. Technology used:- Windows, LAN