CEO and co-founder of Mojiworks: pioneering social games for super-apps. We're backed by Balderton, Lifeline, and Heartcore.

Board member and advisor, appointed by the company CEO and Northstar Ventures to give strategic input and operational oversight on a regular basis.Current focus is on bringing their virtual-to-real software platform to market and securing first customers, using the benefit of my experience in startup acceleration and software/hardware delivery.

I led the device development teams for this visionary company in augmented reality and deep learning. As a member of Blippar's senior leadership group, I guided the improvement of our development, product, and management functions. Head of app engineering, QA, and device computer vision teams. With the kind blessing of the C-team and board I left Blippar to found my next startup, MojiWorks.

Originally an investor and advisor, moved into working with the founders to develop the business strategy, product pipeline, and development processes for ecommerce, 3D printing, and game projects.- Head of the UK office & team- Led the delivery of new ecommerce presence based on Magento2 (PHP) running on AWS stack- Successful pitch for the Disney/TechStars Accelerator 2015 program, which saw MakieLab gain licenses for Disney franchises and agreements for to-be-announced projects with Disney- Management of InnovateUK funded research project, successfully completed

Mobile app development. Developer & publisher of GodFinger 2, based on a design by IP holder DeNA. Top banner featuring by Apple in EMEA.- Company formation, team growth, and business development- Manage B2B relationships with publishers, platform holders and other vendors- Jointly responsible with CTO for our full-stack technology: mobile client + backend in NodeJS on AWS EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB- Cross-platform (iOS and Android) development in C++, ObjectiveC, Swift, and Java- Leading development of both wholly owned new IP and existing IP from externals- Leading live operations, optimising KPIs through user analysis and ongoing feature development

Wonderland Software was acquired by Zynga, and I stepped up to lead their UK presence.- Integration of the acquired studio into a large and growing global organisation, working with international infrastructure, technical, HR and PM groups.- Strategic planning and implementation of studio and regional growth.- Responsible for teams implementing full-stack technology and game products for iOS and Android.- Leadership of cross functional software teams with a creative focus.- Product leadership on several mobile games.- Joint responsibility for technical strategy with studio CTO.

CEO and co-founder of Wonderland Software, a startup focused on mobile app and game development. Created, developed, and operated the free-to-play title 'GodFinger', which had a #1 position on the AppStore charts. Negotiated and managed the acquisition of Wonderland by Zynga, two years after founding the company.- Founded company and grew team to support game development and live operations.- Product leadership on a #1 iOS game with millions of downloads.- Programming of key game features in ObjectiveC, C, and C++.- Architected game server in Ruby On Rails, supporting hundreds of thousands of daily players.- Negotiating and managing relationships with global publishers.- Negotiated and managed acquisition of the company by Zynga.

Gameplay and AI Lead programmer at Codemasters Guildford Studio, working on AAA console projects from inception, using agile and scrum methods. Heavy utilisation of my management and team leadership experience in a time of fast studio growth, as well as daily hands-on work contributing to development of the software products.- Personnel and technical management of the gameplay and AI programming team.- Responsible for recruiting for critical technical roles in a growing studio.- Work with the studio and programming leads to define the scope and direction of AAA console projects.- Leading by example, prototyping key game features in C, C++ and C# on Xbox360 and PS3.- Code reviews and ongoing training and development of the programming team.- Work with teams external to the studio on our tool and engine requirements.- Agile project management and scrum team leadership.

Early employee of the Brighton office, formed in a period of rapid global expansion.- Development and maintenance of C++ client/server technology.- Evaluation of job candidates.

Lead AI programmer on Xbox360 projects.- Shared responsibility for technical architecture (in C++) with lead programming team.- Gameplay prototyping in variety of coding environments, include proprietary engine (C++, LUA) and XNA (C#)- Management of programming team.- Working in cross-discipline pods on the core gameplay and game design structure.- Scheduling and task estimation of programming and design teams.

Multiple game development projects as a programmer and manager.- Programmer and scripter on Black & White: Creature Isle (PC, 2001), using C++ and in-house scripting language.- Member of the core team of Black & White 2 (PC, 2005), becoming the lead army developer and managing a team of programmers and designers.- Development of multiple console game concepts, utilising C++ & C# prototyping environments.