Collaborative, results oriented, driven, senior technology leader with 25 years experience driving innovative software development for SaaS, cloud, big data, Marketing, Social, Security, CRM and telecoms network management. Natural leader capable of delivering large scale change initiatives, to enable rapid acceleration and growth of software development organisations. Empathic people leader who inspires loyalty and commitment and is capable of bringing out the best from his team. Key Competencies and SkillsStrategy: Developed three year strategic plans, and vision for R&D organisations, budget and resource planning and implementation. Ran technical architecture teams for large development organisations.Trust: Entrusted with full ownership and leadership of business critical R&D infrastructure - delivering $100M+ of revenue, and supporting 100,000s of paying customers.Change management: Grown new portfolios from scratch, rapidly expanded teams in times of growth, and have carefully pulled back teams in times of consolidation. Repeated driver of large rapid growth transformational projects. Experienced: Delivered projects at all stages in business lifecycle - from green field innovative new development environments, brown field legacy software environments, integration projects, refactor and rewrite projects and S-curve new innovation.Scalable: Managed projects at all levels, from direct line managing of small teams, to leading multiple portfolios of multiple large teams with widely varying focus. Managed teams in multiple geographies, businesses and cultures.Diversity: Hired and promoted colleagues of all levels and diverse backgrounds, at all levels from coops to directors.Record of success: repeated experience running successful innovative large scale software development projects. TechnologyAuthor of book “Integrating CRM for business success”Patented network management status indicator inventionArchitect/Designer - for cloud development, and integrations25+ years experience working in the web/SaaS/cloud development sphere.Languages include: C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python
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