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Bristol, England, GB

Newcastle Upon Tyne, GB

Sage People & Payroll delivers people management solutions to help small and medium size enterprises around the globe manage their workforce in a compliant and cost-effective way. I was responsible for leading the software engineering and architecture teams (inhouse and 3rd party) who build and deliver those solutions.

London, GB

• Royal Mail uses technology solutions to enable the delivery of millions of items to every home in the UK every day. I grew and led the software engineering teams who build those solutions.
• Introduction of agile (Scrum, Kanban) across multiple teams, locally and offshore – this agility was demonstrated by a Covid-19 application delivered from concept to production in less than two weeks
• Delivery of mobile solutions to 120,000 frontline delivery staff
• B2B solutions integrating Royal Mail’s delivery tracking with tier 1 organisations such as Amazon
• B2C web and mobile applications including one of the UK’s top 50 most visited sites
• Migration of on premises solutions to the cloud (Azure)

London, GB

• As the director of the software and technology teams I scaled the team to develop innovative solutions to digitise the customer onboarding solution, reducing customer integration time from months to days and complex.
• Delivered business critical payment solutions (SaaS) to the UK’s largest retailers and financial services organisations
• CTO reporting to CEO as part of the executive management team
• Successfully migrated to the cloud, in a regulated banking environment
• Rolled out agile development methods, tools and practices across the software development team achieving a 5x productivity increase through Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Built and led a team of 140+ engineering staff (inhouse and outsourced) covering all areas of technology from architecture to software development, infrastructure, operations and live system support

I was promoted into this role as the director of the software development, technical architecture, operations and infrastructure groups. This team of 140+ technical resources were responsible for building and delivering secure and robust payment services for the UK's largest organisations.The Logic Group (acquired by Barclaycard in 2014) is a leading.

I led the the software development team responsible for the development and delivery of The Logic Group's solutions for the UK's largest retail, financial services and mobile network operators. This required significant transformation through the introduction of modern agile development methods and engineering practices and aligning the engineering group.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

Leading the full software development of a suite of financial crime and fraud detection and prevention solutions and for the leadership and management of a globally dispersed (onshore, nearshore, offshore) team of 100+ staff across all development disciplines based in the UK, The Netherlands, North America, Costa Rica and in India.Successfully led the.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

i-Deal International (now Ipreo) are leaders in the delivery of technology solutions for investment banking, book building and Fixed Income products.In this quasi startup-up environment I was responsible for architecting a flexible and highly secure financial web application and for building the engineering team in the UK. This varied role included.

GB

Systems Union (now Infor) are a leading provider of ERP and financial accounting management systems.Before agile development had the 'agile' label, I was part of the development team who were using Continuous Integration, Automated Testing and Refactoring technques - we delivered high quality software, frequently. Starting as experts in C++ we became.

Freelance consultant and developer specialising in C++ on the Microsoft platform and object oriented design methodologies. Work included projects for large companies including Microsoft, Philips Electronics and British Telecommunications.

Montreal, QC, CA

Software developer programming in C++ on the first versions of Windows NT to deliver large government projects.

Software developer building oil & gas cost modelling and analytics software using Visual Basic and Excel macros.