IT isn't about technology. Technology is the easy bit. Creating, sharing, and understanding Information is the hard part. Bringing together a diverse group of talented people and motivating them to work together to deliver business value is not a simple task. If it were, the corporate landscape wouldn’t be littered with costly, overrun, and failed projects.My diverse background across a variety of industries from manufacturing to telecommunications creating a wide range of solutions from order management to machine control creates a unique set of skills that allows me to shape teams and whole organizations focused on delivering. I have a proven track record in shaping IT strategies and architectures in order to drive the use of emerging technologies to solve business problems.My ability to attract, to retain, and motivate talent leads to lower turnover, lower recruiting costs, and successful outcomes. My dedication to solid engineering practices creates solutions that are easier to maintain and provide a lower cost of ownership. My commitment to communication and transparency fosters openness and accountability across the whole organization.
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Vice President DeliveryContino 2019 - Jul 2023Liverpool Street, England, GbContino is a global Enterprise DevOps and Cloud Transformation Consultancy.Our mission is to help highly-regulated enterprises transform faster, modernise their way of working so they can deliver high quality, secure and compliant software change. We operate with a dual delivery and up-skilling remit to enable our clients to build their own capability.We support our customers across five key services:- Cloud Platform Build and Migration- Enterprise DevOps Transformation- Data Platforms and Analytics- Cloud-Native Software Development- DevSecOps and Cloud SecurityWe're primed for another year of incredible growth! If you’re looking to take your career to the next level and are keen to work for a real DevOps consultancy, take a look at our latest vacancies > https://www.contino.io/join-us. -
Head Of EngineeringBuildit 2014 - 2019We are a global innovation-led digital transformation partner built for today’s digital challenges. We focus on the things that matter - the insights, the interactions, the integrations, and innovations that make extraordinary things happen for brands, businesses and their customers.Unlike other Digital Transformation partners, Wipro Digital includes a focus on the Engineering discipline, practices, and measurements required to deliver on the cost and pace of change improvements necessary to compete in today's fast-paced Digital economy.
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Digital And Mobile Banking Platform LeadLloyds Banking Group 2012 - 2014London, Uk, GbDrove the transformation of the development and test organizations of the largest Digital Banking platforms in the world, with 10m+ active retail and commercial users supporting multiple brands and channels. Implemented practices, tools, and techniques across an organization of over 1000 employees, contractors and partners that allowed us to move from quarterly deliveries to an organization making monthly releases while managing to double the value being delivered by the group.Championed a hiring program that focused on attracting both experienced talent to support driving rapid change as well as graduates to ensure long-term retention of critical domain knowledge and expertise. Added more than 40 new colleagues to our retained layer.Launched updated mobile banking applications using both native and adaptive / responsive techniques across all LBG brands. Launched new mobile payments platform in support of UK Payments Council Paym program.Introduced Dev Ops approach in support of reducing the operating costs associated with legacy development practices and tools. Introduced automated quality checks into the build process to reduce defect rates and cycle times. Changed integration processes that reduced release timeframes to less than 30 days. -
ConsultantEcsteam 2012 - 2012Greenwood Village, Co, UsConducted an architectural evaluation of the existing legacy batch based rating system to determine its suitability to support the strategic expansion of Cricket's 4G Network. The head of architecture was interested in using the Business Process (eTOM), Information (SID), and Application (TAM) Frameworks from the TM Forum as tools for Cricket's architecture. The Recommendation followed the language of those frameworks and suggested a transition to a strategic realtime rating system. An lightweight RFP was conducted across existing Cricket vendors and a solution was selected. -
V.P. Global DevelopmentLevel 3 Communications 2011 - 2012Broomfield, Colorado, UsSuccessfully combined two diverse development groups across 6 sites and 3 countries into a single unit responsible for over 1500 systems. Transformed software delivery by rolling out use of Scrum across the enterprise. Restructured development group of 500+ into teams aligned to both the business units and to the new Enterprise Architecture that ensured delivery of corporate services strategy and application rationalization. -
Chief Architect Soa / Sdk StrategyBt 2009 - 2011London, GbCreated the practices and principles used by BT in governing the rollout of its SOA / SDK strategy across its platform architecture. Created the role of Chief Data Architect to define BT's canonical data model used by inter platform services and drive its adoption and evolution. Created the role of Chief Integration Architect to ensure the use of appropriate syntactical and semantical models for information interchange. -
Director / Architect Of Web21CBt 2005 - 2009London, GbDriving creative force behind BT's ground-breaking and award-winning Web21c programmable telecommunications API & SDKs. The first Software as a Service platform and the first telecommunications company to embrace the concepts of Web 2.0 and the power of exposing its network over the web. We grew a small team to over 40 engineers developing services supporting SMS, Voice Calls, Conferencing and more using SDK's in Java, .NET, PHP, Python and even Second Life.Awards:- CNET Award for Best Communications Product or Service of the Year- eWeek Excellence Award for application development -
Manager / ArchitectQwest Communications Company, Inc. 1999 - 2005Monroe, La, UsHeld a variety of positions from Engineering Manager to Architect. Final project was a rationalization of customer ordering information using SOA concepts to replace a legacy estate. -
Sr. ConsultantDimension 2000 1988 - 1999Developed a custom system for tracking and EDI reporting for coal shipment and corresponding quality analysis for a Coal Mining Company in Wyoming's Powder River Basin.
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Sr. AnalystInfosage 1997 - 1998Engineering and Technical Sales Support for InfoSAGE's data warehousing products.
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Sr. Project ManagerCresoft Corporation 1995 - 1997UsContract off-shore Smalltalk development for telecommunications Business Support Systems. -
Sr. Software EngineerObject Technology International 1994 - 1996CaFeature development, maintenance, and support of ENVY/Developer for Smalltalk development. -
Sr. Software EngineerTrw 1991 - 1994Custom software development in support of passenger-side air-bag manufacturing and testing.
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Software EngineerQuincy Street Corporation 1987 - 1991Bespoke software development in support of semiconductor manufacturing and testing.
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