Reporting directly to the Managing Director, the role involved leading the firms digital transformation strategy, improving productivity and efficiency in all departments. Implementing and directing the firms Cloud strategy adopting MS Azure and third party platforms. Adoption of AI focusing on ML and NLP, driven through partnership with University of Manchester. Fostering a technology first approach, modernising ways of working. A member of the Senior Leadership Team representing technology, the role also had budgetary responsibility for IT. Retained oversight of the Software Development Team providing line management to Team Leads and ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.

• Direct line management of team of 8 developers focused on backend development and databases.• Implemented agile working practices• Scaling team through recruitment and training.• Retained some hands on coding - C# / WCF / WebAPi / MVC / Visualifles• Extensive experience developing integrations with third party services and libraries.• Version control: SVN / Git using Bitbucket, Confluence and Jira• Database design and development - SQL Server 2016 / SSIS / SSRS / Redgate• Managed outsourced web agency Achievements:• Helped to launch new Flight Delay compensation department.• Oversaw the development of award-winning flight delay compensation system, onboarding 60,000 claimants a year. Flight database housed circa 500 million records of historical flight data.• Represented the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) as a Technical Contributor at Ministry of Justice (MoJ) Working Group, setup to deliver Personal Injury reforms from 2010 – 2016.

Recruited as the firms first in-house Software Developer, responsible for the development of the firms Case Management and various integration projects. Bott and Co has subsequently become a top 200 law firm in the UK handling high volume consumer claims.• Maintained and developed the firm’s Personal Injury application using Visualfiles case management system handling upwards of 5000 claims per annum. • Designed and developed a new application to handle Conveyancing matters, assisting with the launch of a new legal department. • Worked closely with the Ministry of Justice as a claimant representative during the launch of the low value personal injury claims portal in the UK. Developed integration with a software provider that was subsequently sold to other firms.• Developed various integrations using C#/VB.net, SQL, HTML, CSS, ASP.net.

• Business Analyst at world leading pharmaceutical company. Part of global team spanning UK, US and Italy focused on IT Security Projects.• Performed gap analysis to check adherence to security policies and procedures, delivering management reports identifying areas where compliance could be enhanced.• Developed solution in Visual Basic for generating security metrics based on global data imports which was subsequently used by operational end users in Indianapolis.• Worked with team to develop innovative training material raising IT security risk awareness which was delivered at a training conference for European Affiliates.• Liaised closely with projects and operations teams to deliver value to end users.