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Glasgow, Gb

London, England, Gb

Ownership of the “Talent Experience” group of teams within this HR Tech Unicorn. Candidate Experience meaning Talent Portals, Application forms (and forms generally), Recruitment Events, Email Campaigns, Profile and Chrome Extension, plus related reporting functionality.A very broad remit working alongside Product, Design, and Engineering leaders but also across all departments to ensure we meet the needs of our global-scale enterprise clients. At Beamery I work in close collaboration with our Product Director and Principal Engineer to build out roadmaps that meet the exacting needs of our clients without sacrificing quality and extensibility. Balancing a fast-paced and competitive landscape against engineer load and experience. In this role I bring my past experience to bear; managing and mentoring multiple Engineering Managers, developing individual contributors, and maturing our teams. I also manage stakeholders, both internal and external. Partnering with some of the largest companies in the world to make sure we meet individual expectations while building generalised solutions.Beamery had grown rapidly to a point where working on the monolith codebase which had served it well in startup days was causing friction. Judiciously decomposing the monolith in bounded contexts with solid team ownership around it has been a focus of my time at Beamery, working closely with lead engineers. All the while balancing feature delivery, rather than purely re-architecting.

Edinburgh, Midlothian, Gb

Directing engineering within the Accounting group at FreeAgent. The Accounting group has ownership of cornerstone functionality within the FreeAgent app. In this role, I have line management of Engineering Managers, who themselves lead teams of engineers, for a reporting line of ~35 people.I give my managers autonomy in the "how" of delivery but set broad values and expectations while bringing clarity on work priorities. I am also responsible for resourcing within the group and share strategic direction with a Group Product Manager.

Edinburgh, Midlothian, Gb

Management of two product delivery teams, totaling 14 engineers, working on key components of our much-loved business hub SAAS product.Responsibilities:* Coaching & mentoring of engineers.* Facilitating & encouraging the adoption of good team practices.* One-to-ones.* Interviewing candidates.* Setting team objectives, following and ensuring steady progress* Renewing engineering-wide progression framework.

Fleet Street, England, Gb

A very broad remit within the leadership team at Findmypast. Specific responsibility for all aspects of leading multiple cross-functional engineering teams based in Dundee.Line Management* Recruitment and retention of a high-performance team of software engineers.* 30 engineers comprising; 4 feature teams, one platform team and a specialist DevOps team. * Producing progression framework and performance review process.* Handling probation reviews, performance improvement, annual reviews, holiday and expense approval. Engineering Culture* Embedding team learning through the introduction of specialist learning guilds and a learning hour.* Peer coaching and mentoring.* Balancing high quality and pragmatism in engineering.* Always looking to improve upon Lean / Agile practices.Organisational Planning* Deciding upon resource allocation across business work-streams.* Helping to set the agenda with regards technical priorities.Cross-functional concerns* Working across product and engineering teams to ensure rapid delivery of quality software.* Facilitating communication across the business.

Fleet Street, England, Gb

Working extensively with Elixir and the Phoenix framework. Taking new product concept from design to market using LEAN practices.Undertaking broad scope re-architecture of technology underpinning one of the most successful family history sites in the world. Moving from a legacy .NET MVC monolith to Elixir microservices behind a GraphQL (React.js) frontend.

Leading and line-managing small engineering team in producing, maintaining and extending bespoke software solutions to facilitate clinical trials/studies.Integrated a web platform for Pharmacy (dispensing investigative medicinal product), electronic Case Report Forms (following up trial participants), and lab data flows.Core technologies* Ember.js* Rails API* PostgreSQL

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Maintaining international platform for management of hotel / venue WiFi. System used in Hilton, Marriot, and other international chains to generate revenue from offering guest WiFi. Controlled access, speeds, data limits and billing though management system interacting with both HEP hardware and client billing systems.Technologies:* Ruby / Rails* MongoDB* Javascript

Glasgow, Scotland, Gb

Developing software solutions for healthcare informatics and analytics.Core technologies* Ruby / Rails* Javascript* Backbone.js / jQuery* Linux (CentOS/ RHEL)

C# Development, with jQuery for JavaScript, SQL server database management and querying to facilitate clinical research projects

Classic ASP development, supporting a nationwide (UK) ATM advertising platform

Gb

Classic ASP and .net development, and enhancement of a SQL server backend delivering a nationwide (Scotland) diabetic care platform.

2:1 (Hons) Bsc, Computer Science

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