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Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear, Gb

Permanent role with Leighton, mixing client consultancy work with developing our own people. Working to make Leighton the North's leading provider of AWS software delivery.

London, Gb

Enterprise architecture and consultancy on a broad range of topics, enabling growth and optimization of the organisation as IAGL scales up and develops new revenue streams.

Harrogate, North Yorkshire, Gb

Chameleon are an electronics manufacturing and smart energy data company with a turnover of approx. £45M. I had management responsibility and accountability for:• internal audit, quality engineering, and technical compliance (PCI-DSS, Smart Energy Code, ISO 27001, ISO 9001, GDPR, PECR, etc);• enablement, IT systems, and IT operations;• test engineering of hardware products;• budget management for the above.I also took on a large portion of accountability for facilities management, including coordinating new office specification, fit-out, relocation, and opening of further new sites.I continued to hold leadership responsibility for cloud and system architecture design and governance.Key successes:• Office / Microsoft 365 adoption• Migration from PBX toTeams Phone• Engineered migration from end-of-life PDM system to well-supported alternative• Full on-prem hardware refresh including vendor changes and SD-WAN adoption• Increased adoption of SaaS• Continued IT operations with OpEx budget decrease while doubling company headcount

Harrogate, North Yorkshire, Gb

As the organisation grew both organically and inorganically, and I took on a wider-ranging role looking at internal modernization as well as technical strategy. This included looking at our overall data strategy; refresh and modernization of the company's IT; process and tool modernization to scale-up and -out our manufacturing capability; impact of M&A on technology strategy and compliance; and diversification of the company's income streams and product range.

Harrogate, North Yorkshire, Gb

Chameleon are the leading manufacturer of in-home energy displays in the UK. There, I:• Led a migration of IoT services from IBM cloud to AWS (for tens of thousands of devices in the field)• Transformed the team's technological approach to data and problem solving• Instilled best practices in reliability, security, operations, and software lifecycle• Educated the wider technology function, particularly regarding cloud adoption and digital transformation• Embodied the cultural change needed in the engineering department• Major contributor to data and product strategies

Leeds, Gb

Cloud adoption strategy and implementation for a large multinational organisation with multiple on-prem data centres wanting to go through a wider digital transformation. Helped to define policy, process, controls, and technology solutions to enable agility within cultural norms and compliance boundaries.

Leeds, West Yorkshire, Gb

Building on my DevOps experience, I moved into a Solution Architect role within the Gaming Tribe, with a focus on DevOps and infrastructure. During this time I had responsibility for the selection and design of tools and solutions, meeting security, governance, performance and customer needs. I also took part in the wider architecture community at SBG, reviewing solutions across the company and chairing specialist working groups. Among other things I worked on architecture for monitoring and observability tools, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, test automation and integrations with vendor solutions.My mixed development and infrastructure experience and soft-skills were drawn on as I was assigned to the Sky Lotto project (more details below) as de facto technical authority and technical delivery manager for the development and launch of an entirely new product.

Leeds, West Yorkshire, Gb

I worked as part of the Platform Engineering team for the Gaming tribe. We delivered and maintained software and infrastructure as a service to internal customers with a focus on new technology, and AWS-based projects. These projects included monitoring and alerting with Prometheus; log shipping with Elastic Stack and Kafka; container platforms; delivery engineering; and more.Previously in this role I worked as a Reliability Engineer in Gaming, using Chef and Jenkins to manage a vast estate of virtualised Red Hat systems, and the infrastructure that ties them together. The team also had a responsibility to improve monitoring & alerting, minimize downtime and reduce technical debt across the entire tribe.

York, Gb

Returned to Isotoma primarily as a full-stack Django developer. At my time there, I:* worked on and led several challenging web application projects, in both green- and brown-field scenarios;* pushed boundaries with the company's first Python 3-based project, leading to company-wide adoption;* bolstered my cloud and DevOps experience with automated deployments to an AWS architecture designed partly by myself using Python and Boto with NewRelic for monitoring;* researched and documented security and architecture approaches for proposals and built proof-of-concept prototypes;* as part of a team of 4, delivered a complete replacement and overhaul of a website with over 130,000 pre-existing users;* continued to work with Backbone & D3 on a single-page application handling very complex data structures.

London, Outside Us, Gb

First employee at a new startup. Pioneered the early development, architecture and technical design decisions of our own product. Worked on the full-stack with Python 3, SQLAlchemy and Pyramid on the back-end; Backbone, Marionette and D3 on the front-end; and Softlayer / Fabric for DevOps. Also helped bring new technical employees on board.

Bristol, Gb

During my time at Netsight I worked on public-facing and private Plone intranets, Pyramid-based web applications & bespoke Zope / Grok based tools.At Netsight I managed releases, worked directly with clients as principal developer for multiple projects and wrote proposals and specifications for projects.I also made a number of contributions to the Zope & Plone communities, attended my third consecutive Plone Conference and was invited to join the Plone Security Team in November 2011.

York, Gb

One of the world's largest Plone development companies. I worked with Python, Zope, Plone, XHTML, CSS and Javascript on a daily basis as part of a team creating slick sites for major, international entities. I also spent some time consulting at The University of York on Plone.

York, Gb

Teaching assistant for masters-level students studying requirements engineering and web design.

York, Gb

Working alongside the department's human-computer interaction team, I helped develop new technology to improve assessment of website usability and accessibility.

Blagnac Cedex, Fr

SC cleared role.Working as an intern during the sandwich year of my degree, I contributed to several short- to medium-term R&D projects working mainly in Java, Python, and a specialist C-variant.

Gogarburn, Gb

Data entry, customer relations.

Beng (Hons), Computer Science

Gce Advanced Level (A-Level)

Gcse

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Science