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Software Development Manager, leading the technology, driving innovation and technical strategy for running Amazon’s global fleet of middle mile vehicles. Defined, developed and maintained technology solutions for every aspect of managing the fleet, including: GPS tracking, telematics, asset management, IoT sensing, maintenance vendor integration and AWS based data acquisition and storage. Designed the organization and hired the teams required to deliver on the technical strategy. Mentoring, leading and growing the careers of both software engineers and development managers. Inventing and delivering novel solutions to support the business as assets managed scaled over 10x. Balancing cost with time to market while supporting ever increasing global scale.Invented and deployed Bluetooth location tracking solutions, and scaled to millions of assets globally. Defined and launched automated sensor based diagnostics with service vendor integrations enabling a fully automated asset maintenace solution, scaled to 100k vehicles globally.

Software Development Manager and lead of a globally distributed team, responsible for the delivery and program management of a suite of global equity portfolio management systems used to manage ~$100Bn of client funds. Development Manager of a team of expert Software Engineers, Technical Leads and QA Engineers. Responsibilities included:• Development Management, Project Management and Product Management for quantitative equities portfolio management, prime brokerage and order allocation systems• Delivery of software using Java technologies in a UNIX environment• Running development sprints, managing expectations with clients and ensuring timely and successful delivery• Leading and setting software development best practices• Partnering with key stakeholders across the firm at all levels in both technology and business rolesPreviously, technical lead of Java server-side development in London, UK. Responsible for the design and implementation of an application for rebalancing equity portfolios. This involved leading a team of developers and hands-on Java development using Spring, Hibernate, Oracle and JBoss.

Designing, developing and successfully releasing a Credit Risk Management application. This project was central to providing global applications with client hierarchy and grouping information, requiring close collaboration with many teams, both business and IT, across several regions.The architecture was a Java application built using Spring with an embedded Jetty web server to provide web services for external applications.

Design and implementation of server side components for a Credit Derivatives trading system. Responsibilities included:• Development of service oriented architecture using Java, Spring and Hibernate• Development of Trade Capture, Workflow, Market/Static data and messaging components

Software development for investment banking clients.

Team Lead developing a credit assessment application for a leading New Zealand bank.

Education and healthcare software development team lead.

Web development, financial software.

Scientific image processing software development.