Richard Lennox Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, Scotland, Gb

Glasgow, Scotland, Gb

Edinburgh, Gb

Partnering with start-up and scale-up businesses to accelerate sustainable innovation and growth. https://originalangle.com

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Strategic executive in Health Tech scale-up delivering an enterprise care-at-home platform that enables healthcare organizations to deliver high-quality, patient-centric care at a home. Acquired in 2021 by Best Buy for $400m.

Edinburgh, Gb

Senior Director and trusted leader for global scale travel product with >60million monthly active users. Accelerated growth from <50 people to 900+ in 11 offices and culminating in a £1.4bn acquisition in 2016 by Ctrip.* Originally employed as a Software Engineer, I have undertaken a variety of roles across multiple areas through Skyscanner's growth. Previous roles include - Senior Architect; Senior Technical Manager; Senior Manager, Business Strategy and Operations; and Head of Engineering.* Key contributor to overall Product and Growth strategies, focusing on execution.* Active, visible and trusted leader in a team undergoing hyper-growth - enabling growth from 20 to 400+ product-engineering staff.* Built and managed high performing teams across multiple disciplines. Managed teams of 140+ engineers, data scientists, product and operations managers across various business areas.* Implemented a "Bar Raiser" programme ensuring consistent quality in every hiring decision.* Successfully delivered strategic product features such as User Account Management, Fare Alerts and the Data Platform.* Defined long-term technical strategy and engineering principles including native applications, user engagement, search, data, web application architecture and migration to the cloud.* Delivered key process improvements across Skyscanner. Drove the adoption of a "Squads and Tribes" model to achieve agile at scale in all areas of the business.* Provided leadership during the formation of a Growth organisation - combining Marketing, Commercial, Engineering and Product disciplines into cross-functional squads.* Co-authored a career development framework for all disciplines and all employees in Skyscanner; effectively managed a critical and emotive change.* Performed due diligence as part of M&A activity including the acquisitions of Fogg, Distinction & Twizoo; and the joint venture with Yahoo! Japan.* Proactively managed and mentored key individuals, peers and superiors.

* Worked with a small development team as part of a wider digital and technical solutions agency, mainly focussed on CMS supported web applications and sites.* Promoted from the role of Senior Technical Developer to Senior Architect in October 2008 with an increase in responsibilities.* Supervised both colleagues and external contractors in the design and delivery of key projects, including an online, adaptable product application platform for a leading Scottish corporate bank and intranet and extranet for an entrepreneurial out of hours veterinary service.* Often undertook various roles in any given project, including project management, technical lead, pre-sales solution definitions. Also included capturing requirements, testing solutions and training colleagues and clients.* In a variety of projects I provided detailed technical design and functional specifications, supervising the implementation by one or more colleagues, providing support and mentoring as necessary. Particularly evident in a web platform for a leading Gas network infrastructure.* Applied various out-of-the-box considerations and problem solving techniques when designing solutions that would work with existing and legacy enterprise platforms. Including the delivery of a personalised web content platform for a Financial Services company that connected with internal CRM systems.* Introduced a range of improvements to development practices including best practice use of version control, Continuous Integration and Unit Testing.

* Solely responsible for the full lifecycle development, project management and ongoing support for a large scale e-commerce project to deliver a SaaS based solution for Hotel Gift Voucher company SK Chase.* Managed evaluation of the client's requirements, developed a full understanding of business needs and used this to plan and provide effective solutions.* Rebuilt system from ground up for scalability, reliability and process streamlining to a concrete business deadline directly contributing to the first £1M turnover month.* Undertook the ongoing software development of the application employing Agile principles and using a Test Driven Development strategy.* The successful solution required significant input on Accessibility, Usability and Search EngineOptimisation.* Gained experience in the development and implementation of Content Management Systems whilesupporting the development of Ezone’s SaaS CMS.* Implemented and managed testing strategies for Websites and Web based applications, as well as performed the maintenance of Microsoft Windows Servers and IIS.