+ Stood up and led a brand-new team of ~10 engineers, primarily new hire graduates. Established team structure, training, software development processes, engineering practices & ceremonies including Jira (Kanban) projects. Built a team capable of delivering complex projects and owning critical systems.+ Worked with engineers on personal and career growth via weekly 1 to 1’s, coaching, goal setting, skill assessments, and delegating responsibilities. Resulting in a team of highly capable engineers and achieving multiple promotions.+ Responsible for mission critical systems including a cloud based distributed log analysis and support system. Worked with stakeholders and the team to make valuable improvements to stability, performance, functionality and substantially reduce cloud infrastructure costs.+ Responsible for managing the delivery of projects. Worked to enable and guide engineers through the full development lifecycle. Co-ordinated with other departments to setup projects, overseeing development and providing leadership updates. Projects include: - A new internal web-based management system for Capella, Couchbase’s managed cloud database, continuously updated to support new Couchbase features. The system is used across the company and is critical to the smooth running of Capella. - Observability dashboards for Capella database clusters, providing deep performance data to engineers, for faster resolution of customer issues.+ Product management - setting priorities, backlog management, working with stakeholders to identify/prioritise requirements, working to enable / coach the team on project management and prioritisation.+ Responsible for making promotion recommendations, facilitating multiple promotions.+ Organised intern placements, ensuring interns got the most out of their placements.+ Part of the Manchester office leadership team, working on initiatives to improve office moral

+ Led two cross functional product teams, responsible for ensuring delivery of valuable products+ Collaborated with senior management, stakeholders, and engineering teams to set product direction and milestones. Develop ideas, manage change requests, product backlogs, and report progress back to stakeholders and senior management+ Continuously developed and improved software engineering team performance, taking on some engineering management responsibility, including regular 1 to 1’s. Led the implementation of Kanban & Scrum. Consulted on team structure and technical architecture. Interviewed potential new hires and made hiring recommendations.+ Took on some scrum master duties, running various scrum ceremonies, unblocking, and coaching team members. Co-ordinated QA and UAT testing and planned / co-ordinated production releases+ Managed the migration of a poster designer app from Adobe Flash to Angular. Rather than simply cloning functionality, I continuously incorporated user feedback, improving, and adding features, via frequent, iterative releases. Hugely improving productivity and delighting users and stakeholders!+ Managed the development of a large-scale greenfield “ad play” data visualisation product. Worked closely with the team on technologies and architecture to process and visualise huge quantities of advertising data. Co-ordinated with external data providers and stakeholders to automate previously manual processes and provide new data insights + Took an idea for IoT style “smart adverts” from inception through to a revenue generating commercial product. Worked with the team on technical architecture and design of the distributed system, now running on hundreds of advertising panels in Ireland+ Managed the long-term transformation of an existing business-critical system into a professional, highly regarded application, substantially increasing user productivity, capabilities, stability, and performance, and reducing user onboarding times

+ Implemented new software features, both front and back end, using Angular, Typescript, HTML, CSS, .NET, C#, SQL/EF, Azure services such as managed SQL, service bus, app services, blob storage, functions, and key vault.+ Worked on the technical architecture and implementation of an event-based monitoring micro-service that automatically detected advertising campaign issues. The system allowed users to pre-emptively discover and resolve issues, successfully preventing disruption to many live advertising campaigns.+ Led the successful implementation of Scrum, taking on some scrum master duties. Scrum was key to our outstanding team performance and inspired the adoption of similar techniques in other teams.+ Mentored a junior developer, participated in recruitment, assessing technical expertise of candidates, made hiring recommendations, and advised on team structure.+ Advocate for continuous improvement, including the introduction of micro-services, team coding standards, code reviews and expanding test automation to the front end.

+ Performed team lead and many scrum master functions. Worked with the team to develop and improve internal processes, resolve issues, liaise with senior management. Played a central role in the implementation of Scrum. Designed processes to improve the way we worked with the wider business. Interviewed/assessed candidates when recruiting developers. Mentored junior team members.+ Initiated a project to replace the company’s primary product, a legacy Point of Sale system. Created an agile inception deck, scoped requirements, built a high-level product backlog, lead a development team to deliver technical prototypes, organised internal training, and technical studies to select technologies and tools.+ Developed a multi-tenant eCommerce SaaS platform used by over 100 restaurants, a core product and revenue stream for Andromeda. Implemented an SPA website using TypeScript and ReactJS, DataCash and PayPal payments and Facebook login with a C# WCF back-end running on AWS.+ Designed and developed a Cloud based B2B API, allowing food orders to be sent to restaurant POS systems via the cloud in near real time, processing more than 70,000 restaurant orders per month. Using C#/WCF REST services, with a SQL DB via EF/LINQ, hosted on AWS EC2 and Azure VMs.+ Developed an ASP.NET MVC admin system to manage restaurant information and internal systems.

+ Developed a SaaS health questionnaire web site and internal admin systems using ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server and T-SQL for Business Health, a health and wellbeing company.+ Developed a publicly facing website and internal tools for the North Norfolk Railway.+ Built a commercial website for matching Au pairs and families using ASP.NET & SQL Server.+ Created HTML/CSS content and various internal tools for a Network/I.T. company+ Managed a team of 10 contractors to complete a very large desk move for Nectar.+ Developed a commercial application that automatically generated DAL source code.

+ Worked with Faith Footwear to develop a pioneering store management system used in 160 retail outlets. Using new to market hand-held RF barcode scanners we developed globally unique capabilities for sales floor and stock room staff, enabling just in time stock distribution across the UK resulting in massive cost savings. Involved in all aspects of the project lifecycle. Worked with e-partners in the US and Siemens Business Services on supply chain management.+ Developed a bespoke medical stock control system, written in embedded C. + Developed a bespoke goods out system for Ven den Bergh foods.+ Developed a bespoke factory goods out system for Brose.

+ Worked on the Marks and Spencer Year 2000 project, leading the team during the testing phase.

+ Worked on insurance quotation systems. My role included implementing changes to the quotation systems, writing functional specifications and test plans.