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Leads a number of teams within Engineering - designing, building & running both the software and infrastructure that empowers our users.

Responsible for Technology strategy & implementation across Duco Engineering:- Run Technology leadership & compliance groups for engineering team of >50- Own infrastructure budget (>$1m pa)- Developer Advocate - represent Engineering across Sales, Presales, Marketing & Customer Success- Run Platform Infrastructure, Platform Services & Developer Effectiveness teams (~20 SREs, Engineers & SDETs)

Designed and built large-scale enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform, & led rearchitecture of major applications to run on it. Created & ran 2 new teams:Platform Infrastucture Team (SREs):- Multi-account, Multi-region, multi-cluster best practice AWS/EKS stacks (>15 clusters, >200 nodes)- Gitops IaaS with Terraform & Gitlab- Portworx storage backing 100s of stateful production applications- Gitops deployment architecture (Flux + helm-operator)- Cluster-autoscaler, Nginx-ingress, Cert-manager, External-dns- Prometheus monitoring, Elasticsearch centralised log collectionPlatform Services Team (Engineers):- 6 month project to remove reliance on shared filesystem & move to object storage in existing application- Implemented helm charts across >10 production projects- Kubernetes job scheduling using kubernetes java client, moving to FaaS pattern for batch processing- Written operators in ruby, python & Go

Productionised & implemented large scale data warehouse application (Duco Data Platform):- Apache Hadoop + Impala, Kerberos, Sentry- Puppet deployment onto VMWare virtual machines

• Sought & secured funding to start & run a new technical SDET team within CS business division providing test automation & performance solutions to a wide range of projects• CS projects include SaaS web & email filtering solutions, large scale cyber security monitoring & analytics, & enterprise financial regulatory products - >750 engineers across the company• Manage small but senior team of automation & performance SMEs (plus graduate SDETs) to span all workstreams and enable greater consistency & convergence of test technology choices - left-shift & modernise QA/Test implementations• Automation & Performance Test responsibilities for multiple large-scale agile projects; recent highlights include:** Multiple webdriver implementations using page-object pattern – java, webdriver, testNG, allure reporting – incuding appium mobile app testing & browserstack integration** WebDriver + REST API BDD automation implementation – Jbehave migration to cucumber (java) – plus Jekyll-based dynamic feature-file visualiser** Large-scale performance test framework, running in AWS, simulating 100k users (>10k http requests per second) connecting via cloud-based web filtering product. Gatling (scala) + Jenkins Pipeline + Docker + AWS + Python deploy scripts** High volume email threat-detection performance framework – generating & orchestrating >50k emails per hour. Wrote custom performance orchestration service & email data generation API in Flask + MongoDB (python); Gatling (scala) controlling & timing; Grafana monitoring** REST API test framework implementation using rest-assured libraries within java – ‘service-object’ pattern ** Data generation site (Ruby - Sinatra libraries) • Various automation research projects – investigating and implementing new toolsets – recent highlights:** Protractor JS, Nightwatch, Magellan investigations as comparison of other JS web-ui frameworks** Serenity-BDD (formerly thucyclides) – java BDD and non-bdd automation implementations

• Test Manager for large-scale web filtering product build. Agile delivery - responsible for all elements of test strategy & planning; including System (including automated UI & API), Performance, OAT, PenTest & Beta testing. Team of 5 onshore, 5 offshore test engineers.(role undertaken in parallel with other roles)

Automation Capability Lead – Global Engineering & Delivery• Introduced companywide standardised test automation approach and framework; now the standard automation framework in use in the company:o Created and developed Frameworkium – simple quick-start Maven project with java-based Selenium WebDriver implementation (github.com/frameworkium)o Leveraged reputation and contacts across the company to fast track it’s adoption: now in use in 40+ projects - across all business divisions & most officeso Established community of test engineers to maintain & improve the framework, including UKDC & KL automation leads – 5 distinct collaborators contributing code to dateo Common toolset, language & approach has enabled more effective collaboration between offices and smoothed path to use of offshore/nearshore to accelerate & develop automation of projects• Passionate trainer & evangelist for all things test: o Created and ran automation courses for 120+ testers across 2015 – including two weeklong courses in Malaysia officeso Also been running graduate introduction to test & advanced performance test training courses since 2014Head of Test – Global Engineering & Delivery• Senior test manager, with responsibility for the delivery and improvement of testing and QA across Global Engineering & Delivery (50-100 testers across London, Guildford, Leeds, & Kuala Lumpur)• Recruited and embedded >10 new UK roles – including local head of test & head of automation in Leeds office• Stood up offshore test automation service in Kuala Lumpur office (5-10 team members – flexes up and down)– cementing & providing a centre for the automation capability within KL, and allowing projects to purchase experienced automation developers to deliver outcomes in a common language (Selenium WebDriver – now using companywide Frameworkium pattern)

Project Manager - Secure Government Client, London• Project manager for 3 key projects, managing a team of 40-50 developers, architects, testers and business analysts – reporting to company and client senior management• Responsible for planning, tracking and reporting of projects from bid process through to go-live - agile delivery methodology, annual budget of £5m-£10mEngineering & Test Manager - Secure Government Client, London (UIE portfolio)• Designed & implemented new delivery model for portfolio of projects – engaging with wide range of teams and stakeholders to move from rigid V-model big-bang release schedule to a more regular rolling agile model• JIRA admin – responsible for ensuring consistent use of JIRA across portfolio of projects to enable reporting & fair comparison across projects• Implementation manager for complex out-of-hours deployments to live systems• Conducted a range of technical PoCs for new automation, development and performance test tooling, & developed a range of test tools and applications in range of languages (C#, Java, Python, SQL, shell, batch) – including DevExpress thick-client application implementation, using base CodedUI libraries but implemented in a page-object pattern• Designed & contributed to ‘capture’ project – a mongoDB + Flask application to store step-by-step screenshots of UI tests for easier repro & selenium grid monitoring

Programme Test Manager - Secure Government Client, London• Accountable for all aspects of testing delivered across in excess of £10-20m worth of work a year (across > 10 projects) – covering a broad portfolio of small software updates, new software projects, and infrastructure delivery projects• Responsible for defining programme level test strategies, plans, methodologies, tools and frameworks; for defining target tooling state, and for ensuring successful adoption by BAs, development and test teams• Responsible for team of 20-30 test managers, leads and analysts• Upgraded and migrated test management solution used by >100 members of staff - worked with practices and Global Engineering functions to export this to the wider company - now adopted as standard toolset across BAE AI (JIRA + Zephyr for JIRA)• Managed successful migrations of automated test packs from Selenium 1 into full Selenium WebDriver implementation with shared selenium grid – reduced execution time of ~2500 test cases from >2 weeks to ~8 hoursTechnical Test Specialist - Secure Government Client, London (various projects)• Technical and non-functional test specialist across range of projects within the client group. Steered adoption of fully automated test solution (Selenium) for a number of projects. Wrote performance test frameworks for range of projects (MS CodedUI, SOAPUI, Selenium), and produced a number of PoCs and tools to aid testing across the account. Reported to account manager on a weekly basis• Performance specialist – worked in small team to identify & tune application performance bottlenecks (using MSTest performance framework in C#). Created & agreed NFRs with business, then implemented treemap and bubble chart visualisations to demonstrate improvements to business users

Test Analyst & (latterly) Test Manager - Secure Government Client, London• Joined as a test analyst; quickly promoted to test lead & latterly test manager – running a team of 12 despite very limited experience – on a large data warehousing & visualisation application (Oracle, C# mid & front end, Lucene search engine)• Introduced MS TFS Test Management (moving from excel) & sharepoint reporting to support rapid growth of teamC++ Developer & Performance Test Engineer - Common Core Project, Guildford• Developed software for high speed packet processing framework deployed on number of hardware and software solutions; Developed performance test framework