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Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Continuation of role at Infinity Works after acquisition by Accenture.Managing engagements cradle to grave, whilst supporting multiple other engagement leads to do the same. Responsible for staff and customer happiness while delivering on gross margin targets. - Managed c. 45 staff directly and 120 as part of a management team. Overseen £15m annual revenue.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Accenture had a POC for medical laboratory automation and digitisation. I led on architecture and engineering across teams in UK and India to turn this POC into a saleable product and produce marketing materials to sell this into existing and new pharmaceutical customers. - Led a team consisting of 3 architects, 2 tech leads and c. 25 engineering staff.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Cross squad engineering lead across 6 squads in UK, India and Philippines totalling c. 45 staff. Taking over support and maintenance for 4 key COVID response systems from an incumbent supplier. - Simplified the architecture, drove down tech debt by over 50% and completed missing features allowing two COVID response systems to be adopted by wider NHS.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Continuation of last role at Infinity Works.- On leadership team managing over 120 staff. Responsible for c. 35 staff across 3 workstreams. - Supported teams through acquisition of our company by Accenture- Managed project migration to new processes, systems and ways of working under Accenture- Introduced 2 new production services for NHS Digital - Trained.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

- On leadership team managing over 120 staff. Responsible for c. 35 staff across 3 workstreams.- Built up my structure of engagement and technical leads, coaching people into these roles to create an effective structure to support a varied set of engagements- Introduced 2 new production services for NHS Digital- Supported NHS login through pandemic.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Managing engagements cradle to grave, whilst supporting multiple other engagement leads to do the same. Responsible for staff and customer happiness while delivering on gross margin targets.- Supported growth of Manchester region from 20 to 180 over 4 years through events, recruitment, onboarding and coaching.- Started 7 new engagements, won 11 competitive.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

- Supported CTO in defining engineering org structure to scale from 40 to 180 engineering staff- Mobilised 23 consultants in under 4 weeks to meet customer's challenging MVP timelines- Provided clear goals and hyper focused 6 squads on a steel thread to rapidly gain traction and show progress to stakeholders and investors to gain trust and support- Created.

Coventry, United Kingdom

- Worked with Chief Engineer and Chief Architect to formulate a strategy to move away from overnight batch processing of various data to real-time integrations based on REST, GraphQL and Kafka.- Provided education and guidance to engineering teams across London, Coventry and Manchester who have built multiple real-time integrations between key systemsSee.

London, England, United Kingdom

- Migration of.NET stack ecommerce site from on prem to AWS- Worked as part of a cross functional team spanning engineering, ops, data, security and architecture to define and create the target cloud architecture, allowing a seamless migration and continuation of all operational systems including CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, CRM, etc.- Monitored and.

Daresbury

Responsible for engineering across two product lines, staff management, setting engineering priorities in conjunction with sales, marketing and support, and managing integrations with other product lines.I implemented agile ways of working and reduced the release cycle from 2 years to 3 months (enterprise software).I worked with the SLT to restructure the.

Ewloe

Managed engineering and commercial teams through the industry becoming FCA regulated. Set up new business capabilities to cover FCA requirements and drove accuracy of quotes shown on the site from 25-60% depending on insurance product to a consistent 90%+ across the board. Set up service desk function for partner requests and issues.

United Kingdom

Delivered an ETL solution for a new BI platform, utilising agile ways of working and engineering best practices. Without realising it we were trailblazing DataOps, something that's caught on much more broadly now.

Ewloe

Technical leadership for a number of teams on a number of different product lines. Led teams through agile adoption, using both Scrum and Kanban.

Amending applications for usability for disabled members of staff, data warehousing of and reporting on financial data

Implemented warehouse management system integrating with legacy systems and MI reporting. Worked on various projects colaborating with colleagues in Germany and Spain.

As part of a small development team my role was to create websites for external clients.

Professional Certificate (Level 6), Business Administration And Management, General, Pass

Integrating all areas of business management to solve difficult problems in a complex world. Studies included people, organisation.

Computer Science

Started besides a full time job. Dropped out as it didn't provide me with any challenge. Preferred learning at work.