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London, London, Gb

Bolton, Gb

I joined as development manager to build and lead teams as part of AO’s transformation to a product organisation. In this role I am responsible for the recruitment and overall health of delivery teams building products for core AO website offering for .UK/DE operations.

Amsterdam, Netherlands, Nl

I joined the booking transport division to coach teams in effective agile delivery techniques where initiatives spanned multiple product squads. I was involved in two projects where many agile teams needed to collaborate to deliver on ambitious timescales.• Helped teams create and adapt a delivery framework for cross team collaboration• Helped teams identify and collaborate on shared incremental delivery goals• Helped teams come together and regularly re-evaluate priorities for delivery goals• Assisted coaching team where assistance was required in individual teams• Helped teams realise where bottlenecks were emerging and how to smooth flow of delivery

London, Gb

Initially responsible establishing working practices and new effective delivery teams in the Manchester store support centre. Including line management for scrum masters and coaching support into the wider agile community at Sainsbury’s. I now have responsibility for coaching agile practices of all established teams in Manchester, including a coaching team.- Championed a cloud first Dev/Ops continuously delivery culture in teams and have been involved coaching wider Sainsbury’s teams (Service Ops/InfoSec) on how to adapt to this way of working.- Established Scrum as the framework in the product development teams.- Pitched & landed Manchester’s first major product development opportunity and act daily as delivery coach.- Introduced product over project and the importance of long-standing teams.- Fostered the importance of a collaborative partnership between product and development - Creation & delivery of workshops including: Scrum basics, writing user stories, understanding and optimising flow, transition to dev/ops.- Introduced key development practices, such as: clean code, BDD & TDD using theory and practical coding workshops.- Coached immediate and wider teams on collaboration skills, i.e. moving away from siloed activities to enable ownership of end to end delivery within teams.- Influenced product development to shift from an on time/on budget to quarterly goal driven approach, now adopted into the Sainsbury's operating framework.- Worked within enterprise strategy group to assist in creating new Sainsbury’s operating framework for agile transformation.

Manchester, Gb

Deloitte Technology Fast 500 business and Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 company.Responsible for line management and delivery of Zuto development squads that support business critical and customer online experiences- Assisting product owners with strategy & prioritisation of propositions to deliver business value.- Provide bridge between product and development teams ensuring propositions are fit for delivery.- Coaching and mentoring of agile processes and practices for delivery teams.- Ensuring a smooth flow of work through cross team delivery pipelines.- Providing a measurement framework to feedback team performance

London, England, Gb

BBC Mobile and TV Platforms develop products such as iPlayer, iPlayer Radio on TV and native mobile platforms (iOS and Android). Also provide pan BBC native mobile components, such as standard media players.Responsible for the creation and delivery of programmes of work for iPlayer Radio and Mobile Core Engineering native app teams. Responsible for direct line management of business analysis and project management functions within teams.- Took successful control of MVP & delivery of the Android iPlayer Radio app for a major event deadline.- Implemented iOS/Android parity initiatives across teams following BBC trust mandate.- Maintained support and delivery for the Android BBC Media Player app (iPlayer’s video player).- Partnered with Google to deliver Chromecast to iOS/Android onto iPlayer apps for Google UK product launch.- Leveraged success of Chromecast on iPlayer to deliver pan BBC mobile component.- In collaboration with product teams, assisted in strategy & delivery for the next generation BBC Android video player using Google based technologies.- Produced strategy for delivery of iPlayer Radio tablet applications as a universal binary.- Championed lean product delivery, resulting in highly successful regular build, measure learn cycles throughout development of iPlayer Radio universal binary.- Coordinated delivery of highly complex mobile DRM download capability for iPlayer iPlayer Radio mobile apps.- Acted in a team of ambassadors for lean product delivery across TV & Mobile platforms and presented achievements at Agile Manchester.- Regularly showcased BBC technology opportunities to school & college recruitment advisors.

Manchester, Greater Manchester, Gb

Auto Trader UK provide market leading automotive classified websites both in the UK and abroad. Auto Trader are most commonly known for the www.autotrader.co.uk website and associated iOS and Android apps.Internally recruited into this role with the responsibility to build and lead a specialised mobile IT team to deliver Android and iOS solutions for the Auto Trader mobile business (circa £9.8M T/O – FY12).- Recruited and led high performing agile IT delivery team to 14 heads in 12 months, specialising in iOS, Android and mobile web capabilities.- Partner with mobile business director to define strategy and business aligned delivery programme of work.- Plan and manage team budget of £750K (FY11) to £1.3M (FY12)- New Award winning* b2b iPhone dealer app. Stock management and revenue generating with in app purchase.- New Android used car search app (~350K monthly UU)- New iPad used car search app, iTunes featured app of the week (~250K monthly UU)- New iPhone used car & bike search app (~800K monthly UU)- HTML5 Mobile website- Highly innovative apps, with thin client architecture connecting to high performing multi-tiered back end solutions.- Provide input into all product business cases with recommended solutions, costs and estimates.- Received sign-off on business case to build a replacement HTML5 mobile web solution, including a technical strategy for platform recognition across all TMG web solutions, i.e. mobile/tablet/desktop detection. To be built by mobile team at a cost of £350K.- Act as mobile consultant to wider technology team, i.e. champion think mobile.

Manchester, Greater Manchester, Gb

Auto Trader UK provide market leading automotive classified websites both in the UK and abroad. Auto Trader are most commonly known for the www.autotrader.co.uk website and associated iOS and Android apps.- Continuous delivery solutions for online search and advertising products in agile environment.- Work with technical director and senior business team to define strategy and schedule programme of work.- Owned stakeholder relationship to director level.- Manage and maintain channel backlog for current programme of work.- Provide strong product management support to stakeholders to ensure a confident product direction.- Continuous contribution into best practice agile IT delivery, including tools and techniques.Exposure to mobile platform, providing solution for iPhone application and mobile web.

Government owned bookmaker, more recently acquired by BetFred. Retail channels include: Internet, call centre, on course & shops.- Lead analyst on £2.5 million replacement IT system capable of £251M T/O.- Owned stakeholder relationship for IT solutions, both internal/external.- Business case production for key online services: mobile text betting, online casino, online bingo.- Management & recruitment responsibility for 2 analysts.

Government owned bookmaker, more recently acquired by BetFred. Retail channels include: Internet, call centre, on course & shops.Call centre, Internet and On Course real time, business critical betting systems:- C++ multi-service backend, Windows 2000 Server, Front end MFC, Microsoft SQL Server

The company produced a comprehensive range of hospital/trust wide information systems.Patient administration systems deployed to various NHS trusts:- C, C++, Unix, Windows, Informix

Joint venture between Alsthom France and GEC UK to design and implement the real time control and instrumentation systems for the Eurostar channel tunnel train.- Software Engineer working in collaboration with control engineers developing the real time control systems of the Eurostar. Involved working in various european location in ISO 9001 environments.- Responsible for design, implementation and test of real time control systems.

Initial contract for Sizewell B control and instrumentation systems.- Worked as graduate software engineer on Sizewell B instrumentation systems, C, Oracle.