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London, Gb

⁃ Responsible for the strategic alignment and development of technological solutions as partof the executive team.⁃ Scaled engineering and product teams from 5 to 30 people globally, fostering cross-functional collaboration and delivering high-impact projects.⁃ Managed our successful ISO 27001 certification process for three consecutive years, in-cluding upgrading to version 2022.⁃ Involved in all key enterprise sales, providing strategic technology insights and advisingclients on tailored solutions to drive business outcomes.⁃ Enhanced our proprietary vector database with streaming data input capabilities, man-aging over 600 billion data points with support for real-time analysis on large datasets.⁃ Implemented automatic survey creation through Generative AI, reducing delivery timefrom 4 days to just a few hours, significantly improving efficiency and accuracy.⁃ Designed a transcription service using Azure AI Speech to transcribe and translate open-ended data automatically, significantly reducing delivery time.⁃ Led the data science initiative to identify new revenue streams and build a cross-departmentalBI platform, developing ETL pipelines that consolidate data from all departments andexternal sources into a data lake connected to Power BI.

London, London, Gb

⁃ Managed a fully remote product and engineering team, including outsourced staff acrossdifferent countries.⁃ Led the digital transformation to migrate all products and services to Microsoft Azure,offering a unified cloud-based platform.⁃ Driver in client conversations and technical sales, providing expert guidance on solutionarchitecture, data strategies, and product customization to meet client needs and drivebusiness growth.⁃ Transitioned from a monolithic architecture to a microservice-based architecture usingAzure Functions for scalable serverless computing, improving performance and reducingcosts.⁃ Migrated data storage to Cosmos DB and Azure SQL for enhanced scalability and relia-bility.⁃ Led the re-build of the platform UI in React, developing a responsive web-based userinterface that significantly improved user experience and scalability.

London, London, Gb

⁃ Directed the full integration of MI Pro and Marsc technologies to develop an end-to-endSaaS platform for market research.⁃ Designed and implemented a CATI (Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing) solu-tion for data collection, fully integrated with a dialer system to provide a full telephoneinterview platform.⁃ Implemented Single Sign-On (SSO) to streamline user access and improve security.⁃ Closely integrated key components to ensure seamless interoperability and enhance theoverall user experience.

⁃ Responsible for the architecture and implementation of an enterprise platform for marketresearch, including products for survey design, data collection, data processing, analysis,and reporting.⁃ Led the development and design of a proprietary vector database, optimized for real-timeanalysis of large datasets using advanced mathematical statistics⁃ Developed a comprehensive graphical XML editor in .NET, featuring advanced parsing,validation, and user-friendly interface for survey creation.⁃ Designed and implemented an automatic scanning solution for paper surveys using PostScript,enabling the system to scan answers without predefining scanning areas, greatly improvingthe efficiency of the data collection process.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

⁃ Oversaw the implementation and integration of GMI software products and services witha focus on tailored solutions for enterprise clients.⁃ Built a suite of data processing tools to merge, append datasets, and perform weight datacalculations, enabling efficient and scalable data management.⁃ Focused on the architecture and implementation of core GMI software products, ensuringseamless integrations and customized solutions for enterprise-scale environments.

⁃ Responsible for the architecture and implementation of several large projects, including: - Bombardier: Platform for online train maintenance, serving trains globally. - TetraPak: Online spare parts catalogue for TetraPak products. - Gambro: Online platform with manuals for dialys - AstraZeneca: Implementation of a Global R&D Strategy Framework and an educational platform for nurses and doctors. - Danfoss: Developed an on-demand system for creating technical documentation in factory lines, dynamically generating documents based on customer specifications.⁃ Actively involved in client communications, stakeholder management, and project management to ensure successful delivery and alignment with business goals.

Master Of Science, Mathematics And Computer Science

Mathematics, Computer Science