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Shanghai, China

Principal Software Architect overseeing the strategic development direction in the company's innovation arm. Responsible for planning and guiding engineering teams deploying new software solutions for various lead management and edtech operations, including customer acquisition and customer service delivery. Designed and delivered: - A common CRM solution to migrate away from multiple market's legacy lead management system. Integrating with leads capture, contract processing and analytics systems.- An online service booking and performer management system, providing the company reduce costs by allowing remote lesson delivery at scale.- A customer credit system, allowing customers to be provided weekly credits as part of their subscription and purchase additional credits, improving company revenue opportunities.- A cross market, OAuth 2 customer login solution based on Azure AD B2C.Guided teams delivering:- A cross-market customer-facing app for service consumption, integrating with legacy regional backends.

Shanghai, China

Software Architect designing integrations for enterprise systems including CRMs and e-commerce platforms. Improving full software development lifecycle practices and software maintainability across LVMH sub-brands and their vendors.

Shanghai, China

Acting as an agile Technical Project Manager and hands-on Java Spring Boot developer to roll out a new clienteling app for Bulgari China.

Shanghai, China

Built working prototypes of deep learning powered design tools based on Tensorflow U-Nets.

Shanghai City, China

Designing (and building) kick-ass, grin-generating, heart-accelerating Virtual Reality experiences, sprinkled with some blockchain magic.Designed, developed, named, created brand assets for, Futurejam, a VR music rhythm action game. Launched on Steam Early Access.Concepted and designed, Futurespace, a blockchain driven multi-user VR concert platform.

Shanghai City, China

Working for one of the world’s most influential product design and strategy firms, frog Design, this role was a hybrid of software consultancy, technology strategy and design technology.Client facing role, requiring discussion of highly technical issues to know technical stakeholders.Hands-on experience working in multi-discipline teams utilising with design research, user experience and design thinking to solve client problems almost always in ambiguous and unclear situations. Rapidly prototyping, testing hypotheses and building-out to commercially ready solutions.Consulted various telcos on their enterprise architecture and future development strategy. Designed and developed various prototype experiences including virtual reality exercise and artificially intelligent powered virtual reality education.

Shanghai City, China

Head of the Software Engineering Department of the Shanghai office of the award winning digital agency AKQA.Responsible for recruitment, departmental development strategy, technology adoption, system design and consultation and team mentoring and training.Projects Included:● Nike+ Run Club – multi-award winning WeChat platform to increase running in China, using data from Nike+.● WeSpeakMusic – a cross-platform experience turning text to sung music tracks.● Nike FreeId – award winning WeChat experience using image processing to turnphotos into Nike ID shoe designs.● Maybelline Makeup Academy - an Umbraco CMS powered, AJAX driven makeup tutorial site.

Shanghai City, China

Working as a software architect designing service orientated architectures for companies next generation message-based ERP systems. Lead teams to build and deliver scalable, maintainable software systems in Java, Tomcat, GWT.

London, United Kingdom

Working for one of London’s top creative agencies. Working to develop and maintain the brandsite for a leading UK supermarket chain. Responsibilities and achievements include:Bringing a legacy code base into a more maintainable form.Maintaining and deploying legacy C# code base across 7 app servers.Client facing role, directly managing expectations and capturing requirements.

United Kingdom

Post-Graduate software engineering position working up from Graduate developer to Senior. Working on financial and reporting ERP products in Java and C#. Company culture heavily focused on Extreme Programming (XP) practices including pair-programming, maintainability, unit testing, design patterns, continuous integration and other industry best practices.