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London, Uk

5 years as a Director of Software Development, with the creative folk who brought us classic games such as Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider, and original arcade shoot ‘em up Space Invaders. Overseeing the department and talented teams building Apps, Platforms, Integrations, and Information Systems, supporting the various Game Studios and back-office business functions globally, across Europe, US, Canada and Japan.𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗜𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗦𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 – aligning Business, Group, and Department Goals with Senior Leadership Team for cohesive execution plans 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 & 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 – develop Product and Tech Roadmaps, oversee Tech Stacks and Architecture, and guide Teams with OKRs 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 – driving higher Performance and Quality through KPIs Monitoring, embedding Best Practices and Innovation 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗼 & 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗴𝗺𝘁. – managing Backlogs, Stakeholder Engagement, and ROI Analysis, ensuring timely, high-quality Releases 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 – tackling critical issues, overseeing Budgets, managing Recruitment, Outsourcing, Contracts, and Licensing 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀-𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 – communicating effectively across IT, Cyber, PMO, Data Protection, Risk, HR, Legal, and Finance 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 & 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 – lead and grow high-performing global Teams across 30+ Systems, fostering an Inclusive Culture 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗿 & 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱-𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗠𝗴𝗺𝘁. – source, negotiate, and manage Vendors and Contracts, optimising Third-Party Relationships and costs

𝗔𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝟮𝟴𝟯% – from 30 to 100+, improving responsiveness by introducing Agile Frameworks, tooling and KPI monitoring 𝗖𝘂𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝟱𝟬% – improving Stakeholder relations, by strategically reorganising Department, Portfolio and creating ROI procedure 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗱 £𝟱𝟬𝗸 𝗬𝗢𝗬 – boosting bottom line, by improving bottlenecks, employing strategic solutioning, and firm renegotiation with Vendors 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 – from 0 to 1, enabling efficient, secure, governed interactivity between global Cloud and On-Premise estate 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗚𝗗𝗣𝗥 – with Months to Minutes turnaround, saving 500+ manual hours and protecting against regulatory fines 𝗘𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯 – building real-time collaboration Integrations for 4,500 global staff, handling 300,000+ monthly requests 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 – secured exclusive Training with industry legend “Uncle Bob”, founder of Agile Manifesto, SOLID, Clean Code 𝗨𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗣𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 – less than 5 Portfolio Bugs and 80-100% Test Coverage, embedding TDD and ringfencing Tech Debt, Innovation

Cambridge, Uk

AVEVA, part of Schneider Electric, provides best-in-class Industrial Software. Over a 12-year period I held a series of Management, Leadership and Engineering positions, whilst taking-up posts in multiple offices across the UK and Asia. Led and Line Managed a department of 2 Teams in the UK, alongside multiple Agile Teams in India. Supported Head of Product with strategy and operations.• Built industrious Teams from ground up, recruiting 10s of top Engineers in UK/India, working with Outsourcers • Assembled high-performing Agile line-ups, and facilitated increased productivity as Scrum Master • Encouraged and reinforced early vocations of Graduates, Apprentices and University Placements • Compassionate Performance Management of people, with PIPs, Monitoring, Disciplinaries, Termination • Accelerated team-wide technical maturity, employing Training, Conferences and Networking • Motivated Direct Reports with stable and inspirational Leadership, recognition, reward and Team Building • Resolved Team, personal, cross-site issues - wellbeing, Conflict Resolution, vastly improved supportive setting • Scope/Resource/Stakeholder/Change/Risk Mgt., Tracking, Reports, Velocity/Process/Tools Improvement, QA • Reinforced Department with Budgeting (~£½m), Time and Expense management• Advanced and Coached 15 individual’s Careers, harnessing 1:1s, Annual Reviews, PDPs, Objectives, Promotions • Ensured rapport building with Indian colleagues, securing department-wide business trip to India

Cambridge, Uk

5 years bringing clear ROI to 2 Products with competing Stakeholders. Leading and Motivating concurrent Agile Teams across the UK and India. • Constant Stakeholder-Development conduit, bringing clarity and expectation management to all • Roadmap shaping, Tracking and Reporting, ensuring tight alignment of Strategy and Dependencies • Juggled Portfolio of Product Backlogs, satisfying simultaneous internal/external Stakeholders’ Priorities at once • Honest, realistic assessment and Prioritisation of work, in focussing on MVP and building-in Quality • Continual conditioning of Epics, Features and User Stories, ensuring shared meaning of success • Steered Grooming, Planning, Review and Retrospective ceremonies, enabling solid feedback loop • Execution of individual Backlogs, reducing one in particular from 350, to under 200 items in first year

Cambridge, Uk

6 years delivering solid value into multiple flagship systems, as a Technical Leader, Mentor, and hands-on as a Senior Full-Stack Developer.• Technically Led, Coached, and Mentored numerous newcomers, each offered permanent placements • Spearheaded transition of fastest-growing B2B SaaS Product into the Cloud/AWS, simplifying deployment • Architected lasting interrelated Components, with continued reuse and extension • Timely generation and fielding of Effort Estimates for Management, with high levels of accuracy • Fronted re-architecture initiatives, increasing Team Productivity and eliminating technical overheads • Ported complex Algorithms between Languages, efficiency gains commended by Business Units • Forged Fluent UI/UX for Products, resulting in a delighted user-base and very positive feedback • Introduced and implemented DevOps CI/CD for the Department, drastically cutting build times • Helped secure ~£5mil deal with intensive Singapore customer visit, resolving technical issues

Cambridge, Uk

Greatly enhanced legacy C++ and FORTRAN code, in 3D CAD apps, including Engineering and Marine offerings. Promoted to a Senior role.

Busan, South Korea

Facilitated setup of R&D centre in APAC, relocating to South Korea for 1 year. Secured sales, prototyping marine PLM solutions in C#/ASP .NET.

Fareham, Uk

Impressed clients with tailored features for 2D CAD modelling, using VB and AutoCAD API. Soaked-up Piping & Instrument domain knowledge.

Winchester, Uk

Productised 1,500 items into Financial Decision-Making suite using C++. Built Website, E-commerce, CRM systems at this scale-up consultancy.

Fareham, Uk

Learnt C# .NET from scratch at this start-up, specialising in GPS/GIS technology and map asset tracking, even before Google Maps was a thing.

Bsc (Hons), Multimedia Programming (Software Engineering), 2:1

Hnd, Software Engineering

A/As Levels, 4 Inc. Computing

Gcses, 13 Inc. English, Maths, Science, It