I lead a new team whose mission is to make Cash’s engineering organisation the best possible environment for our people to be productive, fulfilled, growing and happy.

Hooroo is a fast-growing, emergent Hotel accommodation business that requires a delivery capability that is highly agile and quality-focused. The Software Development Manager role takes ownership of the people, practices and technologies that can provide this capability.Accountabilities:- Recruitment, leadership and development of Hooroo’s Engineering, Operations and QA team- Formation and delivery of a clear technical vision, in alignment with Hooroo’s commercial strategy- Guide and facilitate the practical application of software development and delivery practices such as; Lean, Agile, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Pair Programming and Test-Driven Development- Build and maintain a culture of technical innovation

Responsible for ensuring consistency and continual improvement of the team's delivery process and software quality, providing mentorship to fellow developers through pair programming and informal coaching.Accountable for successful delivery of initiatives, including:- Predictable and efficient User Story throughput- Identification and instrumentation of metrics to measure commercial outcomes- Clear technical direction, communicated to all stakeholders- Consistent, pragmatic, flexible technology choices (application code, system architecture and infrastructure)- Appropriate monitoring, automated testing and QA approach

CAV’s small product and development team, part remote and part in Melbourne, develops property portals and e-marketing tools for the global real estate industry.Responsible for:- Full stack web development using JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Solr and MySQL.- Development of automated test suite using Jasmine, RSpec and Capybara with Selenium Web Driver- Configuration and maintenance of Jenkins Continuous Integration server and Continuous Delivery pipeline- Refinement of the team’s Agile Software Development practices

FNZ designs, builds and supports wrap platforms for the financial and wealth management markets. Supported and complimented the Release Team in delivering new functionality and incremental improvements to the existing platform.Responsible for:- Specification and delivery of new features and bug fixes to legacy VisualBasic & C# codebases- Large migration of sensitive data using Oracle and MSSQL databases- Coordination of releases with Business Analysts, Quality Assurance Engineers and Database Administrators.

Avian is a digital agency providing graphic design, brand design, marketing & strategy advice and web design & development to its wide range of clients.As Lead Developer and Analyst for the Lloyds TSB Spearhead Mortgages product, I was responsible for:- Development of a new ASP.Net / ADO.Net (C#) platform- Migration from legacy ASP Classic (VisualBasic) system including MSSQL database upgrade, redesign and migration (T-SQL)- Deployment and management of IIS Web Servers- Platform security, including coordination and management of regular penetration tests- Direct management of stakeholder relationship (Lloyds TSBs’ team of analysts and support staff)- Escalated technical support for platform users (Mortgage Intermediaries) over telephone and email

Short-term contract involved in refactoring code for the second release of a popular commercial e-greeting card website. My responsibility was to convert existing JSPs into a Java-Object oriented solution to improve readability and performance whilst retaining the original application logic and appearance.

Developed www.scarletpark.co.uk to showcase architecture, archival, reportage, portrait, product, retouching & design photography.