Stuart Lawrence Email & Phone Number

Reading, PA, US

Reading, PA, US

London, GB

We’re developing ground-breaking technology that combines visual science and AI to enable new opportunities in filmmaking.Our first product offers a step-change in audience engagement through the visual translation of content into any native language.

• Change agent for agile software delivery projects and transformations, providing technical and business consulting services to high-growth / technology lead businesses
• Clients include easyJet, GTA, Advanced Payment Solutions and John Lewis Partnership
• Leading change in technology strategy and the implementation of best practice in software engineering: Development, QA, DevOps and IT/Infrastructure, and 24/7 IT operations
• Delivery of continuous improvement in quality and productivity, whilst ensuring processes, tools and priorities are aligned to commercial objectives
• Recruit and manage teams in geographically dispersed and culturally varied environments
• Advise on diverse areas such as User Experience, mobile development, Product Management, organizational structure, vendor selection and sourcing

London, England, GB

London, England, GB

We're passionate about delivering valuable software for our clients. I think we must be pretty good at this as we're currently one of the fastest growing private tech companies in the UK.

Working with the founder and development team, building innovative products for content classification and search.

CTO for international online fashion retailer.

Switzerland, CH

• CTO for lastminute.com, Holiday Autos and Zuji
• Restructured and managed a large team of technical resources across multiple European locations,
• Argentina and India
• Evolved and established principles and practices in Agile product development
• Built and managed a new team in London to develop mobile web solutions

London Luton Airport, GB

• Responsible for all the development, testing and maintenance of bespoke software for business critical applications, including easyjet.com, B2B, reservations and departure control systems.
• Management of a team of 90 people in 3 locations.
• Interim role to transform development/testing processes and the organization structure.

Seattle, WA, US

• Head of Technology for Hotels.com, managing 50 globally distributed sites and a team of 110 technical staff
• Developed the first internationalized, SEO-optimized, Java EE web platform for Hotels.com
• Established a new strategic software development partner for Expedia, growing the team to 100+ people across 3 locations
• Delivered multiple improvements to scalability and performance, supporting 1500% bookings growth over 4 years
• Implemented continuous improvement to the software development process and code quality, including transitioning from Waterfall to Scrum / Agile.

Barcelona, ES

• Pan-European online travel business, founded by 9 leading airlines
• Leadership and management of all technical architecture, testing, infrastructure and maintenance (team of 55 people, including in-house and offshore team)
• Responsible for design and delivery of functional projects for B2C, customer service and back-office applications
• Successfully implemented a major software/hardware infrastructure upgrade and key product launch
• Worked closely with offshore management team to improve productivity and quality

US

• BEA was the market leader in application infrastructure software and the fastest software company to reach $1bn revenue. It was acquired by Oracle in 2008.
• Based in Stockholm, held overall responsiblity for software engineering partnerships for Java technology
• Implemented collaborative software engineering infrastructure and processes, so Intel could successfully contribute to the rapid evolution of the JRockit product
• Attended and contributed to regular executive reviews of product strategies and marketing plans

US

• Appointed to senior-level role in Sweden, following the acquisition of Appeal Virtual Machines AB
• Responsible for managing the Stockholm facility and the integration of the engineering team into the global BEA development group
• Instrumental in the successful evolution of the first product development site for BEA outside the US
• Created a customer-centric engineering function from scratch, to support the rapid adoption of the JRockit product in the US, Japan and Europe

US

• Based in the WebLogic office in San Francisco
• Project Manager for WebLogic Server Service Packs, with overall responsibility for release management
• Delivered significant improvements to release processes and product quality
• Worked closely with Product Management on implementing functional improvements to WebLogic Server
• Managed developers in the Core Server, EJB, XML and Web Services teams

US

• Appointed to senior-level software engineering role, based in the WebLogic office in San Francisco
• Responsible for delivering market-leading performance enhancements to the WebLogic Server product
• Focused on design and implementation of various Java EE benchmarks and associated tools

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Software Engineer at IBM UK Laboratories
• Java Project Lead, based at Sun Microsystems JavaSoft Division, Silicon Valley, CA, USA
• Software Engineer at IBM Centre for Java Technology Development, UK
• Systems Programmer for IBM Global Services, UK

Postgraduate Certificate In Software Engineering (Part-Time)

D.Phil, Physics

B.Sc. (Hons), Physics