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Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Engineering Management:- Responsible for the engineering management and delivery execution of 3 sprint teams- Define the technical scope of milestones jointly between the involved projects- Managed and delivered successfully the G78-AE part for the Automotive market, supporting HW partition and virtualisation.- Represents the Automotive team’s needs/interests in the (PI) Planning Increment process- Collaboration with key stakeholders to prepare timelines, strategic planning, roadmaps and interfacing withtechnical and non-technical teams (Product Management, Customer Engineering, Tech Teams)Product Owner- Provides leadership and strategic direction to the SW Foundation team by working closely with product management (Automotive Lines of Business) on customer requirements, and market demand on defining and delivering on the target roadmap.- Responsible for the Automotive SW backlog and management of upcoming work (e.g., Requirements/EPICS)- Works closely with Delivery Manager and GPU architects on new Virtualisation requirements/features, includingplanning, estimation and deliveryLine Management:- People management, carrying out 1:1's including formal evaluation of direct reports I.e., career development, salary review, develop team members’ capabilities in support of individual career goals and team objectives.- Provide career advice counselling, mentoring and nurturing to all members of the team, identifying top talent, ensuring members are growing in their current roles and have career progression/development plans in place.- Reviews and develops organisational team structure to support business needs by identifying gaps in capability and the training required to bridge the gap.

Manchester Area, United Kingdom

Wilpshire

Working as an independent SW consultant supporting clients in aspects of Digital Delivery (Technical Project Management), Solution Architecture, Agile, Scrum methodology, or any aspect of Digital Transformation.- Working with Product Owners, SME’s Domain Experts, to improve delivery methodology i.e. Agile / Scrum, Kanban, and Lean techniques to provide better visibility to stakeholders.- Support Delivery Managers and Tech Leads on ways to improve Technical Architecture, documentation, Coding Standards, Test Coverage which results in stable and robust code.- Continuous Delivery - look at DevOps Model, Jenkins and other areas where code is submitted frequently to improve maturity and robustness.- Support PMO (Scrum Master, PM’s) for Sprint planning, resources, define gaps in capability building

Dubai, United Arab Emirates And Uk

A global Technology studio, with HQ in Bangalore, Pune, presence in UK, USA and Middle East (Dubai).Leading all Technical Business development and project delivery in the Middle East and UK. Our core offerings are - UI/UX, Mobility (Web, Mobile), Multimedia (OTT), Embedded Systems, IoT Data Analytics (including health), AI and Machine Learning. Areas of focus are:- Defined the Go to Market strategy for Digital Services in MENA, how do we penetrate new Digital services to old and new customers in the region- Working as a Practice Lead in Dubai – setting up the entity- Developing MENA sales pipeline and identifying potential new clients, also understanding problem statement and identifying potential solutions- Drafting up RFP responses, and presenting them to potential clients- Supporting Delivery teams (Scrum teams) on day-to-day delivery- Supporting the pre-sales teams on Technical solutions, i.e. looking at the deliverability and the profitability and the value this will bring to the firm.- Working with the CEO to grow the business into a multimillion-dollar business in the next 18-24 months.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Managing a local team of SME’s to deliver the next generation of Digital services for Mobile, Kiosk and Smart Parking. Working with Smart Parking and Mapping vendors to deliver these services. All development was Agile based and leveraging on Liquid Lean methodologies

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Managing a team of Digital SME’s (Functional and Technical) Consultants across various geographies (Italy, Philippines, and India) to deliver a complex greenfield transformation programme for one of the largest Theme parks in the region.Responsible for the end-to-end integration and delivery of 5 portals (web-sites) and Mobile applications based on iOS and Android operating Systems.Development was all Agile based, and the portals are fully responsive to different device screen sizes and cater for both Arabic and English languagesAlso fully integrated with the with Ticketing, CRM, Payment Gateway and point of sale systems. Key person to interface with the client teams to understand how to initiate discussions with other stakeholders within Business, and how to drive new initiatives and create value for the CIO’s office and the IT working groups.

Saudi Arabia

Leading a team of Mobile Subject Matter Experts and Consultants from cross geographies to undertake an Enterprise Mobility Assessment. My main responsibilities was to interface with the client teams to understand how to initiate discussions with other stakeholders within Business, and how to drive new initiatives and create new business value for the IT group - supported the client in technical architecture, the planned approach, and the methodologies we were planning to adopt. Also, working with the client development teams to create Technical foundational capabilities to ensure there is minimum impact with existing development (and projects), and does not hinder any existing on-going projects.

Qatar

Managing and supporting the client team through implementation and deployment of a new Mobile Architecture using SOA best practices and principles. Design / developed and architected a Mobile Banking Application using HTML5 / Sencha technologies, and web services based on MS C# and.NET framework.Managing Off-Shore / On-Shore teams on site.Delivered Mobile Banking Application which runs on all the major Mobile platforms using a Hybrid platform to reduce cost and ability to deploy multiple timesCreated standard processes, templates and deliverables for all phases from requirements capturing, design analysis all the way to deployment and going live.Working closely with the CTO and the Architecture team on strategic IT direction (technologies, platforms, etc..) and to define the next phase of the Bank’s digital strategy. All the above used Agile practice and my role was the product owner.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Devices and Platform specialist Solution Architect:Works alongside client account teams across the globe putting E2E solutions that meets customer needs.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Technical Programme Manger / Delivery Lead for UKKey player in transitioning Offshore resources into clients account thus reducing the overall cost and management overheadDriving Symbian technologies into the Japanese market, Creating technical proposals and selling to existing and new customersCoordinated all activities between Japanese customers and stakeholders within Symbian ecosystem.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Technical Programme Manger / Delivery Lead for UKKey player in transitioning Offshore resources into clients account thus reducing the overall cost and management overheadDriving Symbian technologies into the Japanese market, Creating technical proposals and selling to existing and new customersCoordinated all activities between Japanese customers and stakeholders within Symbian ecosystem.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Working as a Technical Account Manager in the Ecosystems Group, part of Marketing. Managing and developing relationships within a number of Symbian's Key Ecosystem Semiconductor/Hardware Partners. Coordinate all activities between partners and stakeholders within SymbianEvangelism of the Symbian platform to the partnersSharing roadmaps and feeding back future device advances to Symbian's Product Management teamRepresent partner's interests for internal Symbian initiatives such as hardware reference platforms, reference designs, hardware adaptation, etcWork closely with partners to optimise and streamline combined deliveries and/or information flow regarding customer projects.Coordinate joint customer requirements and communications Identify new program requirements

Working as a Technical Project Manager in the Japan Products Group in the Cambridge office, assisting Japanese handset manufactures to bring the next generation of 3G FOMA handsets into the market.My main role was to Project-manage the support to Japanese customers for Symbian OS smartphone development.Interfacing with Symbian Product Management team to align Symbian and customers’ roadmaps. Writing and negotiating Statement of Work (SoW) for both regular support and additional development including legal negotiations.Commercial proposals for S/W development/upgrade.

Providing technical support and liaising with team members in the Symbian Japan office on a day-to-day basis.Key areas of responsibility : Kernel / Device Driver / memory architecture changes and impact Migration work on Symbian OSFeasibility study with customers and Network Operators.HW/SW integration with the Base Band processor (Telephony - WCDMA and GSM chip sets).Fixing bugs and providing end-to-end solutions.

Working with customers across the globe (mainly Japan, India and USA) on how to port the Symbian SW stack onto new Hardware chip sets. Working with HW vendors like ARM, Intel, Qualcomm etc. on Base porting activity with the new API's - and general consultancy

Working with Lotus Notes and EPOC OS (aka Symbian OS) for the enterprise space - also worked on the Netbook 7 See link for more info http://www.geek.com/geek-review-psion-netbook/

Worked on the SDH Telecoms nodes; main role was part of a 15 man team working on the SDH SW stack on a UINX environment; using C++

Msc, Electronic Computer Based System Design

Activities and Societies: Football, Table Tennis

Beng(Hons), Electronic Engineering

Activities and Societies: Football, Table Tennis