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Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Excited about my new partnership with Dan at Rapid Indigo. Together we are helping a wide range of growing service based businesses and startups in the Oxfordshire and surrounding areas to create bespoke software systems to help them grow. Saving them time and money by reducing software licenses and helping them bring their ideas to life faster with the power of low code.Looking forward to working with even more companies doing good to overcome their software system challenges.

Greater Oxford Area

Personal Interest Project - Helping people learn how to reduce stress at work, enjoy life more without quitting their jobs.Ask-Bamboo.com is a personal development app where I teach people to understand their situation and develop new habits that lead to better health and work life happiness.

London, England, United Kingdom

Agency position working with a Fintech Startup. Working as a Senior Technical Lead / Project manager to help bring to life an MVP for an exciting new startup company's mobile financial trading app. Bringing together online banking, payments and digital banking, KYC AML check APIs and not least trading via FIX with many more complex parts to help deliver their MVP.Highlights included:- Fin-tech solution- Solution architect across open banking, trading, KYC, RailsR APIs- Helping to feed the requirements and solution into development the team- Requirements workshops with the client and creating requirements documentation- Working alongside creative team on the mobile UX of the mobile app- Technical research- Technical team lead for backend API team

Move Engine was founded to help give first-time buyers the help and support they deserve. Previously they faced navigating the complex house buying process alone. - Buying your first home today is pretty tough. Not only do you need to save potentially for many years but you are then trying to enter the property market alone. Many of the buyers we work with are worried or afraid of the process and feel there is no where to turn for reliable advice. In today's modern world the natural place to inform ourselves is google but what do you look for and where do you even begin? Thats where we come in. Helping first-time buyers to feel informed and in control of what can be a scary and emotional process at times so they can buy the right home with the right finances to match. Setting them up for the next stage in their life.From our website, to online courses, 1:1 coaching and even a mobile app, Move Engine is using different ways to help support these first-time buyers.If you have a story about buying a house that you want to share or can partner with us to achieve our goal of supporting first-time buyers buy their first homes then reach out to me.https://move-engine.com

Juice is a fantastic digital agency working across high profile brands like BMW and McLaren, IHG and many more. Projects include Digital Marketing, E-Learning and bespoke internal business tools.I was brought in to cover the outgoing head of development. Supporting the development team whilst recruiting a suitable long term replacement. During this time I ensured a seamless hand over of all the technical and business processes and infrastructure (Ruby, Rails, Heroku, JIRA). Joined client meetings with the likes of BMW UK and Volvo and helped with the scoping of new work as a tech lead and joining pitches. I also helped transition the team from working in silos to introducing agile practices including scrum, so that there was improved visibility and delivery of the project work. A welcome change removing a lot of stress for the current product managers and improving communication and morale across the company.I found a suitable replacement who went on to be a valued member of their team.

United Kingdom

Founder of Propology Digital. A technology company helping Estate agents in the UK navigate the challenge of digital transformation.Specialising in lead generation, nurturing through email marketing automation, Facebook advertising, Google Ads campaigns and content marketing. Check out our blog for more tips and tricks for your estate agency.https://estate-agent-lead-generation.propology.co.uk/

PropertyFile was a startup project to create an online platform and mobile app for Tenants, Landlords, Home Buyers and Sellers. Helping sales and lettings agents in the UK helping bring a 24 hour more transparent service to their business. After launch it quickly scaled to 100k active users.My role as Product Director included managing the development team and sales and customer service functions for the project. Taking PropertyFile from a startup idea into a key product in the groups portfolio. I also attended the board meetings for PSG whilst continuing to work closely with the groups other products. I had direct contact with the Managing Director and weekly update meetings. As a venture backed firm I was required to document progress and prepare a pitch presentation to LDC to update them on the strategic vision.PropertyFile was the start of connecting estate agents with the needs of digital transformation so they could connect with their customers online. Especially as at the time Purple Bricks was a growing threat to their future. For some it helped secure instructions, for others it simply reduced calls and saved them time when dealing with queries. For their clients it gave them a simple easy way to find out information quickly and easily online 24/7.Property file grew to be massively popular with both estate agencies and their clients. During my last months we developed an online tool set which would allow estate agents to receive 24/7 viewing bookings and integrated the platform into several of the leading industry CRMs.In 2016 PSG was acquired by Zoopla for £75m with both the success of PropertyFile and Jupix playing a key part in the offering where I stayed on to ensure the smooth integration of the products into the larger group.

In 2007 Jupix LTD was formed and I became the Technical Director and Co-Founder. Jupix went on to become one of the most popular Estate Agency CRMs of its time. Serving thousands of estate agent brands.At the time of leaving it had over 10k daily active business users.Their staff relied on the platform 24/7 to deliver everything their business needed. From the promotion of properties on portals like Rightmove and Zoopla, to booking in diary appointments, creating letters and more.I personally worked closely with our estate agent partners to try to produce an improved estate agency software which built on the best practices in the industry.Later we moved into accountancy and finance system to support the lettings businesses. I helped develop our yellow brick road system to ensure every tenancy went through a compliant and timely journey. This was later to become a key concept for our trainers and sales team to sell the software. As lettings became more complicated and agents wanted to ensure greater control especially those with growing portfolios.The use of the cloud was one of our key selling points. This enabled us to work in unique ways with many industry partners from Printing and Email marketing. To tenant referencing through a commercial partnership with Van Mildert and marketing support through over 50 portals to develop one of the leading cloud estate agency software platforms.After achieving a successful exit, I stayed with the business to ensure the team and company continued to be a success.

As the first developer I was responsible for the initial creation of the Jupix Estate Agency Software which later turned into my role as Co-Founder and CTO.This involved not only developing the software but working closely with local agents in our area to learn and understand about the industry and their needs. This is where I first developed my unique set of skills of being able to be technical but also understand the customers needs. The regular input helped shape the first version of the software Webnet.We were aware that many agents had to manually upload their properties to several systems such as Rightmove and Primelocation as well as their own website, often several times a day.Together with our partner agents we identified an opportunity to make this process easier, so created Jupix Webnet to make marketing properties online easy. At the time this was a relatively new concept and is now the de-facto standard for today’s estate agencies.Many of these abilities had previously only been afforded to the larger companies but we were able to bring this to agencies of any size.

Business Growth Programme

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computer Science, First-Class Honours