Technical Product Owner for Search and App Services.Using Docker microservices and Elasticsearch to deliver an advanced search platform for the customer facing website, customer app, internal systems, and Alexa skill.Managing a small team that is driving innovation and change in the area of search with the goal of helping customers find their ideal holiday experience across multiple digital platforms.

Technical team lead of the Drupal team. * Working with senior leaders to deliver work across multiple client projects.* Working closely with internal departments to ensure project pitches, requirement gathering, UX, design, frontend, development and testing was does to the highest standards* Holding weekly updates with company and client stakeholders* Introduced more rigorous Scrum practices including proper use of ceremonies* Developed 'Skeleton' Technical Specification Document to act as template for future Drupal projects* Developed 'Skeleton' Drupal project to deliver skeleton technical specification and act as template for all future Drupal implementations* Use of Atlassian Jira manage project backlog, sprints and deployments* Use of Atlassian Bitbucket to manage peer review of code, and code quality checks* Use of Atlassian Confluence for project documentation* Use of Atlassian Bamboo for build pipelines * Use of Amazon AWS to provision and maintain client infrastructure* Maintenance of Drupal development environment using Vagrant * Introduced Satis as local composer package repository* Cross team coaching to foster adoption of best practices * Day-to-day team leadership tasksClient projects I worked on included* Peoples Collection Wales* Youth Sport Trust* Communicator

PHP Software Engineer at The Book Depository and Amazon.* Lead the migration to the Amazon platform upon acquisition* Lead development of the website search service using Sphinx

Working on the BookRabbit.com social shopping (book retail) website (including Amazon marketplace integration). Using the Zend framework (MVC), and Agile scrum development practice.

Working on:TJ Hughes bespoke e-commerce websiteAnwyl homes Content Management System websiteGrosvenor Garden Centre CRM website

Working on:World Championship Snooker 2003World Championship Pool 2004World Championship Snooker 2004Hornby Virtual Railway

Working on:As an MCSE, I provided support for Microsoft Back Office products including Exchange and IIS for large multi-national corporations. Liase directly with Microsoft corporate product support in cases where new bugs were discovered.Also support contact for internal local network, and using Win32 API/Web/XML Webem to streamline day-to-day running of department.