Vanessa Turney Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Technical / Data Strategist & Transformation Advisor Interim Roles fulfilled for clients:- Technical Director. [EdTech] Responsibilities included formulating a technical strategy spanning multiple acquisitions, portfolio town-plan architecture, initiating a data and platform strategy, coaching technology leaders, engineering effectiveness, DDD, Data architecture, product and tech alignment.Client engagement areas led:(Advising & Collaborating with C-Suite, Architects and SMEs)- Enterprise & Data Architectures [BFSI, Automotive, EdTech, HCLS]- Technical & Data Strategy Creation & Execution [BFSI, EdTech]- Data Mesh, Data Platforms and Strategic DDD [BFSI]- Digital Transformation, M&A and Operating Models [BFSI, Industrial, EdTech, HCLS]- Modernisation Transitional Arch: Legacy, SaaS, Platform & Cloud [BFSI, Automotive, HCLS] - Capability Mapping, Business Architecture & Domain Modelling [BFSI, EdTech, Automotive]- Technical & Data Governance Frameworks [BFSI, EdTech]Credentials & Thought leadership:- Cloud & Modernisation: Microsoft Certified - Azure Administrator- O'Reilly Trainer: Domain Driven Design & Data Architecture courses (see below)- ArchitectHer Mentor: 'Ask an Architect' (https://www.architecther.co.uk/ask-an-architect)

Technical [engineering] manager with line/team management, thought leadership and strategical architectural duties.Sample of projects / initiatives led:Database Evolution: Modernising, Migrating and re-structuring 20+ years of multiple proprietary, legacy and standardised scientific data stores and search services across disparate systems into an - evolutionary, cloud-native, scalable, on-demand deployable, distributed ecosystem with live observability. Leading the teams with a servant leadership style, encompassing Domain Driven Design practices with Evolvable Data Architectures. Portfolio Licensing: Architected, transitioned and delivered an entirely new feature-driven licensing model across the full portfolio (both on-prem and cloud products). Enabling organisation to evolve their sales model to a modular/feature basis with flexible licensing timescales.Continuity Risk Mgt: Change management project - forming the business processes, risk registers, accountable roles and software tooling to manage points of failure impacting the continuous operation of the organisation. Also a member of the Risk Committee alongside directors and trustees.Technology Advisory Board: Established and operationalised an advisory board to aid projects, recommend best practices and design approaches, share technologies and promote autonomous teams across the organisation.Technical Strategy Mapping: Initiated cross-functional technical strategy mapping to align development projects and deliverables to empower product and tech to make strategic decisions and identify dependencies across the portfolio.Tech Stack (C#, Angular, PostgreSQL, Azure, Kubernetes, Helm, ADO, IaC, C++, Qt, Python, MariaDB)

Cambridgeshire

Joining Blackdot Solutions in its start-up phase and working closely with executives, product, developers and analysts to grow and transform the organisation from an analysis service into a successful investigation and intelligence platform software company.Specialising in :* OSINT & CSINT Data Integration & Platform Implementation,* Architecture Design & Framework Implementation.* Introducing Agile practices such as SCRUM* Development, Release and Priority Issue process development.* Line Management of Developers within the teams.Techstack: C#, JS/TS, WPF, Angular, Node.js, ASP.net, SQL, MongoDB, Nsubstitue, Moq, Jasmine, Docker, Microservices.

Cambridgeshire

(Formerly i2)IBM i2 IAP & Analyst Notebook Techstack : C#, Silverlight, JS/TS, AngularJS, Chai, Moq.

Commercial Technical Training - .NET/OOP/Software Project Delivery [Own material & Freelance delivery]Private Tutoring for GCSE / A Level Students(Self-Employed contracts alongside full-time work)

Techstack: C#, Silverlight, WCF, RIA Services, SQL, Entity Framework.

Cambridgeshire / London

Techstack : C#, WPF, WCF, SQL, Moq.

Techstack: C#, Silverlight, WPF, CUAE, SQL.

Techstack : Java.

Techstack: Python, ZODB, Apache.