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Multi disciplined around web technologies, utilising wherever possible platform and open source components to facilitate best of breed deliverables in a sensible time scale and budget.Shopify Plus specialist - leaning into the new Dawn theme, offering rapid development of concept work that is not yet available from the stock offering.Drupal 7, 8 & 9 consultancy - utilising Drupal commerce front and backend functionality to deliver content, commerce and complexity in one performant solution.

Merging academic and commercial knowledge results in an effective combination to provide the insight for the computing experts of the future.

Responsible for the US, Canadian and EMEA eCommerce global technology stack - from outsourced private cloud hosting through the Escalate Blue Martini suite and all the detail in between. Managing an internal team dedicated to the provision of services to eCommerce and marketing functions globally.Solutions Architect and Team Lead responsible for an in house eCommerce system that has been heavily customised to cater for the complex organisation that is WWRD. The Escalate (Blue Martini) CMS has evolved under my management over several years to now host 15 sites, 4 currencies, 3 brands, 3 warehouses and is managed out of UK, US and Canadian offices. The entire stack runs as a single source of truth, BEA Weblogic clustered instance on a private V-Motion capable cloud. SaaS partners are used for payment gateways and Akamai enabled image serving.Agile methodologies are used to deliver changes into the sites - keeping our key stakeholders close at all times. Over 500 automated tests are run as part of our internal QA approach which means nothing goes out of the door unless it provides all functionality across all countries, brands and currencies.Not afraid to move with the times, we were the first in the world to adopt Escalate version 9.5. As part of this upgrade, all server hardware was virtualised to a managed solution - removing hardware failure as a potential cause for downtime. More recently, iPhone applications have been deployed under my watch - ensuring perceived volumes can be catered for and that continuity of service at peak periods is ensured.

Worked to bring the maintenance and upgrade tasks of the Blue Martini (Escalate / Red Prairie) software stack in house. Build out an internal team to manage the software stack globally across several brands and many microsites.

Working on base J2EE architecture code for high performance and scalable platforms used in finance, HR and procurement sectors. Later bespoke solutions were implemented for Llyod's of London insurance.

MIS solution implemented to provide near real time statistics for store performance across operational and strategic management levels.