Technology Development Group

• Worked on a mainframe migration project writing data migration apps and building small line of business apps.

• Oracle config transformation app - run on 1000s of desktops across the company.

• Assisting R&D / evaluation of new technologies such as Win2000 (NT5) Active Directory.

Technology Development Specialist (Industrial Placement)

• Designed and developed the 2nd gen Webhelp - online helpdesk ticket management system used by Connect support.

• Working directly with a large pharmaceutical company, developing a bespoke reporting application for a clinical trial - including data import and cleaning.

Software Engineer

• Full stack - Design, develop and support the portfolio of online products.

• Infrastructure and software R&D.

• Help select and train new recruits within the Information System division.

Technical Product Manager

Adfero was a mid-sized online media company. This was the year of true transformation from a media company to a marketing agency resulting in Axonn.

• Developed a business aligned technology vision and strategy instrumental to the transformation.

• Built a strong engineering team and capability with an Agile mind set.

• Split technology team structure into Software Engineering and IT Support then outsourced all IT functions.

• Managed a co-location centre move forced by a provider within strict timelines and no business hours downtime.

Chief Technology Officer

Our infrastructure runs hudl.com. Our tools help Engineers and Designers be more productive, move fast, and focus on customers

Responsible for increasing engineering productivity and operational efficiency across web, mobile development, and cloud infrastructure.

Reduced the cost and increased the velocity of mobile development by moving to a React Native based development platform.

Technology Leadership, Technology Strategy, Software Engineering, Product Management, Product Strategy, Product Leadership, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Systems Architecture

Technical Product Director

Technical Product Manager II

Hudl is a sports software company that helps coaches and athletes win with our full video analysis tools from any computer or mobile device.

I help build platforms, tools, and foundational building blocks that enable our product team to build a world-class product for our customers more efficiently.

• Delivered a .NET Core + Docker based microservices platform which is serving critical workloads at high throughput and increased engineering team productivity.

• Streamlined the globalisation system making it more scalable to support aggressive global growth.

• Optimised the video processing system: increased cost efficiency by ~20%. Reduced processing time by ~30%

Product Management, Product Owner, Lean Startup, Agile, Scrum,  PaaS, CI/CD, Deploy Pipeline, Microservices, Distributed Systems, .NET Core, Docker, AWS.

Senior Technical Product Manager

• Designed the company’s core infrastructure, back office and hosting

• Built a resilient web hosting infrastructure with replication across 2 data centers.

• Built and operated first 3 versions of politics.co.uk and myfinances.co.uk (new venture).

• 3rd line support of all core infrastructure.

Information Systems Architect

Launchpad Start is a 5 day hyper-accelerator program. I serve as an external-to-Google volunteer mentor with a focus on helping startups think through growth/scale, especially in terms of technology.

Launchpad Start Mentor

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the way the world pays. #openbanking

Responsible for the customer integration experience and consumer platform (0-1 initiative).

Head of Product - Platform Group

Seedcamp's office hours are 1:1 sessions between mentors and founders and are opportunities for honest feedback and discussions. The goal is to help the startups to grow into high-value global companies by drawing on the network's expertise and knowledge.

Mentor 2021

• Responsible for day-to-day operations of technology with a team of 10.

• Transition all product technology from an on premises architecture (monolithic) to a cloud friendly architecture (services).

• Oversee conversion of politics.co.uk to a modern architecture.

• Built a team of engineers and expand fleet of news websites to 42

• Embraced what I call an ad-hoc agile development process along with Git and automated testing.

• Changed engineering mindset from Microsoft only to best-technology-for-the-job.

Information Systems Manager

Axonn is a mid-size online marketing agency specialising in content marketing.

• Agoraa Product Manager - a content marketing platform, concept to launch including financial models, branding, and client development (internal start-up at Axonn). SaaS CMS with friendly inline editing and analytics for marketers and PaaS for website developers.

• Designed the Agoraa PaaS for ASP.Net MVC and implemented infrastructure prototype (similar to App Engine or Heroku). Sharded architecture for scalability and resilience (Pods). Supports continuous delivery, staging, and version rollback using Git, Jenkins, and Octopus deploy. Infrastructure automation using CloudFormation templates, Chef, and Powershell.

• Designed and implemented web visitor tracking system for Agoraa Analytics module. Javascript and Keen.io backend. 

• Implementing SCRUM in software engineering and championing throughout the organisation in non-engineering projects (Agile Marketing).

• Transitioning technology from a suppo

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Co-Founder

Tools to help application developers move faster and focus on their product. 

FABR Infra is Canva for cloud infrastructure, app devs can provision in minutes not weeks.

#InfrastructureAsCode #IaC #PlatformEngineering

Co-Founder - CPTO

Building AI Products and DevTools.
https://easyrunner.xyz

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