Experience

Studee

• United Kingdom
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head Of Engineering

  • Jun 2020 - Present



Reed Business Information

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Development Lead

  • Jan 2017 - Aug 2019

  Management and Leadership of the Data Acquisitions team. Strategic business re-platforming of technologies to deliver new services within the organisation. Refocused squad after project back into more formal agile approach. Planned and managed transition of project after project completion between Heathrow and Sutton teams.Lead the Values Analyser project team for FlightGlobal to re-write Values ananlyser into the technology RBI stack.Introduced metrics and KPI's to Scrum management to enable more accurate assessment of progress. Managed the move of team from Sutton to Heathrow office to facilitate new development streams.



Umbrella Corporation

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Freelance/IT Consultant.

  • Apr 2016 - Jan 2017

  Software development and cloud consultancy services. Programme and Application portfolio management or service delivery. Project Management of IT services, Strategic planning of IT services, business process and business analysis , capacity planning and best practice to increase efficiency and reduce delivery times. Software development and cloud consultancy services. Programme and Application portfolio management or service delivery. Project Management of IT services, Strategic planning of IT services, business process and business analysis , capacity planning and best practice to increase efficiency and reduce delivery times.



PurposeSoftware

• Software Development Manager

  • Dec 2014 - Mar 2016

  Management of a small onshore and offshore team to refocus old technology stack towards more modern technologies. Key focus on data transition, modular MVC framework and API development as well a Business intelligent dynamic dashboard. Management of a small onshore and offshore team to refocus old technology stack towards more modern technologies. Key focus on data transition, modular MVC framework and API development as well a Business intelligent dynamic dashboard.



Worldpanel by Kantar

• United Kingdom
• Market Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Development Manager

  • May 2014 - Dec 2014

  Management of a matrix structured waterfall development project with onshore and offshore teams to deliver Business Intelligence dashboards for loyalty schemes across the globe. Management of a matrix structured waterfall development project with onshore and offshore teams to deliver Business Intelligence dashboards for loyalty schemes across the globe.



Macmillan Science and Education

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Development Manager

  • Jan 2012 - Jun 2013

  Providing effective management over the existing development teams and analysing and implementing improvements to existing development practice.Maintaining existing business as usual workstreams while building an interim structure in preparation for ITIL roll out in the future. Providing effective management over the existing development teams and analysing and implementing improvements to existing development practice.Maintaining existing business as usual workstreams while building an interim structure in preparation for ITIL roll out in the future.



MaritzCX

• United States
• Software Development
• 300 - 400 Employee

• IT Programme Lead

  • Aug 2010 - Jan 2012

  Managing a global team with the transition of the Maritz-Nissan Global development programme from the implementation phase to the support phase. Required interfacing with teams on 3 continents and infrastructure as well as regular client liason. Managing a global team with the transition of the Maritz-Nissan Global development programme from the implementation phase to the support phase. Required interfacing with teams on 3 continents and infrastructure as well as regular client liason.



The Chartered Institute of Marketing

• Software Development Manager

  • Oct 2007 - Apr 2010

  Development and architecture management of a team of developers , database and infrastructure personnel to deliver scalable resilient architecture and software services as well as BI analysis of data and strategic planning. Development and architecture management of a team of developers , database and infrastructure personnel to deliver scalable resilient architecture and software services as well as BI analysis of data and strategic planning.



Axiom Systems

• Senior Developer/Release Manager

  • Apr 2001 - Aug 2007

  Development and release management of a suite of VB6/Dotnet applications providing Order provisioning services to telecommunication industry. Development and release management of a suite of VB6/Dotnet applications providing Order provisioning services to telecommunication industry.



Sky Vision

• Director / Founder

  • Jan 1993 - Dec 2000

  Management of a company providing network infrastructure , commercial and bespoke software solutions to SME market. Management of a company providing network infrastructure , commercial and bespoke software solutions to SME market.