Experience

Super Payments

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Jun 2022 - 1 year 7 months

  London, England, United Kingdom



Beauty Pie

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Jul 2020 - Jun 2022

  London, England, United Kingdom



Cycling UK

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Board Trustee

  • Nov 2017 - Dec 2020

  - Strategic & digital strategy adoption for the UK’s leading recreational cycling charity



Wagestream

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• VP Operation and Engineering

  • Sep 2019 - Jul 2020

  London, England, United Kingdom



Funding Circle UK

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Head of Global Delivery

  • Jan 2019 - Sep 2019

  - Responsible for delivery of all technology and business deliveries globally - Lead the delivery to re-platform the core borrower application services, covering fully automated application, credit risk and fraud alongside operational change to support in excess of £3bn annual loan applications - Continued to scale engineering to over 400 people with on and off shore teams

• Head of Engineering Delivery

  • Nov 2014 - Dec 2018

  London, United Kingdom - Responsible for technology deliveries globally in a highly regulated environment - Lead the delivery to re-platform the core marketplace, payment and financial tools and integrations to support in excess of £3bn loans under management - Scaled engineering from 30 to over 200 people over multiple locations, through growth. acquisitions and external vendors - Engineering delivery to support Funding Circle IPO in October 2018



Lloyd's

• Insurance
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Applications

  • Mar 2014 - Oct 2014

  London, United Kingdom - Responsible all the Lloyd's of London Technology applications delivery - Lead the re-platform of the core payment distribution services, distributing billions to Lloyd's members and syndicates each year - Introduced agile project delivery and the latest continuous delivery approaches to development



Wonga

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Engineering Delivery

  • Dec 2011 - Mar 2014

  London, United Kingdom - Broad experience in delivery, product, engineering, architecture, operations, credit risk, fraud and security in a high technical innovation and growth environment - Delivered wonga.com fully automated lending platform into South Africa, Canada and Poland, typical time to market of less than 8 weeks - Delivered wongabusiness.com into UK, the UK's first fully automated business lending platform - Lead the re-platform of the core Wonga technology platform, a highly available, high… Show more - Broad experience in delivery, product, engineering, architecture, operations, credit risk, fraud and security in a high technical innovation and growth environment - Delivered wonga.com fully automated lending platform into South Africa, Canada and Poland, typical time to market of less than 8 weeks - Delivered wongabusiness.com into UK, the UK's first fully automated business lending platform - Lead the re-platform of the core Wonga technology platform, a highly available, high transaction, distributed services based architecture - Scaled engineering team from 15 to over 300 people over multiple locations - Built near and offshore capabilities to support the organic business growth - Annual opex exceeding £17M

• Senior Delivery Manager

  • Dec 2010 - Dec 2011

  London, United Kingdom - Delivered wonga.com in the UK & migration to new highly transactional fully automated lending platform - Worked with on and offshore engineering teams - Built and delivered the techops function for wonga.com, a 24/7, £1.2 Billion high transaction global business



GfK - An NIQ Company

• Germany
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Development Manager

  • Feb 2010 - Dec 2010

  London, United Kingdom

• Senior Technical Project Manager

  • Feb 2008 - Feb 2010

  London, United Kingdom



R.L. Polk & Company / ROADTODATA

• Development Manager

  • Jan 2006 - Jan 2008

  London, United Kingdom



Integer Software

• CTO & Development Manager

  • 2002 - 2006

  Weybridge - With a strong technical base I lead the whole development delivery at Integer - Developed, justified and implemented the overall strategy for the next generation of software development products - Managed the introduction of the latest .Net technologies, approaches to software designs, configuration management and thorough testing procedures - Owned all recruitment, training, reviews, mentoring and staff development

• Senior Software Engineer

  • 1998 - 2002

  Weybridge - Worked as a developer for over 4 years writing software for the construction industry. Great fun working on some really cool, challenging projects and highly rewarding with some iconic building and structures designed using the software we wrote (Lloyds Building, Bluewater Shopping (Europe’s largest), and Blackpool’s roller coaster (then the tallest in the world). We even worked with NASA on some brain churning earthquake analysis. - Developed complex safety critical civil engineering… Show more - Worked as a developer for over 4 years writing software for the construction industry. Great fun working on some really cool, challenging projects and highly rewarding with some iconic building and structures designed using the software we wrote (Lloyds Building, Bluewater Shopping (Europe’s largest), and Blackpool’s roller coaster (then the tallest in the world). We even worked with NASA on some brain churning earthquake analysis. - Developed complex safety critical civil engineering desktop applications in Fortran, VB, C, C++, MFC, C#, ASP and .Net. Software development, UML design, development technologies, quality, software testing, validation and delivery.