Product Owner

• Apr 2021 - Present

Product Manager

• Oct 2020 - Nov 2020

I was employed to develop the capabilities of the product team: to introduce some top-down agile fundamentals. 2Heads are an events company focused on live events but had to pivot to digital. They have a virtual events portal application, and they wanted some help to realise the vision and to promote internally some software development processes. Unfortunately, it was agreed that they were not ready for the complete reversal of their 20+ years event experience workflows, which doesn’t fit with the long view necessary to deliver and continue to deliver software products. Key achievements: • Improved their use of Teamwork Projects to make it more appropriate for developer work – was a Scrumban implementation. • Instigated a story template based on business needs, requirements and acceptance criteria. • Got the development team thinking more about agile. Show less

Product Owner

• Nov 2016 - Feb 2020

I worked as a Product Owner on the Customer Success team responsible for working with internal and external stakeholders to gather and understand requirements and communicate product vision, features and benefits. Responsibilities include: Management of product backlog and writing user stories with regular input into SCRUM teams. Close liaison with the development team to ensure technical architecture in-line with product and business requirements. Project level input to promote design and UX best practice, understand emerging requirements and troubleshoot product problems. Management of offshore developers & QA specialists. Recruitment (offshore development teams). Show less

Founder

• Sep 2012 - Sep 2017

I'm was contracting as a web developer transitioning to tech lead and finally to Product Owner/Manager/Delivery Manager. This is my company. I'm was contracting as a web developer transitioning to tech lead and finally to Product Owner/Manager/Delivery Manager. This is my company.

Front End Tech Director

• Feb 2016 - Sep 2016

During my time at Huge, I have been on multiple projects as part of pitch teams, client kick—off meetings where I have been giving technical support and insight. The ongoing build projects I have been giving general leadership input and overview. The teams have been small, but the projects are generally short an intense. Though predominantly a front-end role I define and communicate the front-end intent to the Adobe Experience Manager developer. I’m also critically involved in defining and scoping future work. Show less

Experience Technology Architect

• Feb 2015 - Dec 2015

Was contracted as a lead Front-end delivery lead. I managed the presentation layer build for Dove UK (a Unilever company), managing a teams from the UK and India. The project was to re-platform the Dove UK website using a site creation accelerator framework, built on a front-end stack consisting of primarily BackboneJS, HandlebarsJS and SASS. The code base developed is being delivered across all Unilever brands and is developed as suite of enablement tools to enable other brands agencies of choice to leverage the framework. Show less

Front-end developer

• Jan 2015 - Feb 2015

Tasked with adding some functionality to an online eBook reader. It utilizes the Knockout JS, a JavaScript MVC framework. Tasked with adding some functionality to an online eBook reader. It utilizes the Knockout JS, a JavaScript MVC framework.

Lead Interactive Developer

• Apr 2013 - Nov 2014

Was contracted as a lead developer managing a teams from the UK and India across multiple clients and projects. The role has extended to be more of a lead/architect role. And, from the initial projects which were largely focused on client side presentation technologies (OOCSS, RWD, SASS/LESS) it has evolved to SPAs using AngularJS, NodeJS and supported by BDD (Cucumber, Protractor etc.). The project, was to refactor a site that relies heavily on server-side developers and making it client-side developer centric (with the afore-mentioned SPA technologies replacing the dependency on large server-side JAVA teams). My specific role was to engage the client’s development teams to ensure the aims of the project were sustainable. Show less

Interface Development Lead

• Jan 2013 - Apr 2013

Was contracted as a senior front developer to primarily work on an e-commerce site for Thorntons UK. The role was to lead a small front-end team to develop the user interaction and a mentor the JS developer. I also was asked to do some analysis on the performance of the site; the analysis is still yet to be implemented. I was the tasked with turning a very static site into a responsive site. Technologies Used: HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, Knockout.js, Orchard Project (e-commerce), Fry OCP (e-commerce). Was contracted as a senior front developer to primarily work on an e-commerce site for Thorntons UK. The role was to lead a small front-end team to develop the user interaction and a mentor the JS developer. I also was asked to do some analysis on the performance of the site; the analysis is still yet to be implemented. I was the tasked with turning a very static site into a responsive site. Technologies Used: HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, Knockout.js, Orchard Project (e-commerce), Fry OCP (e-commerce).

Lead Interface Developer

• Sep 2010 - Sep 2012

Lead the company wide transition to a web standards and accessibility based coding best practices. This included getting executive and senior employees committed to this approach. It also meant changing the attitudes of application developers, and helping them to develop more appropriate application code bases.

Front-End Technical Architect

• Sep 2009 - Sep 2010

LBi was iXL, Scient, SBi.Framfab, Framfab

Senior Interface Developer

• 2005 - Sep 2009

Responsible for project based teams. Day-to-day tasks were mainly coding, but was also responsible for scoping and as I was previously head of Front-end at SBI.Framfab (acquired by LBi) I was allowed to work under my own remit.

Head of Front End Technologies

• 2003 - 2005

Lead the company wide transition to a web standards and accessibility based coding best practices. This included getting executive and senior employees committed to this approach. It also meant changing the attitudes of application developers, and helping them to develop more appropriate application code bases. Lead the company wide transition to a web standards and accessibility based coding best practices. This included getting executive and senior employees committed to this approach. It also meant changing the attitudes of application developers, and helping them to develop more appropriate application code bases.

Head of Front-end Technology

• Dec 1997 - Dec 2003

Lead the company wide transition to a web standards and accessibility based coding best practices. This included getting executive and senior employees committed to this approach. It also meant changing the attitudes of application developers, and helping them to develop more appropriate application code bases. Lead the company wide transition to a web standards and accessibility based coding best practices. This included getting executive and senior employees committed to this approach. It also meant changing the attitudes of application developers, and helping them to develop more appropriate application code bases.