Technical Director

• Mar 2018 - Present

- Representation of the largest department within Tangent; at senior management level.- Leading a 34 strong team, made-up of technical architects, frontend & backend developers, quality, infrastructure and operational IT. - Jointly defining the companies strategy for servicing offer, delivery, operations and people/culture- Driving 50% growth within the tech team as well as the sustainable retained revenue to support it- Ensuring the revenue streams to sustain my team growth- Pitching, workshops, solutioning and cost for new business opportunities- Technical/Solution Architecture for green and brown field projects- Overseeing all aspects of technical delivery for client such as SAP, Labour Party, UKPN, REED, IWG/Regus and Sky- Introducing an enterprise level support model and onboarding of retained UKPN and REED accounts- Pioneering a JAMStack / mircoservice de-facto approach with Tangent - Working with back-end languages such as Python, .NET Core, .NET Framework, PHP, Java and Go -Working with front-end frameworks such Node, React, Vue and Angular- Development of new servicing offers for headless CMSs, Enterprise & Open-source CMSs, SPA, SSG and SSR frontend and native mobile applications- Driving through enterprise level digital transformations- Selection and on-boarding of near-shore and off-shore partners- Definition and direction of Tangents technical capabilities and preferred technical offering.- Information security, acting as DPO and ISM; ensuring continuing ISO27001 certification for the business- Oversight of proprietary database and cloud infrastructure, architecture and services using AWS, Azure and GCP- Implementing automation across the business for infrastructure and applications; Puppet, Terraform, CI/CD, Automated Testing- Safeguarding quality, change and release management for the business, introducing a quality process across accounts. Formalising test plan and test case management.

Principle Technical Architect

• Jun 2016 - Mar 2018

- Responsible for defining and describing a recommended technical approach for a project. As well as producing technical design (UML) and functionality specifications.- Quality Assurance of Technical Delivery ensuring Code Quality for the project; i.e. ASP.NET, MVC & CMS Best Practices implemented.- Responsible for defining Physical System design and requirements. Including continuous deployments design using Bamboo/NUnit/Selenium/Octopus.- Working with stakeholders to design scalable, loosely coupled CMS Integrations, considering design patterns and OWASP A9. These have included a compliance system, elastic search FIND replacement and external services using WCF.- Estimating technical effort, defining ACs, determining additional costs.- Implementing processes for sprints including peer-to-peer code reviews, release notes, QA reports, deployment processes (ensuring HA), reviewing ACs.- Recommend CMS upgrade planned based on errors, issues, new functionality.- Identifying, categorising project technical risks and articulating a mitigation strategy.- Managing sprint team/Scrum master.- Running workshops in the role of a BA; defining functional/non-functional requirements, actors and use-cases that flow through the project from UX to MVP & backlog for BAU.- Working with the team define Test Plans for a project, ensuring core functionality has a sufficient level of Tests in place by design (TDD).- Consult with the client on technology strategy and act as a trusted adviser.

Technical Lead

• Sep 2011 - Jun 2016

- Involved in the Umbraco CMS community; going to meetups, hackathons and festivals.- Introducing an Agile approach to working with third party suppliers - Involved in technical pitches - Scoping directly with the client to produce a product to meet their needs - Planning and costing for working - Producing technical documentation - Managing a team of developers on a large-scale project - Working on front-end, backend as well as scripting on large scale corporate sites - Responsible for layout out coding best practices and review peers and third parties work - Presentations internally on case studies and new technologies - Custom integration with externally systems and CRMs - Introduction the Umbraco CMS into the organisation - Training internal team on HTML, CSS and CMSs - Proprietary Cloud Hosting and Azure deployments

Web Developer

• Feb 2007 - Sep 2011

My core responsibilities are Last Exit include:• Scoping and thought leading on pitch level for projects, working alongside producers and designers.• Engineering the integration between design and development; using innovative technologies toproduce high quality pixel perfect products.• Communication and presentations to clients from the initial stages of a project, through to productdelivery and training.• The personal development of Junior and placement developers and the wider team.• Scheduling, quoting and resource management for maintenance clients.Below is a selection of projects from well over 30 sites I worked on for Last Exit:Umbraco (INTO) - Latest Last Exit Project:I was responsible for the development of three different websites for INTO, INTO Higher (www.intohigher.com), INTO Success (www.into-success.com) and INTO Corporate (www.intocorporate.com). All three sites were build in Umbraco and involved a high level of custom code using a combination of C# and XLST to manipulate the XML backend. In regards to the front end of the site JQuery and various third party plugin were integrated into the CMS and are hence fully controllable by the end user. In addition for INTO Higher structured the site to allow the user to build up pages from a selection of over 20 modules as well as making the site available in 4 languages.Kentico sites:As well as producing sites in Umbraco we have developed multi sites a CMS called Kentico using HTML/CSS, C#, JavaScript/JQuery tested across a range of browsers.. A few of the sites include:• Visit Europe (www.visiteurope.com) - Winners of Kentico Best Other/At Large Site 2009• Martin Baker & JSF (www.martin-baker.co.uk and www.jsf.org.uk)• Venture Finance and VFiles (www.venture-!nance.co.uk and v!les)• Meet England (www.meetengland.com)• The Bathhouse (www.thebathhousevenue.com)• F&F (www.ffmoda.com) for Tesco’s.

Systems Analyst

• Jun 2006 - Feb 2007

• Maintaining and supporting www.londonstockexchange.com• HTML and C# code changes to the website• Writing complex T-SQL query to produce business reports• Controlling change to the website in a highly tense and business critical environment• First port of call for website query and issues for the business• Experience with CMS to update the website content

Lotus Notes Administrator

• Jun 2004 - Aug 2005

Responsible for resolving technical software and hardware issues across Europe, Middle East and Africa. • Supported users of Lotus Notes with technical advice within agreed service levels.• Implemented Lotus Notes and Domino projects for sites in Europe, Middle East and Africa to improve the reliability and capacity of the infrastructure.• Co-ordinated a multi-national planning team across Europe, Middle-East and Africa to introduce a new Blackberry system.

Junior Developer

• Jul 2001 - Jul 2002