Experience

Reelyze
• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Chief Technology Officer

  • Jan 2021 - Present


Upp Technologies Ltd.

• United Kingdom
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Of Engineering

  • Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

• Chief Architect

  • Jul 2019 - Jan 2020



Comapi - part of dotdigital Engagement Cloud

• SVP Engineering

  • Mar 2017 - Jul 2019

  Leader of all things technical at Comapi - managing technical strategy, process and implementation across cloud and mobile platforms. As part of the leadership team I successfully helped the company to launch new products, build customers and revenue, and scaled out the engineering function with a remote team in Poland, all resulting in a successful acquisition of the business. Responsibilities: - Owner of technical strategy, ensuring this is aligned with business vision and… Show more Leader of all things technical at Comapi - managing technical strategy, process and implementation across cloud and mobile platforms. As part of the leadership team I successfully helped the company to launch new products, build customers and revenue, and scaled out the engineering function with a remote team in Poland, all resulting in a successful acquisition of the business. Responsibilities: - Owner of technical strategy, ensuring this is aligned with business vision and goals - Leading, managing and mentoring of development, product management, QA, DevOps & infrastructure staff - Architecture and design of cloud-based services, SaaS tools and mobile SDKs - Defining and managing the company’s agile development process My key technical achievement here was the design and delivery of the new Comapi platform, an omni-channel, real-time messaging platform, providing APIs, SDKs and SaaS tools to our customers. Implemented using loosely-coupled microservices written in node.js, using event sourcing patterns backed with MongoDB and RabbitMQ and deployed in a scalable, multi-cloud, Docker-based environment that provides excellent resilience and handles millions of transactions each day. Technologies covered: - Cloud services hosted in Windows Azure and Google Cloud - Node.js - MongoDB - RabbitMQ - Microservices - Docker - Redis Cache - .NET / Web API - Azure PaaS (Storage, Cloud Services, SQL Azure, Service Bus) - iOS and Android Native development - Cordova - Xamarin - TeamCity

• Chief Architect

  • Jun 2015 - Mar 2017

• Technical Architect (Contract)

  • Mar 2013 - Jun 2015

  Technical Architect with design and delivery responsibility for Dynmark's new Mobile Messaging platform. Responsibilities: - Architecture and design of a multi-tenanted cloud based messaging and content delivery platform designed to handle many millions of users around the world - Leading, managing and mentoring the development team - Performance testing / tuning - Driving process improvements (testing enhancements, continuous integration) - Pre-sales… Show more Technical Architect with design and delivery responsibility for Dynmark's new Mobile Messaging platform. Responsibilities: - Architecture and design of a multi-tenanted cloud based messaging and content delivery platform designed to handle many millions of users around the world - Leading, managing and mentoring the development team - Performance testing / tuning - Driving process improvements (testing enhancements, continuous integration) - Pre-sales support Technologies used: - Windows Azure (Storage, Compute, SQL Azure, Caching, Service Bus) - .net framework 4.5.1 - Web API - Redis - SignalR - TFS 2013



MadCat Consulting Ltd

• Director

  • Mar 2010 - Sep 2016

  Freelance consultant specialising in software architecture and development using the Microsoft development platform. Freelance consultant specialising in software architecture and development using the Microsoft development platform.



Fujitsu Telecommunications

• Vietnam
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Developer (Contract)

  • Jun 2012 - Mar 2013

  Lead developer on a major programme of work, delivering a phone and broadband order, provisioning and management platform for a high profile UK brand. Responsibilities include: - Technical Architecture of core services platform - Leading a development team - Providing technical advice, guidance and mentoring across the programme (25+ developers) - Core framework architecture - Application Lifecycle Management with TFS Technologies used: - .NET 4.5 /… Show more Lead developer on a major programme of work, delivering a phone and broadband order, provisioning and management platform for a high profile UK brand. Responsibilities include: - Technical Architecture of core services platform - Leading a development team - Providing technical advice, guidance and mentoring across the programme (25+ developers) - Core framework architecture - Application Lifecycle Management with TFS Technologies used: - .NET 4.5 / VS2012 - NServiceBus - Entity Framework 5 - WCF, OData - WF4 - MVC 4 - TFS 2010 Show less Lead developer on a major programme of work, delivering a phone and broadband order, provisioning and management platform for a high profile UK brand. Responsibilities include: - Technical Architecture of core services platform - Leading a development team - Providing technical advice, guidance and mentoring across the programme (25+ developers) - Core framework architecture - Application Lifecycle Management with TFS Technologies used: - .NET 4.5 /… Show more Lead developer on a major programme of work, delivering a phone and broadband order, provisioning and management platform for a high profile UK brand. Responsibilities include: - Technical Architecture of core services platform - Leading a development team - Providing technical advice, guidance and mentoring across the programme (25+ developers) - Core framework architecture - Application Lifecycle Management with TFS Technologies used: - .NET 4.5 / VS2012 - NServiceBus - Entity Framework 5 - WCF, OData - WF4 - MVC 4 - TFS 2010 Show less



Abcam

• United Kingdom
• Biotechnology Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Solution Architect (Contract)

  • Nov 2011 - May 2012

  Solution Architect for a major IT transformation project. Responsibilities: - Technical Direction for the new architecture - Framework choices - Technical Governance for the programme - Mentoring of technical staff - Proof of Concept work Technologies used: MVC3, .net 4, SQL 2008 R2, NHibernate, SOLR Solution Architect for a major IT transformation project. Responsibilities: - Technical Direction for the new architecture - Framework choices - Technical Governance for the programme - Mentoring of technical staff - Proof of Concept work Technologies used: MVC3, .net 4, SQL 2008 R2, NHibernate, SOLR



Dynmark International

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Architect (Contract)

  • Nov 2010 - Nov 2011

  Technical Architect for a mobile IP messaging platform built on Windows Azure and designed to scale to millions of users and 100s of millions of messages per day. Responsibilities: - Design of a robust, reliable, globally distributed scalable architecture - Proof of concept work - Leading the development team - Mentoring - Performance testing and tuning Technologies used: - Windows Azure Platform, including Azure Storage, SQL Azure, AppFabric Caching… Show more Technical Architect for a mobile IP messaging platform built on Windows Azure and designed to scale to millions of users and 100s of millions of messages per day. Responsibilities: - Design of a robust, reliable, globally distributed scalable architecture - Proof of concept work - Leading the development team - Mentoring - Performance testing and tuning Technologies used: - Windows Azure Platform, including Azure Storage, SQL Azure, AppFabric Caching, Service Bus - .net Framework 4.0 - WCF / RESTful Services - MVC 3.0 / Razor - jQuery - TFS 2010 Also developed a prototype mobile client using Windows Phone 7 and provided input into Android, iPhone and BlackBerry client design and build. Show less Technical Architect for a mobile IP messaging platform built on Windows Azure and designed to scale to millions of users and 100s of millions of messages per day. Responsibilities: - Design of a robust, reliable, globally distributed scalable architecture - Proof of concept work - Leading the development team - Mentoring - Performance testing and tuning Technologies used: - Windows Azure Platform, including Azure Storage, SQL Azure, AppFabric Caching… Show more Technical Architect for a mobile IP messaging platform built on Windows Azure and designed to scale to millions of users and 100s of millions of messages per day. Responsibilities: - Design of a robust, reliable, globally distributed scalable architecture - Proof of concept work - Leading the development team - Mentoring - Performance testing and tuning Technologies used: - Windows Azure Platform, including Azure Storage, SQL Azure, AppFabric Caching, Service Bus - .net Framework 4.0 - WCF / RESTful Services - MVC 3.0 / Razor - jQuery - TFS 2010 Also developed a prototype mobile client using Windows Phone 7 and provided input into Android, iPhone and BlackBerry client design and build. Show less



Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care

• BizTalk & .NET Consultant (Contract)

  • Mar 2010 - Oct 2010

  Responsible for the design and implementation of an Enterprise Service Bus using BizTalk 2009 and the ESB Toolkit, integrating Commerce Server 2009, Dynamics AX 2009 and Dynamics CRM 4 along with other existing systems. Designed a new framework for process driven web UI using Workflow 4.0 and ASP.NET MVC2 and led the implementation of it's first consumer, also using Workflow 4 Services and Windows Server AppFabric. Responsible for the design and implementation of an Enterprise Service Bus using BizTalk 2009 and the ESB Toolkit, integrating Commerce Server 2009, Dynamics AX 2009 and Dynamics CRM 4 along with other existing systems. Designed a new framework for process driven web UI using Workflow 4.0 and ASP.NET MVC2 and led the implementation of it's first consumer, also using Workflow 4 Services and Windows Server AppFabric.



Microsoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Application Development Consultant

  • Mar 2008 - Mar 2010

  Senior Consultant working as part of the Application Development Consulting team within Microsoft Services Worked with a number of high profile UK companies and Microsoft Partners, providing proactive advice and guidance on architecting and building solutions using the latest versions of the Microsoft technology platform. Primary job function included: - Architecture and design - Design and code reviews - Performance and scalability testing and tuning -… Show more Senior Consultant working as part of the Application Development Consulting team within Microsoft Services Worked with a number of high profile UK companies and Microsoft Partners, providing proactive advice and guidance on architecting and building solutions using the latest versions of the Microsoft technology platform. Primary job function included: - Architecture and design - Design and code reviews - Performance and scalability testing and tuning - Proof-of-concept development - Workshops - Problem resolution / debugging Show less Senior Consultant working as part of the Application Development Consulting team within Microsoft Services Worked with a number of high profile UK companies and Microsoft Partners, providing proactive advice and guidance on architecting and building solutions using the latest versions of the Microsoft technology platform. Primary job function included: - Architecture and design - Design and code reviews - Performance and scalability testing and tuning -… Show more Senior Consultant working as part of the Application Development Consulting team within Microsoft Services Worked with a number of high profile UK companies and Microsoft Partners, providing proactive advice and guidance on architecting and building solutions using the latest versions of the Microsoft technology platform. Primary job function included: - Architecture and design - Design and code reviews - Performance and scalability testing and tuning - Proof-of-concept development - Workshops - Problem resolution / debugging Show less



Nationwide Building Society

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Systems Developer (Lead)

  • Jun 2006 - Mar 2008

  Lead software developer with responsibilities for design and implementation of an enterprise scale work / business process management solution using BizTalk and other Microsoft products. Leading a team of up to 10 developers.

• Senior Systems Developer

  • Jun 2005 - Jun 2006

  Senior Developer working on various projects including Enterprise Work Management and Basel II Data Warehouse. Focused on Microsoft development using .NET, BizTalk 2004, XML, Web Service and data warehousing using SQL Server 2005.

• Software Developer

  • Feb 2001 - Jun 2005

  Software developer working on various projects, with a focus on web development (using ASP.NET, C#, ASP, VB) and database development (SQL Server). Also included data warehouse design and implementation, XML, web services.