Experience

Cynozure Group

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO

  • Feb 2017 - Present

  London, United Kingdom Cynozure is a people-first, leading data and analytics consultancy with a mission to contribute to a better future for all through the open and positive use of data. We work with clients by building bespoke data strategies to drive incremental business value and help with the implementation of those strategies. In addition, we support data leaders through our CDO Hub (cynozure.com/cdo-hub), a unique community with a growing network of data leaders looking to collaborate, share, learn… Show more Cynozure is a people-first, leading data and analytics consultancy with a mission to contribute to a better future for all through the open and positive use of data. We work with clients by building bespoke data strategies to drive incremental business value and help with the implementation of those strategies. In addition, we support data leaders through our CDO Hub (cynozure.com/cdo-hub), a unique community with a growing network of data leaders looking to collaborate, share, learn and grow. Our Podcast series - Hub & Spoken (cynozure.com/hub-spoken) - features leading experts in data and analytics technology and tackles everything going on in the world of data, including technology, strategy, leadership and more. Cynozure was named one of the top 50 in Britain’s Sunday Times fastest-growing private companies in 2022. For more information, visit www.cynozure.com. Show less



Marks and Spencer

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Big Data Solutions Lead

  • Jun 2015 - Jan 2017

  London, United Kingdom As Big Data Solutions Lead I was responsible for all technical delivery on the platform, with the software engineering part of the team reporting directly into me. - Owned solution architecture and technical delivery for all projects delivered on the Hadoop/Cloudera based platform - Established initial 4 man big data team delivering a central analytics hub for the entire global M&S business - Expanded to a 30 person strong DevOps team (engineering, design, SQL development, testing,… Show more As Big Data Solutions Lead I was responsible for all technical delivery on the platform, with the software engineering part of the team reporting directly into me. - Owned solution architecture and technical delivery for all projects delivered on the Hadoop/Cloudera based platform - Established initial 4 man big data team delivering a central analytics hub for the entire global M&S business - Expanded to a 30 person strong DevOps team (engineering, design, SQL development, testing, on/off shore support) with over 100 analyst/data science users - Use cases delivered include; global customer analytics and personalisation platform, voice of the customer (text analytics), supply chain analytics, web analytics

• Big Data Software Engineer

  • Apr 2014 - Jun 2015

  London, United Kingdom Working on the design, development and delivery of Big Data solutions using Cloudera's distribution of Hadoop to enable new levels of insight and change for the business. This was a dev-ops team that was responsible for the entire platform from administration to development to operational support. - Evaluated platform to identify how to best implement hadoop - Created and implemented ingestion frameworks for flat file and database loads - Created Impala ETL routines to model the… Show more Working on the design, development and delivery of Big Data solutions using Cloudera's distribution of Hadoop to enable new levels of insight and change for the business. This was a dev-ops team that was responsible for the entire platform from administration to development to operational support. - Evaluated platform to identify how to best implement hadoop - Created and implemented ingestion frameworks for flat file and database loads - Created Impala ETL routines to model the data for users



NTT DATA Business Solutions UK&I

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Sep 2012 - Apr 2014

  London, United Kingdom Responsible for the design and delivery of large projects across a number of different industries and typically owning the solution architecture and client engagement, iTelligence provided a number of great opportunities. Engagements would normally involve: - Running discovery phases to identify what solution needed to be put in place and scoping out a multi-phase agile delivery of a new data and analytics platform - Designing entire technical solution and architecture ensuring a… Show more Responsible for the design and delivery of large projects across a number of different industries and typically owning the solution architecture and client engagement, iTelligence provided a number of great opportunities. Engagements would normally involve: - Running discovery phases to identify what solution needed to be put in place and scoping out a multi-phase agile delivery of a new data and analytics platform - Designing entire technical solution and architecture ensuring a robust, suitable and high performing design - Creating and running the delivery team day to day using agile methodology, ensuring engagement with all key stakeholders - Hands on delivery of the ETL and reporting aspects of the solution Show less



Blueprint Management Systems

• United Kingdom
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Intelligence Consultant

  • Sep 2009 - Feb 2013

  Joining right out of university on the grad scheme, Blueprint provided me numerous opportunities to learn and grow my skills. I was responsible for development on projects and eventually moved into design and pre-sales work. - Designed and developed data integration pipelines to transform the way analysis and reporting was carried out - Put in place a robust reporting solutions to automate numerous manual processes and reduce time to value from weeks to hours - Supported the… Show more Joining right out of university on the grad scheme, Blueprint provided me numerous opportunities to learn and grow my skills. I was responsible for development on projects and eventually moved into design and pre-sales work. - Designed and developed data integration pipelines to transform the way analysis and reporting was carried out - Put in place a robust reporting solutions to automate numerous manual processes and reduce time to value from weeks to hours - Supported the training and up-skilling of in-house and client resources Show less