Experience

LocationXR

• United Kingdom
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Engineering

  • Nov 2022 - Present



Nando's UK & IRE

• United Kingdom
• Restaurants
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Lead

  • May 2019 - Nov 2022



New Edge Engineering Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Product Engineering

  • Mar 2009 - May 2019



Athlon

• United Kingdom
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Architect

  • Dec 2018 - Jan 2019



Imagination

• United Kingdom
• Design
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Technical and Product Consultant

  • Jun 2018 - Oct 2018



Flexciton

• United Kingdom
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Consultant

  • Jan 2018 - Aug 2018



Big Health

• London, United Kingdom

• Freelance: Python Developer

  • Oct 2017 - May 2018



Elsevier

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

• Freelance: Squad Leader

  • Jul 2017 - Sep 2017



101 Ways

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

• Freelance: Technical Lead

  • Jul 2017 - Sep 2017



Digitalis

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

• Software Consultant

  • Jun 2017 - Jun 2017



Genomics England

• United Kingdom
• Biotechnology Research
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Freelance: Infrastructure Engineer

  • Jul 2016 - Apr 2017



Imagination

• United Kingdom
• Design
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Freelance: Technical Consultant

  • Jan 2015 - May 2016

  While at Imagination I was responsible for the following: • Design a second evolution of the Imagination Experience Platform solution architecture to ensure it was secure, robust and scalable. • Transfer knowledge about the solution architecture. • Helping business team to leverage the Imagination Experience Platform solution architecture for show projects. I was involved in the following projects: • Imagination Experience Platform: - Solution Architecture - System Engineering of the continuous delivery to manage business teams environments and show temporary data centres. • Automotive Department; Supporting projects that would leverage the Imagination Experience Platform • Ford Connection Innovation Studio: - Solution architecture leveraging Imagination Experience Platform. - Integrating the use of PDF-417 barcode between online registration and the physical events that will be held over the next 10 years. - PDF-417 barcode as the protocol to identify visitor's at physical event allowing them to collect digital souvenirs - PDF-417 manifest as a print out, card or on mobile phone. • Canon Expo 2016; Knowledge transfer of API to provide software contracts and manuals for third parties integrating into Imagination Experience Platform Show less



Incopro, a Corsearch company

• United Kingdom
• Internet Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Freelance: Software & Operations Engineer

  • Jul 2014 - Dec 2014

  While at Incopro I was responsible for the following: • Design and implementation of continuous integration and delivery using Thoughtworks Go and Rundeck leveraging Ansible. • General Django application development • Integrating elasticsearch into Cooper Django application • Introducing and central log aggregation using the ELK stack I was involved in the following projects: • Identify, a Django application detecting infringing digital content. Nginx/Django/Mysql stack with jQuery front end frameworks. • Cooper, a Django application detecting counterfeit digital content. Nginx/Django/Mysql, Cassandra, Elasticsearch & ELK stack with jQuery/Bootstrap front end frameworks Show less



Blackwell's Bookshops

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Freelance: Technical Consultant

  • Jun 2014 - Jun 2014



Hiveworks

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

• Freelance: Operations Engineer

  • Nov 2013 - May 2014

  While at Orange Digital I was responsible for the following: • AWS configuration • Saltstack Salt states development • Python development • Analysis and development reviews of stories and code I helped with the deployment of 2014 EE Website that included Hybris/Adobe Experience Manager/Dynatrace/Zabbix on to an AWS infrastructure providing content management and self purchasing. While at Orange Digital I was responsible for the following: • AWS configuration • Saltstack Salt states development • Python development • Analysis and development reviews of stories and code I helped with the deployment of 2014 EE Website that included Hybris/Adobe Experience Manager/Dynatrace/Zabbix on to an AWS infrastructure providing content management and self purchasing.



Momentum Worldwide

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Freelance: Technical Lead

  • Jul 2013 - Oct 2013

  Responsibilities included the following: • Software and hardware requirements capture • Software and hardware architecture definition • Deployment of software to infrastructure and event hardware • Quality assurance of software I helped manage Microsoft Student Tour 2013/2014 project that included the following: • Microsoft Windows 8.1 promotion campaign • A tour of 28 universities during the 2013/14 academic year • Two screen immersive emulation of Windows 8.1 touch screen product features • Back office toolkit and services providing: - Tour and and event management - Key performance indicator reports - User management for system and events - APIs - Network resilience via onsite satellite server synchronising data to a master server hosted with Rackspace. - Data export Show less



Imagination

• United Kingdom
• Design
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Freelance: Technical Consultant

  • Jun 2011 - May 2013

  Responsibilities include the Architectural design of the following: • Tracking visitor interactions within an experiential marketing event using RFiD cards. • Data capture from Visitor experiences at an Automotive Show with master-to-master synchronisation across multiple shows. • Visitor created content, i.e. image or video, to be transferred to Social Media sites. • Software deployment onto AWS and temporary data centres at an event. • Software to work with an intermittent internet connection. • Generic event management platform. • Global rollout of the software using AWS and ChinaNet. • Improving best practices of software development to reduce costs and increase reusability. • Provide the platform as a service to Imaginations clients that included Ford, Shell and Land Rover. Show less



77pr

• London, United Kingdom

• Freelance: Software Engineer

  • May 2011 - May 2011

  Contracted to help develop Holiday Autos Facebook competition application. Contracted to help develop Holiday Autos Facebook competition application.



Wazoku

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

• Freelance: Software Engineer

  • Mar 2011 - May 2011

  Responsible for the initial prototype development of an idea management system using Python Pylons and MongoDB with Jenkins providing continuous integration of Selenium web interface acceptance tests. Responsible for the initial prototype development of an idea management system using Python Pylons and MongoDB with Jenkins providing continuous integration of Selenium web interface acceptance tests.



Streaming Tank

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

• Freelance: Software Engineering

  • Feb 2011 - Mar 2011

  'Shout from the Mountain' Valentine's Day ATT promotion using a mixture of OAuth, Facebook API, Twitter API, PHP, node.js, mongoDB and Wowza technologies to capture messages from Facebook, Twitter and a microsite. These messages aggregated made available to the production team that were recording the messages on a mountain in California and pushing the clips to YouTube. Improvements to existing 'Fashion Week' live streaming shows using a mixture of PHP, node.js and mongoDB technologies to provide a basic management system to schedule live shows and control live clock as shows start times changed. Shout from the Mountain Links: http://apps.facebook.com/shoutfromthemountain/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=-goFxP9vofg&feature=endscreen Show less



Sky

• United Kingdom
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• Freelance: Front End Developer

  • Aug 2009 - Dec 2010

  Responsible for the HTML, Javascript and CSS development of • http://mysky.sky.com/ • http://rewards.sky.com/ which also involved an internal iPad web application using CSS3. Responsible for the HTML, Javascript and CSS development of • http://mysky.sky.com/ • http://rewards.sky.com/ which also involved an internal iPad web application using CSS3.



Joost

• London, United Kingdom

• Lead Software Engineer

  • Feb 2008 - Dec 2008

  This position involved: • Developing Content Owners Portal in Java and in Python. • Working within a and with distributed teams across Europe and USA. This position involved: • Developing Content Owners Portal in Java and in Python. • Working within a and with distributed teams across Europe and USA.



Nativ Ltd

• Freelance: Technical Consultant

  • May 2007 - Dec 2007

  This position involved: • advising a major television distributor to develop a bespoke tape ingest business process • Integrated with a number of different systems from one of the largest UK broadcaster • Integration of the distribution platforms. • Providing digital, 7 day catchup TV, content via the internet (download and streaming) and via a cable video on demand platform. • Development using J2EE, MOM and JBPM to drive business processes. This position involved: • advising a major television distributor to develop a bespoke tape ingest business process • Integrated with a number of different systems from one of the largest UK broadcaster • Integration of the distribution platforms. • Providing digital, 7 day catchup TV, content via the internet (download and streaming) and via a cable video on demand platform. • Development using J2EE, MOM and JBPM to drive business processes.



Aggregator Ltd

• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Product Engineering

  • Feb 2006 - Apr 2007

  • Initial alpha development of the niche multilingual portal development. • Helped to define the supporting software platform architecture. • Recruited the initial software development team. • Developed the registration and subscription process based on the business requirements. • Integrated billing provider Datacash into the the software platform. • Mentored the software development. • Initial alpha development of the niche multilingual portal development. • Helped to define the supporting software platform architecture. • Recruited the initial software development team. • Developed the registration and subscription process based on the business requirements. • Integrated billing provider Datacash into the the software platform. • Mentored the software development.



Sky

• United Kingdom
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Lead

  • Nov 2005 - Jan 2006

  Responsibilities included: • Facilitated Use Case workshops to gather requirements for IPTV set top box project. • Facilitated User Interface workshops to refine the requirements. • Facilitated Use Case Realisation workshops with various vendors implmenting the solution. • Managing the technical expectations of the Product Managers within the New Product Development team. • Liaised with the quality assurance team ensuring they had full visibility on the requirements and architecture. Show less



Freelance

• Freelance: Software Engineer

  • Jun 2005 - Oct 2005

  Projects included: • IPTV client • OpenTV BSkyB smartcard interactive application • ITV consultancy Projects included: • IPTV client • OpenTV BSkyB smartcard interactive application • ITV consultancy



Mindhouse

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Software Development

  • Jan 2002 - Jun 2005

  • Producing technical solutions and estimates for 'Request For Proposal' • Client requirements capture • System analysis • Software design • OpenTV, Liberate, J2EE development and unit tests • Team leader • Liaise with clients and business partners • Management software development process • Evaluation of development tools • Producing technical solutions and estimates for 'Request For Proposal' • Client requirements capture • System analysis • Software design • OpenTV, Liberate, J2EE development and unit tests • Team leader • Liaise with clients and business partners • Management software development process • Evaluation of development tools



Carlton Active

• Software Engineer

  • Oct 2001 - Dec 2001

  • The Production of OpenTV applications. • Testing and bug fixing of MHEG-5 applications • The Production of OpenTV applications. • Testing and bug fixing of MHEG-5 applications



Entranet

• Interactive Developer

  • Jan 2001 - Aug 2001

  • Design and implementation of Open Author and MHP applications. • Technical validation of interactive television programme ideas for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. • Technical support for the ‘Taxi!’ demonstrations. • Liaise with business partners • Design and implementation of Open Author and MHP applications. • Technical validation of interactive television programme ideas for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. • Technical support for the ‘Taxi!’ demonstrations. • Liaise with business partners



Intel Corporation

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Interactive Designer

  • Apr 2000 - Dec 2000

  • Design and production of interactive applications for MHEG-5, Open Author and Liberate DTV digital platforms. • Conceive original ideas combining creative flair with an appreciation of platform’s technical, commercial and operational constraints. • Liaise with clients, partners and external developers. • Database Administration role, including creating and maintenance of PostgreSQL Database. • Initial design and implementation of Intelfax intranet using PHP • Design and production of interactive applications for MHEG-5, Open Author and Liberate DTV digital platforms. • Conceive original ideas combining creative flair with an appreciation of platform’s technical, commercial and operational constraints. • Liaise with clients, partners and external developers. • Database Administration role, including creating and maintenance of PostgreSQL Database. • Initial design and implementation of Intelfax intranet using PHP



EDS Group

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jan 1999 - Apr 2000

  • Design and development of client server programs using COOL:Gen and Oracle. • Junior Database Administration role, including creating and maintenance of Oracle Database. • Liaise with partners and other departments. • Presentations to clients. • Participation in Joint Application Design sessions (JADs). • System testing including creation and execution of test scripts. • Evaluation of software products. • Design and development of client server programs using COOL:Gen and Oracle. • Junior Database Administration role, including creating and maintenance of Oracle Database. • Liaise with partners and other departments. • Presentations to clients. • Participation in Joint Application Design sessions (JADs). • System testing including creation and execution of test scripts. • Evaluation of software products.